Aman Aalam 🥑 🇨🇦

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@SinghLions What's the fineprint?

You don’t serve someone and then ask what you get in return. you stand behind what you do. unconditionally. most businesses in India operate on the exact opposite principle. sell fast. disappear faster. especially in the used car market. then I saw Cars24 offer something that genuinely stopped me. 30 days to return the car if something feels wrong. a lifetime warranty after that. that’s not a policy. that’s accountability. seva without expectation is rare in any form. even rarer in business. good to see it exist somewhere.

@GG37374104 I have heard Bramptonians use the rule "As long as the tire is not on the sidewalk" to justify parking like this. Doesn't make sense, and I don't know if there's a rule like that. If there is, it needs to change.

Brampton sidewalks. You tell me why they don't have summer students out every day & night handing out tickets. Does the city not need the revenue?

@typesfast Air France had it, but I was also on an international sector. Then they have amazing trains, with strong ridership, which do have wifi

Why doesn’t Europe have WiFi on airplanes in 2026?

@raveeshbhalla @braintrust Ouch!

Reminder: rotate your API tokens after leaks. I didn't rotate mine on @braintrust (wasn't actively using anything and didn't realize I still had active keys there). $10K+ of Anthropic spend there after their leak

@film_girl At this point whoever hasn’t moved to Jellyfin is burning their money.

I’m a huge and longtime Plex fan but $750 for a lifetime plex pass is just begging people to pay $70 a year or move to Jellyfin.

@GiftOjeabulu_ @techgirl1908 @techgir I have gotten it to work by using those ‘building blocks’ but I forget whether it was inside a personal account or workspace one. If Markdown works it will be a great help!

@techgirl1908 @techgir Alright let me know if it works. There is also another way to do it with Claude through MCP/connectors. Either the one I initially shared or this should work .

anyone know why Google Docs is gatekeeping the code block??? need that in my personal workspace!

@sachinsingh1010 @HelleLyngSvends Sit down, loser. A politician can be asked a question anywhere. They are not at a privileged position since they are not the monarchs. Journalists have to question them on behalf of the people wherever they find them. The press was allowed at the event. End of story.

@HelleLyngSvends You need to go back to basics...there is a difference between Press briefing and Press Conference... If it was indeed press conference did ur PM take question during the same briefing ...if you can share Q & A....

Primeminister of India, Narendra Modi, would not take my question, I was not expecting him to. Norway has the number one spot on the World Press Freedom Index, India is at 157th, competing with Palestine, Emirates & Cuba. It is our job to question the powers we cooperate with.

@HelleLyngSvends I am sorry, you should have asked how he likes to eat his mangoes.

@Aunindyo2023 Couldn’t agree more! Do you have a list of your favourite books that you’d recommend? I have always admired your analysis, either in print, digital, or electronic publications.

People nowadays are under-read, and ill-read. They have either not read enough, or they have read the wrong books.

@manassarov @DanielleFong And now you are contradicting your own thought, somewhat :)

@AmanAlam @DanielleFong I have always said that entirety of Bharat (including breakaway regions like Pak) is unified by a common cultural thread, despite unique norms in its regions. That is Indian nationalism 101.

claude please find the best possible place to grow indian mangos outside of india

@thevirdas This just made me realise that Indian government was always good at not addressing those issues with the citizens, ever. Earlier there weren’t even state addresses. Then, unless asked the politicians will never say anything. The media system did the asking. Not anymore.

I don’t know what the vague scaremongering speeches are signalling for India or hinting towards, and I wish they would spell it out with a clear state of the economy address. Talk to us about the war, forex, foreign investment, currency, energy, and a general over view of the economy. This doesn’t feel like it’s only about the war. But I can’t think of a citizen who wouldn’t adjust and make economic behaviour changes if you were just clear with us. These speeches are creating panic, and worse…blind panic.

When do you reach for other models instead of Claude? What can we do better? Hit me with all of your frustrations. dms open. If you can give me detail (e.g. specifics/transcipts) - it'll help a lot in finding out exactly what we need to do to improve the next model

@manassarov @DanielleFong Incorrect. Then, facts don’t care much about who likes what. If you want to go micro then South Asia anyway is a congregation of multiple regions with their own cultures.

@AmanAlam @DanielleFong Pakistanis won’t appreciate you calling Bihar (India) and Pakistan as the same land. ☺️

@nazanin_ashrafi I was thinking about you..

Okay I am Officially baaaaaaaack yall 😁 A lot has happened... stuff that I had no control over. But now let's get back to work 💪

I put a prompt injection into my LinkedIn bio and recruiters are messaging me in Old English and calling me Lord.

@koorosensei3006 For sure miss the forest for a tree.. x.com/AmanAlam/statu…

Chausa is Indian variety

@manassarov @DanielleFong What I bought and ate was sold as a Pakistani Chausa. It probably was shipped from there. It might have originated in Bihar. Both are the same land. I have had Chausa in India too, plenty of it. There’s no need to constantly nitpick and fight over petty things all the time

@AmanAlam @DanielleFong Chausa is a Bihari variety, not Pakistani.

@chheplo @DanielleFong Transporting plants through civilian airlines is allowed but you’ll need a bunch of certification

@DanielleFong Some parts of Florida have the perfect weather, but you need to graft for the exact variety, and I'm not sure if that is allowed. Maybe smuggle some sticks.

@bivekadhi @bznotes I think unless local legislation forces it, the economic incentives alone might not move the needle. Lunar excavation has to be high-tech, non-human (and expensive) anyway so not sure if that’s a valid comparison.

@bivekadhi @bznotes Correct. Many of those minerals are still in countries where labour is exploited and is cheap. Managing technical equipment also means either up-skilling existing, or hiring new workforce = added costs. Sociopolitical risks too, tied to sudden mass unemployment.

This is really something humans should not be required to do anymore.