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APT mirror connection issue: IPv6

The Problem when I did sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade -y I noticed that it was trying to connect to the ubuntu mirror over IPv6 (and failing) My ISP hasn’t enabled IPv6 for me, so I can’t connect over IPv6. and I don’t have any IPv6 DNS servers. But still apt was trying to …

Understanding Networking in Nomad

Nomad is a general-purpose cluster orchestrator and scheduler. Up until Nomad 1.3 was released, it had no native support for discovering other applications running in the cluster. This is sort of a very elementary requirement when scheduling tasks in a cluster. Nomad relies on C…

The Selfish Gene Book Overview

Yesterday I finished reading The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins. The book reminds me of Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow, which explores how the human brain makes decisions. In contrast, The Selfish Gene puts forward how genes make decisions and manipulate our decisions…

How To Read Wikipedia Offline

Recently I came to know about freedom-respecting Kiwix app and I found it cool. It is a reader for offline reading knowledge sources like Wikipedia or Project Gutenberg. There are many projects which you can download for offline reading, like AskUbuntu, sections of Wikipedia– li…

n ways to FizzBuzz in Clojure

FizzBuzz is everywhere. Every programmer passes through its rite of passage, or at least bears witness to another. Over the years, many gentlenerds have taken it upon themselves to discover ever new ways to incant those hoary symbols. I hereby enjoin these few drops of Clojure t…