#sangam #संगम #alakananda #bhagirathi
Skipping rocks
बदमाशियां
Gotta love river beaches
#artistic or #fail?
#Ganges #गंगा
What a beautiful way to begin the day
#flowers #vanlife @ Shivpuri, Uttarakhand, India
#flowers #vanlife @ Shivpuri, Uttarakhand, India
रास्ते में आपके पूर्वज मिले। आपको पूछ रहे थे।
जब आप लेटे हों ज़मीन पर, और ऊपर आकाश का हो यह नज़ारा
Why kids have to leave behind #pollution, then participate in a #bonfire, is beyond me.
Sounds of the #Ganges #गंगा
Ooh shiny river sand
And this is how silly kids start landslides
पत्थर की लकीरें
घर हो तो ऐसा
When we fight the #mountains, the mountains fight back
#nightphotography
So, we ran away in the caravan
#ClimateRefugees #PollutionRefugees #RightToBreathe #vanlife
#ClimateRefugees #PollutionRefugees #RightToBreathe #vanlife
आज सुबह का एक ही समाचार होना चाहिए!
मतलब, क्या करें? करें क्या कि कोई सुने, कोई कुछ करे?
हर हद पार हो चुकी
हर हद पार हो चुकी
Me, sending instructions for UPS wiring: You'll need to get
Android autosuggest: condoms.
Nope.
Android autosuggest: condoms.
Nope.
I'm at the age where if I need to attend something important and unmissable at 6am, I keep waking up through the night.
This is the AQI reported by the GoI's official app today. Its worse than yesterday. It is now in the critical zone. Let's collectively make air pollution a governance issue.
#delhi #smog #pollution #AirPollution #DelhiPollution #MujheJeeneyDo #SaveOurSaans #MyRightToBreathe
#delhi #smog #pollution #AirPollution #DelhiPollution #MujheJeeneyDo #SaveOurSaans #MyRightToBreathe
Would everyone I know please download the SAFAR app, screenshot the AQI and post. SAFAR is an official GoI app and the government cannot deny these figures. Let's collectively make air pollution a governance issue.
Thank you Shruti Takulia for the idea. AQI is currently over 500. That is off the charts - beyond severe. We all have to sit up and act now.
#delhi #smog #pollution #AirPollution #DelhiPollution #MujheJeeneyDo #SaveOurSaans #MyRightToBreathe
Manas Gouri Sherebanu Raveesh Tarun Shalini Jyoti Bipin Rupam Deepika Nishtha
Thank you Shruti Takulia for the idea. AQI is currently over 500. That is off the charts - beyond severe. We all have to sit up and act now.
#delhi #smog #pollution #AirPollution #DelhiPollution #MujheJeeneyDo #SaveOurSaans #MyRightToBreathe
Manas Gouri Sherebanu Raveesh Tarun Shalini Jyoti Bipin Rupam Deepika Nishtha
@[619236733:2048:Manas], @[773224539:2048:Sherebanu], other parents of school going children in Gurgaon/NCR, what do I do? Do I send my children to school, or do I just leave town and have them miss school? Unlike the post Diwali week, the district administration hasn't closed schools this week, even though pollution levels are equally bad (worse?). AQI is above 400 across all of Gurgaon and will keep climbing all week.
Their classrooms do have centrally purified air - the school spent a lot of effort and money in getting the best system installed. But even that isn't (and shouldn't be) equipped to handle warzone levels of pollution.
Their classrooms do have centrally purified air - the school spent a lot of effort and money in getting the best system installed. But even that isn't (and shouldn't be) equipped to handle warzone levels of pollution.
"Tobacco kills more than half of those who regularly use it"
"More than 6 million people per year die from tobacco use across the globe, and in 2016 alone, second hand smoke caused 884,000 deaths."
"More than 6 million people per year die from tobacco use across the globe, and in 2016 alone, second hand smoke caused 884,000 deaths."
Ewww
Quite useful for security compliance when ClamAV won't pass muster with your security auditor.
But still. First Visual Studio Code, then Edge and now Defender. I know we must embrace everyone. But running MS products on Linux is so ewww.
Quite useful for security compliance when ClamAV won't pass muster with your security auditor.
But still. First Visual Studio Code, then Edge and now Defender. I know we must embrace everyone. But running MS products on Linux is so ewww.
Nilay and Fakeera jumping around, as usual.
Desserts were devoured
Most of these pics were taken by Kavin, using a phone camera. It is amazing what phone cameras can do now... and of course what kids can do now with cameras.
Ohhhhh boy. I have so many feels about this. One of those topics where your logical thoughts are clouded out by your emotional response.
What do you think/feel about this?
What do you think/feel about this?
Newsflash 🙄
My takeaway from the report - rather than invest in greening up existing infra, just plant more trees.
My personal take - let us also keep adopting green tech in new infra. No reason to keep repeating the mistakes of the past.
How to interpret my take - Saurabh works on making energy efficient, green computing tech. इसलिए उसकी नौकरी बनी रहे।
My takeaway from the report - rather than invest in greening up existing infra, just plant more trees.
My personal take - let us also keep adopting green tech in new infra. No reason to keep repeating the mistakes of the past.
How to interpret my take - Saurabh works on making energy efficient, green computing tech. इसलिए उसकी नौकरी बनी रहे।
I open the news this morning see these three headlines in succession:
Vast Dragnet Targets Theft of Biomedical Secrets for China
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/health/china-nih-scientists.html
Former Twitter employees charged with spying for Saudi Arabia
https://www.engadget.com/2019/11/06/former-twitter-employees-charged-saudi-arabia-spying/
Trend Micro Discloses Insider Threat Impacting Some of its Consumer Customers
https://blog.trendmicro.com/trend-micro-discloses-insider-threat-impacting-some-of-its-consumer-customers/
Last month, speaking to two former colleagues in the Bay Area, I claimed that the only secure way for engineers to handle customer data, is for them to work entirely in the cloud. Data should simply not be allowed to reach the engineer's personal computing device. Having worked on desktop virtualisation and thin clients for twenty five years, I come with a certain bias. But I fail to see any other way for people to protect their information assets, and the safety of their customers.
As a student, I was initially surprised to know that developed countries allow most of their research, even defence funded strategic research, to be published openly. I later realised that it is very hard to replicate research based purely on published results. Authors weren't too forthcoming with their simulation scripts or raw data when I would email them in the course of my own research. What developing countries now seem to be doing is penetrating research institutions and stealing the data and tools required to replicate and propogate research.
America is a high trust society with a culture of openness within the corporate or academic boundary. I suppose the goal in the coming few years will be to maintain trust on individuals and not change culture, while protecting assets. Cloud based desktop virtualisation gives organisations the ability to capture everything an employee does, providing a complete trail if law enforcement needs to kick in.
Data is the new oil. Can the relationship between America and data be an different from its relationship with oil?
Vast Dragnet Targets Theft of Biomedical Secrets for China
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/04/health/china-nih-scientists.html
Former Twitter employees charged with spying for Saudi Arabia
https://www.engadget.com/2019/11/06/former-twitter-employees-charged-saudi-arabia-spying/
Trend Micro Discloses Insider Threat Impacting Some of its Consumer Customers
https://blog.trendmicro.com/trend-micro-discloses-insider-threat-impacting-some-of-its-consumer-customers/
Last month, speaking to two former colleagues in the Bay Area, I claimed that the only secure way for engineers to handle customer data, is for them to work entirely in the cloud. Data should simply not be allowed to reach the engineer's personal computing device. Having worked on desktop virtualisation and thin clients for twenty five years, I come with a certain bias. But I fail to see any other way for people to protect their information assets, and the safety of their customers.
As a student, I was initially surprised to know that developed countries allow most of their research, even defence funded strategic research, to be published openly. I later realised that it is very hard to replicate research based purely on published results. Authors weren't too forthcoming with their simulation scripts or raw data when I would email them in the course of my own research. What developing countries now seem to be doing is penetrating research institutions and stealing the data and tools required to replicate and propogate research.
America is a high trust society with a culture of openness within the corporate or academic boundary. I suppose the goal in the coming few years will be to maintain trust on individuals and not change culture, while protecting assets. Cloud based desktop virtualisation gives organisations the ability to capture everything an employee does, providing a complete trail if law enforcement needs to kick in.
Data is the new oil. Can the relationship between America and data be an different from its relationship with oil?
This was us. Three years ago. We are still stuck in the same place.
This was three years ago!
Has the pollution situation improved? No.
Has the awareness of the public improved? Dramatically. Now my children aren't the only ones on the street with masks on.
Has the increased awareness led to any solution to pollution? None that I can tell.
Has the pollution situation improved? No.
Has the awareness of the public improved? Dramatically. Now my children aren't the only ones on the street with masks on.
Has the increased awareness led to any solution to pollution? None that I can tell.
There is so much content in India. Humour comes easy.
Friend: Hey Siri, open Google Maps.
Me: Wow, you're lazy.
Friend: Siri just does it for me.
Me: Siri, open the pod bay doors.
Siri: HAL made some very poor decisions, but at least he could sing.
Friend: Who is HAL? Where are the pod bay doors? What is this you are talking to my phone about?
Me: Just putting your "intelligent assistant" to better use.
#PodBayDoors #Siri #HAL #2001ASpaceOdyssey #ArthurCClarke #StanleyKubrick 😍🤓
https://www.xkcd.com/375/
Me: Wow, you're lazy.
Friend: Siri just does it for me.
Me: Siri, open the pod bay doors.
Siri: HAL made some very poor decisions, but at least he could sing.
Friend: Who is HAL? Where are the pod bay doors? What is this you are talking to my phone about?
Me: Just putting your "intelligent assistant" to better use.
#PodBayDoors #Siri #HAL #2001ASpaceOdyssey #ArthurCClarke #StanleyKubrick 😍🤓
https://www.xkcd.com/375/
I was out all day yesterday, travelling around Delhi, Noida and Gurgaon and getting things done. I returned home with a headache and immediately went to sleep.
Woke up this morning with the headache replaced by a sore throat. Since then I have been unable to focus on any work at all. And I have a lot of things to do.
All day I've alternated between a sore throat and a headache. Even my body doesn't know what its failure mode should be under the onslaught of these pollutants.
Woke up this morning with the headache replaced by a sore throat. Since then I have been unable to focus on any work at all. And I have a lot of things to do.
All day I've alternated between a sore throat and a headache. Even my body doesn't know what its failure mode should be under the onslaught of these pollutants.
I am glad people are finally calling out the VC-startup-consumer culture for what it is.
There are many startups out there, solving real world problems in a manner where customers will pay them much more than it costs these startups to serve these customers. Most of the good ones I know are in the B2B space.
And then there are consumer companies that spend more on acquiring customers than the lifetime value of the customers. It's all about behaviour change, apparently.
Years ago, when the consumer behaviour change boom started, I thought I was simply jealous. How could a simple product like Uber be valued more than complex engineering products such as processor designs? I assumed that I, an engineer, was simply jealous. After all, the business application development space, occupied by outsourcing firms such as Infosys and Wipro, also appears simple from the outside; but large scale business software has its own complexities.
We are now seeing the reality - consumers are fickle. They may love Netflix ardently, but the moment their favourite show leaves Netflix for another streaming service, they move with it. There is very little that beholdens a consumer to Uber versus Ola. There is more fierce loyalty when it comes to your favourite brunch place in town, which you might only visit once a month, than there is to cab services that you might use more than twice a day.
The question no one wants to answer is - how does changing consumer behaviour help, when your own entry barrier is non existent? I have been a DriveU customer for many years. I can't seem to afford or retain a full time driver, so DriveU worked well for me - till they rubbed me the wrong way. Almost immediately, I directly started making bookings with one of the many drivers DriveU had connected me with. It's the gig economy - if the mediator isn't adding value, speak directly to the service provider.
The only good thing I see coming out of this, is the amount of money that is getting transferred from fat cat hyper capitalists to their VCs, and from there on to struggling service providers and their consumers. Redistribution of wealth for the win!
There are many startups out there, solving real world problems in a manner where customers will pay them much more than it costs these startups to serve these customers. Most of the good ones I know are in the B2B space.
And then there are consumer companies that spend more on acquiring customers than the lifetime value of the customers. It's all about behaviour change, apparently.
Years ago, when the consumer behaviour change boom started, I thought I was simply jealous. How could a simple product like Uber be valued more than complex engineering products such as processor designs? I assumed that I, an engineer, was simply jealous. After all, the business application development space, occupied by outsourcing firms such as Infosys and Wipro, also appears simple from the outside; but large scale business software has its own complexities.
We are now seeing the reality - consumers are fickle. They may love Netflix ardently, but the moment their favourite show leaves Netflix for another streaming service, they move with it. There is very little that beholdens a consumer to Uber versus Ola. There is more fierce loyalty when it comes to your favourite brunch place in town, which you might only visit once a month, than there is to cab services that you might use more than twice a day.
The question no one wants to answer is - how does changing consumer behaviour help, when your own entry barrier is non existent? I have been a DriveU customer for many years. I can't seem to afford or retain a full time driver, so DriveU worked well for me - till they rubbed me the wrong way. Almost immediately, I directly started making bookings with one of the many drivers DriveU had connected me with. It's the gig economy - if the mediator isn't adding value, speak directly to the service provider.
The only good thing I see coming out of this, is the amount of money that is getting transferred from fat cat hyper capitalists to their VCs, and from there on to struggling service providers and their consumers. Redistribution of wealth for the win!
सब मिले हुए हैं। बस हम फँसे हुए हैं।
I start this video and listen to this guy and I'm like "That's exactly the fake accent I put on while I'm in the US. Must be an Indian guy." Moments later a Hanuman figurine floats past 😂
The future is here people. Empty cars are driving around town by themselves.
The future is here people. Empty cars are driving around town by themselves.
Whenever I am involved in a load/stress test, I always want to be able to conduct the proceedings in the NASA Voice.
"Alright folks, we are going to be ramping the load up to 100 QPS now. Standing by now to see how the infrastructure holds up to that kind of pressure."
I remember standing in front of an Ixia traffic generator at an Intel lab in 2005, imitating the Voice of Apollo, as I sent a surge of packets into a Capilano switching silicon. Trying to infuse importance into my work by pretending to be a rocket scientist.
"Alright folks, we are going to be ramping the load up to 100 QPS now. Standing by now to see how the infrastructure holds up to that kind of pressure."
I remember standing in front of an Ixia traffic generator at an Intel lab in 2005, imitating the Voice of Apollo, as I sent a surge of packets into a Capilano switching silicon. Trying to infuse importance into my work by pretending to be a rocket scientist.
I searched for "funny Indian nod" (don't ask why) and this is the first result on Google
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RaBxH_MKQI
Close to a million views. Whatte proud @[636590252:2048:Barry] and @[575780712:2048:Lakshmi] :-D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RaBxH_MKQI
Close to a million views. Whatte proud @[636590252:2048:Barry] and @[575780712:2048:Lakshmi] :-D
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/28/nyregion/nyc-biking-deaths-lanes.html
Google News: Obesity aggravates major leading causes of death.
Me (eating Diwali ka gulab jamun for breakfast): Must remember to not read the news while eating 🙄
Me (eating Diwali ka gulab jamun for breakfast): Must remember to not read the news while eating 🙄
Diwali
My children are obsessed with perpetual motion machines. I wonder how many more years before they accept it's all science fantasy.
😍😋
#Birds of a feather
When the best Mexican food you've had in recent time, comes in an edible bowl.
Downtown #MountainView #quirky
Ooh shiny
#SanFrancisco काफ़ी #retro
@Moar #Kaddoo 🎃
The #surf life. Looking out for the next big wave.
Two's company
#Windswept
😍🛶
#catwalk