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Getting the occassion for bringing along a plus one. And FNH is done drafting.
Thoughtful gifts and a great celebration to port onto the new FY.
The ending of Chaos by James Gleick with heartbeats looking out for pertubation has to be a great unification of random science thingies presented as an imaginative chain of scenarios plus a super critical knowledge that should be fundamental to life.
Lollapalooza India and the first visit to Mumbai.
F16s live and up close, were followed by a 3 movie day at the theatre.
Coorg, Wayanad, beautiful homestays, well rounded road trip, naked eye star gaze, important sunsets.
Hectic and chaotic weeks, yet its somehow fun to work through it all.
"Emergence of Exigency" got a younger brother "Exile and Emergency". Part 3 has been started and that should be the end of a trilogy which began randomly with just a phraseful of alliterative words with afterthoughts projected as ideas.
There was a week of Pondicherry in between and drinking with the most suitable partner to do so.
New year (yaay) started with a weekend drive to Ooty via Coimbatore, with a perfect company. Plus, Moddy's hot chocolate and Erode's Kongu Parrotta.
Long time, no free.
Chronic Medical Emergency in a Wedding Week. Pretty much the only downer this entire year - which is a rare consolation to myself.
SDE 2 now. First promotion. Yaay !! and MONIES !!!!!! (this was last week though, for technicality's sake).
"Emergence of Exigency" - a poetry collection is now in a confident state to be distributed beyond the first draft or draft 1.5 . Feel free to get a free copy by reaching out to me.
Another drive - Nellore, Kavali and Ongole via Tirupati, Vellore and returned via Kolar. Of course, the rides extended through normal human sleep cycles and would be in the league of Le Mans if there was much skill behind it. Good beach finding though. Especially, for places which did not have a beach or made it superbly inaccessible to get to one.
Catastrophic Bug Fix within 24 hours -- Done.
Earphones ran out of charge this Wednesday at 11 am. Options left to proceed with are 1. Borrow a USB C Charger and resume after a while. 2. If social awkwardice and fear of borrowing impedes me, unplug my laptop from the peripheral hub in my assigned desk, and put up my earphones to get charged by. 3. If my comfort for peripherals is higher than the need for music, I will just work without music and make a social log around it.
Verbally confirmed it to my colleagues ( 20+ years older than me) that I have a girlfriend. The meta narrative of writing that out publicly seems easier yet.
Not sure if this page is developing towards a driver's half-assed teamBHP log, but yes, I drove a manual (again !?) through (and fro) Ambur, Vellore, Chennai, ECR, Pondi, Thiruvnanamali and a 2 hour blockade at Hosur. Highlight being the 850+ km lonely drive and driving from 10pm - 3pm on a certain stretch, with breaks but no sleep.
Went to Ziro Festival of Music and got back, and got around to a new me. Plus alcohol. Off to drive on the ECR at the end of the week.
Increased my love for AMT by driving it for a 1001 km solo within 47 hours, multiple landscapes and 3 Indian states with pretty well demarcated language and cultural boundaries.
Drove an AMT and found myself happy to have stood corrected on what I knew about cars and the fun in driving. A soft caress to the carcass of my ego to have brought out a new love for life. Plus, saw a ruined fraction of the awe-inspiring things at Hampi, set in stone.
A couple months from having ditched the startup that never frutioned into being, I thought that simple, innovative ideas are not out and abound. Found two great websites to prove me wrong. Way too wrong.
git show is stupid enough to show from just about any SHA that holds a .git reference. A good UX for my stupid brain would want it to be along the reflog straight out of the box.
This is the 256th Update (as indicated by the Gitbook MR Number). Got to count for something in a perceivably digital blog.
Prog rock seems to be the only one that just keeps progressing with a very set-in-stone progression pattern.
The urge to do something is at a comfortable battle with the desire to see the external agencies in life unravel themselves. Perhaps I am just saving up on emotions and their expressions / manifestations. And then there remains the concept of treating life as art unto itself and all dialogues being fully matured and realistic within context. Acknowledgement of context to any entity might be a good thing after all.
This is not being back to the platform and not a symbol of hope for furthering this log. If anything, I am procastinating against the unknown and am not burned out as well. It is inherently happy to remain sober and think about the end of thinking as an abstract concept.
Typing from the work computer, Broadcom - CA provided Snow restricts access to the gitbook instance hosted but allows editing it. Go figure.
The bike has an odometer at 15 Mm and has been across multiple pillions, varied terrains, through states, and elicited diverse emotions. Plus a car trip to Mahe through Mysuru, Coorg, Wayanad, Kannur, Thalassery, alongwith Hoskote, Kolar, Hosur and all in between, minus all the exaggerations.
GNU and FSF can very easily appear to be a cult under disguise.
Solved a critical bug with just one UI button push on the appliance, after having analysed logs for almost 2 hours.
Continuing on the high point of life with solo visit to Mysuru and Hyderabad already. Randomly meeting up folks from yesteryears and socializing it all. Plus, my bike is now always less than 100m from me. So everything seems graspable right now.
Top speed (in kmph) : Displacement (in cc) ratio is now at 0.864.
Travelled Delhi NCR, Jaipur, Jodhpur, Udaipur, Ahmedabad in the last couple+ of weeks. Good stuff. Plus Google Fit got huge hits on my step count with a Heart Point sum at 591 pts. Continued it further into Bangalore.
Kind of on the high point of life right now.
Use /etc/services to view all the pre-assigned ports and check what they are doing.
Piling up the pending tasks both at work and at home.
Starting FTE, MTS @ VMware
Starting off with a super intimidating bootcamp for next 3 weeks.
Creating good stuff @ VMware Borathon 2022.
VMware got sold to Broadcom.
Probably, on tracks to get a motorbike. Got this.
I am back to interning, And its also been a good and welcoming new year. Purchase plans for this year include a raspberry pi at last. Though, in its place, I got expenditures more into music.
Final bid to hate on gitbook. Now until I get on with a new SaaS to replace it, this has got to stay and I have to come to terms with it.
Got a Yamaha Pacifica 012, a 10W amp, two 5m guitar cables, a capo and to top them all up, a Zoom G1X Four Processor. Now the skills are really wanting.
We have an EPIC2 leave this Monday, so I am not leaving out any chance to brag on about it.
Finished H. Rider Haggar's King Solomon's Mines and brought three more in a frenzy while having been inside a bookstore for more than half a decade now. Got myself a Canterbury's Tales, Kidnapped by RL Stevenson and Pygmalion.
Abandoned Spotify, Moved Completely to YTMusic.
Rambled on a person blog as if it has any audience at all.(sic)
I am hating gitbook. Shows much from my current rate of updates
Gitbook edit mode got a whole lot slower. Probably acts as an excuse of my inactivity.
Hosted and created an intra college CodeGolf and a CTF.
Joined in as a Software Engineer Intern at Humantic.Ai (Frrole) .
Saints Row The Third is available for free at Epic Games alongside all DLCs, till September 2nd. Finished the Single Player Campaign in some 27 odd hours of gameplay over 3 days.Highly recommended if you want to just have casual fun and to get through super wild gameplay concepts and scenarios.
Today I noticed a slight tearing issue on the bottom left of my screen. And I cannot just ignore it.
Moved over from VSCode-OSS to VSCode and disabled telemetry and MS reporting, to get into marketplace, only to realize that features and marketplace were also previously available as seperate packages.
Use makepkg -sic when installing from PKGBUILD from source. This helps in keeping up with memory. s provides for installation of dependencies in a linear manner, i provides for running up the pacman installation for installing from the generated compressed file and c helps clean up temporary files while retaining dependencies. If the makepg fails, remove c to retain build debug statements.
Landed two non-overlapping offers at the exact same hour: 6pm - 7pm of Thursday, 19th July 2021. Will reveal ahead the names when I join in. Basically I have roughly a week of no work until retirement, yet I am super spiked up.
I might have had a pretty negative week previous to this one. Seems pretty apparent when checking out my activity up here.
0ad 25 just gor a campaign feature. And I have already completed all the Campaign stages for New Map in about a day and a half.
Internship ends this week, and on a positive note at that. Might not pursue this role any further though, ie not vying for an FTE here.
I seriously didn't know that Young Sheldon S4 is out, for over half an year now. Also its strange how this is one of the 5 TV series I have watched or even liked.
I am bored of tensed situations in life. So that's that. BTW, there's going to be a strike of union work forces, I guess in the USA whereby something radical should happen. Affirmatively on 15th October. IDK just seemed someone lobbying in a large scale and something that may become large by passing days.
With my viva today on DBMS Labs, I realized that 3 years of a college education clubbed with 2 years of Senior Secondary have rendered me able to generate BS at a moment's notice.
Vaccination started in my provincial state at last. Yaay! In a completely "unrelated" succession, I just might be making a inter-city transit after more than half an year.
Software Dev is successively looking like a myriad of problems that I didn't even think existed.
I have a new theory on Language: Let us take a sentence:
Thanks to my followers for the translation to Spanish.
Now let us assume a modified version of this sentence as:
Thanks to Antonio, Banderas and my other followers for the translation to Spanish.
Now, let it be that the other encompasses Salma, Hayek and another contributor who wished to be kept anonymous in this gratitude post. Thus, the sentence is adjusted to:
Thanks to Antonio, Banderas, Salma, Hayek and another one of my followers for the translation to Spanish.
If we kept in the other followers substring, it would be demeaning to the anon follower as well as plain lying. So, in fact we revert to the sentence structured as above. Now, anyone with a common diction of these words can check out the unnecessarily longer length of the sentence to the fact that we have to bow down to the request of anonymity. Else, it would just have been another name, possibly of one word, and would average out to have a length less than the extravagant difference due to the another one of my followers sentence component.
So, I immediately looked up what sentence construction tools can I use to even out this fluff of a sentence. Turns out, I cannot effectively search on the net or the fact that such a resource is out of my grasp. So, feel free to mail me about this. On the off chance that I am the first person to notice this, please name it Burden of Exceptions.
There is a word abecedarian and it means exactly what it spells out as.
I suppose, I have finally got a life goal. I am going to patreon all webcomics and package developers I find funny and useful irrespectively.
I just learned about Pubnix as a thing on the wide world of web. And it sort of says that there are things in plenty out there.
ssh sshtron.zachlatta.com
"Unices" is a word.
Started working under a non-disclosure agreement. Yaay ?!
Technically it is Sunday till sunrise. So I'll forego creating topic for a new week.
So, I was going to shutdown the system for the day. And did my pity sudo pacman -Syu. Turns out a warning stating that a certain package had a local version ahead of its extra counterpart. Thomas had never seen such BS before. It is still a bit baffling that the cutting edge package manager had to raise such a rollback and had issued downgrade of the release. I had almost never thought that clients could be asked of issuing a rollback, though it seems trivial right now as I type. By the way, the handling this rollback is pretty easy: just update the mirror list and go for a -Syyu .
I am basically a final year student. Yaay ! emotions of time passing by.
Folks verifying themselves for keybase on github gists just seems funny. I don't know why, but funny is as funny do.
Car Thing Spotify gives me a sense that niche technology might be taking over and would probably be accepted as a norm within a decade or two, or be highly ridiculed and then eventually accepted. It goes out of its way not to have navigation support, rear-camera display, radio support and call support for a thing that might not even stand the current situation. Thus the further mods to it are inevitable and the niche has to be generalized to sustain. So, do we pronounce ourselves to have reached a level of general technology greatness that a mere website can think so much of itself? Do we carry onwards from facebook, amazon and google that websites pay off enough to use their capital for revolutionising the generation's tech?
Pretty much the worst week in recent times for a very varied set of reasons.
Just watched a couple of hours worth of news coverage on the 2021 effects of the ongoing pandemic. I guess the next weeks and a an year or two thereafter, will follow the suit of my sadness.
Learning Vue.js just so that I can have a proper full stack to my name.
To make an occasional PostgreSQL dump ( for backups through CRUD ), use the sh command as: pg_dump -U postgres postgres > backup.sql This is simple in hindsight, but took me about 20 minutes to look up how even to do it. Here the second postgres is the name of the DB to be backed up into backup.sql through user postgres.
To get just the response code of a well defined cURL request, simply use: curl -Li -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '${payload}' ${url} | head -n 1 | cut -d$' ' -f2
In our AWS scheduler library, managed to make callbacks and resolve promises in spite of a process.exit(0) in same scope by a simple hack, changed the exit scope by pushing it into a timeout.
Got my laptop a new genuine battery. Caps itself initially at 96%.
Formally, started with Go. Seems nice. Learnt that the same employees from AT&T just migrated to Google.
Use fc-list to get all available fonts at your disposal.
Tried out kakoune and something just felt off. Maybe because the plugins are not that revered or because the emphasis on text editing as a language is too high. Might try in the future, when it gains better traction. Till then, vim does the job.
Discovered that there is a pretty handy tool objdump for Linux users which effectively does what otool does in Mac and other nix platforms.
Lost my Windows 10 partition to an attempted repair in a situation where I neither had a restore point nor a sufficiently-sized USB stick to reboot the OS.
Started again with another iteration of "A Blind Vendor", this time on StudioBinder.
Appreciated Marwa Blues by George Harisson and realized that a 7 minute version of it might just be the same thing being played twice.
Implemented a paper on Image Encryption and naively added a steganography measure which does the job in a pretty great way. Also contested the algorithm provided by the paper, to my Faculty.
Finished all level on Untrusted.
Wrote something worthy on Latex, accidentally deleted the source file, rewrote it from memory. Compiled in a go, without previews.
I am cowriting something. Yaaay!! Spoilers: (I am being spoiled out here)
After a couple of hours of Google Roadshow farce, is the key.
I am making sense of the world:
is here to challenge my exact notion of what Rock Performers must have been thinking of each other in the 60s.
striking onto the tub list.
The horror when I realize the question at
AI for the future:
This has got to be the cutest error message ever.
TIL, there are at least two music bands named Kaleidoscope that coexisted in the same time period and attracted same audience and have the exactly same spelling for a word that (by Google Trends) has most prevalence in Russia and Japan. Plus, both of these made super bonkers of their fans and are a pedigree of prog rock and psychedelic rock. Also, I just rechecked if they had any intersection points to them, only to realize there is another. GREAT !!
Check out the comment section at
So let's discuss about the use of '/' in an URL. It basically provides a directory approach to a routed component within the domain being referred to. Also check out for what is the conventional idea for a slash being added to the end of routed URL. Thus, we can expect such a behaviour from Wikipedia, one of the biggest and most-visited webpages in the world of World Wide Web. That is until you check out say for instance and find out that GNU does not hold any valid Wikipedia page. Why though? Sure lives and thrives, but the expected trailing slash and directory approach and yada yada seem to be lost somewhere.
The reason is simple. Wikipedia needs slashes in the Page Name. Case in Point: . A standard Parser which would be unaware of this fact would have thought of Linux_naming_controversy to have been inside GNU but that has been strangely avoided. So, is your parser wrong? YES. Is Wikipedia completely in the right? NO. A better alternative could definitely have been .
"Search across tabs". I saw it on a Chrome browser on my work VDI and get a sharp smirk that my browser : Brave wouldn't have such a useless feature. Then I update System Packages for the Day on my Manjaro System. Well, my smirk really did age like milk.
Yussir! I had zero idea we were amidst a Global Silicon Chips' Shortage. All hail Covid.
I just realized I had no idea how to spell COVID in the previous bullet point.
This is actually a great option that might go unnoticed while using sites enabled with Disqus.
is just the wildest commitment I've seen anyone make. And the fact that she succeeds speaks volume of and about humans.
I think it is the end of making and perfecting and have committed to returning to my Monthly Playlist.
I had zero idea that newspaper layouts were a thing until
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Having read , it prompts me to say something. But I agree, rather I acknowledge the arguments put forth. Anyways, do give it a read.
I really am a fan of the legal disclaimer in .
Funny Thing! Installed jekyll onto my ruby gems. Just realized that my rvm did not have access to the $PATH export I had specified in my .zshrc, since I was using bash. Consequently, my $PATH had no provision for gems; so made the requisite change in .bashrc, than for shifting to .zshrc and created it defualt for the session (other reasons in place as well). Soooo, what I did was append export PATH="$HOME/gems/bin" . Well, five seconds to guess what went wrong.
<Assume Time Lapse>
Time's up! My original $PATH was lost. I had to effectively do export PATH="$HOME/gems/bin:$PATH and had consequently lost access to all commands that were to be performed to access .zshrc and reverse the ill effects of my haste.
The dread was high but the solution was rather simple. Shoot up your File Explorer or someway to access the rc file: I had pcmanfm on Mod+F3 binding. Double Click or Enter into the File, My File opened up in Mousepad. Easy to Edit and Save. And all's normal.
But as apparent, this was a lucky set of preparation I had in place, without which I surely would have had to make invoke some weird techniques.
tells me we are living in a make-believe simulation after all and that exceeds some other theories I have had till now. Good one, nevertheless.
has some dedicated fandom. Good for the monkees.
b0rk has a lot of stuff on her but I found the game-y interface at to be even a step over and above.
Think Car Thing was a sign of tech being unnecessarily niche? Well here comes AirTag by Apple. A should-be-cheap and should-already-be-massively-available nifty piece of tech. And it brings up the importance of . Thanks for the accessory around an overpriced chip though.
Add to gloominess by I don't think I would ever be remembered for having been a programmer or a to-be programmer. The future seems real bleak and harrowing.
Finally went past and 3 months after watching her video, read through entirety of strace and other trace tools. Even applied them onto my own dotfiles' scripts and if anything, I now have a definitely better understanding of my system.
Might just have made my twentieth recommendation to a junior to subscribe to if they don't know what to do.
Why can't there be more folks like those at
Why can't there be more folks at who just say that Go is on pacman.
Listening to Let It Be on
is just a difference in implementation and it amazes me how such casual oversights may lead to appreciable bugs down the line
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Path setting for an import is easier in typescript and js courtesy of which offers a whole lot of other options as well.
yet another good privacy centric search engine. What makes it stand out? For me? The color theme.
Spent the best couple hours this week on
Registered on , wouldn't use it. Ever. Possibly.
Also signed up for ; am using it. Not for long, though.
Check out my own algorithm at .
If the entire implementation is a get-go, (even if not) will be publicly available.
Darkel may just not be worth the hype that GTA III fans hold for him.
