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“And still, after all this time, the Sun has never said to the Earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with love like that. It lights up the sky.” ― Rumi

In developing countries like India - a surprisingly high number of students do not have access to a computer. I have a lot of friends who had to learn enough on phone to bootstrap …

Graphite[1] has interesting plugin ecosystem like Grafana[2] & has been around since 2009. Architecture of Open Source Applications book[3] has done a nice overview of the architec…

Imagine the earth as distributed, massively parallel operating systems. Physical, chemical and biological conditions as $environment and available system calls. Seeds could be apps…

Perhaps a biased view but fter teaching students from colleges I feel that most who are "born in the high level" world float comfortably without needing to understand fundamentals …

The market is going through a massive liquidity crunch and startup funding, therefore tech hiring is at an all time low since 2010s. This is not you but the market. Consolidate and…

An alternative view based on Energy returns on Energy invested- 1. Most agriculture pumps orders of magnitude more Energy into the farm to make fewer calories of food. Petroleum be…

While I am all for social justice.. i don't think a Marc or a Zucker or Jobs should be turned into villains. A corner of my mind forgives them because of how "the system" rewards s…

It is incredible and fascinating how physics, chemistry and Biology come together in plant roots. I have been trained as a computers person and hated Biology in school so i have ze…

While the academic, lab and research road down this path is known, few orgs have been successful at applying this at scale. One of the lesser known state supported entities out of …

I am realising that passing context for $this is the tricky part as- 1. It is very difficult for me to tell you about my context as a user within low dimension variables. 2. I do n…

+ Software limited the upper limits of thrust correction/per second to 10% of what was possible. In other words, it could perhaps correct itself in those many seconds but was allow…

"The Concord" models often get speculated as the future, but as often the energy economics does not sustain. There is perhaps a very probable risk of rising energy costs this decad…

What is your software pipeline to manage screenshots? If we could: - bucket and tag - turn them to tasks - follow ups

Series of stone tablets + a visual grammar, language that can be deciphered from scrach with new eyes.