Akshay

Learner
What I cannot create, I do not understand— Richard Feynman

[Akshay @Chazinginfinity]

@Xroaders_001 Sir Glanza got 0* in GNCAP but 4* in BNCAP

Today's breaking news

If both testing protocols same, how come ratings differ so much

Can you pls explain

[Akshay @Chazinginfinity]

@jha907 @vivekraju93 Le... This has already started

[Akshay @Chazinginfinity]

@volklub @volkswagenindia Should consider physical buttons under safety metric and deduct some points here, Paaji

[Akshay @Chazinginfinity]

@warikoo @SayantikaSays Except the curtain color

1st is actually pleasing , ain't fan of warm lights

[Abhishek Singh @0xlelouch_]

I have a friend who wanted to become a senior engineer very early in his career.

Just because he wanted the title badly. And he was tired of feeling average.

He used to say one thing again and again:

“I do not want to spend 8 years just writing tickets and then realize I never actually became a strong engineer.”

So he created urgency.

After office, he used to stay and pick one production system and go deep into it.

How does the API handle retries?
Why is this database query slow?
What happens if this service goes down?
How do logs, metrics and traces actually help during an incident?

He was not trying to look busy.

He was trying to understand the system like an owner.

Most people around him were waiting.

Waiting for a better project.
Waiting for a mentor.
Waiting for promotion cycle.
Waiting for someone to teach them distributed systems.

He did the opposite.

He started taking small ugly problems that mattered - seriously.

One day he fixed a memory leak.

Another day he improved an API latency.

Another day he wrote a proper postmortem after an incident.

Another day he redesigned a retry flow so customers would not get duplicate orders.

At that time, nobody clapped.

No viral LinkedIn post.

No big title.

No special attention.

But his brain slowly started believing:

“Maybe I can actually become that engineer.”

That is what urgency does.

It makes your dream feel like a real project, not some fantasy you keep postponing.

Today he is a Staff Engineer at a very good product based company.

And honestly, it did not happen because he was some 10x genius.

It happened because he started behaving like a senior engineer before anyone gave him the title.

Most engineers want seniority.

Very few create urgency.
Urgency compounds.

One extra debug session.
One extra design doc.
One extra deep dive into Kafka, Postgres, caching, observability, deployments.

Do this for 2-3 years and suddenly people start saying:

“Bro became lucky.”

No bro.

He just stopped waiting for tomorrow.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

This is it.
Everything learned spending millions on longevity.

From: Your Immortal Unc and Auntie.
To: Our Immortal nieces and nephews.

0. Sleep is the world's most powerful drug.
1. Be in your bed for 8 hours
2. Same bedtime every night, any time before midnight
3. Don’t eat right before bed
4. Calm foods for dinner
5. No screens 1 hour before bed
6. Avoid added sugar (be aware it’s in everything)
7. Avoid all things in an American convenience store
8. Avoid fried foods
9. Shoes off at the door
10. Eat whole foods, particularly veggies fruits nuts legumes berries
11. Walk a little after meals or air squats
12. Get your heart rate high routinely
13. Lift heavy things
14. Stretch daily
15. Water pik, floss, brush, tongue scrape, morning and night
16. Make an effort to drink water
17. Get sunlight when you wake up (UV is low)
18. Protect skin in midday sun
19. Stand up straight
20. See at least one friend once a week
21. Avoid plastic where you can (in all things)
22. Circulate air in rooms
23. When stressed, breathe, learn to calm your body
24. Go to the dentist
25. Avoid sitting for long times
26. Protect your hearing, the world is too loud
27. Alcohol is bad for you
28. Finish coffee before noon
29. Avoid bright lights after sunset
30. If obese, look into a GLP
31. Sleep in a cold room
32. Texting while driving is dangerous
33. Turn off all notifications
34. Limit social media use
35. Don’t smoke anything
36. If you struggle to sleep, read a physical book before bed
37. 1 hour before bed have a calm wind down routine: bath, read, light walk, listen to music
38. The body is a clock and loves routine. Have a daily morning and evening schedule.
39. Avoid long distance travel where you can
40. Baby steps first: incorporate new things slowly
41. Do less… most things don’t work.

Bonus points if you get your blood checked.

Start here, it will change your life.

[🎓 CA Pratik Bharda @pratik0227]

Helpline = waste of time, next move.

Real move: file formal case on https://t.co/8Hs5hXUDub directly - that's when companies actually panic. Legal notice (₹500–2,000) before filing speeds it up further.
Summons from consumer court hits different than a helpline ticket.

[Aravind @aravind]

Meditation is not a difficult, complex thing it is made out to be. It's all about quieting your mind and experiencing it as an observer. To bring about the separation of mind and you the consciousness. To understand your experience in the mind is an illusion. There is no proper way. Some Yogis are in a meditative state even when they go about their lives, eating, drinking, and sleeping. I suggest sitting comfortably in a quiet place, closing your eyes and become aware of your breath (I concentrate on the sound of Gayatri Mantra). Just watch how it happens. How it registers in your mind. It doesn't matter you get distracted, mind wanders, or someone disturbs. Keep doing this for many days, months, years - one day suddenly you will see your mind, brain, body and all we call reality as separate from you. From then on you will figure out yourself. But how many can spend just 15 mins everyday for months and years doing nothing sitting and watching their breath? You will be surprised, not many. 99.999% will give up, one day sooner or later, even if they had the best intentions and started in earnest.

[Striver | Building takeUforward @striver_79]

You’re optimizing for the wrong thing.

Those 1–2 extra days look valuable on paper, but in reality: you save more time, energy, and mental bandwidth by not chasing them.

And if your basic is ₹50K (already on the higher end), the cash-out on saved leaves may end up being lesser than what you will save overall by travelling next week.

[きら @KinyobiBiru]

@ArthurMacwaters The classic “yes or no, do your parents know your gay”

[NIK @ns123abc]

🚨 Musk vs OpenAI's lawyer — the cross-examination exchanges

William Savitt — Wachtell Lipton's lead defense lawyer, Supreme Court clerk, trained to break witnesses.

Savitt opens with a misleading premise.
Musk: "You're being misleading. What you're saying is false."

Savitt tries again with a different loaded frame.
Musk: "Your questions are not simple. They are designed to trick me."

Savitt demands a yes or no answer to a complicated question.
Musk: "If you ask a question where there is no possible simple answer, I must give a longer answer because any simple answer would be misleading the jury."

Musk reaches for an analogy: "The classic answer to a yes or no question is not so simple. For example, if you ask the question 'will you stop beating your wife?'..."

Judge Gonzalez Rogers cuts him off: "No, we're not gonna go there."

The courtroom laughs.

Savitt apologizes for the question.
Musk: "I find it funny you saying it wasn't an unfair question since you're only asking unfair questions."

Savitt: "I'm doing my best."
Musk: "That is not true."

OpenAI's lawyer came to break Musk.
Musk wasn't having it.

[Mustafa @oprydai]

@yacineMTB without thinking there is no understanding and vice-versa.

[kepano @kepano]

@yacineMTB don't delegate understanding
https://t.co/a1FShnsps3

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

And understanding is the product of thinking, so there is no way to avoid the thinking -- you can only outsource thinking you've already thought.

If you're doing the same thinking over and over again, the exact same line of mechanical thought, then you can automate it.

But the #1 failure mode in automation is jumping straight into it without actually understanding what you're automating.

Automation starts with you getting inside the loop and figuring out exactly once the loop is. Then, and only then, can you automate yourself out of the loop.

[kache @yacineMTB]

you can outsource your thinking
but you cannot outsource your understanding

[Yash Sartanpara @SartanparaYash]

So i have been working on improving this MCC search and filter on https://t.co/bsPqdGifeh page

Currently icici cards are live and im working towards adding other banks

The data maybe inaccurate and do report if you find any.

[Akshay @Chazinginfinity]

@MyIndusIndBank Have sent the DM pls check

[Akshay @Chazinginfinity]

@MyIndusIndBank
Had transferred money through Your Indie app to Indie account through UPI yesterday, I see the money deducted from my other bank account but still didn't get in Indie account even today
Absolutely zero response on email and calls
Help asap

[Akshay @Chazinginfinity]

@Eureka_ForbesIN team , what's with your service team ?
Had booked service 10 days back still have didn't got my water filters changed ?
No response from service person, nor from customer care number and not even from your customer contact email !

Respond before I escalate

[Yash Sartanpara @SartanparaYash]

We have launched the QR code scanner to know the MCC code of any merchant if they have assigned MCC.

The https://t.co/NeH6cjogO1 is a website and can be added as an app to your device, no need to download it from any store or no permissions required.

https://t.co/AMJ7M9ghWE

Please note that the mcc inclusions and exclusions per card is in progress and there may be a wrong information available on the website. DYOR and report if you find any issues.