I will never take a car loan.
1. A car is a depreciating asset. Its value keeps going down every year.
2. You end up paying interest on an asset that loses value.
3. EMIs add financial burden, while fuel, insurance and maintenance are already expensive.
Buy a car for convenience, not at the cost of your financial freedom.
I think what is actually needed is for Indian people to actually give a damn about their cities and fellow citizens.
Anybody using the "I pay taxes, I shouldn't have to do anything" excuse should go live in another country. India isn't developed, it's developing, so it needs patriots, not parasites. If this triggers you, it means you're part of the problem.
If you're not happy with the footpath (or a pothole, or anything else which is broken), fix it, or call someone to fix it, and don't give up until it's fixed. Be relentless. Be vocal. Be creative. Make it your mission to get that one thing fixed. Look at what Virendra (@Virendra0698) did by just calling the right people and being respectful (but also persistent). He and Arun Pai (@arunpaiblrwalks) along with the help of GBA and some wonderful volunteers turned an unofficial garbage dump into a pristine, beautiful footpath through sheer force of will.
https://t.co/pBmWjgckFf
The ffmpeg saga continues with "dblur" & an improvement I found with an LLM
Blurring was a bit slow
That's because it copied the same chunk of memory as many times as the frame's pixel width... for no reason 💀
95 GB of data per frame
Human code: 2452 ms
Human+LLM: 49 ms