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avinashon UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius

Possibly. The treaty has not been signed yet.

Things will become clearer in the coming weeks.

avinashon UK will give sovereignty of Chagos Islands to Mauritius

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.

avinashon Flying planes in Microsoft Flight Simulator with a JavaScript autopilot (2023)

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

avinashon Metric Time

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.

avinashon The Godfather of Complexity

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.

avinashon A regular expression to check for prime numbers (2007)

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...

avinashon Words known better by males than females, and vice versa

Same for me. What a coincidence!

avinashon Jackson structured programming

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.

avinashon The majority of Facebook's traffic now uses QUIC and HTTP/3

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...

avinashon Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

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.

avinashon Eidophor

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.

avinashon Britain’s European allies desert it in a vote at the UN

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.

avinashon A regular expression to check for prime numbers

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 :-)

avinashon R.I.P Atul Chitnis : The Man Who Changed the Open Source World

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.

avinashon "Whatever happened to...?" The odd fates of 25 legendary tech products.

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

avinashon Kindle for iPhone vs. Kindle 2: A Comparison Chart

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?