Sam Garfield 🕉️

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यदा यदा हि धर्मस्य ग्लानिर्भवति भारत।
अभ्युत्थानमधर्मस्य तदात्मानं सृजाम्यहम् ll
A Bharatiya supremacist in 3 things- Food, Cricket and killing Pakistanis

[Sam Garfield 🕉️ @SamGarfield87]

@BJP4India Whether you support the temple or not, you have goosebumps for the right reasons
If you support it you are exhilarated by what has and is being done, and if you don't support, don't worry we are coming for everything anyway. Jai Shree Ram 🛕🙏

[Razib Khan 🧬 ✍️ @razibkhan]

someone told me i have a unique cognitive profile. asked AIs for % of ppl high in extroversion, openness and low in disagreeability and neuroticism (i'm average in conscientiousness). also, condition on > 130 IQ

my personality 1 in 200
conditional on IQ above 130 1 in 5,000

[UP 10T Economic Goal™ @up_10t_army]

Consuming the most electricity is not a record when you also have the largest population.

The real benchmark is providing a reliable 24×7 power supply across the state.

Uninterrupted electricity reflects actual development.

[Razib Khan 🧬 ✍️ @razibkhan]

because i'm high in extroversion, disagreeability, openness and low in neuroticism my personality is apparently one find in "some scientists who challenge orthodoxies" (according to chatgpt). what's the personality profile of most scientists?

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Delhi: On the NITI Aayog meeting, NITI Aayog Vice Chairman, Ashok Kumar Lahiri says, "... One of the Chief Ministers, I won't name him, he mentioned how you have metropolitan cities, you have the peripheral region and you have the rural areas and I think many chief ministers and the prime minister talked about disorderly urbanisation. I think our leadership are fully aware of the fact that we need planned urbanization. There was talk about industrial parks, which can be plug and play, where you need housing, where you need sewerage system, you need roads, schools, parks, all sorts of facilities..."

[Rimsha Bhardwaj @heyrimsha]

An engineer from Charlotte, North Carolina sat down in the spring of 2000 to write software for guided missile destroyers in the United States Navy. The ships needed a database that did not require a system administrator on board.

So he wrote one himself. 26 years later that database, SQLite, runs inside every iPhone on Earth, every Android phone, every Mac, every Windows machine, every major web browser, every airplane cockpit avionics system, and most of the cars built in the last decade. It is the most widely deployed software in human history. He still maintains it from his home in North Carolina.

His name is D. Richard Hipp. Most people call him Richard.

Here is the story, because the engineer behind the most replicated piece of code on the planet is a man almost nobody can name.

Richard was born in Charlotte on April 9, 1961. He grew up in the suburbs of Atlanta. He graduated from Stone Mountain High School in 1979 and went to Georgia Tech, where he earned both a bachelor's and a master's degree in electrical engineering by 1984. He spent three years at AT&T Bell Labs working in Unix and C. Then he went back to school at Duke University and earned a PhD in Computer Science in 1992. His dissertation was on spoken natural language dialog processing under Alan W. Biermann.

He could have stayed in academia. He told one interviewer the market for PhDs was saturated with better qualified candidates. He started a software consulting company instead. He married a musician and author named Ginger G. Wyrick in 1994 and renamed the firm Hipp, Wyrick and Company.

Then in 2000 he picked up a contract through General Dynamics to write software for the US Navy. The target was the Aegis class guided missile destroyer. The original system ran HP-UX with an IBM Informix database backend. The whole stack required a database administrator on board. The Navy did not want a database administrator on board. Richard's job was to make the database administrator unnecessary.

The design goals were simple. The database had to be self-contained. It had to run inside the application. It had to have zero configuration. It had to be transactional and reliable. It had to require no separate process. It had to be small.

On August 17, 2000 he released SQLite 1.0. He wrote it in C. The whole thing fit in less than a megabyte. The license he chose was the most extreme one possible. He released the source code into the public domain. No copyright. No royalties. No restrictions. Anyone could use it for anything forever.

The decision changed software history.

SQLite spread quietly. Mozilla adopted it for Firefox. Apple put it inside iOS. Google put it inside Android. Microsoft started shipping it inside Windows. Chrome, Safari, and Edge all use it. Photoshop uses it. Skype used it. Every major operating system you have ever touched runs SQLite somewhere underneath. The Airbus A350 uses it for flight software. Every Boeing 787 has SQLite onboard.

By 2026 SQLite was estimated to be running on more than 1 trillion devices. It is the most replicated piece of software ever written. Richard has personally turned down what is almost certainly hundreds of thousands of dollars in royalties over the past 26 years by keeping it public domain.

The SQLite team is tiny. Richard and a small group of core contributors. He maintains a separate version control system he wrote himself called Fossil. He maintains a parser generator he wrote himself called Lemon. He maintains a diagram language he wrote himself called Pikchr. He is a member of the Tcl core team and has been for over 25 years. He answers questions on Hacker News under the username SQLite.

The project's public commitment is to support SQLite through the year 2050.

A Christian engineer from North Carolina wrote a small database for missile destroyers and released it for free.

It is now running inside every device in your house.

[Shamsher Singh Pathania @PathaniaWorkout]

Mughal letters show Wazir Khan sent 700 horsemen to Chamkaur; Guru Gobind Singh was shielded by Ghorewaha Rajputs. Meanwhile, Banda Singh Bahadur (Banda Vairagi), the fierce warrior who defeated Afghan forces, was born a Minhas Rajput from Jammu before taking up the cause.

[Razib Khan 🧬 ✍️ @razibkhan]

in 1999's *american beauty* the protagonist catches his wife kissing a colleague. she tries to berate him, and he says "no, no, you don't ever get to tell me, what to do, ever again...."

the platner affair is basically that moment when it comes to the left and sex stuff...

[Krish Ashok @krishashok]

Indians spent over ₹20,000 crore on dietary supplements last year. For most healthy people, a good chunk of it ends up as expensive urine

[Dr Raj @drrajeshraina]

Yes, Indian engineers design chips in India at significant scale. Global leaders run major design centers there:
Intel (13,000+ engineers in Bengaluru and Hyderabad working on AI/data center processors),
Qualcomm (Snapdragon/5G design),
AMD (its largest design center worldwide in Bengaluru),
and NVIDIA (critical GPU architecture work).
India hosts roughly 20% of the world’s semiconductor design engineers and sees thousands of chips designed domestically each year.
Design and verification are established strengths; advanced manufacturing is now scaling with new fabs and government support.

Real high-level capability exists on the ground. #Semiconductors #India

[Sanjeev Newar | सञ्जीव नेवर @SanjeevSanskrit]

This means a huge number of Muslims want to embrace Hinduism once again, but are unable to do so due to fear of Jihadis.

This explains rise in Satyarth Prakash downloads from Islamic countries.

[कर्नल Danvir Singh, Sena Medal Gallantry @danvir_chauhan]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[Ankit Jakhar @Jakhar_ankit_]

blackpill.

You would naturally expect hyper-atomised, late-stage capitalist dystopias like Japan or South Korea to dominate this list, not a civilisation historically built on community.

We might not have silent "Hikikomoris" yet, but the structural alienation Marx warned about is now in full swing here - As the modern economic grind intensifies, this atomization will only accelerate.

The only wayout is retvrn to our core safety nets - institution of the family and forging high-trust organic Männerbunds.

[Dehati Armageddon Neutraliser @ImperiumHindu]

Vembu is extremely GOATed

What I would like to see is him heading a Govt run SWF cum VC with 100 Billion USD as it's Piggy bank (GOI should force dhandho sheths to contribute)

Zoho is funding very niche deep tech startups even today btw- voxelgrids, Netrasemi etc

[Aaraadhya Saxena 🇮🇳 @ihailmyindia]

Reminds me of that propaganda film on caste where they show how some person is asking a tribal man what his gotra is.

Now tell me, based on those gotras alone, can you guess the caste?

[Shubham Mishra @brahma_4u]

By no means you can get a person involved in something productive, nowadays.

It's the gut, hunger and suffering that really drives involvement.

Don't waste time, energy and resources on people who don't care a dime about what you want to build with them.

Understanding is becoming extinct, when dopamine drives lives.

[Indic Matrix🐦‍🔥 @IndicMatrix]

The family is devastated upon hearing that son has been killed after US strike on vessel off Oman coast.Aditya Sharma was among the 3 k*lled in the US strike.

And Indian Muslims are engaged in such a heinous and víle act—and are even playing politics over it. That too by creating a fake Hindu identity. Shamless kom

[Nikhil Mehra @TweetinderKaul]

Eventually the thought police will come for something that you consider valuable.

[Razib Khan 🧬 ✍️ @razibkhan]

would you accept being retarded to be happier?

[Harrapa Civillisation Times @harrapasabhyata]

FYI, The Distance Between Guwahati and Chengdu from Dibang Valley in Arunachal Pradesh(India’s eastern most point) is only differed by around 100KMs~.

If not for the Shitty Geography Imagine Chengdu being Threatened by the Indian Army in a War!

Would be CRAZY.

[Manindra Agrawal @agrawalmanindra]

A unique UG program at @IITKanpur! Meant especially for young ethical hackers. (Some of them are in the news 😊.) Admission through a hackathon. Specialized coursework with two year long internship at security agencies. We aim to produce cyber warriors of the future.