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New comment by avinash in "UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius"

avinash — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 16:03:57 +0000

Possibly. The treaty has not been signed yet.

Things will become clearer in the coming weeks.

New comment by avinash in "UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius"

avinash — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 14:52:22 +0000

I'm a citizen of the Republic of Mauritius and, when this news was announced today, there was a general sense of relief.

Mauritius has been fighting for its sovereignty over the Chagos Archipelago (with Diego Garcia being the largest island) for 56 years.

Today, the Chagos Archipelago is part of Mauritius again and a treaty will (hopefully) soon be signed between the UK and Mauritius.

From there, Mauritius will sign a lease agreement of 99 years with the USA so that the military base there can continue to operate.

Of course, there will surely be a lot of money involved but we don't have the details yet.

New comment by avinash in "Flying planes in Microsoft Flight Simulator with a JavaScript autopilot (2023)"

avinash — Mon, 06 May 2024 02:42:05 +0000

This is an awesome read. Really enjoyed the level of detail and the various tries before things work.

New comment by avinash in "Metric Time"

avinash — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 10:23:22 +0000

Cool. I would suggest to make it multilingual as the T, M and J labels are not easy to understand by those who don't speak German.

New comment by avinash in "The Godfather of Complexity"

avinash — Wed, 10 Aug 2022 07:28:19 +0000

Thanks. This is an excellent read. His journey from Latvia to the United States via Germany is very interesting.

His seminal paper on the Complexity of Algorithms is truly fascinating.

New comment by avinash in "A regular expression to check for prime numbers (2007)"

avinash — Sat, 05 Mar 2022 06:25:04 +0000

Aha. I wrote this post 15 years ago after explaining to my wife (who is a Language major) how this "regular expression" works.

It has been discussed a few times on Hacker News, Reddit, etc. over the past 15 years...

New comment by avinash in "Words known better by males than females, and vice versa"

avinash — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 17:49:39 +0000

Same for me. What a coincidence!

New comment by avinash in "Jackson structured programming"

avinash — Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:01:44 +0000

Read the book, which I obtained from the British Council library, when I was around 15. I have to say that the book made quite an impression on me at the time.

New comment by avinash in "The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3"

avinash — Wed, 21 Oct 2020 17:29:55 +0000

For Chrome users, this open source extension will tell you what protocol the browser is using for each website being accessed:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/http-indicator/hgc...

New comment by avinash in "Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?"

avinash — Sat, 11 Apr 2020 20:41:45 +0000

https://www.avinashmeetoo.com/

I'm a computer scientist in Mauritius, an island in the middle of the Indian Ocean. For the past three years, I've been working as an adviser in Government. Before that, I ran my training and consulting company. And, prior to that, I was a professor at the largest university of the country.

On my blog, I write about how Mauritius can become a smart island with smart people by leveraging technology and innovation.

My blog dates from 2010 but I've been blogging on my family blog https://www.noulakaz.net/ since 2004. This blog is more eclectic. I write about my family, sports, TV shows and movies, etc.

New comment by avinash in "Eidophor"

avinash — Sat, 21 Sep 2019 11:11:58 +0000

I am quite impressed by the image quality and the sharpness for something that was used in the 60s. Of course, digital screens are better now but whoever invented the Eidophor at that time did extremely well.

New comment by avinash in "Britain’s European allies desert it in a vote at the UN"

avinash — Sun, 02 Jul 2017 17:43:16 +0000

I am Mauritian and the whole country is incredibly proud of this achievement, small David against huge Goliath.

Of course, we also know that there is still a long way to go before the conclusion.

New comment by avinash in "A regular expression to check for prime numbers"

avinash — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 07:04:37 +0000

Thanks for sharing. This is a post I wrote way back in 2007 and, even though, as many have pointed out, the algorithm is very inefficient, it is still a good illustration of how powerful regular expressions are.

When I am explaining the basics of regular expressions to people, I always refer them to this post to make them realize that regular expressions are not only glorified search terms. In general, they are amazed :-)

New comment by avinash in "R.I.P Atul Chitnis : The Man Who Changed the Open Source World"

avinash — Mon, 03 Jun 2013 16:33:59 +0000

RIP Atul Chitnis. Met him during a conference in Mauritius around 2002 and we had a great conversation about open source software in poor(er) countries.

New comment by avinash in ""Whatever happened to...?" The odd fates of 25 legendary tech products."

avinash — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:20:41 +0000

I think this is an excellent article and it's clear that the guy who wrote that did a lot of research.

New comment by avinash in "Kindle for iPhone vs. Kindle 2: A Comparison Chart"

avinash — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:14:21 +0000

How does reading on a 3" screen compare to reading to 6"? Personally, I had a Sony Clié a few years ago with a small screen (2.5" I guess) and I didn't have lots of problems reading technical docs from it. But then, they were mostly ASCII text and the Clié could reflow the text to fit the screen. Does the same thing happen on the iPhone or the Kindle?