milesbforesleep

(he/him) perpetual programming hobbyist | inquisitive

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

These are the content creators which are the north stars for our school children. Drunk on wealth. Any prominence given by the govt to such creators, who’ll be called to the creator labs to teach, will undermine the value of studies.

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

The greatest living composer of the last 3 decades got attacked and abused (even by people within the industry) for stating an opinion in the politest, mildest manner, that too based on his lived-experience.

And the very next day forced to issue an apology/clarification to calm the toxic mob down.

If any further proof was needed to confirm his hints at the rising divisiveness...

https://t.co/N6iTvCYBzr

[Dharmesh Ba @dharmeshba]

A gig economy lender once asked me to review their loan flow.

The PM wanted me to "innovatively" hide the loan breakdown. Interest, penalties, fees - bury it all. Her logic: it increases scroll length and it's only there because of regulation. BS.

Fintech PMs who treat loan flows like ecommerce checkouts have no clue about context or consequences.

Today I saw Zerodha's loan product. Before you proceed, it asks:
"Is this loan truly necessary?" ❤️

Zerodha shouldn't exist only because they're profitable. They should thrive because they're one of the few examples that businesses can succeed by being ethical and doing right by customers.

Total chops to the team who are mindful at every step. Good business design is a moat.

[Alex Vacca @itsalexvacca]

Before AWS existed, one company ran the servers for Twitter, LinkedIn, and Facebook's entire app ecosystem.

They owned Node.js, invented containers 8 years before Docker, and Peter Thiel even backed them.

Then something happened...

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

I am inarguably the most litigated clinical doctor science communicator in India, (?)probably Asia...for educating the public on medicine and science and the harms of the alternative medicine industry:

🔵Criminal defamation lawsuit - 2
🔵Civil defamation lawsuits - 3
🔵Legal notice (unofficial threat) - 4
🔵Legal notice (official threat) - 11
🔵Contempt of Court - 1
🔵Police case (investigation/FIR) - 4
🔵Police case (summons) - 3
🔵Regulatory body investigation (Ayurveda Drugs Controller Kerala) - 2
🔵 Authority Investigation (Prime Minister Office) - 1
🔵Authority investigation (Chief Minister/Health Ministry Office) - 1
🔵Regulatory body (Central Ministry) summons
- 3
🔵Regulatory body (Medical Council) summons
- 7
🔵Regulatory body (Medical Council) show cause - 3
🔵Medical science peer reviewed publication removed by journal after legal threat - 2

That's 100s of 1000s of my taxed-salary spent on legal documentation, travel and accommodation and court and lawyer fees for upholding public health and scientific progress.

[Dr Jason Philip. M.S., MCh @Jasonphilip8]

For all those criticizing @theliverdoc , fr his contributions to fighting pseudoscience/ recent skirmish with the great Chess Player Vidit, let me tell u that his life is not easy. Besides his busy medical practice, the great Dr fights pseudoscience, not fr his benefit , but to save precious Indian Lives. That is a noble cause.
There is no Dr more abused in Indian Twitter than @theliverdoc . Yet, he continues to do his good work. Sitting in Tamilnadu, I hv heard testimonials of several ppl saved from alcoholism/ potential painful death, just by following him. He has contributed to improving the general health of Indians by his rational, intelligent tweets replete with immense, life-saving wisdom.
Bringing his family into ur quarrel with him, tarnishing their image is revolting. Nobody else among the current generation of Indian Drs has done more to improve the health of 1.4 billion Indians, as has Dr.Cyriac Abby Philips, the great hepatologist frm Kerala. He hs a certain style of putting things across, which is his wish.
Whenever/wherever Pseudoscience had the potential to destroy human life/good health, this Dr hs appeared on the scene, to explain in simple terms, what is medically good or bad fr the avg Indian. Fr that alone, he shd be awarded the B.C.Roy award fr the best Indian Dr. & don't bring in religion. Not in a single tweet, hs he remotely been critical of ANY religion.
Raise a toast to Dr. Cyriac Abby Philips, lovingly called The Liver Doctor. A one-man-army that has saved thousands of lives.

[toastoevsky @toastoevsky]

as someone whose mother is a homeopathic practitioner and has done really well professionally, it was admittedly hard to come to terms with the fact that it is pseudoscientific. because her entire self worth is based on it, and so was mine, in part, a teen. (1/n)

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Hello, Vidit. I am not a fan of chess, but you are an important person for our country and I did not mean to offend your family. I am sure they are good people. I was stating plain facts from a professional standpoint and I do not mince my words. You may call that ego or whatever, to console yourself, no problem.

Your statement on Doctors Day claiming an Ayurveda practitioner, Homeopath, Cosmetologist and a Physiotherapist were doctors is wrong and I stand by my words. Doctors' Day in India marks both the birth and death anniversary of Dr. Bidhan Chandra Roy, one of India's most revered physicians and a key figure in shaping the healthcare system.

Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Cosmetology or Physiotherapy are not realistic clinical medicine or and their practitioners are not clinical physicians. Physiotherapy is a legit branch of healthcare (adjunct to clinical medicine), but the rest are just plain sham - especially Homeopathy, which is also known as N*zi Medicine because H*tler tried to integrate it with conventional medicine at the time.

You got all worked up and started personally attacking me because you were ignorant of this fact. I do not need to keep an ego towards a chess GM or his family. You don't make me insecure and your family is of no concern to me from a professional standpoint.

But what you claim them to be - has major public health consequence, because someone of your stature, being ignorant about science and health affects public perception of realistic healthcare and pseudoscientific practices.

Your statements normalize pseudoscience and primitive therapies as healthcare practices when they are not. They are alternative medicine. And alternative medicine is medicine that is not proven to work. Just like there is no alternative chemistry, alternative physics or alternative mathematics, alternative medicine is also not medicine. And its practitioners are not doctors.

I am a certified internist with a doctorate in hepatology and liver transplant medicine with 260 peer reviewed scientific publications, 4400 citations and h-index of 30 (just for your information). You don't know me and how useful I am to my patients and their families. I suggest you do a bit of homework before throwing such childish tantrums.

I am staying in my lane and always have. Calling out medical misinformation is what I do apart from being a full-time doctor. I suggest you stay in your lane and discuss more on chess. Sorry for the checkmate. And for a change, talk about chess and try being useful. All the best for your future matches.

[milesbforesleep @milesbforesleep]

@mckaywrigley Genuine question as someone who has been using claude 3.5 sonnet with vscode + https://t.co/KQwS9XTQTE. Will switching to cursor ide provide some extra value?

[milesbforesleep @milesbforesleep]

@kentron5S @MarioNawfal Seasoning?

[Arnav Gupta @championswimmer]

I would like to counter a few important points in this post to make sure everyone reading this doesn't end up with wrong information about the tech involved.

Technical challenges we see today have been solved decades ago
Although a very vague statement, at least in the case of streaming video, which we are discussing her, and specifically regarding problems that Hotstar is facing in 2023, are no way related to any "solutions" that Prasar Bharati had in 1987. More on that below...

Hotstar 5cr vs Doordarshan 7.7cr
Just pointing out that Hotstar's numbers are way more accurate than DD. DD could have had anything between 5 to 10 crore. No way to really know how many TVs were exactly tuned into it at that time. DD doesn't get any info back from a viewer that they are watching their stream. 7.7cr is wild estimate.

CDN, Cloud Deployment, Java in 1987
None of it is needed if you are broadcasting radio waves into the air. Client-server communication that happens in Internet Protocol is completely different from broadcasting radio waves into air and not caring about who or how many people receive it.

Doordarshan had concurrent connections serving crores of users
Absolutely factually wrong. In broadcast, you can have infinite receivers. They are not “concurrent”. The term concurrency has no meaning in this mode of signal reception at all. If you are in a room and you shout, at say 50 decibels.

How many "concurrent" listeners of your shout are there? People get to hear you, regardless of how many people are there. People will hear you even if 10 people are in the hall, and people will hear you even if 1000 people are in the hall. (given others are not speaking). You don't need to shout any differently for 100 vs 1000 people.

(And I think you already know that but still you wrote this; who knows why)

The services are EC2, S3, EBS, CloudFront
I felt a bit sad to see their tech move into a third party solution. But as a business, it makes sense.
The reason they are moving to AWS is not directly related to how they do radio broadcast. Their open-to-air broadcast technology remains the same 1987-era stuff. But now Prasar Bharati also maintains a video catalog website where people can watch older videos. They also support streaming on internet platforms like YouTube. They are digitising their production, and not storing programmes on tape, but on digital files. That's the reason they are using cloud services.
They are using cloud providers to solve 2023 era problems, not 1987 era problems to which they already have solutions. 2023 era problems require 2023 era solutions, obviously.

[Abhinav Khare @iabhinavKhare]

The middle class possesses a unique superpower: Hope.

It's a hope that life will transform for the better with the acquisition of luxuries like a Mercedes, a penthouse, Hermes products, or business class travel. It's also the hope that once financial burdens like home or education loans are cleared, everything will be perfect. However, this happiness is fleeting, often lasting only a few hours or days, before giving way to boredom or emptiness.

To put this in perspective, think about your favorite food, like Ras Malai. In the era of instant food delivery services like Swiggy and Zomato, does it still excite you as much? Would you enjoy eating it three times a day, or even six times a day for an entire year?

This phenomenon is known as the problem of affluence, where nothing seems exciting or fulfilling anymore because there's no anticipation or longing left. Now, extrapolate this to everything- cars, romantic partners, foreign trips, everything! Everything is easy and so nothing is exciting anymore!

[Anuj Gurwara @AnujGurwara]

“I have Muslim friends that I’m close to but they have never expressed their anguish to me.”

It’s because they don’t trust you enough with their emotional well-being. They don’t even have the luxury of venting out their anxiety.

Just as men will never truly feel what it is like for a woman to live her life with her guard up, looking over her shoulder, a Hindu will never truly know what it is to live as a minority in India - your identity under threat 24x7.

From casual remarks in social circles to outright hatred being peddled in the media and on the streets, every single Muslim citizen is in some form of anguish over what’s happening, no matter where in the country they live.

This is not who we once aspired to be.

Everyone who has chosen to stay quiet when the fringe was just fringe - has enabled this venomous ecosystem our future generations will grow up in.

"I have *minority* friends” is a statement to make yourself feel better. They are not specimen samples to prove your misguided sense of inclusivity.

We all have hate-spewing relatives, friends, colleagues and neighbours. Call out their bigotry to their face or disconnect/distance from them. Please exit that toxic WhatsApp group.

We are far too deep within the rot to simply "adjust".

Do you realise that if those brainwashed youth on the streets had access to education, they would have been demanding jobs instead of blood?

It is easier for their masters to keep their raging testosterone occupied with destruction and unrest. None of those youth have any clue what their own religion stands for - let alone someone else’s.

Their frustration with life and lack of purpose has been brutally and strategically weaponised.

Maybe we don’t speak out enough because it is truly emotionally taxing to deal with trolls and online assault.

Compare that to people who are likely to be ostracised, disenfranchised, or even killed for merely belonging to another religion or to a tribe that’s settled for centuries on valuable land.

I pray to the universe that the hate doesn’t come to your door. That’s the nature of hate. Once released in the air, it finds its way into everyone’s nostrils.

Remember… for the one in love with power, everyone else is the enemy.

💪🏻🇮🇳❤️

[Alex Banks @thealexbanks]

We are at the iPhone moment of AI.

It will transform the future of speech, creativity & biology forever.

Here's every AI announcement from Nvidia's GTC event:

[milesbforesleep @milesbforesleep]

@DGCAIndia Pune airport is a bloodbath today. It’s a military airport and pics cannot be taken, but it’s a riot waiting to breakout. It’s clearly underpowered to handle the huge no of passengers traveling today

[milesbforesleep @milesbforesleep]

@ohh_yasssh Aunty ko l*** fark ni padta

[milesbforesleep @milesbforesleep]

Clearly you aren’t!!

[milesbforesleep @milesbforesleep]

Wrong! Heard of naturals?!

[milesbforesleep @milesbforesleep]

Never say never!

[Gordon 🐂 @GordonGekko]

If Shiba hits $1 I will give everybody who retweets this 100 $SHIB

[milesbforesleep @milesbforesleep]

I think its pronounced ‘claustrophobic’

[Ashwini Vaishnaw @AshwiniVaishnaw]

Sneak Peek!
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