Gautham R Shenoy

Gauḍa Sāraswata Brāhmaṇa, who writes Linux Kernel code for a living.

All opinions in this account are my own. Don't reflect opinions of my employer.

[Lone Wolf Ratnakar @SadaaShree]

Basically I want to listen to songs, maybe with couple of ad breaks. Not Ads with songs in between.

While Spotify, You Tube Music have had an effect, the programming content itself is so terribly bad in most of these FM stations.

Add to it the rather screechy voices of RJs giving you a feeling of nails on chalkboard.

[Abhijit Kulkarni @abhijitmk]

Rewatched Lucia - gem of a film!

Lucia (2013) is a psychological thriller about Lucia - a lucid dreaming pill

The plot revolves around Nikki (Satheesh Ninasam), an usher in theatre who has insomnia. After consuming a special pill Lucia, he gets entangled in a different kind of a dream. How things unravel due to the pill is the plot of the film. The comedy in the film is also hilarious.

The trio of Satheesh Ninasam, Sruthi Hariharan and Achyuth Kumar have done their roles really well. The support cast have also done a pretty job. This includes Rishab Shetty btw. (before he became famous)

The director Pawan Kumar did a brilliant job.

Lucia was the first Kannada film to be crowdfunded by the people.

9.5/10 IMO

[Gautham R Shenoy @gautshen]

@PaiRaveen Sunil Bhatmaam??

[Gautham R Shenoy @gautshen]

"pas" reminded me of the only phrase in French language that I learnt for my trip a couple of years ago:

"Pas d'œufs, pas de poisson, pas de poulet, pas de viande."

[Rāma Śēṣan Chandraśēkaran @maa_bhaishiiH]

Did you know that the French word for “not”, which is “pas” originally meant “step”? Or that the expression “I have just eaten”, which in French is “Je viens de manger” literally means “I come from eating”? Or that the same word “personne” in French can mean both “person” and “nobody”? !!!

While preparing for my French A2 exam, I stumbled across several fascinating quirks of French grammar. What looked like arbitrary rules turned out to be linguistic fossils preserving centuries of history. In this article, I explore some of the most surprising features of French and the stories hidden behind them.

Link to read : https://t.co/bVaDAgkrcw

[Arnab Ray @greatbong]

My future book writing plans:

1. Finish Sultan of Delhi part 2 (85% done)
2. A spy thriller (real spies not the YRF kind) set during 71 war of an operation gone wrong
3. A black comedy set in 80s Kolkata of a clerk becoming a benevolent serial killer
4. The Gunda Liberal: non-fiction
5. A cybersecurity thriller that expands on the world I established in STRIDE, my published short story in Hachette’s book of crime fiction.

I would have written these quicker but the fact that no one reads or cares for books (tweets get way more interaction) makes me wonder if it’s worth my time

As I grow older, my time becomes more valuable.

[Karthik Madathil @kmadathil]

विवाहं कथं कुर्याम तर्हि ?

[Amit Paranjape @aparanjape]

Got it? 😉

[KarmaChameleon @wannabeSW]

Two of the best bloggers when blogs were something to read and enjoy.

[Niket Raj Dwivedi @niketrajdwivedi]

Horn OK Please is written on the backs of trucks in India.

During World War 2, Britishers were sending India’s diesel to Europe. This caused a shortage naturally and India switched to Kerosene as fuel to run trucks.

Kerosene is volatile and trucks would blast in accidents and collisions.

So they started writing “HORN PLEASE ON KEROSENE”.

On Kerosine eventually became “OK” and got placed between Horn Please.

That’s how we got Horn OK Please.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Dear restaurants,

Bring back the physical menus. Nobody wants to be scanning QR codes when they're hungry.

Regards: The whole world.

[Tejasvi Surya @Tejasvi_Surya]

Bengaluru is for people, not just vehicles. We need safe, pothole-free roads, continuous footpaths and better public spaces.

Bengaluru is for People, Not just Vehicles.

We Demand

✅ Clean Pothole-free roads
✅ Walkable Footpaths
✅ Open Streets for Pedestrians at least once a month

Let’s support #OpenStreetsBengaluru, once a month, for walking, cycling and community activities, on select main roads.

Join the movement. Our goal is to collect at least 5 lakh signatures from citizens who believe Bengaluru deserves better.

Let's take this petition to the Chief Minister of Karnataka and GBA Chief Commissioner.

https://t.co/6m0CeFJqDA

[Gautham R Shenoy @gautshen]

They could have created a skywalk at the least.

[Mister C @misterc_speaks]

WTFFFFFF, so from Yellow line there's no direct connectivity to Blue Line?

We should get down, come to those filthy ugly roads with lots of vehicles, walk towards that dust filled junction to board the Blue line?

[Rajeev Mantri @RMantri]

It is very curious and strange how a loud and foul mouthed section of the online mob keeps attacking India’s IT industry.

Why would you expect a services focused business to “get into” product development? It is very, very difficult to do both these things in the same organization. It is like asking a land animal to fly or a bird to swim.

Anybody who has run a business of reasonable size will recognize the difficulties of doing this. The constant ranting against IT companies just goes to show, how stupid and disconnected from reality the loudmouths are. https://t.co/0s1FhogGgc

Why don’t these people ever train their guns on the mega conglomerates? Why don’t Jindal, Reliance and other groups ever get questioned? https://t.co/UAKfe1wxRG If anything those in a conglomerate model should be able to deploy capital with more agility in new industries. And these groups routinely do it in old economy sectors.

But they too should be left to their own devices (as long as they don’t abuse their influence to trample and crush new age industries and startups) and the answer to their disproportionate power and sway is ease of doing business, reduction in barriers to entry, stronger regulatory institutions in areas like competition monitoring - but again, why aren’t these mega conglomerates ever questioned by the online commentariat?

I think the answer is that unlike their Mumbai and Delhi based billionaire brethren, Bengaluru’s IT company founders have remained more egalitarian, more approachable, less flashy and more grounded. This makes them soft targets to the pathetic pillorying by the deranged online mob runners - despite their great wealth and influence (honestly earned, unlike some other business dynasties), they appear to be “one of us” and hence, easy to villainize and even abuse.

There is a reason Mafatlal did not enter steel industry. There is a reason Reliance did not enter the IT industry.

The same holds for IT industry. Why vilify them in this condemnable manner?

Different businesses and new industries will require new entrepreneurs to build and create the way. And I can tell you one thing - the way founders and executives of IT industry have taken to not just entrepreneurship beyond IT sector but even angel investing and backing Indian venture capital funds, it is a golden example for other industrialists and business owners in India.

[Kartik @calm_sutra]

Absolutely terrible take. From the watch making came TEAL: Titan engineering and Automation. A very successful company in precision manufacturing and industrial automation that is perhaps the finest of its kind in India.
24/7 rudali rona is bad for health.

[Gautham R Shenoy @gautshen]

I agree! This place is close to my workplace. I have had Thalipeeth, Sabudana Khichdi and Sabudana Vada here. Very tasty, very clean.

[Pranav Pawar @ByPranavPawar]

One of the best Maharashtrian food in Bangalore.

Must try for anyone who wants to eat good Marathi food

[Arnab Ray @greatbong]

I want to someday write a real spy thriller in the style of Le Carrie. Neither women in tight suits with guns nor men bringing down helicopters with their teeth.

Double cross, misdirection, and tired men navigating between country and their own interests.

[ಹಂಸಾನಂದಿ Hamsanandi हंसानन्दि @hamsanandi]

Data centers were built in 1990s?

That’s when the real estate mafia (read it as politicians) converted most lakes to layouts.

Now making Data centers the scapegoat is easy.

[Preetam Rao @Preetam_M_Rao]

Theatres in India need to put some strict rules on maintaining silence. It's getting worse day by day. People have forgotten how to behave in public spaces.

Or keep a couple of screens with premium charge. Ppl like me will pay that cuz we're there purely for cinema.

@_PVRCinemas @IndiaCinepolis

[Suren @zeneraalstuff]

Not all work in Gen AI requires billions of dollars in investment. Smaller models focused on specific things - eg, preview, validation of property docs, you can build ML based tools for handwriting recognition that will work on handset processors. Simple face recognition