Dhawal

Software Engineer | Avid Reader | Author | Astrologer | Love Riding my 🚲 & 🏍️ | Here for fun and rants. Feel free to DM, I love to talk.

[Dhawal @EnigmaticIdiot2]

If you're interested in knowing what's in your kundali (birth chart), I'd be happy to read and oblige. I'll take up free readings for sometime now. DM me if you're interested.

[Dhawal @EnigmaticIdiot2]

@2sush @Kalshi_Finance Last drive up before it crashes?

[Shanon Jackson @Shanshrew]

1 Year of Research coming to an end. 8 Months seeing no results, Almost quitting twice. November/December of last year finally seeing a very narrow path to a universal 2x perf improvement on every modern JS parser which would take me another 4 months to build.

This will land in oxc_parser fairly soon speeding up OXLint, OXFmt, Vite, Rolldown, Deno (oxc consumer) almost immediately.

In the long term it's likely that it will land in V8/SpiderMonkey/Bun/JavascriptCore/Typescript/+ Every other JS parser implementation

The wins come from a few key elements, obviously 1 novel "SIMD For Context Sensitive Languages" the other key elements take it from a 20% win e2e to a 80-200% win (99% of files will see a 80-100% perf improvement).

These key elements translate to any AST design and thus will speed up not only all JS tooling but every major browser when complete.

[माझी Mumbai, आपली BMC @mybmc]

⛈️ 🚨India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an Orange alert warning along with gusty winds for tomorrow, 7 July 2026 for Mumbai.

🏫In view of this, all Government, Municipal and Private schools and colleges in Mumbai have been declared a holiday for Tomorrow , 7 July 2026, for safety of the students.

🔹The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has appealed to citizens to avoid venturing out if not urgent

#MyBMCUpdates
#MumbaiRains

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Taiwan solved tax evasion in 1951 with a trick so cheap it should embarrass every tax authority on the planet.

The problem was an all-cash economy full of small shops. A merchant pockets the cash, skips the receipt, and the sale never existed. Auditors can't catch what was never recorded, and hiring enough of them to watch every noodle stand costs more than the missing tax.

So finance chief Ren Xianqun flipped the incentive. Print a lottery number on every receipt. Draw winners every two months on live TV. Top prize today: NT$10 million, about $310K.

Suddenly the customer and the shopkeeper want opposite things. The merchant wants the sale off the books. The customer wants the ticket. And there are millions more customers than merchants. Every transaction now carries a built-in witness demanding the paper trail.

Year one, reported tax revenue jumped 75%, from NT$29 million to NT$51 million. Seventy-five years later, roughly 70% of Taiwanese still play. Convenience stores redeem the smallest NT$200 prizes at the register, so even a coffee receipt feels like a scratch card.

The elegant part is what the audit force costs. The prize pool runs about NT$7 billion a year, roughly $20 million. In exchange, the government gets 23 million unpaid auditors working every checkout line in the country, forever. No inspector general on earth delivers that coverage at that price.

Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Slovakia all copied it. The most effective compliance tool ever built looks like a game, and that's exactly why it works.

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

Fixing Windows, one kilobyte at a time.

Back in the NT days, Notepad was lean, fast, and stayed in its lane. Today? It wants an account, cloud sync, and Copilot’s opinion.

So I did what any retired OS engineer would do: rebuilt it from scratch.
2,686 bytes. Full features. Zero bloat. Pure Win32.
All in assembly language.

No telemetry. No nonsense. Just the Notepad you remember — only smaller than the thumbnail image!

Would love to hear what you think — and what other “impossible” tiny apps we should tackle next.

[Dhawal @EnigmaticIdiot2]

@2sush And spam got nastier, it'd be fun to figure out if this person connected first via number or username. At first you could just refuse to share as number was private. Now excuse doesn't exist. Everyone can connect with you everywhere there's no boundary 😂

[Dhawal @EnigmaticIdiot2]

Unpopular as it might be but psuedoscience will always be more popular and prominent than actual science since what people feel is science is more imp than what actually is there.

[Dhawal @EnigmaticIdiot2]

@akanksha7196 Never felt the need to do so

[Dhawal @EnigmaticIdiot2]

@AmarjaRaje Prepping for something?

[ruanyf @ruanyf]

SQLite 数据库的作者 Richard Hipp 解释，为什么他的项目一律不接受外部的 PR。

PR 不是免费的。你实际上是对我提要求：你开发了这个很棒的功能，然后希望我帮你维护它、帮你编写文档、帮你测试，并在接下来的二十五年里一直为你维护它。

Linus 曾说过一句名言：Free 既可以指免费啤酒，也可以指言论自由。但还有另一种 Free：免费的小狗。“瞧，我这儿有只免费的小狗送给你。” 你明白我的意思了吧？

提交一个 pull request 就相当于有人送你一只小狗。一天下来，你的小屋里就多了一只小狗。你不能把它扔掉——你有道义上的责任照顾它，直到它自然死亡。

我可不要任何免费的小狗。https://t.co/kD8Kri3V9K

[Mumbai Rains @rushikesh_agre_]

This is exactly why you don't declare the monsoon weak based on one dry week.

72 hours ago: Concern.
Today: Mumbai is at the forefront of monsoon activity.

Never underestimate the South West Monsoon. The comeback has begun! ⛈️⚡

Long rainy spells ahead #MumbaiRains

[Dhawal @EnigmaticIdiot2]

Idk if twitter is still A/B testing on UI but there are times when UI feels incredibly smooth and light and then it goes to sluggish and pathetically slow.

[Mitchell Hashimoto @mitchellh]

Creator of Sqlite on pull requests: "You say, oh, it's free. No. It's not free. What you're doing is asking me ... to maintain it for you, to to document it for you, to test it for you, to maintain it for you for the next 25 years. That's not free." Yep.

Wise words from a wiser man than me. I've told people for the past decade and I have recent posts on here saying the same: the merge button is the easy part. Its the decade+ (Richard says 25 years) that follows where you've accepted the transfer of maintenance thats hard.

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

> be pakistan government
> develop custom malware
> used to target high profile targets
> used against indian military and political ppl
> named SHEETCREEP
> send indian ppl file
> UAE-India Strategic Partnership Week
> malicious .lnk file
> .lnk executes malicious c sharp code
> does a bunch of stuff for persistence
> exfiltrates data to Google Sheets
> Google Sheets can be used to control victim pcs
> pakistan gov hardcodes google c2 sheet
> PAKISTAN GOV HARDCODES GOOGLE C2 SHEET
> embed access key in payload
> EMBED ACCESS KEY IN PAYLOAD
> malware nerds find it
> look inside
> find all targets from pakistan gov
> monitoring 91 ppl they think important

THEY STARTED SO STRONG. WHY DID YOU HARDCODE EVERYTHING. YOU BURNED YOUR OPERATION

https://t.co/PcCeV05cu3

[Valentin Ignatev @valigo]

"Attempt to match two auto-casts. You seem to enjoy using xx a bit too much." is now my favorite Jai compile error

[Dhawal @EnigmaticIdiot2]

@dyylansdiary I use this convention and it feels better in terms of formatting.

[Dhawal @EnigmaticIdiot2]

@whataimeereads_ So far I've been using google docs, word mixed up words after document reached a particular word limit.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

It's annoying that Google knows my home address, Wi-Fi password, browsing history, all my contacts, and even my location history, yet it has spent the last 25 years asking if I’m a robot. You are the robot.

[Jacques de Molay @LW1307]

Historically women understood if they wanted to be the wife of a general they needed to either marry a young lieutenant and grow with him, or be willing to marry a 40-50 year old already established general when she herself was 18-25, and come to that established man as a virgin.

These days, social media seems to have convinced a lot of women that a 20 year old man should have the accomplishments of a general and if he doesn't, he's a loser, and that she's free to pursue "option three" which is "squander the 20s and into the 30s with meaningless hedonism, and then at 42 marry a 45 year old general who built on his own without you being in his life."

Most men don't consider it an honor and privilege to be picked last, and used as a retirement plan, by a woman who gave her best years to other men and never would have picked him 25 years earlier when he was just beginning to build.

Most men aren't going to be millionaires in their 30s or multimillionaires in their 40s.

Most Americans who become millionaires reach their first million between 45 and 50.

[D @_Unknown_D_]

Does anyone else find it interesting that chat gpt launched in 2022 and there’s been no discernible boost in GDP anywhere in the world from ai productivity boosts.