@rajupp @beastoftraal Looks like the carrier has to be compliant for disabling it.
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@gvrayden
Passionate Developer, Technology Enthusiast, Music Lover, Pythonista, Java. Linked In - https://t.co/FeMR9FPMnX
Chicago, IL Katılım Mart 2009
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@beastoftraal *21* is a code to forward all calls. The number following it is the number of the scamster to whom all calls will be forwarded.
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Just dialing that number can hack a phone? How does this work? 😳 (PS: Please DO NOT dial that number on your phone).
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@IndianTintin_ No kidding about corruption #MyStory
Venkatesh Alla@venkat_fin9
This is the real story of a Twitter friend, a law-abiding Indian citizen, a salaried professional who paid ₹1 crore+ income tax, and what he got in return is enough to make your blood boil. 30 years after buying legal land, it’s still unusable. 5+ High Court orders ignored by Revenue Dept. The system failed him, despite being a top taxpayer. Here’s what happened 👇
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@beastoftraal Would love to read these if these are available digitally.
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So glad to see this tribute to Vaandumama. I recall reading his works in both Gokulam and PoonthaLir (and also in Kalki) as a kid growing up in 1980s Srirangam/Trichy.
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DELL Alienware Aurora R12 2yrs using review cause my warranty is bout be finish/done.
Hardware itself is solid. I was bit worried about thermal but if you accept your fate and fan noise, It's fine.
But Alienware softwares are basically bullshit.
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@gvrayden Hi , thank you for reaching out to us.
We would like to look into this for you.Send us a private message with the following details:
- Reference number
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@qatarairways hello, I was offered $52 for a damaged bag which costs $130. Can you please help get the right refund amount or a similar replacement bag.
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@ProblemSniper @SnipeTrades Most trade ideas I took were successful. Please keep these Roth swing trade ideas coming!
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@SahilBloom @FerraroRoberto Great post, interesting perspective. I found the course era Learning how to learn useful. I use tomato timer if I want focused hours of work.
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The silent productivity killer you've never heard of...
Attention Residue (and 3 strategies to fight back):
The concept of "attention residue" was first identified by University of Washington business professor Dr. Sophie Leroy in 2009.
The idea is quite simple:
There is a cognitive cost to shifting your attention from one task to another. When our attention is shifted, there is a "residue" that remains in the brain and impairs our cognitive performance on the new task.
Put differently, you may think your attention has fully shifted to the next task, but your brain has a lag—it thinks otherwise!
It's relatively easy to find examples of this effect in your own life:
• You get on a call but are still thinking about the prior call.
• An email pops up during meeting and derails your focus.
• You check your phone during a lecture and can't refocus afterwards.
There are two key points worth noting here:
1. The research indicates it doesn't seem to matter whether the task switch is "macro" (i.e. moving from one major task to the next) or "micro" (i.e. pausing one major task for a quick check on some minor task).
2. The challenge is even more pronounced in a remote/hybrid world, where we're free to roam the internet, have our chat apps open, and check our phones all while appearing to be focused in a Zoom meeting.
With apologies to any self-proclaimed proficient multitaskers, the research is very clear:
Every single time you call upon your brain to move away from one task and toward another, you are hurting its performance—your work quality and efficiency suffer.
Author Cal Newport puts it well:
"If, like most, you rarely go more than 10–15 minutes without a just check, you have effectively put yourself in a persistent state of self-imposed cognitive handicap."
Here are three strategies to manage attention residue and fight back:
1. Focus Work Blocks: Block time on your calendar for sprints of focused energy. Set a timer for a 45-90 minute window, close everything except the task at hand, and focus on one thing. It works wonders.
2. Take a Breather: Whenever possible, create open windows of 5-15 minutes between higher value tasks. Schedule 25-minute calls. Block those windows on your calendar. During them, take a walk or close your eyes and breathe.
3. Batch Processing: You still have to reply to messages and emails. Pick a few windows during the day when you will deeply focus on the task of processing and replying to these. Your response quality will go up from this batching, and they won't bleed into the rest of your day.
Attention residue is a silent killer of your work quality and efficiency.
Understanding it—and taking the steps to fight back—will have an immediate positive impact on your work and life.
If you enjoyed this or learned something, share it with others and follow me @SahilBloom for more in future!
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@FluOptions @ProblemSniper @prav_twit @ShlodiDodi @SnipeTrades Been following your tweets for a while. Do you alert on your LEAPs / multi month swings regularly? I can't trade everyday or pay attention to the market all day but only once a day or a few times a week. Do you cater to this type of users on your discord or only regular traders?
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@demiurgently 🧵incoming: first this describes a gradual move from messy notebook code to clean scalable code. About R, but philosophy generalizes
emilyriederer.netlify.app/post/rmarkdown…
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@British_Airways @ChennaiAirport @JM_Scindia It's been 10 days now and both @British_Airways and @airvistara are both pointing fingers at each other, refusing to take responsibility for my missing bag. I've already shared all required details to both airlines.
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Never take BA again! Terrible experience and worst airline staff and I travel frequently from the US and never had such a bad experience. @British_Airways @ChennaiAirport @JM_Scindia
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I don't have my bags after 6 days.i was informed of Baggage reached Chennai 4 days ago and was asked to come to the airport to pick it up. After spending 5 hr outside the airport and no response from BA to hand over, no updates on my bag yet. @British_Airways
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I’ve been a hospital chaplain now for eight years at hundreds of deathbeds. I want to tell you something I’ve witnessed.
Most people, at the end, realize they’ve spent a lot of their life hiding. Sometimes by choice, or because they could not safely choose to be themselves. ➡️
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Wonderfully written and informative. Leaves you with wanting to read more.
TheLiverDoc™@theliverdoc
I am a Hepatologist. Arguably, I care for the sickest group of patients in medical practice – end stage liver disease. I see death almost every day in my ICU. Some are natural deaths, leading to multiple organ failure triggered by a failing liver. Some are decided. The family decided to pull the plug. They decide it was time to let go. And every time, I see the heart rate drop, the blood pressure fall and the electrocardiogram go flat. And I wonder. What goes on inside a dying brain? Was it a small black hole, that gets bigger and bigger and then engulfs the field in darkness as the heart shuts down taking the brain away with it? Or was it just all light at the end of the tunnel and then darkness, once the destination had reached? A group of doctors did something strange. Something unimaginable. And it led to them witnessing something melancholic, but beautiful. They went inside an ICU. Saw that four patients were unconscious. They were not clinically dead, yet. And not brain-dead. But were comatose. They were kept alive by a machine that pumped oxygen into their lungs. Three had brain injury due to cardiac arrest. One had haemorrhaged into the brain. All were unresponsive for a very long time and sadly, the family decided to pull the plug on them. To let them go away, peacefully. But before they did that, the loving family did something bittersweet. They signed a document which was made by the group of doctors, allowing them to study their beloveds’ dying brain. The group was led by Dr Jimo Borjigin of the Department of Molecular and Integrative Physiology, University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor at Michigan. The doctors fitted machines to the heart and brain of the dying patients and then withdrew their life support by removing the breathing tube. Immediately after the tube was removed, the brain activity did not show anything different. But as the brain got closer to death, about 300 seconds before death, a power surge. And it occurred in the regions of the brain which was associated with conscious experience. Like the dying was suddenly yearning to live. And make no mistake, these were not “some bursts” of electrical activity that happens when the brain cells withered away without oxygen. This was a special kind of activity. These power surges increased connectivity in a region in the brain called posterior cortical “hot zone” – an area crucial for conscious perception – when it came to just before dying, the brain cells were having a cross-talk, not dying away into oblivion. They were passing final messages to each other within the regions of the brain, while the physical body lay, limp and motionless. And the doctors were heartbroken – because the final electrical pattern of surge that the dying brain was showing was the similar to those seen in dreaming humans. All the patients in the study died. But before they died, they taught us something. That even in death, our minds are resilient. That we clutch at only everything that is good. What were they dreaming of? A husband, about his loving wife? A mother, her children? Children, their parents? Or maybe a scene from a movie that changed you? Or a song under a starry sky? Or a pet who loved you unconditionally? We will never know. But know this, even in death, the mind conquers – with dreams and love, not nightmares and hate. Remember, nothing perfect lasts forever, except in our memories. Make good memories while living, so that we can re-live them in death. Go hug you family, take your children for an ice cream. Walk your dog into the sunset. Sources: ➡️"Surprising brain activity moments before death" by Dr. F Perry Wilson @fperrywilson via mdedge.com/neurology/arti… ➡️Research Article: Surge of neurophysiological coupling and connectivity of gamma oscillations in the dying human brain from @PNASNews pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…
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Trevor Noah making more sense about AI than a whole lot of tech folks youtu.be/4ZD-ZIS2CfU
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Oh God! What an ordeal for the poor guy :(
We blindly trust the word of children in such matters, but it's perhaps time to 'trust, but verify' because the times are such.
Related: Don't miss the Danish movie, The Hunt, on this theme. Devastating watch. bit.ly/443xm5v
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