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Yes, the root is from Sanskrit (भाषा), got called over to SE Asia during the spread of Buddhism from India.

Yes

Conversely, Python's PEP394 explicitly discourages `/usr/bin/env python`, so there's that. (I know why the PEP says so, just pointing out that it differs from Nix style)

I've been using GNU Stow as a pseudo "package manager." Let's me install multiple versions of a software. And I simply delete the directory when I don't need it anymore.

The name you're looking for is MATE desktop. I've been using it for many years because I never liked Gnome 3 (constant churn, breaking plugins, themes etc). I'm using it on Debian …

Seems it is paywalled. I know that it will open up in a less than a week, but do you have subscriber link (because I'm curious to read) ?

There is Google's own "Personal blocklist" extension that does exactly that https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...

Could you plz provide an example ?

There are already "benefit" cards like LPG card, ration card, BPL card, etc to get those benefits. Why bother with Aadhar then? The answer is, consolidation. Aadhar is meant to be …

Not really. He means that govt cannot force every citizen to undergo iris scan etc. for obtaining Aadhar card. I would like to get Aadhar without iris scan (and am willing to let g…

> You're just renting them. It's not renting really. If I rent a physical book (or house, etc), I have exclusive access to it. Nobody else can possess it. It's for this privilege t…

And so is the first Kannada-English dictionary by a German, Ferdinand Kittel, in 1894. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Kittel

There's a European subsidiary of SDF as well: https://sdfeu.org/ . So the latency is much better than accessing US servers. I've been using this for IRC and it works satisfactorily…

Thanks for the catch!

Just hit 'Run' here: http://rextester.com/BDGO47890 You can see the program crash

Given how demanding ESR is with regards to 10+ years stability, Nim hasn't even reached 1.0 yet. I love Nim and your contribution to the Nim ecosystem, but yeah, convincing ESR wit…

Correct link: https://github.com/uclmr/emoji2vec

I'm not associated with it, but yeah, it was posted in /r/india few days ago: https://www.reddit.com/r/india/comments/5mj3vz/setting_up_ne... Domain is from Gandi (France) and IP a…

ZWJ and ZWNJ are also common in Indic scripts. It's basically used to control the appearance of glyphs, for example half-forms and consonant clusters (क्‍ष vs क्ष, both are kṣa). A…

Indeed. In the India-Pakistan Kargil war of 1999, USA sided with Pak and turned off GPS for Indian troops. That led to the creation of NAVIC http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home…

The actual research presentation is here (by Nokia Bell Labs researchers Silke Holtmanns, Bhanu Kotte and Siddharth Rao): [pdf]: https://www.blackhat.com/docs/eu-16/materials/eu-16…

I've set up a cronjob to pull the latest hosts file from Steven's aggregated list https://github.com/StevenBlack/hosts

And Vyomanaut = Indian