nithinkd

43. STEMI Survivor. Dad. Ex-Biker. Aspiring Artist. Industrial designer. IIT. Code & CAD. Maker of things

[nithinkd @nithinkd]

“Please don’t wake me up, or ask me to leave this lair.
I have found comfort in the arms of a nightmare”

[nithinkd @nithinkd]

Why don’t we have a Boolean indifference command?

[nithinkd @nithinkd]

It’s the algorithm. It’s being over enthusiastic about small choices over the last month for sure. Too much content repetition based on simple interactions. I was feeling the same. Then had a few interactions with my engg feed & it started to settle. ( But there’s enough to feed the doom. Even for the optimist )

[nithinkd @nithinkd]

My petroleum engineer buddy is back today from a month on a boat after hooking up something deployed 1500 m below sea level.
Wednesday coffee & engineering dates are back.

[nithinkd @nithinkd]

Because I am now in the dopamine drought zone after revving high for the past few months… and a collapse is imminent.. I guess I need to take steps.
Journaling what I did over the past few months to remind myself that I did good things and giving myself some pats on the back because I don’t function in a world that treats my milestone as anything remotely relevant.

1. Designed and parametrically modelled an entire complex home appliance down to the fasteners and piping. Twice. On my own. Alone. Everything from surfacing to drafted models to tool design handoffs to DFM. Because I can.

2. Developed eighteen interdependent parts in parallel in record time and got every one of them first time right. Every single one of them. Multiple types of injection moulded plastics, stamped and bent, metal enclosures, deep drawn metal parts, polystyrene housings, PC control panels.. and they all fit together like they should because the guy who made them ( me) knows how to handle multi material tolerances.

3. Hired the right guy laterally as he was leaving another team to make my life better. Turned out to be the best decision ever.

4. Built a working humanoid leg, knee down. Then started on a joint definition system for physical AI. Got some protos running. And a simulator executing. This was night work.

5. Taught the three year old to cycle. Two wheels done.

While trying to stay alive a little bit longer as we beat the triglycerides down and pump some iron to keep things from collapsing.
And hoping that the blocks on those other vessels haven’t grown.

I did good. And as it will alway has been and will be, I will pat my back and soldier own alone into the abyss now.

[nithinkd @nithinkd]

This entire saga unfolding at Lodhi gardens has been fascinating to read about. Will never wake up at 5 so probably won’t witness it 😬

[Mohit Mehta @indian_pitta]

Twist in the Tale — The Pied Expands Her Empire | Hornbill Saga, Lodhi Garden | 2 June ’26

The morning began routinely enough.

At 5:10am the Grey Hornbill male arrived at Nest 1, followed at 5:18am by the Oriental Pied Hornbill — who immediately resumed her now-familiar role as ruler of the neighbourhood, chasing the Grey away again at 5:25am.

Both species carried berries through the morning, though only a single begging beak was clearly visible at Nest 1.

Then came the twist.

At around 6:45am, Pankaj and Arnav decided to follow the Pied whenever she disappeared from the Semul tree. What followed completely changed the story.

Pankaj picked her up near the cycle track collecting small lumps of mud from the ground. Meanwhile, Arnav located a second active Grey Hornbill nest roughly 50 feet away — complete with an incarcerated female and chicks inside.

Moments later, the Pied arrived there carrying the same mud.

Very quickly the team split into two camps — one staying back at Nest 1 while the other monitored what instantly became “Nest 2.”

And then the real surprise unfolded.

The Pied was not simply visiting Nest 2… she was actively attending both nests.

She moved repeatedly between the two families carrying berries, inspecting entrances, and aggressively chasing away Grey Hornbills at both locations. At Nest 2 the occupants appeared even more vocal and eager whenever she arrived.

One adopted family was unusual enough.
Two starts looking like an empire.

The discoveries also solved one mystery while creating another. The bird many of us thought yesterday was the emerged female from Nest 1 turned out to be the same moulting sub-adult seen accompanying the Grey male for days.

Which leaves the obvious question:
Where is the real female?

Two active nests.
Two attendant sub-adults.
One hyper-vigilant Oriental Pied Hornbill.

And enough unanswered questions to keep us returning before sunrise every morning beneath the Semul tree.

[nithinkd @nithinkd]

Soundtrack of the day. Wolf and the moon

[nithinkd @nithinkd]

@maahirpanchal Fantastic read.

[nithinkd @nithinkd]

@sidin AI -yye

[nithinkd @nithinkd]

Yea but I am seeing a minor epidemic of absolutely dumbshit humans believing they have contribution capabilities because chatGPT gave them a answer to a badly formed query. ( and the answer to which they haven’t learnt to process or understand ). And this is worse in india where domain expertise is considered irrelevant already.

[nithinkd @nithinkd]

This. This is what will never happen.
ChatGPT will bot make you a genius.
Claude will not give you skills you don’t have.
Grok won’t teach you how to process cause and effect.

They will make the smart smarter and the skilled better.

They will also make the dumb dumber

[Dr Singularity @Dr_Singularity]

Human civilization is about to gain trillions of extra (200+ IQ) minds.

For all of history, progress was limited by the tiny number of genius level humans alive at any moment.

A few thousand extraordinary minds per generation had to push the entire species forward.

One Einstein.
One Newton.
One Tesla.
One Turing.
One von Neumann.
One Feynman.

Civilization was bottlenecked by biology,
by lifespan,
by education speed,
by attention,
by memory,
by fatigue,
by the number of rare geniuses nature happened to produce.

That bottleneck will soon be obliterated. To achieve this asap, we need to build as many chips and data centers as possible, as fast as possible.

The 2030s will not be just very advanced. They will be unreal. Well beyond Star Trek level.

[nithinkd @nithinkd]

@dedanadan That’s why I need my own T

[nithinkd @nithinkd]

Handed out the job of integrating all my smarthome devices & cameras to Davidson my claw. ( he had discovered all devices & built scripts last week )
Dude built a functional dashboard served on the local network.
Next step, make it pretty and deploy on a tablet.
One days work.

[nithinkd @nithinkd]

@ivishaltejwani Judge or no judge..
Shrug it off shrug it off shrug it off.

[nithinkd @nithinkd]

Good stuff here!!
Small feedback :
Est total does not change when I switch from standard to fine but standard rate changes. Mildly confusing.

The “needs support/has overhangs” is an expert setting and should probably be included in est total as a very visible - “support material cost on actuals” without explaining what it is?

All the best. This is the way

[nithinkd @nithinkd]

Ok. Angles are right. Pack up for now.

[nithinkd @nithinkd]

A planetary gearbox is waiting for bearing today

[nithinkd @nithinkd]

@maahirpanchal Thanks dude!

[nithinkd @nithinkd]

@maahirpanchal This is home made. I have two P1Ss

[nithinkd @nithinkd]

The ceiling for this growth is the saturation of customers (like me) with home charging infra.

These records are being built with shaky infra that refuses to keep pace or stay alive.

[Vahan Warta (वाहन वार्ता ) @VahanWarta]

⚡️BREAKING: India just smashed its highest-ever monthly EV record!

👉Nearly 26,000 electric cars registered in May 2026, a new all-time high!

With more launches, expanding charging infrastructure, and increasing consumer confidence, India's EV market continues to gain momentum.

Will India hit 30,000+ monthly EV registrations before December 2026?

#IndiaEV #ElectricVehicles #EVSales #EVRevolution #VahanWarta

[nithinkd @nithinkd]

All controls local. Including camera streams. Direct ( no auth 😳) access onto wiz lights, BroadLink IRs, and authorised access on tapo local.