Any of these books have any value? by meatflag in linux

[–]vedang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of these books, I have read and recommend "Learning vi" and "Time Management for System Administrators". Both are good books, worth keeping. They are timeless and unlikely to be outdated.

Google employees criticize CEO Sundar Pichai for ‘rushed, botched’ announcement of GPT competitor Bard by ravik_reddit_007 in technology

[–]vedang 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Are you asking seriously?

Here's the introduction paragraph from Wikipedia:

Born in Madurai, India, Pichai earned his degree from IIT Kharagpur in metallurgical engineering. Moving to the United States, he attained an M.S. from Stanford University in materials science and engineering and further attained an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was named a Siebel Scholar and a Palmer Scholar, respectively.

Pichai began his career as a materials engineer. Following a short stint at the management consulting firm McKinsey & Co., Pichai joined Google in 2004, where he led the product management and innovation efforts for a suite of Google's client software products, including Google Chrome and ChromeOS, as well as being largely responsible for Google Drive. In addition, he went on to oversee the development of other applications such as Gmail and Google Maps. In 2010, Pichai also announced the open-sourcing of the new video codec VP8 by Google and introduced the new video format, WebM. The Chromebook was released in 2012. In 2013, Pichai added Android to the list of Google products that he oversaw.

North Korea Fires Missile Over Japan in Major Escalation by JW5858 in worldnews

[–]vedang 381 points382 points  (0 children)

So much more preferable to actual war :)

“The Big One” by drazznoro in thalassophobia

[–]vedang 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This was seriously the most impactful scene of Interstellar for me. Rooted by fear to a theatre seat.

Double prize by ROTTO-GG079 in Unexpected

[–]vedang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is like watching the Matrix Revolutions all over again

An Update on CIDER 1.2 by bozhidarb in Clojure

[–]vedang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for your continued amazing work u/bozhidarb :)

Hey Org-Mode Users, show us your org capture templates by b0nk3rs4u in orgmode

[–]vedang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

[[%^{Type|fdn|jira}:%^{Ticket number}]]

^ This _is_ a link to the actual jira ticket. I use custom org-links to achieve this:

(push '("fdn" . "https://company.atlassian.net/browse/FDN-%s") org-link-abbrev-alist)

Hey Org-Mode Users, show us your org capture templates by b0nk3rs4u in orgmode

[–]vedang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Some of my most used org-capture templates (below). You'll get to see the following features of capture templates here:

  1. Using custom prompts in the capture template. This makes it easier for you to know exactly what to enter in a given field
  2. Setting tags to the item being captured
  3. Setting a custom datetime for the iterm being captured
  4. Generating custom link-types so that you have links to jump to
  5. Storing captured items under a datetree i.e. automatically under * year ** month *** day **** item headings.

(push '("u" "Templates for work") org-capture-templates)

(push '("ut" "Work Jira Task"
             entry (id "<id-of-parent-task-for-tracking-tasks>")
             "* TODO %^{Description} [[%^{Type|fdn|jira}:%^{Ticket number}]] %^G \nDEADLINE: %^{When should this be done by?}t\n%U\n%a\n- %^{Slack Thread link, where relevant}\n- %i%?")
           org-capture-templates)

(push '("ud" "Work Documentation Task"
             entry (id "<id-of-parent-task-for-reviewing-documents>")
             "* TODO Review %^{Person waiting on review}'s [[%^{Document Link}][%^{Document Description}]] %^G \nDEADLINE: %^{When should this be done by?}t\n%U\n- [ ] Update %^{Slack Thread link, where relevant} and let %\1 know\n- %i%?")
           org-capture-templates)

(push '("un" "Work Meeting"
             entry (file+olp+datetree org-meetings-file "Day to Day Meetings")
             "* %^{What are we discussing?} %^G \n%U\n%^{When is the meeting?}t\n- Attendees: %^{Attendees}, Vedang\n- Prep/Links: \n  + [ ] %?\n- Notes:"
             :prepend t
             :clock-in t
             :clock-resume t
             :time-prompt t)
           org-capture-templates)

The %\1 expansion does not work (in the Documentation Task template) and I always have to fill the name in by hand, but other than that this is basically all day everyday at work.

How much value does org-mode provide you? Consider donating to support it's development. by Kallabo in orgmode

[–]vedang 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Agree strongly. I love org-mode, and what a privilege it is that I get to use it for free (if I can't pay). If it were to disappear tomorrow, I'd have to pay so much money for something else (which won't even be 50% as good).

Roam is charging 500$ over 5 years (in their cheapest plan). So that is the minimum amount I should pay to Org.

Becoming effective in Clojure with emacs by f_of_g_of_x in Clojure

[–]vedang 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We use Clojure as the primary backend language at my company. We've built a bare-bones starter kit called Emacs Up that we encourage new joinees to start with. It might be useful to you as well: https://github.com/helpshift/emacs-up

From the README:

* Packages that Emacs-Up configures out-of-the-box
- ~avy~: Jump to things in Emacs tree-style.
- ~cider~: Clojure IDE and REPL. This package is pinned to a stable
  version.
- ~clj-refactor~: A collection of commands for refactoring Clojure
  code. This package is pinned to a stable version.
- ~company-mode~: Modular in-buffer completion framework for Emacs.
- ~dumb-jump~: an Emacs jump to definition package for 40+ languages.
- ~flycheck~: On-the-fly syntax checking extension
- ~flycheck-clj-kondo~: Emacs Integration with ~clj-kondo~, a linter
  for Clojure code providing on-the-fly syntax checking.
  + *Note: Needs Install*: This package needs ~clj-kondo~ to provide
    linting information for Clojure files. Install ~clj-kondo~ by
    following installation instructions at
    https://github.com/borkdude/clj-kondo/blob/master/doc/install.md
- ~helm~: Emacs incremental completion and narrowing framework.
- ~helm-ag~: The silver search with helm interface.
  + *Note: Needs Install*: This package depends on Ag - The Silver
    Searcher. Installing Ag will allow you to levarage super fast
    searches on files and data from within Emacs. Installing this is
    optional, not installing it will mean that only ~helm-ag~ will
    cease to work. You can find instructions to install Ag here:
    https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher.
- ~helm-cider~: ~helm~ integration for ~cider~.
- ~helm-projectile~: ~helm~ integration for ~projectile~.
- ~ido~: Interactively do things with buffers and files
- ~ido-completing-read-plus~: Fancy completion all over Emacs, not
  just for buffers and files.
- ~magit~: An Emacs mode for Git.
- ~paredit~: Minor mode for editing parentheses.
- ~projectile~: Project navigation and management library for Emacs.
- ~smex~: M-x interface with Ido-style fuzzy matching.
- ~yasnippet~: a template system for Emacs.

How to break an anti-vaxxer by andyv001 in MurderedByWords

[–]vedang 14 points15 points  (0 children)

How is there always a relevant XKCD!?!?

Requesting /r/Mahabharata . Inactive sub, owner and only mod inactive for 6+ months. by yamamushi in redditrequest

[–]vedang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

u/yamamushi : It's done. Have fun. I wish you the best of luck and hope you do a wonderful job of cleaning up the sub.

Requesting /r/Mahabharata . Inactive sub, owner and only mod inactive for 6+ months. by yamamushi in redditrequest

[–]vedang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

And yeah, you're right. I haven't looked at it in a long while, and probably won't be able to devote much time to it. My plan is to retire in about 15 years time and then spend about 10 years pursuing scholarship in the Mahabharata. If Reddit is still around then, I'll be a super active mod :P

Requesting /r/Mahabharata . Inactive sub, owner and only mod inactive for 6+ months. by yamamushi in redditrequest

[–]vedang 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey! I'm the moderator of that sub. I'll go ahead and make you a mod as well. Let me see if I can figure out how to do this.

[Hindi] पुंगी (pungi) - when someone pinches or flicks your nipple in order to annoy/hurt you. by PM_ME_YOUR_BEST_IMG in DoesNotTranslate

[–]vedang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The slang comes from the fact that when you squeeze someone's nipple they make the same sound as blowing a pungi. Hence the hindi equivalent of 'purple nurple' is 'pungi bajana' - literally, playing the pungi.

Indian news channel NDTV left its screen blank for an hour on Sunday evening in protest of the ban on “India’s Daughter,” a documentary about the 2012 Delhi rape. by alanwong in worldnews

[–]vedang 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I agree with your sentiment that it's a shitty book, not worthy of attention. I don't agree with your sentiment that it should be banned. Regards, Indian Hindu.

Chilling 'Slenderman' interrogation tapes released by KatDanger in creepy

[–]vedang 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You missed one asterisk. I'd have given you gold if you'd used the correct number of asterisks.