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- Mario Puzo, The Godfather

For this story, you don't need to know the pratyayas but you do need to know the tenses, the ktva-lyap forms, etc to fully understand what is going on. With only an incomplete knowledge of those aspects, one can sort of intuit the overall meaning but eventually would find that they had the wrong idea altogether when reading the corresponding translation in a language they know.

Once parsed, I can look up the meaning of the word on ashtadhyayi.com or elsewhere, but not before.

The first section of the Ramayanam is the Sankshepa Ramayanam, or, the Ramayanam in summary. This gives the outline of the whole story which then is expounded in detail in the subsequent sections.

- "My only innocent neighbor is to the left of Harold"

- "Barb and I have one innocent neighbor in common"

- Implies Gary is a criminal

But the game won't let me.

We had a few years' gap of not really being in touch during undergrad but that changed as we had a few months' overlap at post-grad university. It was easier to meet after that and we did keep in touch, but I felt that he was holding back somewhat and not really being free with his thoughts, letting the conversation flag at times.

So at a friend's wedding a couple of years ago, I opened up to him and plainly told him that it's a shame we don't talk as we used to as we both are clearly on the same wavelength when it comes to shared interests and sense of humour. And this worked - our degree of friendship has increased an order of magnitude since before that time. I would have lost a great friend to the vagaries of life had I not taken that step to become vulnerable for an instant then.

Also, in a PR, I find that people just switch to Files Changed, disregarding the sequence of the commits involved.

This intentional de-emphasis of the importance of commit messages and the individual commits leads to lower quality of the git history of the codebase.

The first 6 projects do not require purchasing the textbook as the relevant chapters are provided along with the project material. The next projects do not have the textbook chapters provided, so I bought the textbook.

I'm currently working on Project 8. I've been blogging about my progress here, if you want to take a look: https://gurudas.dev/tag/nand2tetris/

LWN coverage of what I'm guessing is the same talk.