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Robotics,
code,
Mechanical Engineer

[banna @banna_313]

@Amolik_Aujla @itsmittalHim Brother did you even read this list 😭. This list includes kings from sana sangram singh(52) who died in 1528 to kings in the 17-18th century like gaj singh and surajmal. This person compiled a list of all kings he can find on Google 😂😂😂

[ghatak @Neetivaan]

Finally twitter anons reached the mainstream political party.

Biggest W, unfathomably BASED

[MG 🇮🇳 @mgnayak5]

Proud of our Army 💪

*A Heartwarming Story From Indian Army*

One Grizzly Bear (Himalayan Brown Bear) family used to visit us at xxxx post in Siachen. Initially, only during nights.

We started keeping food for the family.
Their confidence in us developed over a period, and they even started coming during day.

There was also a bear cub about an year old. It used to come with his mother, but after about 6 months, it was either deserted by the mother or got lost. Then it started roaming alone, but it had problems, since the dogs in the post wouldn't let it come close.

When we saw this, we started tying the dogs. The confidence grew and it started to come close.

We named him Bahadur after the Company's name- Bahadur Company.

For a few days, we couldn't see Bahadur. One day, one of my posts, which used get cut off due to 60 feet of snow, reported that Bahadur is roaming around with his head stuck in a tin box.

This post was about 800 metres from my Company Headquarter.

I took 6 boys with me and went to rescue the bear myself. It's not that I wasn't concerned about boys safety; but I still decided to do the rescue.

When we reached the place, the bear was roaming with the tin box around its head, over a cornice probably without food for last 3 days. It was making circles on the cornice. _(Cornice - An overhanging mass of hardened snow at the edge of a mountain precipice.)_

Basically, cornice is a false extension of ground made by hard snow over a period of time, and it can't take too much weight.
It can break off and can lead to an Avalanche.

So, it was very difficult to go closer to the bear to rescue it.

I found the lightest boy from my group and briefed him to go close to the bear and tie the rope around his neck.

We also tied a rope to the waist also to pull him in case the cornice breaks down.

This boy was nervous to get close to the bear.

After about over 3 mins, I decided to rescue the bear on my own.

The bear was approached by me on my knees and I pulled him out of the cornice as quickly as possible to avoid breaking off the cornice.

After bringing the bear to safety, we tied it with ropes to take it to our xxxx post, where we could release him after removing the tin box.

It took almost a kind of surgery to cut the tin box without damaging the ears and neck of the bear.

We gave him food and released him after taking all safety precautions. When we released him, he didn't go away for a good 3 hours.

But after that it became part of my Company.

Whenever we shouted his name -Bahadur, it always appeared from nowhere.

It still comes to the post for food.

Although the Story is very Heartwarming, please do also take a moment to appreciate the very difficult conditions and the environment the Indian Army is guarding our Borders. Furthermore, do also see and acknowledge the accommodation they are staying with bare minimum amenities. It takes a special kind of men to do this.

A big Salute to the Soldiers of the Indian Army. Jai Hind!

Some videos👇🏼

[Luke Stephens (hakluke) @hakluke]

My last post about a bizarre tech issue blew up, so here’s another crazy one for you. The case of the 500-mile email.

This is a true story that happened somewhere in the mid-1990s. Unfortunately, it's not my own story. It's the story of Trey Harris, an email server admin at the University of North Carolina.

I was running the campus email system some years ago when I got a call from the chairman of the statistics department.

"We're having a problem sending email out of the department."

"What's the problem?" I asked.

"We can't send mail more than 500 miles," the chairman explained.

I choked on my latte. "Come again?"

"We can't send mail farther than 500 miles from here," he repeated. "A little bit more, actually. Call it 520 miles. But no farther."

"Um… email really doesn't work that way," I said, trying to keep panic out of my voice. One doesn’t display panic when speaking to a department chairman. "What makes you think you can’t send mail more than 500 miles?"

"It’s not what I think," the chairman replied testily. "When we first noticed this happening a few days ago—"

"You waited a few days?" I interrupted. "And you couldn’t send email this whole time?"

"We could send email. Just not more than—"

"—500 miles, yes," I finished. "But why didn’t you call earlier?"

"Well, we hadn’t collected enough data to be sure of what was going on until just now," he said. "Anyway, I asked one of the geostatisticians to look into it—"

"Geostatisticians…"

"—yes, and she’s produced a map showing the radius within which we can send email to be slightly more than 500 miles. There are a number of destinations within that radius that we can’t reach, either, or reach sporadically, but we can never email farther than this radius."

"I see," I said, and put my head in my hands. "When did this start?"

"A few days ago," he replied. "The consultant came in and patched our server and rebooted it. But I called him, and he said he didn’t touch the mail system."

"Okay, let me take a look, and I’ll call you back," I said, scarcely believing I was playing along.

I logged into their server and sent a few test mails. This was in the Research Triangle of North Carolina, and a test mail to my own account was delivered without a hitch. Ditto for one sent to Richmond, Atlanta, and Washington. Another to Princeton (400 miles) worked.

But then I tried to send an email to Memphis (600 miles). It failed. Boston failed. Detroit failed. New York (420 miles) worked, but Providence (580 miles) failed.

I was beginning to wonder if I had lost my sanity. I tried emailing a friend who lived in North Carolina but whose ISP was in Seattle. Thankfully, it failed. If the problem had been related to the geography of the human recipient rather than his mail server, I might have broken down in tears.

Having established that—unbelievably—the problem was real and repeatable, I checked the https://t.co/AcPjE4MeRY file. It looked fairly normal. In fact, it looked familiar.

I diffed it against the https://t.co/AcPjE4MeRY in my home directory. It hadn’t been altered—it was one I had written. And I was fairly certain I hadn’t enabled the “FAIL_MAIL_OVER_500_MILES” option.
At a loss, I telnetted into the SMTP port. The server happily responded with a SunOS Sendmail banner.

Wait a minute… a SunOS Sendmail banner? At the time, Sun was still shipping Sendmail 5 with its OS, even though Sendmail 8 was fairly mature. Being a good sysadmin, I had standardized on Sendmail 8. I had also written a https://t.co/AcPjE4MeRY using the long, self-documenting option names available in Sendmail 8 rather than the cryptic punctuation codes of Sendmail 5.

The pieces fell into place all at once. When the consultant had “patched the server,” he had apparently upgraded the version of SunOS, and in so doing downgraded Sendmail. The upgrade helpfully left the https://t.co/AcPjE4MeRY alone, even though it was now the wrong version.

It turns out that Sendmail 5—the version Sun shipped—could handle most of a Sendmail 8 config file, but it skipped over any unrecognized long option names. Since the binary had no compiled defaults for many of these, they were effectively set to zero.

One of those zeroed-out settings was the timeout for connecting to a remote SMTP server. On this machine, a zero timeout would abort a connect call after just over three milliseconds.

An odd feature of our campus network at the time was that it was 100% switched. Outgoing packets wouldn’t hit a router until the POP, meaning connect time was largely governed by the speed of light.

Feeling slightly giddy, I typed into my shell:

$ units
1311 units, 63 prefixes
You have: 3 millilightseconds
You want: miles
* 558.84719
/ 0.0017893979

"500 miles, or a little bit more."

[Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv]

one of the many great examples of how something seemingly frivolous (an industry focused on “make car go fast”) led to lives being saved

once you really internalize the implications of this, you never dismiss anything as frivolous ever

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

I visited the Chittorgarh Fort when I was 10, on a family holiday.
Have never been back.

But I should.

Because when I checked online, it turns out it’s the largest fort in the world!

Approximate Global Ranking:
🥇 Chittorgarh Fort, India ~700 acres (2.8 sq. km)
🥈 Kumbhalgarh Fort, India ~1,100 acres (4.5 sq. km), walls 36 km long
🥉 Nanjing City Wall, China

Yes, Kumbhalgarh is the second largest in the world.

(Chittorgarh and Kumbhalgarh are fort cities, not boundary walls.
They enclosed self-sufficient communities and were built to withstand sieges, not to demarcate empires.)

And yet, they rarely appear on the ‘must-visit’ lists for global travellers.
They’re not even on the extended Rajasthan “Golden Circuit”:
Jaipur → Jodhpur → Jaisalmer → Udaipur.

We need to tell their stories differently.

“A kingdom that refused to yield. A fort that never fell.”

Illustrate these stories through specialised experiences:
sunset drives along the ramparts, private storytelling sessions, and expanded comfortable accommodation.

We already have a Club Mahindra at Kumbhalgarh, and we’re pleased to have helped build its popularity.
Perhaps it’s time for one at Chittorgarh too.

#SundayWanderer

(Aerial view of Chittorgarh Fort courtesy @MayankRighteous )

[banna @banna_313]

@grok @CRED_club OMG 😱. Thanks @grok

[banna @banna_313]

@Mike_Scully_ AI

[PULKIT KANSAL @PulkitK107]

Geopolitics these days

[banna @banna_313]

Hi @makemytripcare @makemytrip I purchased a gift card from my icici card and availed in my account but still it was not available at the checkout page and I had to book without the giftcard. Now the gift card is of no use. Please refund or adjust in the current ticket price.

[rae @ChillamChilli]

War rukwa di paw paw ka mazak banane wale ab war rok do paw paw bol rahe hai.

[Boring @Boringism]

Mere gaanv wale sab mere jaise hain, bomb baandh kar sena ke sath ladne ko taiyyar. Meanwhile army brats are crying we don't want violence, we don't want war 😷

[ADG PI - INDIAN ARMY @adgpi]

"प्रहाराय सन्निहिताः, जयाय प्रशिक्षिताः"
Ready to Strike, Trained to Win.

#IndianArmy

[ADG PI - INDIAN ARMY @adgpi]

#PahalgamTerrorAttack

Justice is Served.

Jai Hind!

[banna @banna_313]

@saket71 @DelhiPolice If you have android then check find my device website. It will show the imei number of the phone.

[Coursera @coursera]

Want a chance to get a free backpack from Coursera? 🎒

Simply repost and DM us your full name, address, email and phone number. 😊

(Exclusive to learners in the US, UK and India)

[banna @banna_313]

With my mobile because of this issue. Please resolve this issue ASAP.

[banna @banna_313]

@HPIndia @HPSupport I have raised a complaint for my laptop camera issue 2 months ago and I got no response till now. I raised the request again 2 times, took many follow-up but still no resolution. Is this how you provide support to your customers. I am forced to take meetings..

[saket साकेत ಸಾಕೇತ್ 🇮🇳 @saket71]

लड़के भी विदा होते हैं।

लड़कियाँ विदा होती हैं
तो ऐसे घर जाती हैं,
जिस का भविष्य उनकी कोख में जीतेगा,
एक माँ, एक पिता और एक पति,
आरती कर के उनका स्वागत करती है।
लौट कर घर आती हैं
तो मायका उनके लिए
पहले से अधिक अपना हो जाता है।

विदा लड़के भी होते हैं,
पिता उन्हें जाते हुए
छाती से नहीं लगाते,
उनके जाने पर
शहनाइयाँ नहीं बजती हैं,
माँ बाप का पाँव छू के
वे चुपचाप निकल आते हैं घर से,
कोई छोड़ने नहीं आता ,
ना साथ कोई विदा कराने
आता है।

ट्रेन की खिड़की पर
एक एक कर के गिरती बूँदों
को गिनते हुए वो निकल आते हैं,
और भर आयी आँखों
को सिगरेट के धुएँ के
आँसुओं में छिपा लेते हैं।

वो घर से निकल के इंसानों के
ऐसे जंगल में पहुँचते हैं,
जहाँ
और लड़कों के पसीनों
में गुँथ के वो नाईट ड्यूटी से
लौट के सो जाते हैं,
घर में
करेले की सब्ज़ी ना खाने वाले
लड़के,
कान में सीसे की तरह,
कहीं ‘अबे बिहारी’ तो कहीं ‘नार्थी’
सुन कर अनसुना कर देते हैं।

लड़के
बुजुर्ग हो जाते हैं
चंद ही महीनों में,
और घर में
पारे की तरह उफनने वाला खून,
ढीठ हो कर ठंडा हो जाता है,
धक्के खाते हुए,
हर महीने,
सौ पचास बचा लेते हैं लड़के
क्यों कि पिता जब पूछते है
‘तनख़्वाह आ गई’
तो यह जिज्ञासा नहीं
उत्तरदायित्व का अनकहा बोध होता है,
जिसके पीछे पिता की खाँसी
और माँ के सिलबट्टे पर लोढ़ा
घिसने की आवाज़ होती है,
बहन की डोली के कहारों
की नेपथ्य में गूंजते स्वर होते हैं,
और जब पीठ छिल के
लहुलुहान होती है,
आत्मा छिल के मृतप्राय
तब वो छत की और देख
अपने जीवन के वो सोलह वर्ष
याद करते हैं
जब वे राजा बेटा हुआ करते थे,
और
छुट्टियों में घर जा के
पिता को ‘पणाम’ कह के अलग
खड़े हो जाते हैं,
और माँ के हाथों में
पसीने से सने नोट देते हैं,
तो वो समझ जाते हैं,
उनके जीवन से
परिवार के प्रियों के
आलिंगन की आयु समाप्त हो चुकी है,
और इसके आगे
परिवार में उनका स्थान सिर्फ़
पर्वो, पैसों और अंत में
धार्मिक संस्कारों तक सीमित रह जाता है,
लड़कियाँ लड़कियाँ रहती हैं,
लड़का मर्द हो जाता है,
और रोने और हँसने दोनों का ही अधिकार त्याग देता है,
और एक दिन कपाल क्रिया में
लाठी मार कर
अपने सोलह साल की आयु में
छूट गये आलिंगनों की
आशाओं को भी राख में दाब कर
बाप बन के घर लौट आता है,
और अकेले में ही रो लेता है।

- साकेत