Catbaba
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Catbaba
@cachecounter
Professional cat petter. Accidental programmer.
meh เข้าร่วม Ağustos 2010
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Note the unencroached footpath. Photos from an era before Calcutta got its "vibe"
Bengal's untold tales@Gramergolpo
Esplanade ( Dharamtalla ), Calcutta, 1959
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Such threads rarely come to my timeline ..such threads often make me explore it further and hours later I have learned some new stuff and become less stupid ..
Thanks for engaging me for an hour .
Chayenne Zhao@GenAI_is_real
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
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Hamba-hamba, ramba-ramba and kamba-kamba had a good meeting today. Missed dumba-dumba, bamba-bamba, and bomba-bomba. @GBudhau @bong_geek_AI @BengalAntiquity @bangalichele100 @bidesh_desh
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@RadioBakshi The song reminds me of a hawkins pressure cooker ad. The jingle had this tune.
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Good Evening
My New Gadget that has 2 tone arms, 01 for 78 RPM, 02 for 33-1/3 & 45 RPM, been made by a Desi Indian technician, radio (1970 CE) used as Amp & speaker
Film- Naya Daur
Yr- 1957
Lyrics- Sahir Ludhianvi
Music- OP Nayar & his signature trot
“Mang Ke Sath Tumhara”
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UPA 2 was going to end. The reason it fell so resoundingly was due to the culmination of a decade of frustration in everyday life. It took time to build up.
NDA will not face the same simply because of NatSec reasons. Still, it is necessary to pay heed to the common man’s frustration about ground-level corruption in the everyday. Apart from all the corruption involved in every single governmental contract, every single registration requires a bribe to go through, whether it is related to property, to transfer of funds in case of death in the family, to setting up a business to even living in gated communities.
The simple subtle encouragement of greasing palms percolates downwards. After much ado about curbing it, so much has been allowed to slip through to “let the system run and work within the system” that any person in any position of authority or access at all expects their palms greased. There is no limit to the number of CCTVs required to make people accountable for such behaviour, really. Digitisation was supposed to solve this, but all it did was offer new ways of monetising the corrupt.
Corruption sucks.
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Catbaba รีทวีตแล้ว
Satyajit Ray was the OG Blackpiller. India at $3000 GDP per capita is still desperately poor. UP - our most populous state - is $1500 GDP per capita which is as poor as bankrupt Pakistan. Ray showed you the uncomfortable truth, you want comforting lies. Back then most Indians were destitute, 'starving villagers' was the norm.
Ritik@ThenNowForeve
Meet Satyajit Ray >Made movies only about starving villagers and broken families to sell "real India" > Only Showed Poverty to put India in bad light > Gained Western attention by running down his own country >Spent his entire career selling India's poverty to Whites for fame >Got an Honorary Oscar for his loyalty towards the West
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@sagorika_s Someone i knew ran a food shop in BLR. Hoysala van came daily to collect free meal and hafta.
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When this happened, what boggled the mind was the absolute uselessness of the entire episode. There were real cases pending resolution. Instead, so many men wearing a uniform participated spontaneously in deliberate, spanned lynching of two completely defenceless souls for absolutely no reason. Just so cold how it can happen to you, to your relative, to me, to anyone at all. There is no recourse. People are dead. Gone. Deeply pained.
Sann@san_x_m
Jayaraj kept his mobile shop open past 9pm during lockdown. Police came. Took him away. His son Bennix heard about it and rushed to the station to check on his father. They let him in. Then locked the door. Both were stripped. Tied down on a wooden table. Beaten with lathis every 10 minutes through the night. Their blood splattered the walls. The next morning police took them to a doctor who gave them a fitness certificate. Then to a magistrate who remanded them to jail without even looking at them properly. Bennix died on June 22. Jayaraj died on June 23. Yesterday a court found all 9 police officers guilty of murder. It took 6 years. Sentencing is on March 30. The FIR said Jayaraj and Bennix rolled on the ground and used obscene language. CCTV from the shop next door showed nothing of that sort happened. The case against them was completely fabricated. They died for a crime they never committed.
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@Asandeep1999 Not denying large scale individual upward mobility with a growing economy. But the gulf between the haves and have nots will widen even further. Also the problems of civic sense, corruption, public filth, and poor services will exist.
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@cachecounter nonsense.atleast should be as good as malasiya of today .just look in ur surroundings 15 yrs back . in my case lots of lots people had upward mobility from not having even a bed to having ACs ,refrigerators etc today
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Umm.....nope. Better than today? Yes. Developed? No. Phillipines++. Why? The issue is cultural.
Economic Times@EconomicTimes
India will become developed nation by 2047: ISRO chief V Narayanan economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/india/ind…
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Catbaba รีทวีตแล้ว
A tiny country produced half of the mathematical geniuses of the 20th century.
To an unrecognized extent, it was coffee shop culture. Hungary gave us von Neumann, Erdős, Teller, Szilard, and many others. Scientists called them "the Martians" because their brilliance seemed otherworldly.
It was in the Budapest coffee shops where mathematicians gathered. Where problems were discussed openly. Where young people could observe and join. Where intellectual passion was the social currency.
The Minta school created a culture of mathematical problem-solving. Students competed in mathematics journals. The brightest minds mentored the next generation in cafes, not classrooms.
We look at exceptional achievement and assume exceptional genes. Usually, we are looking at an exceptional culture.
The environment that produces world-class thinking has consistent features: immersion from a young age, visible role models, peer cultures that reward intellectual engagement, and opportunity to practice with real problems.
Classrooms with a standardized curriculum and age segregation produce none of these features.
The Martians were not born on Mars. They were raised in a culture that valued what they would become.
We could create such cultures again. We choose not to because we believe standardized schooling is the only way to educate children.
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Catbaba รีทวีตแล้ว
Any attempt to fix this will need harsh measures which will lead to immediate mass protests and political defeat of the party attempting them. Indians enjoy filth as much as pigs enjoy muck.
ghatak@Neetivaan
Seriously man, India needs a complete overhaul wrt waste management, cleanliness, walkable pathways, proper sewage system, potable water & etc. Everyone of us is responsible for the problem.
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Catbaba รีทวีตแล้ว
@gurumilespoints In our everyday fight for survival, Indian parents fail to instill respect for others’ rights. It shows up everywhere; at home, on road, in how people treat domestic help, the underprivileged, & even in everyday behaviors like haggling or the constant “paisa vasool” mindset.
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IAF has released a spec for this but wants to keep it in the compact category. The plane must fit inside a wallet.
ghatak@Neetivaan
Serious countries act and eventually succeed India keeps pushing files, prioritizing imports, and waking up late with unrealistic deadlines. @narendramodi kab khun khaulega reeey?
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Catbaba รีทวีตแล้ว
Average 20k steps experience in an Indian metro city: 4,000 steps on actual pavement before it disappears into a paan shop, 3,000 steps dodging bikes coming from the wrong side, 6,000 steps outrunning street dogs, 2,000 steps navigating cow dung, and 5,000 steps hopping over open manholes and construction debris. All while breathing AQI 400 air. The metabolism furnace is just your lungs burning.
astrid@chanelmethadone
20k steps daily will turn your metabolism into a furnace
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INS SHIVALIK
Docking at Jackson USA 🇺🇸 with huge quantity of LPG
That ‘Gol gol’ thingy that you see on the deck? It’s actually a gas canister ⛽️
I believe it did a whopping 400 Knots to reach destination in one ☝️ day
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Catbaba รีทวีตแล้ว
If Indians make clean spaces a pressing issue, they would lose all their freedom instantly. An avg Indian RWer spits gutka in the open & then shouts "barat mata ki jai" atop his lungs because he knows no civilised country in the world would allow him to spit and piss in the open.
Arjun*@mxtaverse
How can people who claim to love their country allow it to look like this?
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Imagine everyone in the world has your app installed on their phone.
How would you implement a system to deliver 8B+ notifications to everyone within 2 seconds?
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