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@AusHCIndia
Sir, seeking help in Australian visitor visa for 3 people visiting to watch the
@Freyaskye
concert . Visa was applied on 5th May -travel date is 4th June. Pls help in getting visa asap.
@MoFA_India
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@AusHCIndia Sir, seeking help in Australian visitor visa for 3 people visiting to watch the @Freyaskye concert . Visa was applied on 5th May -travel date is 4th June. Pls help in getting visa asap. @MoFA_India the concert is a reward for a child topping her boards. @1mohit
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CTO: We lost our strongest backend engineer today.
Founder: The one handling infra and outages?
CTO: Yes.
Founder: Did a bigger company hire him?
CTO: No.
Founder: Then why quit?
CTO: He said he was exhausted.
Founder: From the workload?
CTO: Not exactly. From watching the same database bottleneck, same queue lag, same deployment mistakes come back every month.
Founder: That happens in fast moving teams.
CTO: He agreed. What he could not accept was that every fix was temporary because nobody wanted to slow down and clean the system properly.
Founder: We had deadlines.
CTO: He had standards.
Founder: So he left because the work was hard?
CTO: No. He left because he was not doing engineering anymore. He was just containing damage.
The best engineers do not hate hard problems.
They hate preventable problems that management keeps normalizing.
Manager: We lost our best engineer today.
CEO: The one leading payments?
Manager: Yes.
CEO: Did another company offer more money?
Manager: No.
CEO: Then why leave?
Manager: He said he was tired of fixing the same production issues every week.
CEO: That’s part of the job.
Manager: He didn’t mind fixing issues. He minded that nobody wanted to fix the root cause.
CEO: We prioritized speed.
Manager: He wanted quality.
CEO: So he left over that?
Manager: He left because he felt like a firefighter, not an engineer.
Good engineers don’t just want to solve problems.
They want to eliminate them.
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Bro how was the show Silicon Valley so consistently 10 years ahead of its time 🤣
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The language spoken in Bollywood movies is a modern version of the language spoken by servants and slaves in Mughal harems and Mughal army camps. The same language was spoken by courtesans of Delhi and Lucknow.
This language was referred to as Urdu or Hindustani.
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Indians, make sure you are making our voice heard on the Internet. If an international YouTuber can use India for views - make them take a stand for India in these tough times. Spam “Pakistan sponsors Terror” everywhere
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Chettur Sankaran Nair
This name won’t ring a bell. Our NCERT History book didn’t cover him, but if you look at his resume, you would wonder why aren’t airports named after him. Why was he sidelined by Congress??
He had an illustrious CV. He went on to rise in British India as one of the most premier lawyers. He was appointed to the Viceroy’s executive council. Became the President of the Indian National Congress. Fought the Jallianwala case against British Empire in British Courts. Even after all this if you haven’t heard his name just coz he disagreed with Gandhi. He wrote a book “Gandhi & Anarchy” in 1922, which he criticised Gandhi’s ways. And that was it, for him to be forever erased from our books.
Glad to see him getting his due, Kesari 2. A curious case of a national icon erased to prop up some others.
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Before air conditioners, there were baolis.
In Jaipur, where the sun blazes at 45°C, the Pearl Academy of Fashion remains a cool 10–15°C lower — no ACs needed.
How? By reviving the wisdom of 1,500-year-old stepwells to create a self-sustaining microclimate.
Swipe through to explore this brilliant, sustainable design in action!
#SustainableArchitecture, #ModernArchitecture #Heatwaves
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Vicky Kaushal is being targeted by Left Libs and Muslims, not just because Chhava turned out to be a blockbuster, without much hype. It's because the movie has got lot of people interested in Indian History, specifically the Mughal-Maratha period.
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Data security and security breach - A reality check.
(1) Since we're all supposed to believe that 'all is well' and the IAF/Services are the top of their game when it comes data security and its impact on overall security, here is a reality check on how data with 3rs party can impact security.
(2) Given below is the HEAT MAP of a few IAF bases where IAF personnel are using Strava to track their physical exercises.
Sample 1 - Heat map of Adampur Air Base.
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- Not only do we have a heat map, but we also have some personalized information as well.
- Within Adampur Air Base, there is a training ground for athletics.
- The website/app has running performance details of 23 athletes who have used this ground for training.
- The app also tells you about the best time on this track and details of this record holder.
Sample 1.1 - Adampur training ground.
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Sample 1.2 -
The record holder details are also available. His name is Amar Devanda. And who is Amar Devanda? Well, here you are -
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Sample 1.3
- This is profile of Amar Devanda on Strava. It tells you that he set the record in Adampur on November 29, 2020.
- And that he's using Garmin Forerunner 245 to track his performance.
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Sample 1.4
- But this is not all. He has a profile on Strava. And his profile tells me that he's presently based in Jodhpur.
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Now, one can argue that he's a famous athletic personality who is not involved in any operational matters and availability of his details don't matter.
But the question is this - who else within the IAF is using Strava or other similar apps to monitor their athletic performance or workouts or diet plans etc. and also sharing their location details.
Can't the app track the movement of the particular ID from location A within India to location B?
And who is to know what kind of data is being sent back to the app by the wearer's instrument. This is the data that we can see. What is the extent of the data which the App can see and mine?
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So please, rather than point fingers at mango people raising concerns about data security, please try and appreciate what is being said and address the issue. People have the best for Services in their heart. They speak out of concern.
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This is classic Abrahamic Privilege. You reduce Hindu beliefs to Abrahamic standards and completely dismiss the Dharmic worldview.
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Let's break it down.
India won 28 gold medals in Asian Games. Where these medals came from:
11 of them came from sports which were not even in Paris Olympics including:
- 5 from Compound Archery
- 2 from Squash
- 2 from Cricket
- 2 Kabaddi
Among other 17 gold medals:
- 6 came from Athletics: Asia as a whole is poor in Athletics compared to other continents. For context, China won 19 gold medals in Athletics at 2022 Asian Games, but they won just 1 gold at the Paris Olympics.
(Commonwealth Games is a much competitive event and better benchmark for Athletics due to presence of England, Australia, Jamaica, Kenya etc.)
- 7 came from Shooting. Now this is where it gets ironical. Shooting is very strong in Asia, and Indian contingent should win more at the Olympics in shooting. At the same time, 3 of our medals came from shooting, which feels like an achievement. We did decent, but we should be doing even better at the Olympics in shooting at least.
- Rest 4 gold medals came from Badminton, Tennis, Hockey and Equestrian.
Men's Hockey team did well to win Bronze in Paris and only 2 European teams finish above them. We underperformed in Badminton, Satwik-Chirag (gold medal at Asian Games) should have done better. In other two events, it was again a mismatch in Asian Games level and the Olympics level.
Now, let's do analysis on Uzbekistan. This time let's go in reverse, let's see from where did they got their 8 golds at Paris Olympics:
Uzbekistan, formerly a part of USSR, traditionally focuses on 5 sports for the Olympics (Boxing, Wrestling Judo, Taekwondo and Weightlifting). The level of all these 5 sports at the Asian Games is very high (due to presence of China in Weightlifting and Women's Boxing, Japan in Judo, South Korea in Taekwondo, Japan, Iran and Kazakhstan in Wrestling and Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan in Men's Boxing) and if you win a gold there, then you have a good shot at a medal at the Olympics too.
- 5 came from Men's Boxing.
Uzbekistan won 3 gold medals in men's boxing at Asian Games, and each of those 3 also won gold at the Olympics too. (This is what we expected likes of Sift Kaur and Satwik-Chirag to do, but didn't happen). This is as optimum as it can get. Basically everyone who was best at Asian level, are also best in that sport in the World too.
- 1 came from Wrestling, which is very controversial. Since Russia got banned from the Paris Olympics, most Russian wrestlers switched to ex USSR nations just before the Olympics so that they can participate. The gold medal was actually won by a Russian. (Olympics committee would mostly come with some kind of rule to stop such events in the future)
- 1 came from Taekwondo. Again, Uzbekistan won just 1 gold at the Asian Games in Taekwondo, and the same person won gold at the Olympics too. 100% conversion rate of success.
-1 came from Judo. Uzbekistan won 3 golds in Judo at the Asian games - 1 went on to win gold at the Olympics, 1 won Bronze and 1 other missed a medal.
In conclusion:
- The games we are better in, we are only better at the Asian level, not at the Olympics level. While the games Uzbekistan is better at Asian level, they are also among the best at the Olympics level
- Our Shooting and Badminton contingent could have done better at Paris, while we have talent here, we often falter mentally
- Uzbekistan performed at the most optimum possible level at Paris, that is commendable but mostly not repeatable every single time and was an one-off feat. Kudos to them.
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One of the most interesting stories is of Vineet Buch, JEE 1989 topper, who was son of two IAS officers from Madhya Pradesh. That time IIT Kanpur was considered most elite, unlike today when toppers generally choose IIT Bombay. This story was narrated to us in the class by one of his batchmates, who taught me at Resonance - Mumbai, where I took coaching for IIT-JEE in 2010. He told that Vineet was a straight 10-pointer and in 1st year, he once corrected a professor's mistake, and professor said that if you are not able to prove your point, then I am going to fail you. He did correct him the next day by bringing a famous author's book from library. In 4th year, in farewell or convocation, I don't remember exactly, he announced on the stage that "I will prepare for Civil Services exam, and get rank 1". Not selection, straightaway rank 1. And everybody got terrified hearing this, as if he is going to snatch their seats. 😆 I mean, he is going to take only one seat right, but such was his terror, that everybody got frightened - "We will not be able to clear Civil Services now." 😂 But he didn't sit for Civil Services exam, he came to US (Cornell University), and has had a successful career here. When my teacher told this story, I got curious, and searched for Vineet Buch when I went home that day. Found on internet in an article in Open magazine from 2009 that he was diagnosed with ankylosing spondylitis, a progressively crippling disease without a cure, just before he left for US in August 1993 at AIIMS, Dilli. He suffered inflammation of the eyes and internal organs. It was hard for him to even sit, stand or sleep, and things got progressively so worse that by the end of his master's at Cornell in 1995, he was immobilized throughout much of his body. A doctor advised him to stop working and apply for disability payments. But the resilient person he was, Buch refused. He started a self-directed rehabilitation programme. He began with long sessions of swimming and gradually started to walk, then bike and hike. In 2001, he successfully undertook the Death Ride over five alpine passes on the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California. But biking hurt his knees. Searching for a sport that didn’t tax his legs, he discovered surf skiing, one that uses a long, narrow, lightweight kayak. In 2009, Buch took part in the Molokai Challenge in Hawaii, a 32-mile surf ski race between Molokai and Oahu, in rough waters swarming with tiger sharks, and finished the race. He is still a long-distance runner and regularly posts on his social media about cooking, diet and health. The level of determination and discipline required to clear JEE must have helped him in overcoming the disease - something much tougher than getting rank 1 in IIT-JEE.
What are the top 10 ranks from IITJEE, the hardest exam in India, 1998 doing today?
Abhinav Kumar, rank 1, didn't even go to IIT.
— IMO Gold medalist
— went to MIT to do 3 majors
— PhD at Harvard
— MIT Professor in Math
— Probably made $100M+ at Renaissance Tech
1/10
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A majority of US Athletes at the Olympics & Paralympics come from their University programs.
These schools not only offer a full scholarship to these athletes for their sports training, but also have the in-house Infrastructure & coaching to train their athletes.
Although this number is reducing bcoz colleges & athletes have started focusing more on (revenue generating) inter-college competitions, lucrative sports like Football & sponsorship deals.
But still the pool of athletes pursuing education & Olympic Sports is large enough to sustain the growth of their podium finishes.
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We should thank our stars that the Olympics are going on, and not a Cricket World Cup or series involving India. Otherwise the anti-Hindu genocide in Bangladesh wouldn't get even the attention it is currently getting in Bharat. #savebangladeshihindus
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I thought Indian Hockey Team has the best defenders, but this guy can even defend the mobs of Bangladesh 🫡
Only Indian TV Media in the world can give ‘Hindus vs Muslims’ narrative to #BangladeshCrisis.
Experts in the field !!
