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by qart 5mo ago
The author of the first book listed there explains there was no ancient Silk Road. This concept was dreamt up in 1877. https://youtube.com/shorts/Ki4UQ20tWQk
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by qart 5mo ago
Another "maybe" to consider: maybe it's the wrong format for you. Years ago, I got yearly subscriptions at a gym that was right below my office, and showed up less than 10 times. This was followed by many more years of no sub
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by qart 8mo ago
Canada logic: "Let's take in people who have links to Canadian crime gangs, and when things go bad, let's just blame India" > it's literally the 'garbage logic' that the majority of 'good people&#x
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by qart 8mo ago
You are resistant to all the actual information I have provided you. Your terrorists are killing more of your own citizens. But, I suppose Indian government should straightaway accept guilt for all such murders including that of Harjeet Sin
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by qart 8mo ago
Calling out hypocrisy is fair game. What rebuttal? Why even talk about irrelevant "clippings"? On whom is the onus of providing evidence?
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by qart 8mo ago
> If it's such an insignificant movement It is a significant movement in Canada. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_India_Flight_182 Also, the veracity of a claim does not depend on who is making it or who is di
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by qart 8mo ago
> These are literally murders by Indian nationals on other Indian nationals They are all in your immigration pipeline or already through it. The crimes are all on Canadian soil. Who has jurisdiction in the so-called "rules-based i
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by qart 8mo ago
> India's claims of Mr Nijjar of being a terrorist was not. But I'm not talking about this claim. I'm talking about the fact that Trudeau accused the Indian government being responsible for his murder. The onus was always
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by qart 8mo ago
It is that simple. Canada is not learning. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G76aXJOWkAA4CNy?format=jpg&name=...
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by qart 8mo ago
Yes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khalistan_movement is not a significant movement in India. I have plenty of connections with Sikhs and Sikhism in India. Apart from a very tiny minority of people, who quickly set off
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by qart 8mo ago
> nobody in Canada wants anything to with your 'ethno nationalist wars' Absurd. These are YOUR 'ethno nationalist wars' because your country has given them a safe haven. This problem does not exist in India. Not one S
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by qart 8mo ago
> For decades, countries like Canada prospered under what we called the rules-based international order. As an Indian listening to this, this comes across as absurd. Trudeau constantly invoked this phrase when dealing with India about th
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by qart 8mo ago
Weasel words, basically. All too common in journalism. It's also common on Wikipedia but Wikipedia acknowledges it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word
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by qart 9mo ago
There is a talk called "Java for Small Coding Tasks" by the author of Core Java: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04wFgshWMdA Apparently, this is the way to do it: ///usr/bin/env java
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by qart 9mo ago
You will not build reading stamina or make yourself well informed with sappy stories. Learn some basic statistics and try reading research papers directly. "I have read more words" is a measure of only that, and nothing else. Mayb
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by qart 9mo ago
A friend of mine told me a few days ago that he thinks LLMs are already smarter than most humans. I agreed with him instantly.
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by qart 9mo ago
> Amy Bies was recovering in the hospital from injuries inflicted during a car accident in May 2007 When an article starts like this, I instantly close it and wait for proper sources. Anyway, the phrase "metabolic syndrome" has
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by qart 9mo ago
You're right. MISRA is a cult. Actual studies[1][2] have shown many of their rules to be harmful rather than helpful. I have worked in multiple safety-critical industries. MISRA is almost always enforced by bureaucrats who don't u
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by qart 9mo ago
I have family members with health conditions that require periodic monitoring. For some tests, a phlebotomist comes home. For some tests, we go to a hospital. For some other tests, we go to a specialized testing center. They all give us PDF
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by qart 10mo ago
One state in India is particularly strong with its labour centric protectionism. As far as I have seen, most families' earnings come from one family member working in "Gulf". The labour unions there are a big reason why indus
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by qart 10mo ago
I have had my hearing tested at an audiologist. My hearing curves are identical with air conduction and bone conduction. There are very few cases where bone conduction might be better, like when something is obstructing air conduction. But
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by qart 10mo ago
There will be no course-correction in India. The usual mindset is "how can I be the bigger a-hole?" With accessories becoming more and more affordable, there has been a rise in super bright LEDs, and even flashing LEDs. In cities,
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by qart 11mo ago
I have them all installed, but I use WezTerm most often because it is fastest to give me a window when I hit the assigned shortcut key. Ghostty is a hair slower. Kitty takes 2-3 seconds. I keep launching terminals pretty frequently, so this
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by qart 11mo ago
I live in India. Nearly all parties appoint literal thugs as ministers. Let alone English literacy and fluency, they are not even competent in their own language. Here we have a minister of Kannada & Culture, whose first language is Kan
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by qart 1y ago
This is India. If people are informally reporting corruption in some institution, you'll be on the right track if you believe it to be true. There will never be any formal studies of such cartels. Journalists who attempt to report on s
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by qart 1y ago
> “Our forefathers did this. … No one else can do it,” he continued. “If someone tried, he will be beaten black and blue.” It's telling that the journalist did not investigate and elaborate on this. The ancient feudal structures tha
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by qart 1y ago
If you don't mind, could you export and share one chat thread so I could see how it's working out for you?
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by qart 1y ago
I have it installed. But the only thing I get updates for is Obtainium itself. There's no catalogue of apps, so I haven't installed anything via Obtainium.
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by qart 1y ago
I have worked on projects (research, not production) where doing "ls" on some directories would crash the system. Some processes generated that many data files. These files had to be fed to other programs that did further processi
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by qart 1y ago
This is the first time I'm seeing the book. The author is solid! He has just the right sense of humour for a programming book.

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