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The best feature of LLMs is the shamelessness with which we can ask the dumbest questions. Which is the prerequisite to intellectual and personal growth.

The kindness of people in India never ceases to astonish me. Today, once again, my 85-year-old father in Bengaluru, who has been particularly difficult after his brain injury, insisted on going out to Xerox some document, visit the bank, and get some printout on stamp paper. He

Stupid policy.

Ever since programming was originally conceived there have been two parallel paths: Programming as machine instructions (Turing machines) and programming as math (the Lambda calculus): Equivalent in capability, but very different in philosophy.

砂のテトリス。 難しいけど積み上がると美しい

Fox News Decries Woke Casting Of Indian Man As Star Of ‘Sankranthiki Vasthunam’ theonion.com/fox-news-decri…

And now Linktree is blocked in India. India’s web censorship apparatus — despite being enshrined and codified in law — has no head or tail. thehindu.com/incoming/popul…

How India has regressed in my lifetime. When I was a kid and there was a lunar or solar eclipse, The Times of India was at the forefront of promoting scientific narratives. Debunking superstition. 1990s ToI had standards. Cut to 2025. Look at this trad bullshit! Yuck!

> do largest supply chain attack in history > potentially infect millions of apps > doesnt do the thing good > makes $0 from compromise I don't wanna support the villain here, but my guy, you gotta lock in. You could have infected hundreds of millions of apps and you FUMBLE IT

I am a big supporter of engineering students in India being taught humanities and social sciences, and especially in IITs. If there is anywhere in the world where future engineers need to be sensitised to the world outside the four walls, it is in India, which is an artefact of

System calls are the interface between the user space and the kernel. They are needed for fundamental things like reading a file, and making a network call. But they are also very expensive because they need to do things like saving/restoring registers, page table, stack. More

Jane Goodall died today. While smarter and more informed people will talk about her work, I want to share a snippet from her Wikipedia page - the two greatest paragraphs ever on Wikipedia. The first parts are amusing and interesting, but the last sentence elevates it to high art.

The ownership of computers in India has had a slow growth. Over the last two decades, the share of households who own computers grew from just over 1% to just over 9%. In most developed countries, on the other hand, computer ownership is above 75%. This growth has been even

The year is 2025. People’s beds are overheating because of AWS outages.

Dr. Dr.Sivaranjini painstakingly fought for 8 years to convince the Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) to heed the harms of fake ORS drinks targeting children, flooding the market from greedy corporate companies. She won. FSSAI ordered the ban on the use of

Sridhar Vembu I once almost choked to death while eating food. I did my own research and discovered that I’m not alone. Thousands of people choke every year while eating, and hundreds of them die. That’s why I don’t feed my kids. It’s dangerous. Now, plenty of people will point out that