The smell of paddy (and also of large quantity of cooked rice) is absolutely soothing for me and it brings back memory.

During my grandfather time, it was very common for a crab to grab your fingers when you are planting the paddy. My father would chase turtles and large frogs when he was a kid.

When I was a kid, the crabs and turtles were gone but frogs were pretty abundant. In last twenty years, there are hardly any frogs left. Earthworms are also under stress.

The Japanese style of planting paddy wasn't very common in India before green revolution. Then we had a some new varieties that took over almost all old varieties for a simple reason for yield. My grandmother used to complain about a lost variety a lot. Apparently it had such a strong aroma that whole village would know what rice you have cooked. Glad to see more efforts preserving old varieties [1].

[1] https://ruralindiaonline.org/article/let-them-eat-rice

I remember reading 'The Vinci Code' in college which was very popular those days and getting a SMS from a friend almost the same day, "Rajnikanth gave Monalisa that smile!".

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This explain quite a lot actually!

At a new job, I am writing my first microservice in golang. Used to be a Rust/C++ (kernel) and Python/PHP/JS dev (fullstack). Rust is allowed by team is heavily invested in go already.. I don't think I'll be able to convince them to learn rust! Lol

For the last two weeks, I was forced to work at a normal keyboard. After initial pain for one day, I got back to typing at normal speed. Without losing my comfort with the ergonomic one. I can now just context switch. It wasn't easy though.

Perhaps you will also become comfortable with both vim and helix after the initial struggle?

And CS folks should design hardwares because they understand concurrency better?!

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These people are terrible at their job, perhaps a bit malicious too. They may be great people as friends and colleagues.

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But that's nothing compared to this man. I usually avoid his news but seeing him grabbing fifa peace price wasn't a good sight.

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I have 10y of experience working at startups and academic labs. Especially looking for working on endpoint security products, numerical simulator or algorithms or building system level components (Rust/C++).