Aditya Nath Jha

Grateful. Curious. Trying to do interesting stuff.

[Aditya Nath Jha @adityajha]

This is the precise reason why I applaud India's strategic autonomy and its wisdom in staying out of global conflicts like the Middle East or World Cup soccer. Till Jay Shah (or, more hopefully, his son) takes charge of FIFA, there's no point in playing 😀

[Aditya Nath Jha @adityajha]

@D_Esha23 @AnuSatheesh5 Origin is in germ theory (refresh your Covid experience). Emperical eveidence suggested that many deaths were due to germ infections. Nobody knew for sure if it was contagious. 10 days is the quarantine for the family, where they can't mix with others or even touch each other.

[Aditya Nath Jha @adityajha]

@chinmay Here is a simple number - in the last 20 years, 96 unicorns have been co-founded by Indian born people in the US. During the same period, over 150 unicorns have been founded in India. In the future, the gap will only widen.

[Aditya Nath Jha @adityajha]

@chinmay No offense, but I don't think you have a clue about tens of thousands of Indians starting companies in India. far more than those starting in the US. The top 300 engineering colleges alone have over 100 companies being started by students - each - and every year.

[Aditya Nath Jha @adityajha]

@word0taku Beseech fits the given meaning much better than entreat :)

[Arnab Ray @greatbong]

SBI online @TheOfficialSBI makes you change passwords periodically. This is a deprecated practice and makes your account more insecure. This is why none of your services (Gmail, meta, X, any US bank) ask you to change the password.

NIST SP 800-63B (Rev. 4, finalized 2025) states that verifiers and credential service providers shall not require subscribers to change passwords periodically, but shall force a change if there is evidence that the authenticator has been compromised.

Moving on…

Now let’s presume you change password.

Besides the captcha on password phases (another dinosaur from the early 2000s) their password workflow works like this.

1. Enter log in and password
2. Your password has expired.
3. You encounter password change screen. There are 3 text boxes.

A) old password field loaded with stars pre-populated (using Firefox). Needless to say you cannot see old password
B) new password
C) new password again

No option to see any of these, so make one mistake you are screwed
4. There is an OTP challenge, OTP goes to SMS (another depreciated practice but ok)
5. You enter the OTP in next screen but you are not allowed to see OTP either !!!
6. You get an invalid screen with no idea what went wrong (I must have got the OTP wrong I guess)
7. I go to do it again.
8. I enter new password
9. Failure
10. Enter old password.
11. Screen from step 3 comes in
12. I do step 4, 5, and get step 6 again.

Guess what’s going wrong? No I am not entering the OTP wrong even though it’s done blind.

That text box from step 3? It’s loaded with junk (not that you would know, it’s all hidden). You have to remove it and then type in old password.

Why was the old password field not blank?

I do not know.

If indeed the old password field was wrong (by virtue of you loading it with invisible junk), why make me go through an OTP challenge which should happen only if screen 3 went off successfully?

I do not know.

Why do you not see the password or OTP?

I do not know.

Even inside workflows are unintuitive and do not align with any other financial institution I have accounts with.

It’s a real shame this is where State Bank @OfficialSBICare is in 2026.

[Aditya Nath Jha @adityajha]

@ovshake42 Khaled Ahmed seems to have 76% of his career runs in boundaries (18 tests, 55 runs, 6x4s + 3x6s). That may be some kind of a record, given the right cut off :)

[Aditya Nath Jha @adityajha]

@ovshake42 Let's not jinx them by starting to call them the next Chandra or the next Chris Martin so early in their career. Longevity matters. And as O'Rourke showed, a slump is always around the corner :)

[Aditya Nath Jha @adityajha]

@cricketingview It is! Is there a way to "normalise" the average (& SR) of Bedi/Chandra/Pras (hypothetically) given that they had no fast bowlers to take out the first few wickets (unlike other great spinners of past and present)?

[Saurabh Chandra @saurabhchandra]

It was a great show at Automate for @atirobotics. There is a clear vibe shift in robotics demand in US manufacturing. There is a huge intent to get robots now compared to earlier when people were evaluating robots.

While our pallet mover and Tugger were our workhorses with folks looking to deploy immediately, the show stealer was our industrial humanoid, Sherpa Mecha. Many people were surprised to see we did the actuators and had a very novel arm design (motors in shoulder, cable driven, carbon fiber arms) compared to most folks who have put together Chinese arms with software on top. All our products are made with first principles thinking and this is no different. Focused usecases and real deployments will win the market.

We will get to real deployments much faster (next summer) and beta deployments start this year itself. We already have a global customer in both US and India where we will be deploying the Mecha.

We also move into our new facility to assemble the robots near Detroit in July.

Never been a better time to be in robotics. Super excited!

[Aditya Nath Jha @adityajha]

@cricketingview I think it was Warne, who said - add 15/2 to the current score.

[Aditya Nath Jha @adityajha]

@JosePuliampatta Ganga Ki Saugandh :)

[Aditya Nath Jha @adityajha]

@Sanjeeb2412 Murali definitely (more than Jaddu, hayden, Boult)

[Aditya Nath Jha @adityajha]

The Y2K transformation, ERP transformation, Internet & Mobile transformation, Virtualisation transformation, Digital transformation of companies, big and small, was done by IT Services companies.

Why will the AI transformation be NOT done by IT Services companies?

[Aditya Nath Jha @adityajha]

@cvkrishnan You must watch his Mayor of Kingstown - "cowboys" in a prison town. And Landman - "cowboys" in oil prospecting.

[Aditya Nath Jha @adityajha]

@nimishdubey Prasanna

[Aditya Nath Jha @adityajha]

@AarTee33 @ShwetaJha24 @niranzangurjar @triptii01 @KamalpreetBali @KundanS43937985 @RuchiraTripathi @ArchanaVed @arpanvt @ashishb15531661 @Ashu_2712 @Chandra25316864 @DrSharadMutalik @jaincp61 @VineshGaba The Bombay Vikings/Phalguni Pathak recreation of this was excellent - Tera Mera Pyaar Sanam

[Aditya Nath Jha @adityajha]

@nimishdubey In '70-'71 series against India, WI bowlers were Noreiga (4tests,17wickets), Sobers(5tests, 12wickets), Shepherd (2tests, 7wickets), Dowe (2 tests, 7wickets), Holder(3tests, 6wickets), Shillingford (3tests, 4wickets). Venkat- 22 wickets. Of course, he wanted Venkat.

[Aditya Nath Jha @adityajha]

@Fintech03 ORR, W/field, S'japur Rd have extremely low road density. Manhattan is 34kms/sq km, Jayanagar, Koramangala are 28-30. ORR, W/field, S'japur rd are 10-12. Tech parks & large societies sitting on 20-50 acre plots - need public roads through them. Mains & crosses have to be created.