@suchetadalal@AshwiniBhide@mybmc My nagarsevak cutdown railings betw wide footpath & road exactly below d metro stn bcz that was the spot for pandaal. That spot also use to have sewage water problem. He just used to build a brick wall as high as a feet.
The entire strech looked like a vandalized place for month
Most people think the Placebo effect means 'it's all in your head, nothing real happened.'
In some studies, patients told explicitly in writing 'this pill has no active ingredient, it's a sugar pill' still got real, measurable symptom relief. Open-label placebo
Your brain doesn't need to be tricked to release real chemistry. It needs ritual, attention and expectation and it will produce real neurochemical change even when you're told, honestly, that nothing REAL is happening.
@thekaipullai I know a family lives right below the metro 1 station owns the place; niche dukan upar makaan and still barely makes it hand to mouth.
Sometimes it's just cursed to live like that.
It’s often that first decision is taken and then reason if created. Not just in this situation, it happens mostly in everyday life consciously or unconsciously.
Coding interviews in 2026 are so absurd
First of all, nobody actually codes by hand anymore.
Second, any question a company asks will immediately be leaked.
Third, the friends I know at top tech companies who interview tell me that these days many if not most candidates cheat.
Ideally coding interviews test problem solving skills (eg. "how you think") and collaboration. But in practice, many interviewers are lazy and just test to see if you got the solution they were looking for. Also if everybody's passing now due to AI cheating and grinding leaked questions, then naturally the bar gets raised.
The candidates most screwed are those who don't cheat and/or don't grind interview prep on leaked interview questions. Coding interviews indirectly discourage job mobility among engineers since nobody with a demanding job and/or family obligations has time to grind Leetcode.
Some companies are rolling out AI-enabled coding interviews, but the problem is that AI is too good now, so you need to nerf the AI to still give the human something to do. So it's this awkward in-between.
Problem is there's no obvious superior replacement to the coding interview. For all its flaws, it does give everyone an equal shot - regardless of how useless your Big Tech experience was. It benefits those with time to interview prep, ie. the unemployed most in need of a job.
A co-worker once told me that it functions as a pseudo-IQ test, which I agree. But if that's the case, then why not just administer IQ tests and save everyone the hassle? Or alternatively - just have some standardized proctored coding test - which sounds lame but could save a lot more time.