Chirag S

Explores the world on Motorcycles.
Makes scale models in Paper.
Avidly follows Geopolitics and Defence.

[Chirag S @Chirag_shekar]

BAE Hawks of the Indian Airforce display team - Suryakirans have one the most gorgeous color schemes today.

Here is my attempt to capture it in the form of a scale model made of paper aka Papercraft.

[Chirag S @Chirag_shekar]

@shiv_cybersurg Training round vs live round ?

[Swati Goel Sharma @swati_gs]

In May 2018, a girl named Anuradha went missing. Like every day, she had left for school in morning but did not return

Her parents waited till 6 pm, then went to police (Nagina Police Station in UP’s Bijnor)

Police assured they would find her. Her father Dayanand did not know that police should have filed an FIR. Finally, after a month when the case reached an NGO, the police was forced to file an FIR on 1 June 2018

Suspect was booked under IPC sections 363 (kidnapping) and 366 (kidnapping a woman to compel marriage)

Police found one Danish Hussain had taken the girl. They added the name to case diary. Dayanand said he had heard this name for the first time

Dayanand called up Danish after taking number from police; The latter said ‘take your girl if you can’

Within two days, Danish filed a writ petition in Allahabad High Court asking the FIR against him to be quashed

He made Anuradha, who was now Nisha Naz, as co-petitioner

Petition said Anuradha was a major and the girl’s father was harassing them

Danish produced her Aadhaar card and nikahnama as proof, which showed her as 19

Dayanand, on the other hand, produced her Class 10 certificate - issued by UP education board - which showed her age as 17 (minor)

Although Class 10 Board certificate is considered to be the most valid proof of age as per law, sessions court still ordered for a bone test and ordered a stay on Danish’s arrest till next hearing with bone test results

The girl never showed up for the bone test

The father soon learnt that she was pregnant. He gave up on the case and stopped going for hearings

In 2020, during the lockdown, the girl returned. She had suffered a miscarriage again. She cited threat from Danish, fearing he would kill her

After some months, both parties struck a compromise

The couple went to court and submitted an affidavit that they were separating because Danish had given Nisha Naz triple talaq two months earlier and she did not wish to contest it.

Danish was never booked for POCSO. He has never been arrested

Now, if they lower age of consent, Class 10 certificate will not even be available to determine age of the child. Court will order bone tests in all cases. That test allows margin of 2-3 years, which is usually kept in favour of the adult party

Attached is Class 10 certificate of girl and divorce affidavit in the above case

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A Japanese engineer invented the QR code for one job, tracking car parts on a Toyota line, then his company chose to give the patent away for free, which is the only reason it ended up on every restaurant table on Earth.

His name is Masahiro Hara. The company was Denso Wave, a parts supplier owned by Toyota.

In 1992 the problem landed on his desk, and it was not glamorous. Workers on the factory floor were drowning.

Every car part had a barcode, but a barcode can only hold about twenty characters, so to track one component they had to stick five or ten barcodes on it.

A worker would stand there scanning a single part ten times in a row. Some of them were scanning close to a thousand barcodes a day. The job had stopped being about building cars and turned into pointing a scanner at stickers all day long.

And there was a second problem nobody upstairs cared about. This was a factory. Oil got on everything. A smudge of grease across a barcode and the whole thing became unreadable, and the line stopped.

Hara was asked to make the scanner faster. He looked at it for a while and realized the scanner was not the problem. The barcode itself was the ceiling. A line of black bars can only hold information going one direction, left to right.

He decided to build something that held information in two directions, up and down as well as across, so it could store hundreds of times more in the same little square.

Then came the part that sounds made up but is not.

Hara played Go on his lunch breaks, the old board game with black and white stones sitting on a grid. He was staring at the board one day and it clicked.

The grid of black and white stones was already a way to store information in two directions. That was the shape of his code.

But building the code was the easy half. The hard problem was speed, because the whole point was to be fast, and a scanner wastes most of its time just trying to figure out where the code is and which way it is turned.

The fix came to him on a train. He was looking out the window at buildings, and one building stood out from all the others because of its shape against the sky. That was the idea.

He put three little square targets in three corners of the code. The moment a scanner sees those three squares, it knows instantly where the code is and how it is rotated, even upside down, even at an angle.

Now here is the detail that shows how far he was willing to go. Those three corner squares only work if nothing else on the page looks like them.

If a magazine ad or a cardboard box happened to have the same black and white pattern nearby, the scanner would get confused and grab the wrong thing.

So Hara and his tiny two-person team went and surveyed printed material. Magazines. Flyers. Cardboard boxes. Piles of it, for days, reducing every picture down to its ratio of black to white area, hunting for the one ratio that almost never shows up in print anywhere. They found it. One to one to three to one to one.

That exact rhythm of black and white is baked into every corner square of every QR code on Earth, and it is there because it is the pattern the printed world almost never produces by accident.

Then he solved the oil.

He built the code so it carries a backup of its own information, spread mathematically across the whole square. You can tear off, smudge, or scratch out up to thirty percent of a QR code and it still scans perfectly, because the code rebuilds the missing piece from the copy it kept of itself.

A worker could get grease on a third of the label and the line would keep moving. This is the same math that lets a scratched CD still play and lets a spacecraft send data back across the solar system without asking to repeat itself.

He finished in 1994. He named it Quick Response, after what it does for the person using it, not after what it is.

And then Denso made the decision that actually mattered.

They held the patent. They could have charged a fee on every single scan, and given how many billions happen now, that would have made someone unimaginably rich.

Instead they announced they would not enforce their rights to collect royalties, and they published the specification openly so anyone could use it. Hara later said it was not even a big argument inside the company.

That one choice is the whole story. A code that costs nothing to use is a code everyone builds on. Airlines put it on tickets. Phone makers built readers into cameras.

Then a pandemic hit and the world needed a way to hand someone information without touching anything, and the free little square that a Toyota engineer built for greasy factory workers was suddenly on every menu, every payment, every door.

Hara still works there. He has said, more than once, that he never imagined it would spread this far, and that the part he is proudest of is that it got used to keep people safe.

The man built it to survive oil on a factory floor. It ended up surviving everything else too.

You have scanned his work a hundred times this year. Now you know whose it was.

[NƎO @itz_KGB]

@Geotactix Actually they are nong and gong people tbh

[Torque @StoicOnWheels]

ಆತಂಕದ ವಿಷಯ ಏನೆಂದರೆ, ತಮಿಳುನಾಡಿನಲ್ಲಿರುವ ಕನ್ನಡಿಗರು, ಕನ್ನಡ ಬದಲು ತಮಿಳು ಮನೆಮಾತಾಗುತ್ತಿರುವುದು ಹಾಗೂ ನೊಂದಾಯಿಸುತ್ತಿರುವುದು.

ನೀವು ನೋಡಿರಬಹುದು, ಅಲ್ಲಿನ ವೊಕ್ಕಲಿಗರು, ಲಿಂಗಾಯತರು ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕವಾಗಿ ಕನ್ನಡ ಲಿಪಿ ಬಳಸೊಲ್ಲ.

2/2

[Torque @StoicOnWheels]

According to Tamil scholar Dr. Tamil Selvi, Kannada possesses a literary tradition whose richness is unmatched by any other Indian language.

1/2

[Jaidev Jamwal @JaidevJamwal]

Correction: Second of the two Israeli Hermes drones, assembled, repainted and resold as Drishti-10 by Adani Defence lost. 1st one was lost last year.

If it was an Indian product, the usual suspects would have started 😭 on an industrial scale and demanded halting all future inductions and development. Interesting to see all of them quiet now.

[Śaciṣṭha @RiseBharata]

Which Indian company was Selling Pakistani Products?

[Kushan Mitra @kushanmitra]

The whistleblower should sue Capgemini in the US.

[sphinx @protosphinx]

abundance mindset. may it stay and propagate 🙏

[The Hawk Eye @thehawkeyex]

38 is nothing. India survived a few million parasites travelled all through Britain between 1800 and 1947.
@BBCNews

[Abhijit Iyer-Mitra @Iyervval]

Too little. Should’ve been
• car confiscation +
• 15 Lakhs minimum

[Chirag S @Chirag_shekar]

@poojaofficial5 No wash always. Have a matte graphite sonet.

[Varun Kumar Rana @VarunKrRana]

Such positive news related to India does not go viral, please share this.

[Jawaharlal Nehru @PMNehru]

Sarthak Goswami has brilliantly exposed how Ethanol production is ruining a beautiful city.

He went to Byrnihat to investigate why a city with less than one lakh people is more polluted than Delhi, Ghaziabad & Lahore.

The reason? There are more than 80 factories in a small area, that are constantly pumping dust particles in the air.

The worst part is that these factories are producing Ethanol, the same product that is being sold as a solution to pollution.

I hope Gadkari can explain this without calling Sarthak a traitor.

[Asian Dawn @AsianDawn4]

🇯🇵 A nearly impossible incident occurred in Ebetsu City, Hokkaido. The driver first assumed the loud bang he heard was a flat tire.

Much to his surprise, upon inspection, his kei truck was shot at by an unidentified shooter. The area is famous for having an illegal Pakistani village.

The Japanese Hunters Association was contacted and all members confirmed there was no hunting activity in the area. Plus, almost all of them use shotguns.

[Dibakar Dutta (দিবাকর দত্ত) @dibakardutta_]

Personal update: My time in Bengaluru has come to an abrupt end.

After having lived in the city for more than 10 years, I have relocated to my Tier 3 hometown in Tripura (Northeast India) for the foreseeable future.

When I first came here to study at the age of 16 in 2012, I was amazed by the people, culture and the enormous opportunities that the city had to offer.

There is no place like ನಮ್ಮ ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು .

For millions of small-town men like me, Bengaluru gave hope and the possibility to dream big and extraordinary.

It provided a sneak peek into a world that did not exist for us.

I have never complained about minor inconveniences that I experienced in this city because Bengaluru was/is/will be 100x better than where I came from.

The vibe and weather of this city are unmatched.

Places like JP Nagar, Jaynagar, and Banshankari will forever be in my memories now. I will miss my favourite Masala Dosa and Chicken Boneless Meghna Biriyani, of course.

Lastly, I am eternally grateful to the locals (Kannadigas) who have always been kind, warm and welcoming to me.

Namma Bengaluru forever ♥️

[Gems_of_Bharat @Gemsof_Bharat]

They act like millionares but can't pay a small toll amount of 100 rupees.

Leeches is what these people are they take and take till their is nothing left.

[The Jaipur Dialogues @JaipurDialogues]

On Point @jsaideepak

[Vajra🇮🇳 @BholeNath_wasi]

Good morning!!

Dont watch any vlogs today which say China is superpower. Its a LIE !!

Watch this video of material fall apart from low caste Shang housing community building. Gladly poor Shang kids already know so no one was playing and no one was hurt !!