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2023

The global economy weakened due to fiscal and monetary tightening, inflation, COVID restrictions, and the Russia-Ukraine war. However, technology has been a key factor in disrupting and innovating new sectors in an unprecedented way. As we embark on a new year, these areas are worth noting. Internet : The Internet transformed our world profoundly, and every industry is getting digitized! Web3 includes platforms and applications that enable a decentralized internet with open standards and protocols while protecting digital ownership rights and catalyzing new business models. The world is becoming more democratic and decentralized. The need for equality will have a great impact as diverse segments of humanity participate in decision-making, planning, execution, and maintenance. The crypto market is a leading example of decentralized initiatives. Digital first habits and remote work have ushered in an online-first era. Many interactions now occur online, bringing traditional community

Fitness and Gym routines for an IT Professional | Reduce Belly Fat | Building Muscle | Eating Whey Protein | Post Covid Body Weight Loss | Learnings from Dorian Yates and Herman Pontzer

Disclaimer: This blog is my personal study notes and I'm not a medical professional or nutritionist. It's only for educational purposes, not medical advice. Always talk to a professional for your specific needs. Question: I'm less active, getting older, and gaining weight. I've very less muscles. I've a lot of extra body fat! Most of the gym trainers start me on light warm up exercises, then without quickly move to tough body weight exercises like push-ups etc. Eventually I drop-out from gym because I feel the routine can cause more harm. What's the best gym routine for me? If you're starting gym after a long break or if you have lean muscles, don't start with free weight excercises or using body weight. It is important to use machines in gym with low weights to build key muscles first and at the same time avoid injuries. Use gym machines with light weights to build muscles first and prevent injuries. Your goal should be to slowly increase muscle

New desktop assembled

Got the 2nd PC assembled. The first one was done in 2011 . New PC1 GPU : ASUS strix GeForce RTX 2070 Super 8GB — 46500+GST, Mfg:Oct2019 (Dual GeForce went out of stock) MoBo : Gigabyte X570 AORUS ELITE Wifi —— 18800+GST,Mfg:Apr2020 (I was confused between the processor vs. mobo change finally went with x570) Pro : Ryzen 5 3500 Gen3 —— 8900+GST, Mfg: Dec2019 RAM : G.skill rjpaws DDR4 3600MHz 16GB —— 6000+GST SSD : Samsung EVO 500GB NVMe —— 8200+GST, Mfg:May2020 HDD : Western digital Blue 2TB SATA —— 3900+GST, Mfg:June2020 Cabinet : Cooler Master MB511 RGB —— 5500+GST PSU : NZXT C-Series 750 —— 9500+GST Key board : Corsair Strafe —— 8000+GST, Mouse : Logitech G502 —— 4300+GST, Mfg: Jun2020 UPS : APC Backup Pro 1500G - 13560+GST, Mfg:Feb2020 All parts above are priced excluding GST (18%) and was delivered at home including in these charges. New PC2: Processor : AMD 3000 Series Ryzen 5 3600XT Desktop  - ₹20,904.45 - 17 October 2020 from Amazon MoBo : GIGABYTE B450 AORUS PRO WiFi - ₹12,795.

Planted aquarium learnings

Been 7 years since I’ve set up an aquarium. I had to leave my last aquarium at Hyderabad. Below shown is my old aquarium setup from 2013. A lot of things have changed and have been made easy nowadays to build a good scape but still a lot of scope for innovation. 2013 tank After many weeks, I’ve my new aquarium. The new tank is getting ready & will update this post once fully setup. I thought of capturing these for future references & also might be a great way to learn. Some of these are basics but still, I kind of forgot due to the time.  The mindset of the setup is that what you’re setting up is really fragile. A small mistake (not just because of you but due to external factors) result in losing a decent amount of money. So always start with a small one, I eventually settled on 60x45x45cms with 10mm thickness which I regret now. I feel 30x30x30cm is a great start! New tank after 2-months: Invest in basics.  Always go for clear or extra clear glass, the aquasca

Hats off to Kannan Gopinathan for talking about the topic clearly!

Kannan starts the talk by detailing NRC. Any citizen's govt interactions are based on documents. A lot of Indians can't afford to carry an official document. So he asks, Should we throw out Women, Dalits, Tribe, Landless laborers, etc. without documents from India? Govt may not throw them out immediately, but citizenship will be taken away. The citizenship can be claimed back after legal follow-ups. There will be claims we'll hear in future like, a specific party granted citizenship to many from whom they stole the citizenship! Does the govt has the right to steal citizenship from a person even for a night? As we all know, a slight name change in an official document is miserable to fix at times. Citizens will be made to believe that they made a huge mistake by not having the right documents, whereas it is the responsibility of the govt! Instead of govt having proper tools to prove citizenship of a person, govt is making the proof - a problem of the citizen. NRC is a

Questions about nationalism

Formation of a country or nationalism probably as a concept can be backtracked even 5000 years ago. I don't think humanity is going backward but there are strong reasons why so many conscious minds are making these decisions. Why do we humanity divide into nations & create a hostile environment for immigrants or neighboring countries?   Why certain religious immigrants are considered to be refugees? Is it because they align to certain beliefs? Or if those refugee immigrants get citizenship, surely, that vote is assured to the political party that granted citizenship? We're ready to use the technologies, products, inventions, or sports from other countries but at times we can not tolerate living with people across nations together. The moment we give citizenship to immigrants, then we end up paying our tax money to the immigrants and they start getting benefits like vote, food, water, health, education, etc. If we're consuming the benefits of other nations then it is

A day at channapatna

Hale wood (Wrightia Tinctoria) is best suited for turning & lac application. The wood comes from non-forest & non-agricultural land. Where the trees are cut such that it grows back. The wood isn't chemically treated hence saw dust powders proven non-hazardous to the workers. To season the wood all the wood gets stacked up in wood room. The wood gets stacked according to the sizes. Once seasoned, it gets sanded, cut into small blocks which can be mounted on the lathe for toy making. Lac is another key component of this process. Lac is a non-toxic natural resin. Laccifer lacca insects eat the sap of the tree on which they live. The insect lay eggs on the secretion & post egg hatching people peel off the secretion from the bark of the tree. It gets cleaned, further purified into seed lac, button lac, lac flakes & shellac. Seed lack which is in circular shapes is used here. 1st magic moment for me Lac must be melted over charcoal fire as excessive heat can burn!