satbyy

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by satbyy 8y ago
Yes, the root is from Sanskrit (भाषा), got called over to SE Asia during the spread of Buddhism from India.
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by satbyy 8y ago
Yes
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by satbyy 8y ago
Conversely, Python's PEP394 explicitly discourages `/usr/bin/env python`, so there's that. (I know why the PEP says so, just pointing out that it differs from Nix style)
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by satbyy 8y ago
I've been using GNU Stow as a pseudo "package manager." Let's me install multiple versions of a software. And I simply delete the directory when I don't need it anymore.
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by satbyy 8y ago
The name you're looking for is MATE desktop. I've been using it for many years because I never liked Gnome 3 (constant churn, breaking plugins, themes etc). I'm using it on Debian but there's also Ubuntu MATE and Fedora
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by satbyy 9y ago
Seems it is paywalled. I know that it will open up in a less than a week, but do you have subscriber link (because I'm curious to read) ?
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by satbyy 9y ago
There is Google's own "Personal blocklist" extension that does exactly that https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
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by satbyy 9y ago
Could you plz provide an example ?
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by satbyy 9y ago
There are already "benefit" cards like LPG card, ration card, BPL card, etc to get those benefits. Why bother with Aadhar then? The answer is, consolidation. Aadhar is meant to be the identity card. I don't want to carry bi
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by satbyy 9y ago
Not really. He means that govt cannot force every citizen to undergo iris scan etc. for obtaining Aadhar card. I would like to get Aadhar without iris scan (and am willing to let go of secondary benefits like LPG subssidy etc). Such an op
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by satbyy 9y ago
> You're just renting them. It's not renting really. If I rent a physical book (or house, etc), I have exclusive access to it. Nobody else can possess it. It's for this privilege that I'm paying. Obviously, this is
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by satbyy 9y ago
And so is the first Kannada-English dictionary by a German, Ferdinand Kittel, in 1894. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Kittel
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by satbyy 9y ago
There's a European subsidiary of SDF as well: https://sdfeu.org/ . So the latency is much better than accessing US servers. I've been using this for IRC and it works satisfactorily.
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How I hijacked top celebrities tweets including Katy Perry, Shakira…(medium.com)
1 points by satbyy 10y ago|0 comments
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Password managers: attacks and defenses(blog.acolyer.org)
2 points by satbyy 10y ago|0 comments
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by satbyy 10y ago
Thanks for the catch!
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by satbyy 10y ago
Just hit 'Run' here: http://rextester.com/BDGO47890 You can see the program crash
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by satbyy 10y ago
Given how demanding ESR is with regards to 10+ years stability, Nim hasn't even reached 1.0 yet. I love Nim and your contribution to the Nim ecosystem, but yeah, convincing ESR with 0.16.0 isn't happening.
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by satbyy 10y ago
Correct link: https://github.com/uclmr/emoji2vec
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by satbyy 10y ago
I'm not associated with it, but yeah, it was posted in /r/india few days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/5mj3vz/setting_up_ne... Domain is from Gandi (France) and IP address (
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by satbyy 10y ago
ZWJ and ZWNJ are also common in Indic scripts. It's basically used to control the appearance of glyphs, for example half-forms and consonant clusters (क्‍ष vs क्ष, both are kṣa). As usual, wikipedia has good examples. The Unicode Stand
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by satbyy 10y ago
Indeed. In the India-Pakistan Kargil war of 1999, USA sided with Pak and turned off GPS for Indian troops. That led to the creation of NAVIC http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/How-Kargil-s...
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by satbyy 10y ago
The actual research presentation is here (by Nokia Bell Labs researchers Silke Holtmanns, Bhanu Kotte and Siddharth Rao): [pdf]: https://www.blackhat.com/docs/eu-16/materials/eu-16-Holtmann...
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by satbyy 10y ago
I've set up a cronjob to pull the latest hosts file from Steven's aggregated list https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts
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by satbyy 10y ago
And Vyomanaut = Indian
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by satbyy 10y ago
Not just HTTP but you can TCP-over-DNS: apt-get install dns2tcp Pretty easy to use too (though development seems to have stopped)
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by satbyy 10y ago
Sure, the concept of washing feet is a form of reverence in Indian culture. But it was ages ago. To generalize and imply that it is common today is just stereotyping.
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GCC 6.2 released(gcc.gnu.org)
1 points by satbyy 10y ago|0 comments
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by satbyy 10y ago
Not denying that. Lua by itself is easy. The thing is, to compile Zile, you need to first x-compile Lua, then x-compile luarocks, install the necessary Lua packages, then continue with x-compiling zile. Comparatively, I've found that x
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by satbyy 10y ago
My favourite Emacs clone is mg [1] from OpenBSD, but packages exist for Linux as well. I've cross-compiled it to many ARM embedded systems. Earlier, I used to use Zile, but they moved to Lua which made cross-compiling harder (so gcc &#

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