AmIDev

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by AmIDev 5y ago
I haven't heard of data fudging in Bangalore from media, so far. Here are some reports about Gujarat[1][2] [1] https://scroll.in/article/992217/as-the-dead-pile-up-in-guja... [2] https://caravanmag
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by AmIDev 5y ago
> I have a feeling everyone in the districts lands up in Indian cities during such events cause the district/block level health care facilities in India are a crap shoot. While this is true, the opposite is also happening, where peo
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by AmIDev 5y ago
Per my experience(and seconded by local newspapers), crematoriums would allow the family to pick up the ashes on the next day. Assuming 8 hours for cremation(it takes less than that), this suggests that there was at least 2x the buffer avai
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by AmIDev 5y ago
While 100x is unlikely all over the country, it's surely happening in some places at least. In my district of Kolhapur in Maharashtra, the district officials report 30-40 deaths per day, while official numbers stay at 1-3. That means t
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by AmIDev 6y ago
A FAANG-ish company hires almost every female in my Alma-mater every year. For a male-female ratio of 250-50, they somehow end up hiring 5 men and 45 women. Sure, these women are talented, but behind their back everyone does say that they g
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by AmIDev 6y ago
The Burmese people kept quiet, and possibly supported the genocide of rohingyas. Now the chicken has come home to roost. Their neighbours, us Indians, made similar mistake with Kashmiris, and now we are paying the price for it as the whole
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by AmIDev 6y ago
Recently I was looking to buy a domain for hosting personal blog + mail. I looked for firstname.tld, lastname.tld and firstnameLastname.tld. Most have been squatted upon, although a few are being used legitimately. Eventually I settled on l
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by AmIDev 6y ago
I have been trying to get a decent mechanical keyboard at usual price, but everything is being selled at jacked up prices here in India. I don't think I'll be able to build a PC anytime soon.
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by AmIDev 6y ago
Tangential note: In India, it's legal to copy books for personal purpose, but not to copy it for profit.
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by AmIDev 6y ago
If you go through some of his other videos, it seems he gains viewers by making clickbait-ish videos. One of videos says "Learn python in 1 video". The video is about 2 hours long.
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by AmIDev 6y ago
One of the PR I made for hacktoberfest was fixing typo in a command in a doc. In the current case however, it seems people are not even trying to do something trivially useful.
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by AmIDev 6y ago
Yes. Firefox DoH, or using 1.1.1.1 is generally enough to bypass most blocks in India
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by AmIDev 6y ago
You can see many comments here justifying anti-Muslim actions of the govt by whataboutery. Now imagine that happening at scale on whatsapp/Facebook and MSM. With most Indian family having access to smartphones, the amount of hatred and
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by AmIDev 6y ago
While this is true, the pronunciations are not consistent across languages that use Devanagari script. ज्ञ is pronounced like "gy" in Hindi, but "ny" in Marathi. ज is pronounced like "jy"(with the य sound) in H
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by AmIDev 6y ago
I am Indian, so I don't have an idea of the state of the administration/police in USA. However, I disagree that centralization is the solution. Accumulating power in hands of few is how you end up being a pseudo-democracy like Ind
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by AmIDev 7y ago
In my experience, Nope. I wanted to create a FB account while giving as minimal data as possible. While it's possible to create an account using temporary emails / temporary phone numbers, FB eventually asks you to submit more det
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by AmIDev 8y ago
IMHO, this is the right approach to boost the ratio of women in technology. That is, by teaching coding to those women who don't know it. Most companies seem to focus on improving ratio of women in their company itself, by targeting sa
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by AmIDev 8y ago
How many people were working on repl.it before the first public release, and for how long? I have been following Repl.it since it's first release. We were quite amazed when repl.it was released. We, a bunch of students, were building a