Anand Khekale

Programmer. IBM i (AS/400, iSeries) RPGLE, CL, COBOL, JavaScript, NodeJS, Python.

[Anand Khekale @anandkdev]

. @arindam___paul , @atomberg_tech
Just contacted your support, they could not answer a simple question - what is the cost of UV lamp replacement? That’s the only missing information in your list of replacement parts.

[Ranjit @geekyranjit]

Regarding the Atomberg water purifier I got it installed about 3 weeks ago and testing the same.

Today I went into a meeting with Atomberg technical team and I asked them all the questions I had about the Intellion water purifier as an end consumer.

I also came to know about some interesting stuff that no one has mentioned yet, about how some of the stuff works.

I will post my full review by end of this week or latest by early next week.

[Anand Khekale @anandkdev]

. @EurekaForbes I regret buying your product. Your engineers are just closing the requests without solving the issue. Such a pathetic service!
#waterfilter #eurekaforbes #customerService

[Anand Khekale @anandkdev]

@aparanjape @deshpanderahul Sir, such programs have become a nuisance to local residents.

[Pune Mirror @ThePuneMirror]

Kothrudkars Stage Protest Against Singer Diljit Dosanjh's Concert. Chandrakant Patil, newly elected MLA from Kothrud, has strongly opposed the upcoming Diljit Dosanjh music concert scheduled at Kakade Farm in Pune. Patil has directed local authorities, including the Commissioner of Police, the Excise Department, and the Collector, to take action against the sale of liquor at the event and to consider canceling the concert altogether. In a statement, Patil criticized the program as "harmful to society," particularly in Kothrud, and threatened to lead a major protest march organized by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) if the event proceeds as planned.

#diljitdosanjh #concert #pune #opposed #kothrudkar #agitation #chandrakantpatil #latestnews #punemirror

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[Anand Khekale @anandkdev]

@DrDeepakKrishn1 @roshanonline What I see is a Montblanc. But not sure if it’s a fountain pen. Right @docbhooshan ? 😜

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

Sam Altman (CEO of OpenAI) has written an article describing the coming "Intelligence Age" that ChatGPT will usher in.

What can we expect?

[Anand Khekale @anandkdev]

@NGKabra True!

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The only thing that matters about the first programming language you learn is that it get you to the point where you learn your second, and almost every language can do that.

[François Chollet @fchollet]

Programming is thinking + syntax. Maybe 90% thinking and 10% syntax. While you can automate away syntax, you can only ever outsource thinking to someone/something that can think. Attempts to outsource thinking to a syntax generator do not end well.

[Nabeel S. Qureshi @nabeelqu]

At the exec level of corporations you can't say "the thing" out loud for political reasons, and this is (sometimes) why orgs like McKinsey get hired: they say "the thing" out loud so nobody has to pay the political cost of doing so, backed by lots of nice graphs and data.

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

“Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome” —Charlie Munger

If you want Google to have less of your data, use Firefox

[Marko Denic @denicmarko]

How programmers comment their code:

[kirby {k∉k} @realpheirce]

@Devon_Eriksen_ i keep two copies of "the mythical man-month" on my desk so when a non-engineer insists that we can halve the dev time of a project by putting double the engineers on it. i give them both books and ask them to read it in half the time since they now have double the books.

[Shriram Krishnamurthi (primary: Bluesky) @ShriramKMurthi]

Exactly the same for programming contests.

[Devon Eriksen @Devon_Eriksen_]

That's because this dude doesn't know what education is.

He speaks of growing wheat, herding sheep, riding a horse, and so on, but in the era of these skills, this was the kind of education given to slaves.

Only a slave, a person who was owned as property, and used as a machine for a task, could be expected to do one task for his whole life.

A gentleman, or even a freeman of the lower classes, was not a machine for labor, but a person who could be expected to act in his own interests, and thus would need to do many different things throughout his life, depending on what served his goals at the time.

And he would need to be able to independently learn these tasks, rather than needing to be taught them in childhood.

Therefore if a boy was to formally educated, that might include some of gentleman's skills (riding, fighting with a sword, the management of finances), but his education was centered around what education really meant:

A fundamental grounding in how to live and thrive as an independent and free-willed person.

Thus, he was taught the seven liberal arts of classical antiquity:

- Arithmetic
- Geometry
- Music
- Astronomy
- Grammar
- Logic
- Rhetoric

These were not trade skills in the sense that they did not enable the performance of any particular trade or task, but that wasn't the point.

The point was that they taught the young gentleman how to think and learn.

By contrast, modern government schools were founded to train clerks and factory workers at public expense... a servant class with the specific skills necessary to be useful workers, but not the general education to be independent or question their betters?

Have you noticed which two of these arts are utterly absent from a modern government-school "education"?

That's right, logic and rhetoric. Logic is how to arrive at true conclusions from known facts. Rhetoric is how to persuade.

A servant educated in logic might notice that the things he is being told are false. A servant educated in rhetoric might notice the techniques that are being used to persuade him to act in the rulers' interests instead of his own.

If you conceive of your children's education as training in career skills, whether that be growing rice or programming a computer, you are preparing them to be slaves, not free men.

If you properly prepare them to be free men, what skills will be lucrative or useful twenty years from now is irrelevant, because they will be prepared to learn them.

In my opinion, the seven liberal arts of the modern world are:

- Logic: how to derive truth from known facts
- Statistics: how to understand the implications of data
- Rhetoric: how to persuade, and spot persuasion tactics
- Research: how to gather information on an unknown subject
- (Practical) Psychology: how to discern and understand the true motives of others
- Investment: how to manage and grow existing assets
- Agency: how to make decisions about what course to pursue, and proactively take action to pursue it.

Notice that you didn't learn any of these things in school, even if you went to a so-called "liberal arts" college. Instead, they taught you things about mitochondria and calculus and symbolism in Jon Steinbeck novels where a boy has a dog, and the dog dies.

That's because liberal arts, whether you define them as I have, or slightly differently, are the arts of the master, the arts that make one a master, and therefore not be taught in a school for slaves.

Worry less about which "career skills" AI will take over, and more about whether you are training to be, and training your kids to be, high-agency, perceptive, self-motivated people who can navigate an unknowable future with an adaptable mind.

[Sarika Phatak @sarikaphatak]

Electric vehicle infrastructure is still shoddy in India. Lot of places claim to have it but absent in reality. Long distance drive is still very risky in #EV, can cause emergency. Not going to go for an #EV for the foreseeable future in India.

[Navin Kabra @NGKabra]

Loved this comment from a candidate!

Interestingly, the variable names are not bad! Most other candidates have much worse names.

If you're aware of the Dunning Kruger effect, this is not at all surprising: more qualified people are more self-critical and vice versa!

[Anand Khekale @anandkdev]

@Airtel_Presence I think it’s time to order #jioairfibre #jio.
No resolution yet for around 48 hours now.

[Anand Khekale @anandkdev]

@airtelindia @Airtel_Presence
Could you please update how long to resolve the fibre broadband issue?
It’s down for 24 hours now.
Request: 10270938216.

[Anand Khekale @anandkdev]

@airtelindia @Airtel_Presence
Could you please update how long to resolve the fibre broadband issue?
It’s down for 24 hours now.
Request: 10270938216.

[Scott Forstie @Forstie_IBMi]

Happy Birthday IBM i.

You've had a great run to get to 35, but I expect more great things in the future from you.

Have a super celebration today. Enjoy your friends!

Then... come back to work tomorrow and do something amazing.

All the best!

Scott
#IBMi #Db2fori #SQLcandoit