https://github.com/petermattis/fastcgo, which is now 7 years old seems to do something similar without the need to about obscure CGO FFI configuration. It also seems to be more generally applicable for any language with C interop.
There had been an issue for having something similar in the language itself - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/42469, but the Golang compiler team rejected it. If you have followed similar discussions around this with the Golang compiler team, you will notice a pattern of interaction that strongly indicates that they are very much opposed to ever accepting this into the compiler.
As the sibling comment by eternityforest says,
OPFS does not create real files on your file system. It is backed by sqlite or some other embedded key value store.
So, if you want to backup your webapp data, you cannot use any filesystem backup tool.
And since OPFS cannot access your local files you cannot use it for webapps that largely use local file system data.
Something like scoped storage would have been great. Each webapp gets a separate directory where they can store your data. Easy to backup and you can also drop any local files or directory in there with existing OS tools.
Looks like clickbait to me.
OPFS is not a real filesystem. It's basically indexedDB with filesystem-like characteristics. It does not give you access to the host filesystem.
The File System access API can do that, but it needs the user to grant permissions for each file or directory accessed separately, and this permission cannot be persisted between sessions. So it is a constant nuisance and cannot be used to create an ergonomic mostly local web application.
As of now, blocking the sender of the ad has worked out for my Indian number. No repeat attempts to shove crap down my throat.
One problem in ensuring doesn't become a problem or gets solved is that WhatsApp is incentivised to allow Business customers to spam us, as that is how they make money.
It is sad that a subscription based model for comms is not longer economically feasible.
You have all these issues with cash added along with additional inconvenience of handling change, counting and making sure to keep enough of it. Most Cash on delivery options also let you pay via card or UPI on spot.
Almost every small shop vendor I know accepts UPI today without complaint.
How are they supposed to fund the development then?
Open source would have been ideal, but when people ask for open source it's mostly them asking for free. We know that most developers don't truly care about open source beyond the surface level given how popular VSCode is.
If you want to make money and pay rent, Open Source has shown to be disastrous for almost all business models.
Aren't countries like Japan or South Korea known for gruelling work hours?
I think the economic system itself is not conducive for healthy families where both parents get sufficient time to spend with kids or family.
In the past this may have been papered over with the cultural expectation that the woman takes care of the house and family and the man works, but this cultural framework has been broken and done away with without any replacement, cultural or economical.
For me it's search.
I loved search (and search operators) on Twitter. Used it heavily to curate my twitter lists, to only get tweets pertaining to topics I was interested in.
When many tech folks began moving to Mastodon, I also decided to kick the tires to see what all the buzz is about. But I got tired of sifting through unrelated toots from people to find technically relevant ones.
Now, I know proper search support will never be added to Mastodon, so I don't plan to use it. I understand their reasons for it, but it's not for me.
Thankfully twitter for other topics I am interested in seems largely untouched.
A lot of open source developers also post about other topics like their cats, dogs and favorite types of bread.
Which is fine. It's their profile. With twitter I could filter out these with carefully crafted search queries on separately maintained lists since I only have so much time in my day to devote to Tech,
I cannot do this on Mastodon since no one is diligent about hashtags and it is an explicit policy to cripple search. I've most stopped following open source developers since then.
Unchecked Censorship by the government can be a problem, but I find it hard to take voices in this space on face value since they are often the most vocal cheerleaders when a government or political party they like is doing the censorship since it's "Human rights" not politics.
Given the dissolving line between Social media and the Town square, who should be the arbiters of speech on Social media?
A committee appointed from "Interest groups" with all the right "credentials" and "expertise"? Effectively an incestous group with circular pats on the backs.
A separate body elected by the people just for this purpose?
That still doesn't solve the issue of surnames being an imperfect signal of caste. Many surnames are shared between castes.
Plus there is no common naming system in India. In the same region within the same caste you can have
- Surnames based on ancestral village
- patronymic surname (Take name of father as your surname)
- "Normal" surnames
You have folks from my caste that follow each of these. How will you now find their caste from their Father's name in Delhi or Mumbai?
It is not easy to narrow down on the caste of the person unless it's a common surname like Iyer, Iyengar, Agarwal, etc. And India has a hell lot of surnames across multiple regions.
Even if I tried, I would fail to recognise the caste of a majority of my neighbours from my hometown.
Forget my coworkers who come from all over the country.
It would only work for families that have lived in the same village for multiple generations.
Which company this at?
Is this discussion of castes among other Indian coworkers? They gain nothing from Caste signalling to you.
We should name and shame if a company doesn't act against discriminatory dog whistles.
I drink, eat meat, eat beef and do not bear any caste specific signifiers on my person. No other Indian expat has tried to enquire about my caste or treated me differently because it's ambiguous.
99% of Indian immigrants are Upper or Middle castes. The reason for this has not been studied. But a few causal factors can be.
- Wealth
India is a poor country. Most Indians upper or Lower caste are poor by first world standards. But the few Indians who are rich tend to be more upper caste (Scholarly, Mercantile or Landowning castes).
But this is also a bad explanation since most Indians who come to US for higher studies do so on a loan.
- Culture
Upper caste families even when dirt poor may have a higher emphasis on education which means they are overrepresented in employment based skilled immigration.
Edit: Vegetarianism often gets bandied around as an upper caste but most Urban Indians eat meat regardless of caste. So, except for a few cases caste is very much ambiguous since a caste that's upper caste in Western UP may be lower caste in Eastern UP.
I know. This is a hard problem. Most companies just make it a subscription, but I wish it wasn't that way since you end up not owning the the software which you bought.
> A huge % of reserved seats go empty, simply because there aren't enough candidates.
This is an interesting point. A huge focus of Indian politics is lobbying groups from various lower caste communities asking for _more_ reservation. The fact that this point never reaches discussion, that the Indian schooling system is failing its students never makes airwaves gives me the feeling that Lower caste community leaders and politicians are _not_ interested in fixing the problem if it loses them their captive vote banks.
Rural India has serious problem in class and caste. Depressing state of things overall.
But I would note that you could have chosen a better example. This incident does not have any caste slur or anything to indicate that this was rooted in caste. Government teachers and employees power-tripping in their little fiefdoms is a common story across caste boundaries. I personally know of examples of upper caste folks facing violence in schools. One had their front teeth smashed by their teacher by "accident", but you can guess the type of environment where these accidents happen. This will also never make headlines since there is no caste angle to push.
Caste is a problem in Rural and to a smaller extent in Urban India. But you will also have to admit that our media and related political interests are hell bent on fanning the flames. The caste angle is brought into every petty bit of violence. So much that it becomes hard to believe even what may be genuine cases.
The American version of this would be race being highlighted if the victim is Black/Indigenous/Hispanic. A common reddit trope is if the victim's race isn't mentioned then they're white. If the perpetrator's race isn't mentioned then they aren't White/White-adjacent.
Scholarships spanning the whole length of education rather than reservations may be a better mechanism for improving opportunity in my opinion. It would also let you know if your scheme is working since with reservation, you just let potentially unprepared students through without fixing other prior systemic issues.
The president of India belongs to a Scheduled Tribe. If optics is what you are concerned about.
Some occupations like Law employ such a tiny percentage of the population, that Caste becomes too coarse grained to be the only dimension of analysis for the basis of privilege.
You probably will have a better chance of breaking into the top echelons of this industry by living in the right gated society in Delhi that puts you into contact with these entrenched folks rather than being the right caste in some remote Indian Village.
To look at a broader scale of occupational distribution, SC/ST folks have 23% affirmative action Quotas in Govt/State universities like IITs, IIMs and Medical Colleges. Is the issue that they are unable to compete in the Industry post college?
Caste based affirmative action quota is 52% with overall affirmative action quota at 63%.
Do you think more affirmative action is necessary to fix the problem?
At this point it just looks like "
The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves".
You could also say no matter how large a portion you cut out of a pizza, you will never feed a hundred people if one pizza is all you have.
There had been an issue for having something similar in the language itself - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/42469, but the Golang compiler team rejected it. If you have followed similar discussions around this with the Golang compiler team, you will notice a pattern of interaction that strongly indicates that they are very much opposed to ever accepting this into the compiler.