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Here is an archived version of the same story (from another website): https://archive.is/TE40H

Thanks for the suggestions. I will surely give them a try. The only recent Jazz musician that I have heard is Kamasi Washington.

My blog about a few treks in the Indian Himalayas http://overthehills.in/

Thanks for the reply. I tried to search for the passage but couldn't find it myslef.

I can't recall the exact lines but Thomas Pynchon's V. has an interesting variation of this story.

Apparently, IMD has released historical weather data last year and it is available here: https://www.imdpune.gov.in/Clim_Pred_LRF_New/Grided_Data_Dow...

However, it is in some weird binary format which I have no clue about. They have also shared some C and Fortran (yes Fortran) code to read the files.

Actually, the record is correct but not for the city's main weather station. The temperature of 49C was recorded in two of the city's outer areas one of which was Najafgarh and other was Mungeshpur.

You can select those from the left nav on IMD's website and see the results yourself.

https://city.imd.gov.in/citywx/localwx.php

I live in a suburb of Delhi and to be honest it is not just the occasional days that it stays that high. This year it has consistently been above 40C since late March. Summer has just started and the hottest months are generally May and June. So, it is going stay like this for more than three months this year in all. Even worse is that unlike desert regions, even the night temperatures here stay above 30C many times during this part of the year. Sometimes you open the window at night expecting it to be better only to realize that a hot "breeze" is blowing.

Owing to the pandemic, I had spent the last couple of years in the foothills of the Himalaya where the temperature rarely went beyond 30C. It has been really hard coping up with the heat as it literally sucks the life out of you.

Ref: https://www.accuweather.com/en/in/delhi/202396/april-weather...

Such are the vagaries of life.

Paywall removed: https://archive.fo/A9uba

According to the article:

"When using mandibles, the ants are careful to avoid hurting each other."

Not too much ouch then.

I have started writing a blog[1] about my treks in the Indian Himalayas. My pace of writing is really slow, so don't have too many articles in there yet. But have a couple of more posts in the pipeline.

[1] https://overthehills.in/

I couldn't find the effectiveness of Covishield against Delta but for Covaxin the claimed efficacy is in the same ballpark at 65%. So this is not bad at all.

Ref: https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/covaxin-65-efficie...

To be honest, it is much better overall. Didn't want to start a flame war here

As a counterpoint, I recently switched from an old iPhone SE to a Pixel 4a and the experience could not have been any better. I find the vanilla Android to be as snappy as iOS for daily tasks if not better. The problem lies with custom Android ROMs on low spec phones which do hamper the user experience quite a bit

Although I can't find a reference to an aircraft engine, Chrysler did have a variable displacement tech on its third gen Hemi engines that could turn off one bank of the V8.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Displacement_System

I know at least one software that was complete - hasn'tbeen updated in a long time and I still useit. It's Winamp.

The trend for Facebook has been going down since 2013. That maybe because people are using the app more than they are using it on a browser.

To the untrained eye, there may not be any difference between the Slav and the Asian one. But if you look closely the Slav squat has the legs spread wider and toes pointing quite a bit outwards as compared to the Asian squat