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Hi, I am Siddharth. If you're new to my profile, this thread should be a good place to start.

Most #Python beginners learn try/except and if checks, but do not learn when to use which. This is really a question of #LBYL vs #EAFP, two main styles of writing error handling code in Python, and getting it right makes your Python code cleaner and safer.

@GMJSindarov Well done, @GMJSindarov Looking forward to the youngest world chess championship between Gukesh (19) and you (20).

I won candidates !

@AdityaRajKaul So did you, Aditya. The research you and your team did, I believe, was one of the most important reasons why the film could do as well as it did. That gave the film a realistic feel to it. Thank you and please collaborate with Aditya Dhar more.

Dhurandhar 1 and Dhurandhar 2 together have crossed 3000 crores globally. Aditya Dhar scripts history with Dhurandhar in Indian cinema. 🇮🇳

@sidhant Macron forgot to ask them to change the venue though.

French President Marcon asks US, Iran to resume 'negotiations suspended in Islamabad, the clearing up of misunderstandings, and the avoidance of any further escalation'

You would hate PostgreSQL if you have an update-heavy use case because every update writes a brand new tuple, and the old one does not go away. This is MVCC (Multi-Version Concurrency Control) - when you update a row, PostgreSQL does not modify it in place. It creates a new tuple with the updated values, sets the old tuple's `xmax` field to the current transaction ID, and leaves the old row sitting on disk. The old tuple is now "dead" - invisible to new transactions but still consuming physical space. Thus, a single logical update effectively doubles the storage for that row until vacuum reclaims it. For read-heavy or mixed workloads, autovacuum handles this quietly in the background. But for update-heavy workloads - think session stores, order pipelines, leaderboards, or counters - dead tuples can pile up faster than autovacuum can clean them. The default autovacuum triggers after roughly 20% of a table has changed. On a table with 500 million rows, that means you could have 100 million dead tuples accumulating before cleanup even starts. The performance impact is not just storage. Bloated tables also affect sequential scans, which now have to read significantly more pages from disk. Index scans slow down because index entries still point to dead tuples and must be resolved. By the way, there is an escape hatch for this called Heap-Only Tuple updates. When the updated row fits on the same page, and the changed columns are not indexed, PostgreSQL can skip creating new index entries. Cheaper, but the dead tuple on the heap still builds up. If you are running a genuinely update-heavy workload on PostgreSQL, just make sure you tune your autovacuum really well. Hope this helps.

@0xlelouch_ @0xffdevs All the best in your endeavor, Abhishek.

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@sidhant We should have never recognised China's claim to Tibet. Good to know India does not explicitly endorse China's claim over Taiwan.

China stakes claim to Arunachal Pradesh

@khajurtheorizes @khajurtheorizes this is very true. I occasionally try giving the original kurkure a shot because of nostalgia and every single time I'm so disappointed. And I wondered if they've changed the taste or whether it's my taste buds that have changed.

As you grow older Kurkure starts tasting radioactive

I read that you got one of the best defamation lawyers in the country to help you with this case. If true, like others have suggested, make sure you sue them into oblivion...each one of them. If they were really into protecting the vulnerable, that's definitely not how you do it. The extremely racist manner in which they behaved with you was very hard to watch. Do not backslide. All the best.

My world was turned upside down this weekend. As some of you may have seen, I was featured on a recent episode of Vitaly Zdorovetskiy’s live series, where I was wrongfully portrayed as someone attempting to engage in an inappropriate conduct. This accusation is completely false. Since then, Vitaly has publicly acknowledged, through both written and video statements, that this was a mistake. Additionally, the officers from the Santa Ana Police Department, who I called to the scene, conducted their own assessment and confirmed that I am innocent of any wrongdoing.  I am sincerely grateful to Officers Renald Galstian, Lorenzo Sanchez, and Joanna Hatziefstratiou for their professionalism and for taking the time to carefully evaluate the situation and establish the truth. While I appreciate that the mistake has been acknowledged, the impact of the false accusation has been significant. I have experienced harassment, judgment, and damage to my personal and professional relationships based on something that has now been proven false. I wholeheartedly support efforts to expose real wrongdoing and protect the vulnerable. At the same time, this experience has shown me how important due process and verification are because mistakes, when made publicly, can have serious consequences on innocent lives. Thank you to those who have supported me during this time. Thank you, Akash Singhania

@FearedBuck This was extremely hard to watch. The man should definitely sue them ALL.

Vitaly issues an apology after a p—phile sting gone wrong, where they repeatedly accused the wrong man of being a p—phile. “My team and I mistakenly portrayed Akash Singhania as a child pred*tor. This was a mistake that I deeply regret. He never intended to meet a minor and has been cleared of all wrongdoing. I apologize to Mr. Singhania, his family, his friends, and anyone else affected by this mistake. To be clear, the work we do to expose predatory behavior is of the utmost importance, but in doing so, we cannot lose sight of the truth. I have removed the video from all my accounts, and I ask that anyone who has saved it please do the same. Though I never encourage anyone to attempt to contact any person in my videos, I ask that anyone who is attempting to contact Mr. Singhaniacease at once. This was a learning experience for my team and me, and we will ensure that we remain committed to the truth, as we always have.” (via: Vitaly on Kick)

@Laureasons_ To be honest, LinkedIn is already too ruined to ruin further.

Why couldn’t Elon buy LinkedIn instead, that app deserves to be ruined the way he’s ruining Twitter.

@NonsensicalNemo Best response I've read today. 👏🏻This one is getting viral soon.

There was a time when Pakistani youngsters could just drop into Mumbai and visit the Taj and CST. Still remember watching it on TV.

An excerpt from a 1990 lecture by Edsger W. Dijkstra (famously known for Dijkstra's Algorithm, though that's just a slice of his impact on computer science), where he advocates for programmer responsibility, urging the use of the term "errors" over "bugs" to foster a more mature approach to software development. #Dijkstra #ComputerScience #SoftwareEngineering

In 1975, late Amita Malik, the most celebrated film critic from India, dubbed the "first lady of Indian media", anchored a panel discussion with Elia Kazan, Akira Kurosawa, Satyajit Ray and Michelangelo Antonioni, some of the greatest filmmakers of their time, which was telecasted in Doordarshan, the only tv channel then in India. This would have been a treasure anywhere in the world. Unfortunately, this goldmine tape was either lost or erased from the channel's archive (sheer negligence and apathy?) Talking about the legendary event in one of her interviews, she said, "The BBC had originally asked for it, but being patriotic, I gave preference to DD and paid for it." #satyajitray #filmmaking #BBC #Doordarshan

Adding an index feels like an obvious improvement. Your read queries get much faster and you couldn't be happier about it…at first...until your writes slow down and storage starts growing. Indexes speed up only the queries that actually use them, while every insert, delete, or update to indexed columns adds extra work. Therefore, before adding one, ask yourself: Do I actually query this column often? Does this match my real access patterns? #BackendEngineering #Databases

@EOEboh I did not know there was a term like 'Cache Stampede'. Thanks for posting this question @EOEboh

Interviewer: What is a Cache Stampede and how do you prevent it?

@DGukesh What a mature response, @DGukesh. All the best for your preparation. We'd love to see you defend the title.

I think there is nothing to be surprised about all of them got a chance and made the most of it and that is what sport is you cant say I’m stronger so I deserve to be there you need to show up and perform and all the guys there did that! I am working on improving myself now!

@971AlSaadi With all the casual racism towards Indians on social media, it's good to read such positive tweets about India and us from time to time. Thank you, Majed. Wish you all the best.

Indians have always been part of my world, I grew up on their food, their movies, even picked up some of the language along the way. Theyre not others, theyre part of the fabric of our society. Ignore Indias influence on the world, and youre just choosing to stay ignorant. Jai Hind! 🇮🇳 whether you like it or not!

@Grand_handsomer Nothing wrong with that as long as they don't post nonsense, which so many of them do unfortunately.

Nothing would improve X more than getting rid of all the people who are only on X for money

@BarclayCard18 Looking at his responses to some of the comments in his post, I think that's most likely a kid behind the account.

I've long ago come to terms with the fact that Sinner and Alcaraz are going to surpass Murray's achievements. But, like... can we just please not do stuff like this?