Waking up from the jet-lag sleep in delhi somehow always makes me feel like the whole canada-swiss-uk thing was just a dream and it is time to leave for college

I have been hopping countries for almost a year now and I have never been on a flight as bad as EGYPTAIR. Tapes everywhere, seats torn, no ports in a 6+ hour flight… Also, what’s wrong with Cairo airport, why is the security so understaffed and rude🥲 almost lost my 🎞️ camera

I finally have a professional looking headshot and you will see me (over)using it everywhere now

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Stumbled on this poem on Python 3.12's official download page, had no idea this existed, quite wholesome

Was stopped from entering the Swiss visa centre because I had a Swiss knife with me (which is always tied to my keys), had a good laugh about the situation with the security personnel😭

Remind me to never take a bus in London, why is it always faster to walk than ride a bus (I still somehow end up on the bus every time)

Handed off my Swiss residence permit yesterday, the card that allowed me to roam around 9 countries in 10 months. Was so hard letting it go, asked the CERN receptionist to take care of it 😭

I (aldi + lidl enthusiast) just discovered an enormous sainsburys near my house, and it is a whole new world. So many sweet treats, meal deals, snacks, dairy products, ..., AND they price match their fresh produce with aldi (adult equivalent of finding a new toy store)

Disappointed to see that nasa/Transform-to-Open-Science is down. Before it vanished, PRs removing "inclusiveness" and deleting the website were merged without a review. Reminder to not give a single user infinite power on an open-source repository. git.tu-berlin.de/colombj/transf…

Finally met everyone in-person🔋

Back with the yearly blog? FOSDEM @[email protected] motivated me to write again, so allow me to present my adventures in Belgium🇧🇪 and Luxembourg🇱🇺 (13&14/195) FOSDEM: open-source, waffles, and beer - saransh-cpp.github.io/blog/2024/fosd…

I never applied to Columbia University for any program, how do they even have my email address, why is my data in their database😭 Ironically, their "Enterprise Risk Management" program had a management problem?

Reminds me of the course I tutored at UCL; we were at a point where a good chunk of students suggested that office hours are not useful and should be scrapped Catch: only 4-5% students actually used to visit us during office hours

I have been working on vector on and off for more than 2 years now, and we finally published a JOSS paper on the library! Vector: JIT-compilable mathematical manipulations of ragged Lorentz vectors - joss.theoj.org/papers/10.2110… (JOSS papers are so short, love it)

Spoiler: it did not get better, I messed up and started making commits on weekend again😭 I have a theory. I think I'm always running whenever I'm in London (or Delhi) and always relaxed whenever I'm in a Swiss city (no GH on weekends). I shall test this theory very soon.

I have started giving directions to people in London - reminds me of my last days in Canada and Switzerland, when I used to wonder what would happen to all the bus routes and directions that I have memorised. I don't remember any routes now. I will soon forget London too.

One year at ARC, one year in London, also a full-fledged RSE now :)

Moving from London to any other European (even the “international” ones) city feels quite weird. In London you don’t feel like an outsider, no matter who you are, and I really liked that. I will never get people who don’t like diversity.