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According to the Valmiki Ramayana, Ravana was a serial sexual predator who abducted women and kept countless women captive as sex slaves in his harem. Hanuman himself witnessed the sheer number of captive women inside Ravana's palace during his search for Sita. Vedavati even immolated herself after Ravana attempted to violate her. And this is the character being glorified in the movie. Ravana's story was precisely about how knowledge, wealth, military might and territorial power mean absolutely nothing when your character is rotten.

And since we're revising the Ramayana to suit modern sensibilities, let's talk about Surpanakha too. She wasn't portrayed as beautiful; Sita was described as extraordinarily beautiful, with Surpanakha herself acknowledging that she had never seen a woman comparable to her. Surpanakha attempted to kill Sita, which is why Lakshmana mutilated her. Sita didn't object on the grounds that Surpanakha was a woman. In fact, Rama himself instructed Lakshmana to act after witnessing the threat to Sita. Perhaps reading the original text before glorifying or reinventing its characters isn't such a bad idea.

@malhotra_namit did huge insult to Ramayana. He will eventually pay for it in his life.

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@pranaykotas So you started becoming a loser as you aged? Gandhi? Gandhi of all people even after knowing his deeds?

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@WalrusYoun56349 @MyDaebakCafe @JensenHuang It will be reversed. Eventually.

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Testing Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-Coder (Strata). Told it to build a login page with animation - gave it a video. It installed ffmpeg and printed, "Frame reading isn't possible for this model (no image input), so I'll decipher the video quantitatively — decoding raw pixels and measuring geometry, palette, and motion per frame."

Next, it printed, "Frame reading isn't available to this model, so I'm continuing the quantitative path — grid maps, element runs, and scanline edges."

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@recurseparadox Did you get any GPU?

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@Schandillia More of him...

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@Schandillia Same guy btw. Before he invented his own style.

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@badmosbilli What is there to cry? Are you high?

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Why did India's IT industry boom while other sectors lagged? Because core industries live in their own la-la land when it comes to hiring.

Indian IT quickly realized colleges only teach theory. Instead of complaining, they hired smart grads, trained them in-house for 3–6 months, and used 18-month bonds to protect their investment. They bridged the theory-to-practice gap themselves, and it worked.

Meanwhile, other industries demand freshers already know how to use specialized tools colleges never teach. Unlike coding on a personal laptop, industrial machinery isn't cheap enough for a student to just "learn on their own."

[Vishal Tejwani @ivishaltejwani]

Today I interviewed a candidate with electronics degree

Do you know how to solder?

- I haven’t done it practically yet theoretically I can explain

I had to keep a calm face, what are people doing ?? Hiring is so hard

Paying 40k if you know how to solder + fluent English

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"Coding is not exactly engineering" - With that mindset, no wonder we have idiots like @eMudhra in security sphere.

PS: He is saying this on Twitter of all places 🤦‍♂️

[মুকুন্দ মাধৱ নাথ (Mukunda Madhava Nath) 🇮🇳 ⚙️ @m2n037]

Bullshit. Its all becuase bureaucrats didn't understand enough about software to restrict and regulate it unlike typical factories i.e. core industries. Coding is not exactly engineering.

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@agnimithril I never presumed it man. That also makes it more cautious and nerve breaking for freshers to do things on their own, no? In IT, a mistake is erasing a line of code and redo it. Not much cost equivalence, especially with AI nowadays. Not the case with Hardware Engineering fields.

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@badmosbilli Can you not parrot Ankit Shah here? Thanks.

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If @Reddit ever wonders why its business is going down, it's because of such site-wide mod powers given to sub-reddit mods or reddit admin team.

PS: Not my account. Got it on reddit itself.

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@agnimithril You don't understand the fear of breaking things up in Indians - scarcity mindset?

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A room (with 4 people living in one back then), a laptop (that costed lakhs back then) and internet connection (that was a luxury till 2016). So no, it costed a huge sum when the IT industry was getting setup here.

All the cost lowering happened post 2016 but that too lasted for max 6 years before AI boom happened. Now it's back to ridiculous pricing.

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Just few of the areas

[Nikki @ranteswari]

@ShubhAgrawal26 How bad were things exactly 15 years ago? I’m genuinely curious. This claim is repeated endlessly but rarely backed by any facts, figures or meaningful comparisons.

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@nonameguyxuser Your point on "core engineering" is null and void because China exists. Only "software" worked because of XYZ reason is just cope out. IT industry in India had all the same reason to cope about the similar situation but they didn't.

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@agnimithril I am a software engineer. So yes, I have worked in "engineering". That answers your vague question.

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I know plenty of founders running hardware and core-tech companies who make this exact mistake. They hire diploma holders over engineering grads to save upfront, then spend months complaining about missing EE/ME fundamentals.

The reverse is so much easier: hire a sharp theory grad and spend one month giving them hands-on confidence. The only thing holding them back is the fear of breaking expensive hardware. Do that, and you get strong scientific foundations paired with practical skills.

It’s the exact same playbook IT giants used for decades, hire grads with zero coding experience but solid DSA fundamentals, train them for three months, and turn them into profitable engineers.

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Diwali can easily shift to its original way of celebration:

1. Diya lighting
2. Paper lanterns to the sky

And done. You achieve your ritual duty of showing the dead ancestors path to the heaven as well as not do so much Air Pollution.

[Against Corruption @agacorruption]

Name one Hindu festival which doesn't cause air or water or noise pollution?

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@Schandillia They cause:

1. Animal torture
2. Patriarchy

Don't you know?

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@nonameguyxuser China showed that your assessment is just blabber. Otherwise only software would have boomed there as well, not manufacturing.