Asif Sarwar

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[Zalmay Khalilzad @realZalmayMK]

#Germany's state-funded international broadcasting network Deutsche Welle (DW) has released an English-language documentary video titled “Pakistan — Nuclear Power at a Crossroad". It reviews in depth the multiple crises facing the country, including the massive growth of extremism, intolerance and violence; financial insolvency and lackluster economic performance; and political polarization, its most popular political leader in jail and its most popular party marginalized, a weak and corrupt political elite; and, the military having a stranglehold on politics.  The documentary does not propose a way out for #Pakistan,  but raises the alarm that these conditions can threaten the safety and security of its significant nuclear arsenal. I urge Pakistanis to watch, debate and discuss it.

https://t.co/45QVHatj1B

[Suryansh Tiwari @Suryanshti777]

48 hours ago, Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.

Since then:

— A builder burned 700 MILLION tokens in one day
— Someone one-shot a horror game live on stream
— A founder shipped features DURING the sales call
— One guy designed a humanoid robot in 2 hours

The demos are going viral. The prompts behind them are not.

So I hunted down all 10 — and reverse-engineered the exact prompt for each one.

This thread is the cheat code everyone else is selling:

[Rohit @heyrohitai]

🚨Anthropic just showed a 24-minute workshop on how to actually do prompts for Claude.

Taught by the people who built it.

Free. No registration. No paywall.

I've seen $300 courses that don't cover what they teach in the first 8 minutes.

Watch it and bookmark it now!

[Akhilesh Mishra @livingdevops]

Early in my DevOps career, I deleted a 5GB log file from a production server that was running out of space.

I ran df -h expecting to see the disk usage drop. It didn’t.
Still showed 100% full.

No errors, no warnings. Just the same disk usage as before I deleted anything.

That’s when I learned that deleting a file doesn’t always free up space immediately.

In Linux, what we think of as a “file” is actually two separate things: the filename (which is just a pointer) and the inode (which contains the actual data and metadata). When you delete a filename, you’re only removing the pointer. The inode and its data remain on disk as long as any process still has the file open.

In my case, the web server was still writing to that log file. Even though I had deleted the filename, the server process kept its file handle open. The inode stayed alive, invisible to normal file listings but still consuming disk space.

The space was only freed when I restarted the web server, which closed all its file handles.

This is why you need different commands to see the full picture:

# Check filesystem usage
- df -h

# Check actual directory sizes
- du -sh /var/log/*

# Find deleted files still open by processes
- lsof +L1

The du command shows you what’s actually using space in directories, while df shows filesystem-level usage.

When they don’t match, you often have deleted files still held open by running processes.

This is also why proper log rotation doesn’t just delete files. Tools like logrotate rename files and send signals to processes so they can close and reopen their file handles cleanly.

Three key takeaways:

1. Filenames are just pointers to inodes
1. Deletion only happens when no processes reference the inode
1. Always check both df and du when troubleshooting disk space

It’s a small detail, but understanding it can save you from confusing production incidents.

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

Clean Code, Second Edition.

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

Here's the Second Edition of Clean Code. This is almost a complete rewrite, with lots of new chapters, and a bunch of new languages like Python, Go, Clojure, etc.

https://t.co/geOi3ntumh

[Robert Manning @Rmanning4]

Pakistan's diplomacy over the past year has been a remarkable string of achievements. near-Kissingerian.

https://t.co/kVRNKsUZkH

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

A Rant about a particularly careless and naive youtube video that shall remain un-named.

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 Funniest. President. EVER.

REPORTER: The Australian ambassador said something bad about you.

TRUMP: Where is he? You said something bad?

AMBASSADOR: Before I took this position...

TRUMP: I don't like YOU either. I probably NEVER WILL!

*Room erupts in laughter* 😂😂

[Clash Report @clashreport]

WATCH: Trump asked, “Where is the UK?”

Starmer raised his hand. Trump called him to the stage, making him think he was going to speak.

Starmer approached the podium. “It’s nice that you’re here,” Trump said, then sent him back, offending Starmer.

[Shehzad Roy @ShehzadRoy]

Why do competent people fail the CSS exam? Little Khadija, a student of @ZindagiTrust KPS Government School, explains

[Daniel Lemire @lemire]

https://t.co/M2yKyk96v4

[Uncle Bob Martin @unclebobmartin]

Remember the internet .com bubble? During the bubble companies hired programmers with reckless abandon in a futile attempt to get ahead of the curve. When the bubble popped they found they had over-invested in programmers and had to freeze hiring and lay them off. That lasted for a year or so.

Now we are in the AI bubble. That it _is_ a bubble is evident by the "stupid money" being paid as recruiting bonuses to AI "experts". (e.g. Meta agreed to pay a 24 year old "expert" $250M)

The effect of this bubble is a hiring freeze for programmers. Executives hope/fear that AI will allow them to lay off lots of programmers so they don't dare hire any right now.

When this bubble pops (and it will, probably within a year or so) these companies will find that they are _under_-invested in programmers and will have to start hiring them with reckless abandon.

History repeats itself; but sometime in the mirror.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

President Trump just threw a reporter of out the Oval Office who’s phone went off during his press briefing:

“Hello? Who is that back there? Get out of the room.”

Career ended 🤣

[Murtaza Ali Shah @MurtazaViews]

Ananya Avalani, an Indian woman, visited her family in America. She entered a store, shopped for seven hours, and stole items worth $1,300.

[Asif Sarwar @_Asif_Sarwar]

@unclebobmartin Uncle Bob...do you think with AI, mastering OOP and OO design skill won't be that much useful because AI can do all of OO design?

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

The best history books to read in 2025
These fascinating deep-dives are perfect for history buffs

https://t.co/UeR3a5bMU5

[South Asia Index @SouthAsiaIndex]

India:— To encourage people to use the toilets, India govt is paying people Rs. 2,500 ($30) each month.

— In Bihar state, government has constructed 2.5 million household and 100,000 community toilets.

— However, the govt is facing a very unique problem; people don't use the newly built toilets funded by govt.

— People defecate in open, while use the newfound luxury of toilets as place of worship or a storage room.

— Using bathroom is still a novelty for many in India as 41 million people in rural areas practice open defecation.

[Rizwan Ghilzai (Remembering Arshad Sharif) @rizwanghilzai]

جنازے پر بھی غرور اور تکبر:

میاں منظور وٹو نماز جنازہ پر گئے گرمی میں لوگوں کے ساتھ کھڑے ہونے کے بجائے اپنی AC والی گاڑی میں نماز جنازہ ادا کی۔

[महावीर, ಮಹಾವೀರ, Mahavir @Mahaveer_VJ]

Pakistan bought 349 train bogies from China, only to discover once they arrived, that they don’t even fit on Pakistan's tracks.

Classic!

And to top of it , China’s reply, "Not our problem. You signed off on it." Apparently, it was up to Pakistan to check if their own tracks could handle the new arrivals.

So now, these bogies have basically become decorative stuff because, well, these can’t move.😄😁😜