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Turbo Pascal back in the day was super fast. One of the fastest compiled languages I had used before we had incremental compilers and background incremental compilation. C/C++ comp…

Chase offers a cashback card. Here is a link to their T&C: https://www.chase.co.uk/gb/en/legal/Cashback-FAQs/

Back in 2005, I bought a car in India. I was trying to pay a part of the purchase price using my credit card. My auto dealer wanted me to add a surcharge. When I called up my card …

I used to live in New Delhi, India. In past there were frequent power outages and as a result almost everyone who could afford got either a generator or a battery based power backu…

Reminds me of a case where I was trying to help debug some legacy code. I had a simple question, what code gets executed when this method is triggered via the network request. And …

I have been in enough debugging sessions to know that it is easy to weed out those who are bad from those who have the basics right. But trying to know if a candidate is good with …

And what if the firewall blocks icmp? What if the dns server is internal to the network and is returning a stale ip? There are way too paths down this rabbit hole.

One of the problems with debugging is that everyone seems to approach it differently. With some of the approaches working better than others in some situations. Which is why a grou…

When push comes to shove, go down to the most the basic of debugger tools. Print output to a tracing/console. I have had to resort to some version of temporary print statements in …

I did a 7 day fast, and I mostly ended up losing fat. While I did not do any scientific measurement, i was able to exercise the same post the 7 day fast and my belly fat came down …

Uber used to have a much simpler app 6-7 years ago. I worked on a product that copied uber and gave whitelabelled uber like apps to taxi operators and other services that required …

Here in India a common problem with Uber is that drivers will first ask you about your destination and then decide if it is worth their effort to pick you up from your current loca…

Here in India government has come up with a few policies that helps a lot in this regard. Firstly we have UPI that allows for instant bank account to bank account transfers. Most b…

The 16” M1 Pro also has amazing battery life. I regularly use mine for a whole day’s work on battery, while with the i9 16” battery rarely lasts more than 3-4 hours under similar l…

That glued on iMac design was really stupid for a desktop that uses fans. Even my older generation iMac with the magnetically held cover is too much of an effort to clean. And from…

If your i9 16” throttles down to 1 or 1.4ghz, then most likely it is clogged with dust. Open the bottom cover and clean both the heat sink and the Fan blades properly. I need to do…

I live in a fairly dusty environment that also gets quite hot in the summers. I have to clean my i9 16” MacBook Pro’s cpu fan and heatsink every 3-4 months or else the CPU starts t…

More likely Udupi versions of South Indian food that is popular across south India

The problem is when the Bangladeshi Bengali cooks serve food that is mostly alien to them. Mostly what they serve as Indian food is based on north and western Indian cuisine. Stuff…

I have had to use excel Ona windows system a fair bit in recent past and the end key sees a lot of use inside excel. It took me a fair bit of time to get used to my laptop’s fn+arr…

The idea is that as her husband is a billionaire, she had access to better healthcare and more likely to undergo screening. I know many breast cancer patients from India and almost…

Reminds me of my attempts to make cheat sheets that I would use during exams. I would write out a small cheat sheet the night before I never needed to use those cheat sheets as I w…

Her husband is a billionaire and she has access to some of the best healthcare out there. Not that many people from India get a mamogram on a regular basis. So her husband's wealth…

The former captain of the Indian cricket team, Sourav Ganguly, recently suffered a heart attack while he was exercising. He was lucky that he was able to get prompt medical attenti…

If in future google changes monetization goalposts, then the poster can potentially make some cash from the older posted videos. And it is entirely possible that one video gets pop…