Ankit Pati

State. Science. Love.

This account is no longer monitored after November 2022.

I have since moved to @[email protected]

[Ankit Pati @nkitpati]

@UberINSupport Thank you for addressing the concern.

[Ankit Pati @nkitpati]

@Uber_Support This is really unprofessional.

The driver demanded a cash payment on a non-cash trip, and threatened me. The Uber app on his phone even showed a higher amount to be paid as cash than what was displayed earlier.

I paid up, but the app is again asking for payment.

[Ankit Pati @nkitpati]

@TheMaxamillion @xsgames_ @elonmusk Oh? Didn’t realise. I have a free account to download RHEL images. Just never thought to check if it worked with the articles as well. Silly me, I guess. And thanks a tonne!

Oh, by the way, I’m not actually paying!

[Ankit Pati @nkitpati]

@J_Lieu @xtremepentest I guess you missed a “never” there somewhere?

[Ankit Pati @nkitpati]

@NGKabra Definitely not your fault here. You explicitly asked them to use a compiler and they didn’t.

[Ankit Pati @nkitpati]

@TheMaxamillion @xsgames_ @elonmusk Now spare a thought for those of us who have to pay for https://t.co/buPeZ4bEHW 😞

[Ankit Pati @nkitpati]

@NGKabra Fair point. But he was my boss at the point where he had 20+ years of experience under his belt, so who knows how long it took him to figure it all out.

I read your second tweet, though. Not using a compiler seems a little less excusable than just being dyslexic.

[Ankit Pati @nkitpati]

@JSWPhysics @SawhillKyran @honeydipdips @infinite_scream Clearly, you haven’t watched The Last Ship. They used dead bodies from a global pandemic (sounds familiar, innit?) to power an entire city.

[Ankit Pati @nkitpati]

@UberINSupport I shared.

[Ankit Pati @nkitpati]

@thenaughtysquid Way more right than wrong. Both of the statements.

[Ankit Pati @nkitpati]

There is no way to contact you on phone. I refuse to do the Help/Support dance on the app. This is your fault and you fix it right now. I’m not wasting any more time on this, and I’m definitely not paying again.

[Ankit Pati @nkitpati]

@NGKabra My experience with the Samsung Galaxy M series has been very pleasant in terms of battery life, software support, memory, storage, processing power, and of course, price.

https://t.co/aAsTxVhwTd

[Ankit Pati @nkitpati]

@NGKabra The problem is that Android phones get a maximum of 5 years of software support, and renewed phones have used up at least 3 to 4 of those.

If there’s custom ROM support, considering you’re technical, this limitation doesn’t apply, though.

[Ankit Pati @nkitpati]

@NGKabra “Useless policing.”

Or the less laconic and more accurate: “policing by the jobless.”

[Ankit Pati @nkitpati]

@vedant_shety @RetroTechDreams Quantity is a good indicator (not measure) of complexity. Low-complexity items attract more implementers than high-complexity ones.

Likewise, there’s less incentive to develop kernels when you can use Linux.

I commented only on funding as not many want to fund browser engines.

[Ankit Pati @nkitpati]

@ProgrammerDude That was my first instinctive thought. “Yeah, md5 is the _least_ of my concerns right now.”

[Ankit Pati @nkitpati]

@vedant_shety @RetroTechDreams Humour me, old friend. How many browser engines versus kernels are actively developed?

A sum total of 3 browser engines, two of them fully funded by Google (Blink and Gecko):
https://t.co/sM3zKYIYoI

OS kernels? Count for yourself (not all active dev): https://t.co/GsrHbIHOat

[Ankit Pati @nkitpati]

@john772comcast @RetroTechDreams https://t.co/CQRMqxrEyy

[Ankit Pati @nkitpati]

@RetroTechDreams Looks like the angry replies missed the significance of the year 1977, and are therefore thinking I’m advocating software piracy?

BSD was released as a free OS in that year. Later, Linux was released in 1991. That is what I’m referring to.

[Ankit Pati @nkitpati]

@bozoid @RetroTechDreams https://t.co/CQRMqxrEyy

[Ankit Pati @nkitpati]

@RetroTechDreams Looks like the angry replies missed the significance of the year 1977, and are therefore thinking I’m advocating software piracy?

BSD was released as a free OS in that year. Later, Linux was released in 1991. That is what I’m referring to.