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Calvin & Hobbes have always been such a joy. In childhood, it was a reflection of all the naughtiness you could come up with. As a middle aged adult today, I look at the bigger mea…

Generally it is a good practice to keep v.[N] and [N-1] in active deployment. But lately a lot of policies from Anthropic are confusing at best, and at worst plain subscriber-hosti…

It is perhaps better for Anthropic to do a price hike e.g. $25 or $30 for Pro with a clear/honest messaging e.g. "Running costs are high, price hike is unavoidable" than resorting …

* From the announcement [0]: ACM has named Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard as the recipients of the 2025 ACM A.M. Turing Award for their essential role in establishing the f…

https://blog.computationalcomplexity.org/2026/03/bennett-and... https://www.quantamagazine.org/quantum-cryptography-pioneers... https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/technology/turing…

During my bachelors, I was using a Casio FX-991ES+. It was a beautiful calculator compared to the hand-me-down Fx-82 VPAM. And pretty popular with the folks of my age that time. Du…

I had the same gripe as the author. OhmyZSH seems too bloated for my needs. Added to that, the defaults adds (and oft unnecessary) emojis to prompts & outputs - something I don't f…

True. Applications as these go back a few decades. From the news buzz when it was launched, ASCI White was similarly used in early '00s to understand nuclear explosions and shockwa…

Coincidentally enough, I dug out my 11th grade CS project on generating fractals from 2002 & modernized it using SFML graphics lib just this week. https://github.com/gradientwolf/f…

I discovered this issue 2-3 years ago. On slightly older machines, there was a palpable startup time. My fix was going through OhMyZSH and stripping away all the parts that I felt …

I'm sorry, yes, two stations with huge pumps. They are like towers, but built from basement level downwards if that impression makes sense.

I have been to this place. It is limited viewing, requires a reservation & the slots run out practically in seconds. Tough for us residents to get it as well. My wife could snag it…

> Some people living in places that have become tourist areas are putting up signs announcing their home toilets are not for public use . I read that on r/Tokyo Reddit as well a wh…

You'll be surprised if I tell you several universities in India have not updated their curriculum in a very long time & Turbo C++ (& its non-standard C++ flavor) is the weapon of c…

For me, the greatest bit of nostalgia came from seeing the Netscape Navigator Meteors. (Going further I found this link, which also echoes how rare it is nowadays to see a working …

Not the OP but in a similar boat. Curious to understand how do you make sure that Claude code cli tool does not break existing code functionality? My hesitation to adopt stems from…

I have seen and enjoyed quite a few Val Kilmer movies, but his special appearance in 'Top Gun:Maverick' was heartwarming (the scene where he jovially asks Maverick, "who was the be…

In those days of yore, the P-III was our first home computer (Hard to imagine for kids today that a family of 5 could have one PC shared between themselves). I was the experimental…

FCKGW-RHQQ2-YXRKT-8TG6W-2B7Q8 I had bummed out my P-III 700Mhz desktop so many times, while tinkering with System32, INI files & experimental software etc., in grade school that th…

Pardon me asking a question on a different tangent: This old-school typography is very neat to see. I've seen this in many Dover Publication books & even Mir titles from USSR. Is t…

A user like me would be willing to idea of some monthly donation when Mozilla restructures its expenses. If memory serves right, the biggest slice of expenses were in C-level compe…

It seemed only a matter of time, so it isn't very surprising. Capped profit company running expensive resources on Internet scale, and headed by Altman wasn't going to last forever…

It still is pretty good. That and the ACM CACM are my only subscriptions. I independently purchase the Spectrum only because I don't want to be associated with IEEE anymore. My rea…

If galactic location details weren't provided, I would have jokingly concluded that we finally spotted the nuclear manhole cover :) https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/infographics/the-fastes…

The article, funnily enough, made a better argument in pointing that Andromeda sailing boat might not have been involved - but rather some other vessel. The whole article felt like…