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Drove from Bangalore to Kolkata. That's one item done from the checklist. 😊

Women's 33% quota. #womensquota

Why @the_hindu matters

The research behind this is wild. Your sperm carries a set of instructions that tell your genes when to turn on and off. A Duke University study found that THC rewrites those instructions. The more weed in your system, the bigger the changes. It goes straight for the genes your future embryo needs in its first week of life. I had to read the "day 3 crash" part twice. For the first three days after fertilization, an embryo runs entirely on the mother's DNA. Day 3, the father's genes switch on. If those genes carry cannabis damage, the embryo just stops growing. Fertility doctors see this happen in their labs: embryos that fertilized fine and looked healthy on day 2 go completely still by day 5. Boston University tracked 1,535 couples trying to have a baby. Men who smoked weed once a week or more doubled their partner's miscarriage risk. That number held up even when the woman herself never touched cannabis. And the miscarriages clustered in the first 8 weeks, right when the father's damaged DNA would be doing the most harm. Duke also found that the specific genes THC alters in sperm overlap with genes linked to autism. One of those genes, called DLGAP2, helps brain cells communicate with each other. It was changed in cannabis users' sperm. When researchers bred THC-exposed male rats and checked their offspring, the same altered gene pattern showed up in the pups' brains. The damage crossed a generation. Weed has gotten way stronger over the last 30 years. THC content was about 4% in the 1990s but nearly quadrupled to 15% by 2018, and modern dispensary strains regularly sit at 20-30%. Concentrates go up to 95%. Quitting for about 11 weeks (one full cycle of sperm production) reverses some of the DNA changes. Not all of them. Duke's lead researcher says men should stop at least 6 months before trying for a baby. Half of your kid's genetic blueprint comes from you, and right now, THC is editing that blueprint before conception even happens.

@bargava zolopik

I have a bunch of old monitors and CPUs that I want to dispose off. What's the best way to do this? I am not expecting any payment- but I also wouldn't want to pay :) . This is in Bangalore.

Apparently, tokenmaxing is the new developer productivity metric. And it is as useful as lines of code per day was in earlier days.

If LLMs were invented around 2000, would they still be generating websites in Perl or would we have reached TypeScript and React much faster? I wonder if LLMs just lock us into whatever stack they are trained on.

It’s even worse because Everyone knows that the traffic situation in Bangalore is intentionally made. Citizens experts everyone have been saying this for years. But the solution that comes up is to build more space for cars. It’s not coincidence.

@bhelpuriman @debabrata_ma1ik I have only tried this at Albert Bakery. I'll try this.

Khova Naan at Kausar Bakery, Shivajinagar courtesy @debabrata_ma1ik list of places to try. Not too sweet, warm (probably a fresh batch), good stuff. Need to try this in more bakeries.

You buy a solar panel and you have power for 20 years. No one can hold you hostage, you don’t have to keep paying. If you buy a barrel of oil it’s gone the moment you use it. Renewable energy is there for decades. Fossil fuel is disposable. It’s an unreliable subscription product

Delhi begins phased removal of 1.4 lakh Chinese CCTV cameras installed by AAP Read @ANI Story |aninews.in/news/national/… #Parveshsinghsahib #delhi #CCTV #Chinesecamera

@planemad Are there more such books for other states? Telling their stories through map?

An important article this edition is a summarization of the politically charged Mhadei water dispute between Goa and Karnataka that is now in the Supreme Court. Sharing here because it deserves wider public circulation to create awareness on all sides on what’s at stake.

After a gap of 25 years, the latest edition of Goa’s famous community contributed sourcebook ‘Fish Curry & Rice’ is out in print and available in Goa Edited by Claude Alvares from @goafoundation and cover illustrated by Mario Miranda Free 4th edition pdf goafoundation.org/publications/f…

I respect that the leaked source code for the @claudeai client is protected by copyright. But wouldn’t it be ok for me to train my LLM on it? You know, fair use and all that. Asking for a friend.

I remember when we developers got fast internet ahead of the rest of the population, we used to lock in our bandwidth to simulate low bandwidth and see how our websites perform. and optimize accordingly. Never took bandwidth for granted back then. Those habits remain.

The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit, and making life hotter for more than 340 million people. cnn.it/4rZSiG5

We need a system where every time a vehicle hits a pothole, a small compensation is automatically credited to the owner’s bank account for maintenance.

Writing software in constraint was actually a thing at one point. And it actually helped make more efficient software. Now we just brute force our way though resource usage because memory (lol) and bandwidth got cheaper.

unpopular opinion: 16GB is plenty if software engineers actually cared about memory efficiency. chrome eating 4GB for 12 tabs is not a hardware problem its a software disgrace. docker consuming 2GB idle is not a feature its laziness. we live in an era where people optimize every single token to save $0.001 on API costs but happily ship electron apps that eat 500MB to display a todo list. if the industry treated RAM the way we treat inference compute - obsessively measuring every byte - 16GB would feel luxurious. the hardware isnt the problem, the software is @adxtyahq

Spammers?

Repeating for the nth time. Never engage in any adventure activities in India. Also when the lady is shouting about the fall the concerned person is calmly replying with he has life jacket and won't go down. It's just normal routine for them.

Govt when they want to collect money from Citizens:- Everything is automated, direct bank account deductions. Govt when they have to provide facilities to Citizens:- Walk in to the office, write letters, beg officials, bribe them and wait for your luck to show up.