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Be nice to people, and they'll be nice back to you. It's really that simple!
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Ragavendra Natarajan
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Ragavendra Natarajan
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Server performance @AMD. Chronically curious.
Bengaluru, India Katılım Temmuz 2009
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@OdileFlavia @ActusDei I think you’ve answered it quite well in your question - greed + ignorance + hubris
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The hard truth? And this applies to all brokers: there is no F&O trading in US stocks. Brokerage charges are at rock bottom around 0.2% on avg. Brokers make money on F&O in India. Big time.
amrit@amritwt
what is taking @zerodha so much time to bring US stocks to their site
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Ragavendra Natarajan retweetledi
Major cheat code in life: Stop listening to what people say they'll do. Look at their calendar instead. Someone who says "we should hang out" but can never find 30 minutes is telling you where you rank. Words are free. Time costs something. People spend time on what actually matters to them.
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@Crazynaval The weekend just before or after the long weekend is a GREAT time to travel btw
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Long weekend spent watching Game of thrones instead of being stuck in traffic jam up in the hills.
Summer holiday's+ long weekend is a shite time to travel with in India.
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Retroflex sounds made by curling the tongue back to the palate are a defining feature of Indian languages, and almost nowhere else in the world are they this abundant. They can be perceived phonoaesthetically as being ‘coarse’ or ‘rough’ compared to more smooth sounds like sh or f.
This map shows the distribution of ट, ड, ण, ळ, and ழ (the Tamil/Malayalam zh) based on linguist Peggy Mohan's research. Her argument: these sounds likely trace back to the 'First Indians’, the AASI ancestry that predates every later migration.
So most modern day Indian languages did not bring their retroflexes, they found them here in India itself.
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@indiainpixels Kannada has a ಳ that is similar to zh but slightly different. Another retroflex letter
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If you think AI replaces software engineers, here’s a quick thought experiment.
Imagine you’re a life sciences company. 10 years ago you want to invest heavily in lab automation, processing data at scale, and other software. You look at the cost of doing so and realize you can’t compete with tech for as many engineers as you need, so you pare down your goals and do what you can. Every new software project has a fixed cost of a certain sized team, so you can only do so much given budgets, ability to compete for talent, and other trade offs.
Now, AI comes along. And all of a sudden you have the *exact same* output tokens as the best tech companies in the world. Your engineers are using the same AI models as the tech industry, which means you have just boosted your engineering team by a some meaningful amount, while also neutralizing your differences with tech.
Do you continue with your pared down approach, or do you start to hire more engineers because each engineer is 2X or 5X more capable than before? In almost every company I’m talking to, they’re doing the latter.
Now extrapolate this to every bank, manufacturer, industrial company, retailer, and on and on. And extrapolate it not to just large enterprises, but also every SMB up and down the stack of these value chains. Oh, and also extrapolate this to other job functions, not just engineers. Resource scarce domains in marketing, legal, finance, design, and so on.
If you’re wondering why new jobs show up because of AI this is the reason. Any other view of what happens doesn’t contemplate the variety of unmet needs there are in the economy.
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang: “The narratives of AI destroying jobs is not going to help America: it's false."
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If your financial advisor told you Nifty gives you 12% CAGR, they lied to you.
If your retirement planning is based on Nifty giving 12% CAGR, you're in for a rude shock.
Returns in next 15-20 years are likely to be same or lower than the past.
Plan wisely.
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On Mysore's and Tippu Sultan’s role in the independence of the USA
youtu.be/jn6QKQclgUo?si…
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The math on a 24-hour day stopped working decades ago and most people just never run the numbers.
8 hours sleep. 8 hours work. That's 16, before anything else.
Add the modern requirements that nobody counts. 1 hour of real exercise. 30 minutes of getting ready and showering. 30 to 90 minutes of commute. Cooking and eating three meals, or shopping and prepping for them, is 90 minutes minimum if you're being honest. Dishes, laundry, basic household upkeep, hygiene, packing tomorrow's bag is another hour.
That's 5 to 6 hours of obligations the original framework never accounted for.
Running total: 21 to 22 hours. With a 45-minute one-way commute and a real kitchen, you have under 90 minutes left.
Inside that window you're supposed to read books, see friends, date, pursue hobbies, learn skills, watch the shows everyone references at work, and call your parents.
The "eight hours labour, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest" framework comes from Robert Owen in 1817, written for a factory worker who walked to the mill, ate whatever was in front of him, and didn't lift weights. We kept his arithmetic and added 5 hours of modern obligations on top.
The people who appear to "have it all" are doing one of five things: outsourcing domestic labor to a spouse or paid help, cutting sleep, cutting exercise, having no kids, or living in a 30-square-meter apartment with no maintenance burden. Usually multiple. The math is the same for everyone, the cuts are just hidden.
The honest answer is you choose. Most people cut sleep and pay for it in cognition. Some cut exercise and pay for it in long-term health. The cultured ones cut the culture and read 5 books a year instead of 30.
There is no version where you don't choose.
きつねもり🐓🍳@fuchswaldcrow
最近1日8時間睡眠と1時間の運動を習慣にしているんですけど、これをやると残業のない職場なのにも関わらず本当に平日に仕事と生活以外の事をする時間が何も残らず、もしかして健康的で文化的な生活と仕事ってめちゃくちゃ相性が悪いのでは……？の気持ちになっている
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@RankTurner @deepakshenoy @VishalBhargava5 You realize the opposite might be true too? Ppl will never admit that they regret having children in public
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@deepakshenoy @VishalBhargava5 Did not say that at all sir, however to your point that none in your circle have regrets, there might be this factor playing out too.
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A silent pandemic is underway in Indian cities. Far too many couples are opting to not have kids at all. It is the wrong decision. Most will regret it.
NDTV@ndtv
Gurugram Couple Earning Rs 36 Lakh Go DINK Way. Here's Why ndtv.com/offbeat/gurugr…
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@VishalBhargava5 @deepakshenoy I know ppl who have regretted having kids as well
To each their own and all that
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@deepakshenoy Agree. It is a personal choice.
My view is that a lot of people regret that decision as they get older.
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@saybwala And this is why I much prefer the heat of the summer over rains. Of course I have the privilege of an indoor desk job
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And a few moments later...
Ouch. Looks a bad day for folks in low lying areas of Bangalore
Shobhit Bakliwal@shobhitic
do not come towards 80 ft road indiranagar, the roads are submerged in water, not possible to walk this is 91springboard
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The first rain of the Indian subcontinent in 2026 has just begun.
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I’ve waited a long time to see this temple - and it was certainly worth the wait. A peaceful, rainy afternoon at the incredible 1,700 year old Emperor Ashoka Temple in Ningbo, China.
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Chemistry is the worst predictor of long-term relationship success and dating apps spent 15 years optimizing for it.
John Gottman ran a 40-year couples research program out of the University of Washington. The original study tracked 130 newlyweds and predicted divorce with 93.6% accuracy from observing a single 15-minute disagreement. The variable doing the predicting is contempt frequency. Eye rolls. Sarcastic corrections. Dismissive sighs during conflict.
Stable couples maintain a 5:1 ratio of positive to negative interactions during disagreement. Below 1:1, divorce becomes statistically near-certain.
Six years after the wedding, couples who stayed together turned toward each other's bids for attention 86% of the time. Couples who divorced did it 33% of the time. The behavior is tiny: asking a question, sharing a thought, looking up when the other person walks in. The signal is enormous.
Chemistry measures novelty response and dopamine. It captures how someone behaves when both of you are excited and the lighting is good. By month 18 neither condition holds. Then the predictive behaviors finally surface: how they treat you when they're tired, sick, or losing an argument.
Dating apps optimize for the metric with the lowest predictive validity in the entire field. Attraction is what gets you to swipe. Contempt patterns don't show up on a profile.
Kaze 🇳🇬@8Kyle
unpopular relationships opinions that would get you in this position???
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Ragavendra Natarajan retweetledi
Most are misunderstanding the message from @svembu. This isn't about "hey India is now like Singapore, come back"; this is about hardship and coming back on a mission to have an impact. I came back after 15+ years and wrote about it here (share.google/01MTe6cUKz6T3n…). This isn't for 99% of people out there - they should stay back, build their careers, etc. Everyone has that right. This is about a very specific type of individual who wants to go through the difficult nation building phase but didn't have the opportunity ten years ago. We didn't have any s-tier AI research, or climate, or space or robotics work happening here. Today we do, there are career options for those wanting to do real cutting edge work in private sector and academia. There is capital. Government support. There is definitely glory at the end of the suffering. But it was never going to be easy. It's easy to quote things like 'ask not what your country can do for you' etc, but there's a reason that that generation in the US gets so much respect. It's a very specific type of an individual who'll return this call, quietly, without Twitter ragebait on all that's wrong in India. I've met a bunch, there are more coming. You know who you are, DMs always open. Just don't expect flowers.
Sridhar Vembu@svembu
Open letter to Indians in America. -- Dear brothers and sisters from Bharat: Like I did 37 years ago, you arrived in America with no money but with a good education and cultural heritage from Bharat. You achieved outstanding success. America was good to us. For that we must remain grateful - gratitude is our Bharatiya way. Yet today, a significant number of Americans, may be not the majority but not too far from it either, believe that Indians "take away" American jobs and our success in America was unfairly earned. You may think the next election will fix this, but your choice would be between people who hate our Bharatiya civilisation and people who hate civilisation itself. That is the "hard right" vs "woke left" battle. You are mere bystanders to that conflict. Meanwhile there is one thing that is true now and will be true in the future: the respect Indians command world-wide will substantially depend on the fortunes of India herself. If India remains poor, the woke left will give us moral lectures with pity and the hard right, different moral lectures with scorn ("hellhole") and we must not confuse either with respect. Respect in today's world, along with prosperity and security, comes from one source: a nation's technological prowess. India produces sufficient brain power to achieve that prowess but alas we exported so much of that talent, particularly to America. As we develop that prowess in India, our civilisational strength will assert itself. As difficult as it is for many of you to contemplate this, please come back home. Bharat Mata needs your talent. Our vast youthful population needs the technology leadership you gained over the years to guide them towards prosperity. Let's do it with a missionary zeal. Respectfully Sridhar Vembu
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Five months in, I think I've decided that I don't want to vibecode — I want professionally managed software companies to use AI coding assistance to make more/better/cheaper software products that they sell to me for money.
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Will keep saying this, but software jobs aren’t going away. Agents are the single biggest form of leverage for anyone technical in history. Probably has never been a better time to be technical in terms of being able to accomplish something solo, in a team, or company.
We think that most of the world’s software has already been built and that agents will just reduce work from an existing pie. In fact, we are about to experience 100X more software than before.
Think about how many apps you regularly use that need to get better. How many legacy on prem systems that have to get replatformed for the cloud. How many SMBs never could hire developers. How many security issues are about to be uncovered and need to get patched. How many IT organizations are about to bring automation to workflows they never could have automated. How much data is about to processed and connected in most organizations. This is all what the agents will be working on.
And every one of those agents will need a person to kick them off, manage their work, orchestrate them, and get their output into a workable and useful form. That person will generally need to be technical (or become technical quickly), and this will create a huge amount of opportunity for anyone up to the task.
Shay Boloor@StockSavvyShay
$AMZN AWS CEO pushed back on the idea that AI is killing software jobs by saying Amazon is hiring as many developers as ever. He said AI agents are “exploding” across every industry & moving faster than expected changing the developer job rather than eliminating it.
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@metahacker_ @protosphinx This is it. The difference between the free and paid tiers of AI models is enormous currently
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@protosphinx It’s too expensive for the average person
Need 10-20k a month to actually do anything useful
People in India, especially young people and students, just don’t have that kind of disposable income
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i’m actually surprised by the lack of ai enthusiasm and slow adoption in india. past tech waves had a much stronger curve.
i’m not talking about enterprise adoption. they didn’t care about saas so it’s not like they’ll move to ai.
i’m talking about dev exposure. if you ask 10 devs about claude code cli - 9 would have no clue.
very few even care. that’s the surprising part.
sign of times to come. bad omen ? yes.
spacy@dosco
@protosphinx feel like you need to revisit this thought
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