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@praveenswami @WSJ I have some lying around in my house, pointers please on how to become a defense contractor? I'd love me some of that sweet $1T moolah.

Hey, @WSJ, perhaps optic fibre cable isn’t available off-the-shelf where you looked, but Ali Express will home deliver as much as you want. There are going to be hundreds of millions of kilometres laid this year, so it’s not exactly hard to find…

@pranaykotas Huh. Must be a new development, incompatibility with NFC was the reason Apple had given back in the day for not supporting UPI in Apple Pay and not launching Apple Pay in India. Might simply be path dependence now I guess, nobody complains about QR codes, so they shall continue.

@SwirlsDefy paytm.com/blog/payments/…

Why have NFC based payments and verification on phone not found traction in India? Most people are not even aware if their phones are NFC-enabled.

@tsoding Unfortunately, having no index also makes it a pretty bad container format for in-place usage. It's fine for one time archiving-unarchiving though.

tar is a surprisingly simple format (just the tar itself, without any compression). Implementing a parser or a generator for it (or at least a small subset of it) is a fun programming exercise. Really recommend.

@opdroid1234 Ah, Gnome and its CSG. I think SDL switched to using libadwaita for decorations on Gnome, and static linking might prevent its loading.

Another Ubuntu 26.04 gripe - the painstaking trick of static compiling everything (including sdl3) on a fairly old distro with old glibc had been working flawlessly for my vulkan app. On Ubuntu 26.04 the window shows up without any decoration or chrome. Need to see what is up

@aadilbrar Does this means that they are giving up on fixing youth unemployment (and consequently low consumption)?

China's spy agency just solved youth unemployment. It wasn't the collapsing job market. It wasn't 20%+ youth unemployment. It wasn't the housing crash. It was… hostile foreign forces making kids want to lie down. I am not joking. 🧵

@AhsanAdil123 @sabizak How do their jalsas get big if they are "not popular in the common Pakistani people"? State coercion? Free food?

@sabizak Btw they are also not popular in the common Pakistani people despite the resources at their disposal. Can't win a counselor seat in local elections but will do big jalsas in every city.

Things will change in Pakistan when its elite displays the same sort of hatred (and awareness) of LeT and JuD as it does of the TTP, BLA and TLP

@rfleury This could prove problematic on touchpads and for people with poor motor skills though. There a reason we register a button click only when mouse is released over the button itself.

This is a huge bang-for-buck improvement you can add to your UIs.

@rovarma @opdroid1234 And the special memcpy, don't forget the special memcpy

@opdroid1234 that’s because you need to use the gold plated connectors for best local model quality

Back when high end audio was a thing I eventually realized that there was a whole bunch of reviewers who would never say anything bad or critical about a speaker and who only covered a speaker at launch and never mentioned it again. Similar dynamic seems to be at play with AI models, there seems to be an entire cottage industry who speaks gushingly about models the day they are released and then show no signs of actually using those models or posting any shortcomings in the model after the initial launch date.

@nafonsopt I see, thanks.

@SwirlsDefy Theres no testimonials and there’s a project with 27 ppl using it, the company is new and I don’t know if they are ok for me to share, but their project is unreal engine iirc around 300gb

After 3 years, 47 releases, Ark VCS has finally reached 1.0! 🎉 youtu.be/XSnIw4siQ6U It's a big release, with features that I've never seen to any version control system out of the box, like built-in changelist build status. If you're tired of #perforce and #git, get it from ark-vcs.com! #gamedev #indiegamedev #softwaredevelopment

@SebAaltonen @DanielcHooper Yeah, that's been my experience. Haven't figured out how to integrate finer grained lifetimes (custom allocators, arenas, slabs, etc.) with language level coarse lifetimes. And so many docs just recommend giving up and using ref counts, maybe it points to core flaws in the lang.

@SwirlsDefy @DanielcHooper Yeah. There's only a few professional game studios using Rust. It will take time for sure. The Rust code I write for my small hobby projects is as fast as my C/C++. I don't allocate individual objects, I prefer stack, etc. Rust uses stack by default. Boxing requires extra effort.

Jonathan Blow on fast software

@SebAaltonen @DanielcHooper It took time for the gamedev best practices of C++ to emerge (and many of those were lifted from existing C practices). Rust hasn't had the time, nor does it has a C-like antecedent. People will need to discover the right way for Rust gamedev (will be different from tutorials)

@SwirlsDefy @DanielcHooper Sure, but game devs don't use C++ std lib either. Why would they use similar Rust std lib features?

@SebAaltonen @DanielcHooper Rust does push one to higher abstractions through its stdlib, very much like C++. Maybe we need a "Orthodox Rust" blog post

@DanielcHooper Also Rust is not OOP language like C++. Idiomatic Rust isn't deep inheritance hierarchies and virtual functions everywhere. Virtual base class forces pointer access and forces 1:1 object allocations. Rust doesn't have that problem. In Rust people don't box that often.

@RobboLaw And aside from hundreds of terrorist attacks on India and the destruction of Afghanistan, but those don't matter to Americans.

Very true. Relations haven't been this good between the US and a Pakistani dictatorship since the 1980s and Zia-ul-Haq. And aside from the 9-11, that was great.

@sabizak @RohitTantia4 Did the people change instantaneously, or did they simply drop the facade?

@RohitTantia4 Yeah, that’s what banning ‘enemies’ does; it radicalizes them further. Maybe that’s what the Indian govt wanted, but it’s unfortunate all around

Pakistan’s ‘liberals’. These are the people constantly defending power, war, military establishments, and then they had the audacity to act superior to Indian content creators during the Pakistan-India conflict. Imagine a Kunal Kamra or Vir Das or Varun Grover or Dhruv Rathee of Pakistan who has the audacity to constantly stand against power. You will come up with nothing.

@TedhiLakeer @acorn The moment an Indian company releases any tech, our journalists rush to find reasons to tear it down, babus invent specs that are not satisfied, and activists start a dharna until they get their beaks wet. Are you willing to favourably cover Indian tech like Western media does?

@acorn Our guys sweat at these foreign tech companies but we cannot get our homegrown talent to offer watertight solutions. The list of our tacky civilian tech providers is too long. Imagine what happens in defence & Nat sec sectors where assessments are more opaque.

Iran warned that it will targeted tech companies like Microsoft, Palantir, Cisco etc. There was a time when I would have found this inexcusable. Now I am still appalled, but cannot in good conscience argue that the Iranians are wrong. Even international humanitarian law, which permits only military targets to be attacked, defines one “as an object that by its nature, location, purpose, or use makes an effective contribution to military action, and whose destruction offers a definite military advantage.” (From my Mint column)

Twitter rots the best minds. No, India has an inventory of 75-90 days, and a wartime strategic reserve of 10 dys. Which is not a lot if India was going to war with China, but I doubt that’s what Bruno is talking about.

@Iran_in_India Indian economy has become too entwined with USA's and that prevents the government from explicitly siding with Iran. But we, the people of India can do what the government can't. Hindus and Zoroastrians have been friends since beginning, and Indians and Iranians will continue so.

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@irfhabib There is an inconsistency here. If Bhagat Singh's view were half-baked due to his age and lack of experience, what is it that implies that with age, he would have moved closer to a well-formed marxism instead of away from it?

Of course the colonial government feared the ideas they espoused. No one claims that Bhagat Singh was a great Marxist scholar at 23, but he was surely inspired by socialist and communist ideas. Many of his writings reflect that as well.