Raghav

@maxedapps do neighbours complain that the hot air from the outdoor unit is making their apartment warmer ?

I live in Germany and have AC. Always had in my 3 different apartments over the last 11 years. AMA

Me to my manager after he justified my 1.9% appraisal

@akinwale_cfi Money

I watched this video 3 times this morning and it makes so much sense. I'm sharing here so you can learn from it. Happy Holidays

10 tips to reduce your LPG consumption by nearly 50% 1. Use the pressure cooker - Pressure cooking reduces cooking time by 30–70%, especially for dals, beans, potatoes, and meats. 2. Soak pulses, beans and rice - Soaking reduces cooking time significantly. Typical soaking times: • Rajma / chana: 8–10 hours • Dals: 30–60 minutes • Rice: 20–30 minutes Soaked foods cook 30–50% faster, saving LPG. 3. Use the right sized burner - On most Indian gas stoves: • Small burner → tea, tadka, reheating • Large burner → pressure cooking, boiling water Using a large burner for small vessels wastes gas. Don’t use the large burner for all the cooking. Flame should not burn beyond the circumference of the pan. 4. Cook with lids on - Cooking with a lid • Retains heat • Reduces evaporation • Speeds up cooking This can reduce fuel use by 20–25%. 5. Cut vegetables smaller - Smaller pieces cook faster because: • More surface area • Faster heat penetration & faster cooking Example: diced potatoes cook faster than large chunks. 6. Cook multiple items together - Use stacking in a pressure cooker: • Dal below • Rice above • Vegetables in a small bowl This one-flame multi-cooking can cut fuel use dramatically. Even in smaller cookers, you can keep one vegetable directly in the cooker and another in a cup over it (like smaller quanity veg for sambar) 7. Check the burners - Blocked burner holes cause inefficient combustion. Clean burners every few weeks to ensure: • Blue flame • Faster heating • Lower LPG use Yellow flames = incomplete combustion. 8. (my fav tip)Switch off early and use residual heat - Many foods continue cooking with trapped heat. Examples: • Rice/khichdi • Pasta • Boiled vegetables • Dal after pressure cooking Turning off the flame 2–3 minutes earlier can save fuel. 9. Use flat bottomed heavy vessels - Heavy-bottom cookware distributes heat evenly, reducing cooking time. Best materials: • Stainless steel with thick base • Triply steel • Cast iron (for slow cooking) Thin vessels waste heat and burn food. 10. Smarter cooking - Use an electric kettle for boiling water for tea, pasta, or blanching vegetables or to add to pressure cooker. It is more energy-efficient than LPG for water heating. Batch cook rice, dal, beans,potatoes for 2-3 meals. Referigerate the extra portions. For the same fuel consumption you get double the meals cooked. In most Indian kitchens, combining just 3 habits (pressure cooker + soaking ingredients + closed lid cooking can save nearly 30% fuel. These tips are not just useful for the current times, but also to be more careful with LPG usage in our kitchen, reducing wastage and costs both. Did I miss anything? Drop your LPG saving tips below! Follow @saffrontrail for more

Not having cooking experience is becoming an advantage for chefs

@Eze_Wilberforce Wealth

This is the reason you will never see a third-generation poor Jewish family.

@IndiGo6E This is unacceptable. Repeated requests for wheelchair support for a senior citizen with mobility issues have gone unanswered (case reference number is - 32437849). If this is not confirmed promptly, I will be forced to escalate the matter.

Action produces information.

Facts About Workplace Bullies 1. Workplace bullies often target high performers-they see competence as a threat. 2. Their behavior is usually subtle at first: backhanded compliments, exclusion from meetings, or taking credit for others' work. 3. Over time, this escalates to gaslighting, public undermining, and sabotaging projects. 4. Most bullies operate with impunity because they know how to manipulate up the chain. 5. Their goal isn't just power- it's control through fear, confusion, and isolation.

The real winner is the one who knows exactly how and when to play dumb.

People assume numbers drive decisions They don’t Narratives do Miss plan and say “unexpected headwinds” Beat plan and say “disciplined execution” The same chart can end careers or create bonuses Depends on the story attached to it We don’t manage businesses. We manage explanations….

Psychopaths and serial bullies in the workplace often focus on the most talented and capable employees. They use micromanagement and harsh words to undermine these individuals. By insulting mocking and harassing them they aim to break down their self-esteem and confidence.

Last quarter I rolled out Microsoft Copilot to 4,000 employees. $30 per seat per month. $1.4 million annually. I called it "digital transformation." The board loved that phrase. They approved it in eleven minutes. No one asked what it would actually do. Including me. I told everyone it would "10x productivity." That's not a real number. But it sounds like one. HR asked how we'd measure the 10x. I said we'd "leverage analytics dashboards." They stopped asking. Three months later I checked the usage reports. 47 people had opened it. 12 had used it more than once. One of them was me. I used it to summarize an email I could have read in 30 seconds. It took 45 seconds. Plus the time it took to fix the hallucinations. But I called it a "pilot success." Success means the pilot didn't visibly fail. The CFO asked about ROI. I showed him a graph. The graph went up and to the right. It measured "AI enablement." I made that metric up. He nodded approvingly. We're "AI-enabled" now. I don't know what that means. But it's in our investor deck. A senior developer asked why we didn't use Claude or ChatGPT. I said we needed "enterprise-grade security." He asked what that meant. I said "compliance." He asked which compliance. I said "all of them." He looked skeptical. I scheduled him for a "career development conversation." He stopped asking questions. Microsoft sent a case study team. They wanted to feature us as a success story. I told them we "saved 40,000 hours." I calculated that number by multiplying employees by a number I made up. They didn't verify it. They never do. Now we're on Microsoft's website. "Global enterprise achieves 40,000 hours of productivity gains with Copilot." The CEO shared it on LinkedIn. He got 3,000 likes. He's never used Copilot. None of the executives have. We have an exemption. "Strategic focus requires minimal digital distraction." I wrote that policy. The licenses renew next month. I'm requesting an expansion. 5,000 more seats. We haven't used the first 4,000. But this time we'll "drive adoption." Adoption means mandatory training. Training means a 45-minute webinar no one watches. But completion will be tracked. Completion is a metric. Metrics go in dashboards. Dashboards go in board presentations. Board presentations get me promoted. I'll be SVP by Q3. I still don't know what Copilot does. But I know what it's for. It's for showing we're "investing in AI." Investment means spending. Spending means commitment. Commitment means we're serious about the future. The future is whatever I say it is. As long as the graph goes up and to the right.

Microservices is the software industry’s most successful confidence scam. It convinces small teams that they are “thinking big” while systematically destroying their ability to move at all. It flatters ambition by weaponizing insecurity: if you’re not running a constellation of services, are you even a real company? Never mind that this architecture was invented to cope with organizational dysfunction at planetary scale. Now it’s being prescribed to teams that still share a Slack channel and a lunch table. Small teams run on shared context. That is their superpower. Everyone can reason end-to-end. Everyone can change anything. Microservices vaporize that advantage on contact. They replace shared understanding with distributed ignorance. No one owns the whole anymore. Everyone owns a shard. The system becomes something that merely happens to the team, rather than something the team actively understands. This isn’t sophistication. It’s abdication. Then comes the operational farce. Each service demands its own pipeline, secrets, alerts, metrics, dashboards, permissions, backups, and rituals of appeasement. You don’t “deploy” anymore—you synchronize a fleet. One bug now requires a multi-service autopsy. A feature release becomes a coordination exercise across artificial borders you invented for no reason. You didn’t simplify your system. You shattered it and called the debris “architecture.” Microservices also lock incompetence in amber. You are forced to define APIs before you understand your own business. Guesses become contracts. Bad ideas become permanent dependencies. Every early mistake metastasizes through the network. In a monolith, wrong thinking is corrected with a refactor. In microservices, wrong thinking becomes infrastructure. You don’t just regret it—you host it, version it, and monitor it. The claim that monoliths don’t scale is one of the dumbest lies in modern engineering folklore. What doesn’t scale is chaos. What doesn’t scale is process cosplay. What doesn’t scale is pretending you’re Netflix while shipping a glorified CRUD app. Monoliths scale just fine when teams have discipline, tests, and restraint. But restraint isn’t fashionable, and boring doesn’t make conference talks. Microservices for small teams is not a technical mistake—it is a philosophical failure. It announces, loudly, that the team does not trust itself to understand its own system. It replaces accountability with protocol and momentum with middleware. You don’t get “future proofing.” You get permanent drag. And by the time you finally earn the scale that might justify this circus, your speed, your clarity, and your product instincts will already be gone.

"The desire to be loved is the last illusion. Give it up & you will be free"

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@graninas "Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money." —Someone

What will be our main concern, time consumption and source of frustration in 5-10 years? Not AI / AGI. It will be the enshittification of everything.

give yourself 3 months;

If Deep State opts for nuclear war nobody can stop it.