Subhomoy Haldar, MSc.

MSc CS from @GlasgowCS || Software Developer for @componentsense || @/hungrybluedev.in on Bsky

[Subhomoy Haldar, MSc. @hungrybluedev]

Two years ago, I didn't have any relevant work to show in my research portfolio.

Now I have two publications in SCI-E journals! They're also open access 🔓✅:

[Daniel Gould, MD, PhD @DJGould94]

Journal editors be like

[Computer Science @CompSciFact]

Induction makes you feel guilty for getting something out of nothing ... but it is one of the greatest ideas of civilization. ~ Herbert Wilf

[Subhomoy Haldar, MSc. @hungrybluedev]

I've been trying to block advertisers directly from the three dot menu next to the Ad tweets. It seems like that doesn't have any effect (they probably don't allow it).

So now I open the profiles and block.

[Computer Science @CompSciFact]

Computers can be understood

https://t.co/aWCaZsyJL1

[Subhomoy Haldar, MSc. @hungrybluedev]

I'll try tagging the equations to give them enough width and hopefully display the correct size.

[Subhomoy Haldar, MSc. @hungrybluedev]

Ups and downs with my “math book for kindle” journey.

Finally managed to get equations to look nice on the Kindle using SVGs.

Problem is, you get half a page of “x=y” blown up to fit the width.

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

The only complex life we know to exist ANYWHERE in the universe.

Being obliterated so that shareholders can amass imaginary wealth.

It’s as heartbreaking as it is shameful.

[Eric Simons @EricSimons]

when you’re an open source maintainer

[Liam Bright @lastpositivist]

I'm Liam Kofi and I'm here to ask you a question: is an academic not entitled to the work of their pen? "No!" says the journal copyright form, "it belongs to us." "No!" says the the industry lab "it belongs to the company." "No!", says the man at Jstor, "it belongs to OpenAI."

[Computer Science @CompSciFact]

If you trained an LLM on all the text you could find before 1880, and asked it what causes malaria, it would tell you bad air.

A stream doesn't rise above its source.

[Subhomoy Haldar, MSc. @hungrybluedev]

Been tinkering with inline math for Kindle. Had some success with pandoc and MathML. The Kindle previewer shows the math correctly! Now to see if it shows up properly on an actual Kindle.

Then I can continue writing in peace!

[Randall Munroe @xkcd]

CrowdStrike https://t.co/89OMu4GWDN

[sophie @netcapgirl]

idk what’s worse, that crowdstrike has kernel access to basically every system in the world or that airlines run on windows server

[Subhomoy Haldar, MSc. @hungrybluedev]

Definitely a privilege but man is it an amazing one! I am thankful that I received this privilege and I enjoy learning.

I try to improve myself every day just a little bit.

[Martin @martinmrmar]

Find a quiet place to study every single day. Without any distractions.

[Subhomoy Haldar, MSc. @hungrybluedev]

Personally, I found it simple enough. Free HTTPS, and protection from DDoS, seem worth it. Only thing is: we rely heavily on CloudFlare, which is something I'm okay with (for now).

[Subhomoy Haldar, MSc. @hungrybluedev]

Experimented with CloudFlare tunnels. For people who have used it, do you think this is better than having a reverse proxy like NGINX or Caddy to self-host services?

[Subhomoy Haldar, MSc. @hungrybluedev]

So many replies asking for the password when it's literally there in the tweet! 😭

Reading comprehension has nosedived.

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

The vx-underground malware families collection is temporarily available for bulk download.

- 222GB (compressed)
- 234GB (uncompressed)
- 123,915 malware samples
- 763 malware families
- Password: infected

For people who are unhappy with the download speed on vx-underground: if you use a download manager, like Internet Download Manager (or uGet on Linux), and set the download to 10 threads+, you can get download with speeds as high as 400MiB/s. You can download the entire family collection is less than 10 minutes.

Download: https://t.co/vppQwnQW86

[Subhomoy Haldar, MSc. @hungrybluedev]

Common pitfall: if you're cloning a git repository into Windows to be used by WSL, you'll end up with \r\n instead of just \n for your line endings.

Advice: clone directly from WSL if you plan to run bash scripts (with the shebangs).

[Subhomoy Haldar, MSc. @hungrybluedev]

It's definitely not recommended for simple CLI apps. But the ideas I have are not for simple tools. They need this framework-like configuration. I'm obviously relying heavily on third-party libraries for the non-trivial important stuff. Excited to experiment and learn!

(3/3)

[Subhomoy Haldar, MSc. @hungrybluedev]

Most moderately large applications need to store data. When exposed to multiple users, the apps need authentication. Logging information is also very common. So I'm starting the app with a state/config and building out features from there.

(2/3)

[Subhomoy Haldar, MSc. @hungrybluedev]

I'm doing a little experiment where I start my applications with a DB connection attached. Starting with just logs, I want to add users and authentication next.

(1/3)