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satbyy | 8 years ago | on: NixOS 18.03 Released

Conversely, Python's PEP394 explicitly discourages `/usr/bin/env python`, so there's that. (I know why the PEP says so, just pointing out that it differs from Nix style)

satbyy | 8 years ago | on: A Crude Personal Package Manager

I've been using GNU Stow as a pseudo "package manager." Let's me install multiple versions of a software. And I simply delete the directory when I don't need it anymore.

satbyy | 8 years ago | on: An introduction to RISC-V

Seems it is paywalled. I know that it will open up in a less than a week, but do you have subscriber link (because I'm curious to read) ?

satbyy | 8 years ago | on: Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right, Says Indian Supreme Court

There are already "benefit" cards like LPG card, ration card, BPL card, etc to get those benefits. Why bother with Aadhar then? The answer is, consolidation. Aadhar is meant to be the identity card. I don't want to carry big passport book, etc. wherever I go.

satbyy | 8 years ago | on: Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right, Says Indian Supreme Court

Not really. He means that govt cannot force every citizen to undergo iris scan etc. for obtaining Aadhar card. I would like to get Aadhar without iris scan (and am willing to let go of secondary benefits like LPG subssidy etc). Such an option doesn't exist as of today. I, as an individual, will exercise my right to privacy by deciding whether to give my biometrics or not. Govt should not decide on my behalf.

satbyy | 8 years ago | on: Still locked out of my AWS account

> You're just renting them.

It's not renting really. If I rent a physical book (or house, etc), I have exclusive access to it. Nobody else can possess it. It's for this privilege that I'm paying. Obviously, this is not true of ebooks because 'X' persons can "rent" at the same time.

You're just licensing them. You're just paying for a license which can be revoked at Amazon's whim.

satbyy | 9 years ago | on: Rust vs. Go

Given how demanding ESR is with regards to 10+ years stability, Nim hasn't even reached 1.0 yet. I love Nim and your contribution to the Nim ecosystem, but yeah, convincing ESR with 0.16.0 isn't happening.

satbyy | 9 years ago | on: Naughty Strings: A list of strings likely to cause issues as user-input data

ZWJ and ZWNJ are also common in Indic scripts. It's basically used to control the appearance of glyphs, for example half-forms and consonant clusters (क्‍ष vs क्ष, both are kṣa). As usual, wikipedia has good examples. The Unicode Standard also contains details about these.

ZW[N]J as a standalone character or at the beginning of a word is very unusual on a day-to-day basis, so it's understandable that Twitter fails to recognize this pattern.

¹ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZWJ

² https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZWNJ

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