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looking fwd

good find

if anyone thinks this is not preplanned is fooling themselves.

I have lost counts of Trump doing insider trading violations. This guy is dangerous not just for US but for entire world order. STOP him.

modi is getting desperate ruling party is under a lot of pressure for wrong doings.

hope, its not as bad as it could be.

already seen a lot of ego trips of top leaders. ( happened on Trump's watch at tail end of his first term )

all resistance is online .. people comment and think it to be enough.

you do not need to install it anywhere... its already everywhere ( I am vim enthusiast )

for eg: Keep right hand free for writing/eating by reserving left hand for mouse. (keep same settings for right handed mouse) Brrrr... :p

amazing work...

is it possible to add moon to it as well. that would make it more intuitive.. looking at the night moon its possible to find where the sun is but not possible to imagine the respective location of earth with respect to moon and sun.

concept maps being different from mindmaps and that its better to make them by hand than on a software like cmaptools

last week: Worked with son to find time period of a pendulum (a bell attached to a rope) .. the exploration was to get to microseconds precision). I sincerely hope more people could appreciate H C Vermas physics teaching methodology https://hcverma.in/Experiments

Its extremely difficult to type hindi / sanskrit on qwerty boards.

even the article only talks of european languagues.

someone needs to find a better solution.

India as of today plays the Hindu ideas .. and downplays Buddhist followers ( mostly poor and downtrodden following footsteps of BR Ambedkar)

BJP which is ruling party for 3rd consecutive term is staunchly supporting Upper caste ( Brahmins).

TLDR: Buddhist leadership although is prophesised seems unlikely as of today. (However their Vippassana is worth giving a 10 day shot in todays chaotic world https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/locations/directory)

sorry for your loss.

thanks for letting us know

Very few people suspected that github is being used to train the ai when we were all pushed the best practice of doing frequent commit.

a little earlier very few suspected that our mobile phone is not only listening to our conversations and training some ai model but also all its gyrometers are being used to profile our daily routine. ( keeping mobile for charging near our pillow) looking at mobile first thing in morning.

Now when we are asked to use ai to do our code. I am quite anxious as to what part of our life are we selling now .. perhaps i am no longer their prime focus. (50+) but who knows.

Going with the flow seems like a bad advice. going Analog as in iRobot seems the most sane thing.

its been 10+ years for me here ..

Thanks for being around everyone.

I used to tell my father about communities that build them around a particular coffee shop with tables that have different kind of conversations ..

YC conversations are the best ( least fluff, more stuff) There is no garden without a gardener.

Thank you @dang and @tomhow .. ( before this post I had no clue who you were so thanks to @prodigycorp as well )

Never thought about this difference before. It has given me a lot of new ground to explore. Thanks for the effort.

Found the post to be Shockingly true.

"You have to live it to understand it, but I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, its a tarpit and getting out of it without someone handing you a branch (and if you no longer have the strength to pull yourself out) then you’ll be stuck in it forever. "

In India there is a concept of "Langar" at Sikh temples where you get free hygienic vegeterian food.

The weather is also a lot forgiving ( as of this year you will not die of cold or a heatstroke in summers - but this situation is changing with extremes weathers due to climate change)

I do not have a solution .. but am looking on this problem of poverty due to job losses since a long time.

If you know of some good pointers to look at pls share.

Almost all schools in Indore, MadhyaPradesh, India have breakfast and lunch provided by school.

The food is really well cooked and nutritious. Most other cities in India the bf and tiffin needs to be given by parents which makes mornings very busy.

" Satisfying daily job "

To answer your question .. Lets make it "Satisfying daily job till your last breath".

I have a few more years of experience than you. My response to this was to scale back to hometown and spend more quality time with family. (Aging parents and generation handover)

This required some basic inner engineering. (the points are random and not chronologically arranged )

1. I worked on things which did not require any permission from anyone. There were a lot of pending IT projects for myself which were done half assed. Finally i had time to finish them to my satisfaction.

2. Joined Govt job as a contractor and worked in different department to enable their e-Governance initiatives. I expected it to be long term but soon (4 years) got bored.

(IgnoreThis: ADHAAR id , Toll Roads, Social Justice for women and kids , Department of Economics and Statistics, State Planning commission. This coincided with the external factors of Narendra Modi becoming the PM in 2014-till date. Whatever I have worked on is still working and it is some solace but the rot has happened and its not trustworthy anymore since data massaging for beautiful reports is one of painful realities of Govt Work )

3. Convinced wife to let me take a 6 month break from job and See the action on ground of all these govt projects. Did that and decided to join startups.

4. Did a lot of pro-bono work in different domains.From WildLife Tiger Reserves to App building for Real estate to working for NGOs and travelling to remote Tier 3 cities and villages and giving seminars on technology and the upcoming changes. ( this was in 2018-19 pre covid).

5. By now yr2020+ tech was changing so furiously, it was hard to keep up. Number of services in AWS just made no sense... Kept working with startups who were NOT using the latest and greatest. They just wanted something to keep them floating on the web.

6. Enabled other revenue sources (no relation to IT)

7. Since then I have connected to the tech ecosystem in a way that suites me. Solidified my credentials as a teacher by giving some govt exams (UGC NET and MPSET as called in this part of world). I love teaching and people have validated it over time. (Engaged in-person 4000 People crowd for 4-5hrs). When you try something new u get to know your superpowers. ( Failures teach you more, do keep a log of new things you try. We stop trying after we get few years into a job)

8. Made a lot of friends elder as well as junior with whom I want to spend rest of my life. I love to work with them and its wonderful. I prefer to meet my colleagues and classmates in person.(At least once in few months).

9. I had to let go of the urge to earn as much as I was earning. Getting used to this is pretty difficult choice. I found that saving 1 equates to earning 6 ... so reduced my expenses and this leverage helped a lot.

10. Supported wife to get back on her career. This required a lot of managing as well. (Learning to cook was trial through fire. Today I feel everyone should know how to cook their favorite recipes. It is sheer joy to cook/bake for your friends and family)

To summarise, It was a mid-life retirement to find about the world. We stay in our little pond and think this is the whole world. When we explore we end up finding our own "self". What I like and what I do not. What pisses me off and how to manage that without doing a lot of damage to relations and quality of life and that prepares you to do "Satisfying daily job till your last breath".

PS1: Surprisingly it is easier than ever to do WFH.You need to find the work that you can do better than anyone else using AI as a tool. AI is not a worker .. AI is a tool just like a Mixer/Grinder/Juicer. This is the future of work as I found it to be.

PS2: Being a house husband has a lot of social stigma. Remember to keep your spouse happy as this causes emotional roller coaster which is not good for kids.

PS3: Experiment with your daily routine. Find your circadian rythm.Keep it for life.

i do not have videos but i do have audio cassets which needs conversion to digital.

If someone knows a faster and good way pls share.

thanks

when we go to sleep and wake up next day there is a moment when we loose consiousness and then get it back.

In India people call initiation as Deekhsha.

This is where the guru whispers (3 times) to you the seed letters which one has to imbibe over decades of sadhana by lacs of repetition

this looks similar

#rememberThis

written by David Ogilvy ( GOAT of Advertising) this gave me enough reason to read this.

sometime back i downloaded a phrack zip on my ubuntu and noticed it had some special character which did not allow me to delete the files once unzipped.

perhaps some safety measure. i am used to only drwxrwxrwx or lrwxrwxrwx on dirs and files never seen srwx.....

Can someone pls point me to some doc that explains how to deal with it.

fat in hot oil stores the flavors which gets evenly spread in the food. garlic or chilli or cumin or ginger garlic paste.

all clay plates are microwave resistant. (ensure there is no enamel on them)

In india such clay pots are sold by villagers and are slowly getting in vogue.

expected it to work on browser as well. but can use /etc/hosts file instead of allowlist which could also work

exactly my expection as well..

I took too much time to

1. Empathise about effect of menstrual cycle in women.Its so well hidden from boys (at least Indian). They wonder why girls behave erratically ( sex education needed much earlier at least in India as more kids are exposed to adult content)

2. be very careful when using rm command (use alias rm='rm -i' )

3. Have backup of backup of backup.

4. keep checking if backups restore correctly. (can have a very rude awakening if it does not work someday )

5. People who report to you are different on different days . Dont judge them on few events. (20+ chances at least be given before giving them negative feedback privately )

6. Friends are more useful than family. ( because you have similar priorities in life) They are a lifesaver after 50 so be in touch with school buddies and college buddies esp as its so much easier now. ( Lost few classmates in Covid who had less family support)

7. Learn to cook all your favorite recipes ( of your mom/wife/grandmother). You will never be sad. Make them at least for two people, share it.( right size the utensils you use regularly. not too small not too big)

8. Meet Reality as it is by using Vipassana. It is a super power to counter the unethical AI use. (just finished 10 day course in Bhopal, India New courses are across world ) * They are not paying me anything for this.

  I genuinely believe #Vipassana works. BTW Yuval Noah Harare (Wrote Sapiens and Nexus) has endorsed it as well.

You can find course near you in this link. https://www.dhamma.org/en-US/courses/search?current_state=Ne... (Its free and runs on donations)

9. Keep a water bottle and flat tiffin (empty is also ok but can keep biscuits/leftover for later in day)

10. Remember to have fun. (we often forget) (kk.org has advice on how2)

Wow, it seems this newspost isolated all Hindi Speakers (mostly Indians !!! ) watching news.yc

ROFL

made my day

1. I found PARA (Tiago Forte) method to be helpful for self.

2. PMP Cert also talks of Work BreakDown charts but thats too official.

Its more like finding your own routine/pace which allows for some serendipity and pays your bills and keeps you interesting