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arun-mani-j

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About arun-mani-j

Hey there! I'm Arun Mani J. You can know more about me at https://arunmani.in

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    https://arunmani.in

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    Update: it was my ISP. After switching networks and flushing the cache, it fails for me too. Sorry for the mistake :( (Clicked "hide" option in the post from my side,don't know if …

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    This is so nice, I wish more packages followed something like this. I'm on AMD integrated GPU (doesn't even support Rocm). Whenever I install a Python package that depends on PyTor…

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    I found this by accident when searching for a command in `M-x`. It is really a nice lorem-ipsum generator but it adds some "subversive" words (as described in the manual), so was q…

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    We tried making a library for GT, but as Tao says, given the very broad scope of number of games, strategies and players, etc., giving a unified and generalized interface was quite…

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    Comment #41268169

    Short summary: Netdata - "The open-source observability platform everyone needs!" (from their GitHub description) has been shipping their new dashboard (UI v2) as closed source blo…

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    Comment #40622266

    Very cool (literally) stuff. I drew a straight line and it keeps spinning :D

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    Aww thanks! Actually we both should thank Hugo for converting the MarkDown into a very simple HTML structure. I also try to follow semantic web whenever possible (article, header, …

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    Comment #40479882

    It's Competitive Programmer's Handbook - https://github.com/pllk/cphb/

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    Comment #40479875

    I tried to explain only one's complement and two's complement because they were only relevant to the explanation. TIL we have 5 such representations! :)

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    Comment #40479868

    Thanks for the nice summary. I found myself difficult to explain it so I took the help of visual explanation using the bits structure. :)

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    Comment #40106804

    When I had a 2 GB laptop lying around, I always wanted a simple text editor with auto-completion etc. (Though only for Python, Linux) After trying KDevelop, Kate, Eric, Sypder etc.…

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    Comment #39571355

    Can someone explain what "security mechanisms" an Android phone has built-in that are "destroyed" when a phone is rooted or custom ROM is installed such that banking apps, etc. den…

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    Thanks, it took me sometime to get that it is a parody/joke :D I liked this one - Dev realizes he is still in the interview stage after 2 years of work [ https://www.theolognion.co…

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    Comment #39140707

    Starship users: how do you track updates? I manually update occasionally (mostly months)

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    Comment #38888785

    Being the only "tech guy" in my family, I have installed Firefox with uBlock Origin and NewPipe in my parents', siblings' phone and some of my close friends'. The end result is the…

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    > You don't use bookmarks? Hearing them for the first time :) > C-h k runs the command describe-key. You do this and after that any command, and it will give you the explanation. I…

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    Comment #38865791

    Doom Emacs defaults to Evil mode. But if you turn it off, it gives you vanilla keybindings. So I don't think it remaps them. :)

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    Comment #38865394

    I'm a college student and I use Doom Emacs for about 4 years (before that I was learning to program and used Python IDLE, Kate etc.) On top of Doom Emacs, I have enabled CUA Mode a…