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Almost every Indian I know (including me) mixes at least two languages in their daily conversations seamlessly, that too within a sentence. Westerners may find that Indians talking among themselves in their native language(s) drop English words out of nowhere. Again, I can't imagine this to be a uniquely Indian phenomenon. Multilingual people would be doing this.

Lingual purists may find it irritating, but I love such mix-ups!

In my experience, at least some aspects of the Indian English exists because we Indians often mentally translate what we want to say from our native language (which are plentiful) to English before it comes out of our mouth.

I don't imagine this is a uniquely Indian phenomenon – other non-native English speakers would be doing the same.

True. I use a few (oversmart) aliases for most frequently used git commands:

  alias gist='git status'
  alias stagit='git stage'
  alias gitcom='git commit'  # also toying with comgit

For the rest, I just use the full commands to avoid accidents.

Heh. For me, a British ambassador to Spain has all three of you beat (probably due to my frequent visits to gov.uk design system and nhs.uk).

Yes! This so much! In my circles, I have seen a tendency to perceive fiction as a kind of low-brow, less intellectual reading. But then these people go on and pick up self-help non-fiction books.

Fiction has so much more to offer! On top of what you wrote, fiction helps you to develop an ability to put yourself in others' shoes. Empathy is anyway scarce in this politically-charged and ragebait-filled world.

Fiction has helped me develop empathy and to stay empathetic. It has helped me develop my philosophy of life; morals and values I strive to stay close to. The fictional characters have given me courage during hard times. And so much more.

Lot of people prefer to start with self-help kind of non-fiction which is, IMO, the least helpful category of books. I don't know what draw people to it.

Yep. I like to post my learnings, learning processes, distillation of life experiences. My only criterion is "This feels like a good blog post".

After I publish a blog post, I sit back and look at the published post. At that point, I feel a lasting moment of fulfillment. Whether or not I get views on that post doesn't matter. I write for this feeling of fulfillment.

I don't get that feeling after I put out a post on Bluesky.

I think CharlieDigital's point is that a bad payload will fail right at the serialisation boundary in case of .NET. We know the problem right there. Now we only need to fix the bad payload.

For TypeScript with only types and without validation, a bad payload gets through, and there is no telling where in the workflow it will explode. This could waste more time and developer resources in debugging.

Makes sense. Thanks for the tip!

> Database management > syncing with the backend server

Do features like these, when implemented in Racket, consume more resources (battery, CPU, etc.) than if they were implemented using the native API equivalents (e.g., NSURLSession or whichever is more applicable)?

In the larger context of cross-platform apps with a common core written in a non-native programming stack, I often wonder this about network and disk I/O management. I understand using the native APIs for other "I/O" like UI, hardware interfaces (bluetooth, accelerometer, etc.), because they often don't have an equivalent API in the programming stack used to implement the common core.

As far as I know, Capacitor wraps over the native APIs.

As the other commenter mentioned, its a mistranslation. I read string_of_int as "string out of int" to make it better.