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I like the Kesar best. I am from South-Gujarat where Kesar, Alphonso(Hafus/afus) and Langda are easily available in local market. I will always choose kesar regardless the price.

I think the ultimate solution would be a policy for fair and slightly premium return value for dead battery from manufacturer upon battery exchange or sale. It will make companies recycle their own batteries, get customer financial reason to recycle it and also a steady second supply of rare/expensive raw materials for producing new batteries which will reduce pressure on existing resources.

The transaction fees are flat 1.5%-2% for regular credit cards(may climb upto 4% for reward or amex type of premium offerings). The retail grocery business has gross margin of 8-10% which ultimately settles to net profit of 4%-5%. and paying almost half of your net profit for transaction fees is insane. In any case, the government owned non-profit digital payment system is really a great idea. People tend to have increased digital transaction which were unaccounted in the past, which also gives the correct data to government regarding current country financial habits.

Transferring the $1 vs $1000 digitally, have no technical difference and hence the commission based payment cut is something that I have a hard time to accept.

Btw I am from India. Earlier,every time I see people swipe the cards in the retail stores, I felt sorry for the shopkeepers as they had to bear the 1.5%-2% as transaction charges of the total amount paid.

It all changed after the launch of UPI payment system, now I can just pay 5-10 INR(7 cents to 13 cents) to a shopkeeper without feeling the guilt of payment charges. It has been more than two years when I used my last VISA card payment transaction for any retail shopping. I think other countries should also develop such not-for-profit payment network system that can be used to pay efficiently digitally without making any side the victim.

I used it in 2010 for PHP and python related projects, It worked like charm.

I kinda feel the same. Choose a field where you are already good and get a job/have a business in it for living. On other side become a ruthless learner of whatever you like. Go to different gathering of industries/disciplines, go to Expos,if feel like you can also join part-time university course or become a citizen scientist. Log your knowledge in any form of blog, journal, diary or personal knowledge-base. Hop between them when you feel like, if stuck read your past progress. It feeds my curiosity but it does not mostly create the positive cash-flow.

Yes you can, if owner(All owners with code contributions) gives you full ownership explicitly. Find contributors section on open-source projects like mysql, they only accepts pull accepts with dual licensing. also, you can use WTFPL. You get it, you own it.

If possible, make it opensource with AGPL license and invite few friends to send some initial contribution, viola now you are not the only one who owns all the IPs, also your employer will be most probably stay away from it due to licensing requirements of opensourcing all the changes made. Alternatively you can create a project with your friend as main owner and contribute to it with same AGPL license. You can also contribute to it as an anonymous contributor. flip side is you will have to get explicit full ownership of the code with MIT/BSD/WTFPL type license via documented way(verified Email works fine).

I have been able to control my weight as I want. I generally don't do much of the diet planning of the things, but I have a fixed routine and fixed diet. for example, In the morning I take a cup of a tea with snacks, for lunch I take two flat-bread, indian sabji/vegetables, and curry with rice, For dinner I have a lentil curry with two-flat breads and fried rice. I have a fixed routine time for these meals except for sunday. Usually, I don't eat fast food, my whole diet is consist of milk and vegeterian food only.(you may check for Jain diet, but I do eat onion,potatoes and garlics)

When I feel like I am getting some extra weight and want to loose some, I will cut my carbs by cutting the portion of the food by 10-15% without affecting my energy level, it takes two-three days to adjust the feeling of hunger and then it is normal. The result mostly starts to be noticeable in 4 weeks.

When I feel like I got too skinny, I just increase my eating portion to adjust the weight in a month. I have successfully changed my weight from 65Kg to 75Kg and vice-a-versa multiple times. My height is around 178cms, currently weight is 63Kg and feeling to increase the diet ;)

Yes, I agree sometimes Open Source is a mess. I also accept that I always use Open Source projects and rarely contribute. But I do file bug when I feel it is appropriate. If ever I see a person struggling with something(on reddit,forums,hn or even quora) and asking genuine/silly question, I will help them up to my knowledge, it can be small tweaking, small steps by step instruction, introducing them to how it works(you may call it mini on-boarding checklist) or even an implementation suggestion of feature if the person is a developer. I do consider it a community contribution.

Accepting/Ignoring a valid bug is just not too much of task, rather it is more work to file the reply as what you got. Just accept/ignore the bug report and forget, don't be rude.

I had similar experience in past. I submitted a bug report in a small library, the author/owner just rudely talked about that I should not expect him to work for free, and closed the bug. I would have been happy if it was tagged as non priority bug and did not get resolved in near future, but the already existing open bug report accepts the validity of bug and is an invitation for any willingful contributor.

I believe submitting a bugreport itself is a contribution. I know it does not mean that the developer is liable for fixing it or improving it, but if it's a valid bug at least they should politely refuse to fix or even just ignore it and let it be open.

Add contributor.md file and put the criterias for a suitable pull request there.

This. Windows 7 is a sweet-spot that I cannot leave. Few sites/apps/dev-tools are dropping windows 7 support, but It is still as usable as it ever was. You can always try downgrading your OS!!

I primarily use Windows 7 as my OS with Firefox as a browser, I do use Avast free version and have been using it for last 10 years.

In last few years, virus and malware have been rare for me. Firefox blocks most of the tracking scripts and avast do stop any phishing or malware javascripts.

I personally prefer to not upgrade to windows 10/11 and Windows 7 is serving my purpose well, all the software I use/download are either from official website or from github release archives. My documents have scripts and macros disabled by default. I keep eye on every startup items, background processes and any unwanted resource hogging processes.

I tried to switch to linux for this purpose, but I needed to hack many configs and find drivers with updates. So, I went back with windows 7.

Great. If you don't mind, can you share your trade-offs and pain-points of managing own hosting? and How do you manage to get your service/apis compatible with forever(kinda) changing AWS/Heroku apis.

That's my favorite, And our family eats them in season every year. To get the real test of the kesar mangoes, you must get them when they are still green, and ripe them at home.

Wasm is actually a platform independent bytecode that can be run at near native speed by your modern browser.

Think it like a java bytecode, but which runs inside a browser.

It seems to be the pattern recently. I have an in-complete linkedin profile(I have a family owned business,where I can be as passive as I want), I have not listed most of my skills(just html/css/js). For last 9 years, It was rarely one or two recruiter connecting me. But now in last 6 months, somehow a new request pops up every week with vogue requirements and unreasonable expectations with salary expectation of the McDonald's employee.

Most of the times, recruiter does not know what he actually require. They are not clear about salary, exact responsibility, work culture, company working and on boarding. I just ignore most of them.

If you have a plan to move-over to next venture after the successful establishment of company in future, Be clear about it.

I just started a new physical business, and this is what I shared with the partners; I informed them about my intended exit plan with gradual transfer of my responsibilities via new hires and training them. I also clarified my position after exit that my exit from business operations does not indicate in lower future benefits.

After sharing this, Ask if they have anything like that in mind.

Other matters that needs to be discussed includes, clarification of responsibilities, the vesting period, agreement for the case of dispute and who will own what, etc. make sure to get it documented legally(I made a mistake here for said business and I am regretting it).

If your main goal is to run a hobby blog, I will recommend you to stick to the WordPress with simple theme(I use astra).

Set WordPress and themes to auto-update and use a clasic WordPress editor plugin.

Add cloudflare for caching and use minimum number of plugins.

Works great mostly. Just one issue. It randomly hangs when starting ff for first time after system(windows 7) boot. I digged everything, disabled all telemetry, unwanted confige etc. No luck so far.

Otherwise it is working great, I have 800+ tabs open on 4gig ram, c2d(2008) ancient machine. It just works.

I recommend you to start from base, start with learning how transistor, resistor, coil/inductors, capacitor works, then jump to logical side of circuit And, Or, Not, Xor gates etc.

Lastly you should learn about mosfets, relays, basic non-programmable circuit component s etc.

Once you have known how underlying things works, there are many youtubers who regularly posts about arduino, Raspberry pi, robotics and what not.

I started interest in 2019, as I already knew basics and covid lockdown gave me enough time to learn about it.

Here in Surat, India same inflated real estate bubble exists. The land which costed 600k INR in 2008, now it is costing 10 million INR. The owners and developers are holding price tightly and no correction can fix it.

You are hypersensitive in a subject that doesn't bother them.

I would say make an adjustment with your skills; create and install local userscripts and custom styles inside your work pc to suite your preference so you can focus on work.

If you have to work with others on their machines, try adding experimental theming which can be toggled on a shortcut in dev environment. That way you will have a better experience, and you will be able to get fruit of your invested time and efforts.

This is great, now you don't have to worry about money for now, but still you do require a routine which can make you feel connected to people and local culture.

I will say get a full-time developer job of small company or a junior position at some FAANG level company, make friends get involved in solving new problem you are interested in.

Other option is to go to university and get course in your hobby like literature or phd in CS, start a hobby blog without focusing on growth and do some gig jobs.

Once you find a sweet spot where you can feel yourself at home, you will figure out the future.

Would you like to share the vps configuration and traffic you handle per month without diving deep into your venture?

I would suggest pre-defined staged rollout based on customer preference. For example, create three category Alpha, Beta, Stable.

Alpha: Gets new features immediately and gets support within 24hours if something breaks.

Beta: Gets new features Every 45 week, and gets priority support if needed.

Stable: Gets new features quarterly, Mostly they are forced to upgrade from old features which you dont want to support, But they will be essential volume of your revenue.

alternatively, you can give them sandboxed demo read-only(resets every night at 12 o'clock) account for testing.

Costco launching/selling products with own sales data is one thing.

To make it clear, Here you should consider Amazon.com different entity than Amazon Seller Account. Now would you sell on amazon.com if amazon.com leaks your data to "amazon seller account" owner to boost his sales of a similar product, which you sell.

Moral thing is, Amazon seller division who deals with product directly sold by Amazon, should never have access to the data of other sellers.Fullstop.

Only thing inspiring me to code in free time is that I need it or I have motivation for it. I code things that are I am really interested into rather what is a general interesting thing.

Price of vegetable cooking oil should drop drastically, to pre covid 2019 level.