Just a little #reminder that #india wasn't as #unified as they were led to believe before the #british #empire https://victorianweb.org/history/empire/.. They were in fact deeply #divided already as a result of the fallout from the #mogul #empire .
Apparently the #gtk #gui #framework is dropping #support for #xserver in favour of #wayland https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=n.. This is a #reminder that many great #alternatives exit, including #dearimgui https://github.com/ocornut/imgui and #fltk https://www.fltk.org/
Very interesting, it looks like #atlassian massively fucked up and it could take a #month for them to #recover from #backups https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com.. Again, a #reminder , to always #test your #backups !
Another #reminder that #parsing #strings are not at all fun: https://dustri.org/b/horrible-edge-cases.. Screw that.
Just a #reminder that #sorting can be super easy (in terms of #algorithm #complexity ): https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.01111 Of course, it's not that #efficient ... But there could be a lot of #opportunity to run it in #parallel or make #domain specific #shortcuts ... As the #hackernews #comments point out, it's been #discovered many times before: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=287.. Could be really fun to take a look at this at a later date!
Just a little #reminder that the state #western #military #advantage is starting to look #weak - at a time when #china 's #ccp are #expanding their military powers: https://www.19fortyfive.com/2021/09/the-.. As much as I hate to say it, we desperately need to invest right now.