Shriram Ravindranathan

Really beautiful blue sky over Hyderabad today

Is there a decaf version of Diet Coke

They say cockroaches will outlast us all. We'd settle for outlasting your database problems. New look, same resilience: distinct parts, adapting together, make the whole stronger.

Blur was the emacs of Britpop

seeing the astra demos just took all the joy out of this for me smh

Hot Take: homeöwner should be spelled with a dieresis @newyorker.com back me up gang

I was convinced that my microphone was dead, turns out I just had the bitchass pad button turned on on my interface

Transgender rights are not a permission—they are the right to live itself 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Existence doesn’t need any permission, you know. Why does the world treat something so simple as if it were optional? It is the baseline of being human ♡ Chiitan will keep raising their voice.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

I wonder whatever happened to GANs for image generation? I remember them being all the rage in 2019 (HyperGAN, StyleGAN etc). Somehow, the GAN’s output to me seems way more realistic that anything a diffusion model has produced Case in point: thispersondoesnotexist.com

Started watching another blender tutorial playlist today. Maybe the 20th time’s the charm?

I’m scrubbing the same frying pan for the 5th time today. I really hope I atleast get some Mr. Miyagi “wax on wax off” effect out of it.

Right framing. It's not 320 vs lossless in one pass, it's generation loss. Lossy->lossy (mp3->aac over BT) is the real killer: each codec drops different bands, so cymbals & reverb tails smear. Keep lossless as the master, transcode at playout, never store the transcode.

I love his cute little chunky bod especially when he’s snoozing like this.

I just didn’t realize how much I missed this style of music

I’ll never understand why the currency symbol has to go BEFORE the number unlike idk every other unit in history? You even have to pronounce ₹100 as 100 rupees so why not just write it after the number?

Today's NYT connections lists "The Entertainer" as a beginner piano piece. Sorry WHAT??? #NYTconnections #Piano

Bumping this absolute classic tonight. No skips. #blink182

6 × 7 = 42 just saying…

I love LibreOffice but why did they have to name their spreadsheet software "Calc"? Everytime I try to open the calculator from drun, I end up opening "Calc" instead 🤦‍♂️ #linux #libreoffice

What a graph. I didn't know it was this bad. monthly StackOverflow questions over time: data.stackexchange.com/stackoverflo... #StackOverflow

got this mythical youtube algorithm pull today www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2DT...

Oh my. This is spectacular. sinceyouarrived.world/taken

This essay by Richard Stallman on why schools should only use libre software is one of my favourites. I think everyone should read it. www.gnu.org/education/ed...

TIL sheepshank does not mean "to stab a sheep" en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sheepsh...

RIP Jeeves 💔 www.ask.com #AskJeeves

Anisota is pro-goblin. We are also in favor of other critters such as gremlins, raccoons, and pigeons. We promise never to suppress creatures and cryptids, unless one begins to scare away all the moths.

Just pulled my first image from space Image of India from 825km up. Image from Meteor M2-3 LRPT (72k) received using an RTL-SDR v4 over Hyderabad Decoded on Fedora using SatDump. #SDR #Space #MeteorM2 #SatDump #LRPT #India

I connected my Fedora 43 laptop to the college WiFi and my laptop audio instantly went out. PipeWire had discovered like 50 macbook audio sinks and it was so busy creating and managing outputs for those random devices that my on device speakers weren't working lol #linux #fedora #pipewire

Does anyone know why all these badass defense contractors have these Law Firm -esque double-barrel names? - Northrop-Grumman - McDonnell-Douglas - Fisher-Price - Lockheed-Martin etc

The W^X (Writable XOR Executable) policy states that a memory page is either writable or executable, but never both Since 0^0=0, It technically also prohibits a memory page from being neither writable nor executable (i.e; readonly) I’m filing non-compliance reports against every major OS, brb #OS

Everytime I hear “Physically Based Rendering” it sounds like a mistranslation to me shouldn’t it be “Physics-based rendering”? #ComputerGraphics #rendering

@t6e.dev huge thanks for working on the Steingass sqlite database Indo-Persian† was the lingua franca of India for centuries. Reconstructing its phonetics is nearly impossible because the Abjad is unforgiving with vowels. This romanized dataset is literally the Rosetta Stone of Indo-Persian.

My favourite song atm BUT the piano solo feels so wrong.. like it should be EXACTLY 4 bars longer. Maybe my ears are too accustomed to hearing 8-bar long solos / middle 8s? #CharliePuth #MusicSky

I grew up learning that the lion lives in a (majestic) den But in national geographic I’ve only ever seen the broke ass lion sleep under a paltry tree that barely has 4 leaves. The PR team is working overtime.

It looks like CNN has started broadcasting in anamorphic widescreen as of today The hegemony of big 4:3 is finally over

yo this file is licensed asf

Is it just me or does the omega in the Wikipedia logo look like it's not curved along the curvature of the globe unlike the other letters? #wikipedia

They ought to be updating it once a week at this point

My dog. Pup-Aya. Here's her Goodmorning face. #dog #morningcuddles #somekindofmixedbreed

Fun fact: there are more natural numbers than there are atoms in the universe

It bothers me when channels that natively record in 16:9, letterbox their video into a 4:3 frame for their SDTV broadcast. This is inevitably stretched again by EVERY modern TV resulting in a stretched image with black bars on top of it. BBC gets it right by using anamorphic widescreen instead.

Ok you gotta admit “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone“ sounds way cooler than the original name “Sorcerer’s Stone” evokes a picture of a mysterious wizard with an enchanted gemstone “Philosopher’s Stone” on the other hand makes you think of Socrates trying to pass a kidney stone #HarryPotter