amritananda

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by amritananda 1mo ago
This is good news considering the current state of government run IT services in Nepal (that the page to schedule a passport renewal appointment requires you change your local timezone or override TZ to Asia/Kathmandu should tell you t
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by amritananda 3mo ago
It might also just be the case that the hardware you have is good enough that the lag isn't noticable. You should still be able to notice a spike in CPU usage whenever you force Emacs to redraw the frame by typing into it though.
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by amritananda 3mo ago
Also on Niri with fractional scaling and pgtk. IIRC the issue here is that for programs that don't support wp_fractional_scale, compositors deal with this by rendering at the next highest integer factor, and downscaling it down to achi
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by amritananda 5mo ago
>Nothing of value is added by having Devi with extra fingers on each hand and completely blurred messes for all the affects in her hands South Asian religions are in an especially bad position because so many works related to them have n
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by amritananda 5mo ago
I have never seen any diaspora have more contempt for their own people than Iranians. Thankfully more recent diaspora in the US are both more level-headed and diverse (coming not just from Tehran and a few other major cities but many other
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by amritananda 5mo ago
>The have so much less that they are forced to openly use their last and most powerful card for their survival That is not their most powerful card. Their most powerful card is mining the Strait of Hormuz and taking out all GCC desalinat
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by amritananda 5mo ago
The delusional idea that one can affect regime change through bombing is the cause of quite a bit death and destruction throughout the world. Maybe the problem wasn't the timing, but the fact that thousands of people were killed and mi
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by amritananda 7mo ago
No benchmarks, no information about training methods/datasets, template placeholder vibe-coded website. Waste of time.
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by amritananda 7mo ago
Zionism existed since the late 19th century. It cannot be considered solely a response to the Holocaust. It was an outgrowth of the many nationalist movements that were occurring in Europe at the time, and even as far back as the 1920s the
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by amritananda 11mo ago
This is basically what Xray [1] does. For any connection request matching a particular SNI and not presenting a secret key, it proxies the entire SSL handshake and data to a camouflage website. Otherwise it can be used as a regular proxy di
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by amritananda 2y ago
>If it was simply to get their own state surely they could have achieved it by now The PLO has accepted a two-state solution since 1981, for nearly 44 years. This is what Avner Yaniv called the "peace offensive", and is especia
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by amritananda 2y ago
Even more concerning is the Israeli tech industry's role. For example, this is what is said in a Hebrew article about Bright Data (formerly Luminati), which AFAIK owns one of the largest (legal) pools of residential IP addresses and is
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by amritananda 2y ago
>Last time it was on the table the deal was so good PLO realized it could be forced into a real two state solution with peace and permanent borders. This is not true. I am not interested in whatever labels the Israeli or Palestinians mig
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by amritananda 2y ago
>Hamas had zero interest in coexistence I don't think the evidence favors this conclusion. Their actions immediately following 2006 suggests they definitely had quite a bit of interest - they enforced a ceasefire after 2006 (also pu
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by amritananda 2y ago
>Israel doesn't want to control Gaza. Israel want to coexist peacefully with it and has been willing to go very far and take risks to achieve that. I think it's good to apply Mearsheimer's realist thinking here, and the in
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by amritananda 2y ago
I think tourism, especially in countries that rely on tightly controlling the experience, can tell you very little about the function of the country itself. I've had many people say the same to me about Nepal, ignorant of the high yout
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by amritananda 2y ago
IMO also a good exploration of the ethnic cleansing of Lhotsampa and the subsequent hardships faced by the refugees is The Lhotsampa People of Bhutan , edited by Venkat Pulla.
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by amritananda 2y ago
China's Great Firewall is known actively detect and block most VPN protocols and things like SSH tunneling. There are custom protocols designed to camouflage traffic, but they require apps (e.g. Shadowrocket for iOS) which are, surpris
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by amritananda 2y ago
Program synthesis is also pretty much equivalent to generating proofs of propositions by the Curry-Howard Isomorphism. There was a post from a few days ago about using ML to generate proofs in Lean. I'm sure there's ongoing resear