1st granted patent of my life. Here's hoping for a few more to come 😊😊 @saplabsindia @LifeatSAP @SAP

I took Opus 4.5 Max Mode for the ultimate test. I asked it to search my code base for bugs I took a lot of pride in this code, all hand rolled, by the sweat of my brow. It was mine and it was good. Claude found 15 bugs I was devastated So I went to the first bug, and asked for a unit test. It produced a unit test in mere moments. I ran the tests and saw it. A broken test. Property test of undefined. Rookie error Ashamed, but determined I set forth to fix these bugs as penance. So I cracked open nvim getting ready to edit this typescript script But... The code seemed correct. Weird. So I checked the test, Claude faked bad data. The setup could never happen Wtf It's a lie, the whole thing. I checked every bug Claude found. Every line item was not a bug. Everyone of them just some condition that cannot exist due to asserts or previous if statements What an amazing $3s and 20 minutes spent Normally when I waste time at least I learn something

Last week, we got the news that India has overtaken Japan and is now the fourth largest economy in the world, in terms of GDP. The news inevitably received mixed reactions. Some people were happy. Some didn't care. Then came this army of people, who came out with pointed questions like What about our poor? What about the people who are poorer than poor? What about our Per Capita income? What about the Gini Co-efficient and the Poverty trap? What's the point of us being the 4th largest economy when 90% of our population has sub-Saharan Africa levels of income? Why are Salman Khan and Suriya movies so atrociously bad? How did Sandeep Vanga and Siruthai Siva become movie directors? Now all these are valid questions. I am not denying them. But how does it take away from the fact that we are the 4th largest economy in the world today? I mean, considering where we were in 1990, becoming a $ 4 trillion GDP economy was not a dream. It was a delusion. We were in a country where A simple act of getting a telephone took three years. Importing a computer took 5. Buying a scooter, took 15. More than half of our population had no water connection and electricity, 95% of our country couldn't afford a packet of milk and the average person was unemployed and died before they reached retirement age. We had zero manufacturing and were absolute duds in technology. Today, we are no longer all of that. We are self-sufficient in food and clothing. 99% of India has electricity and running tap water. We are now a genuine manufacturing country, have the world's largest IT services industry and our highway and railway network has increased faster than the delusions of our neighbouring country. We have permanently moved from the so called "Hindu Rate of Growth" to an actual rate of growth and our GDP growth % is now higher than our TFR. And we've built foundational blocks that will serve us amazingly well in the decades to come Yes, we still have a lot of poverty, and our Per capita income could be better, but for a country that was on the verge of bankruptcy just 35 years ago, this is a tremendous achievement To Paraphrase Calvin and Hobbes - Let’s not be so busy watching what’s ahead of us that we forget to enjoy how far we’ve come!!!

After an age any event, any special day appears a bit cumbersome. Diwali, Birthdays, Any festival. Suddenly there is a pressure to perform, to dress up, to decorate, to put effort, to smile harder. You love being under the radar. To be not bothered. To be not judged. Then such days come, you perform, and when it’s done, you breathe a sigh of relief, to go back to your routine. After an age :)

Bangalore is probably the only city that can attract talent like Deepak and this is what we give in return . What a shame .

Attack on Titan has one of the greatest plot twists of all time

Sad reality of Shrikhand Mahadev Yatra, one of the toughest & most sacred treks to Lord Shiva's abode! At 17,150 ft, the trek is challenging, but the real challenge is the garbage that pollutes the path & even the temple premises! This was a common sight on tourist spots, but now even the sacred places are facing the same fate! #HimachalPradesh

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RT @prabhatsirji: Vasooli Police Officer @MumbaiPolice @CMOMaharashtra @aajtak Car was on charging, & they dragged it as for and made chal…

THOUGHTS: There should be new laws regardinga digital media, where if a digital storefront ends a contract, shut down a server or remove content for any reason, they SHOULD fully refund those who purchased the service, for the price that they paid for it🚀 There should be a clear difference between rentals and purchases. A purchase is not a rental. It should not have an invisible time limit determined by the whims of the storefront or production company. The options should be: 1️⃣Full refund upon content removal, for the price the user paid during the time of purchase. (If it’s full price, they get the full price. If it was discounted, they get they discount price they paid) 2️⃣The ability to download their purchases which they can freely use at anytime on their own platform, or an alternative one they it’s compatible with The clause of “the company has the right to revoke access at any time for any reason without compensation” should no longer be tolerated. If you pay for something, you should be able to get it, or be fully compensated for the loss of it. Period. Let me know your thoughts😎 (this applies to any entity offering digital content for sale, not just the ones below. The images are for reference only) #PlayStation #Amazon #Apple #Xbox

Watch @DANIELPEMBERTON and company shred the finale of his #AcrossTheSpiderVerse score. It WAS crazy.

🔥 #SpiderMan2 3D ad banner in Citywalk Mall in Delhi! 🔥 Video via: @RishiAlwani #ICG #SpiderMan2PS5 #PS5India

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Bangalore auto/taxi unions are like a Mafia. Pampered for so long that they think controlling transport business is an entitlement. By banning carpooling, government has shown it cares nothing about traffic - but everything about pandering to the votebank.

Due to damage #Footpath, A #Girl fell in the open #Drainage. - This happened Because of @BBMPCOMM @CMofKarnataka Irresponsible duties. -- GOD saved her otherwise chances of #life 😡 -- Shame on the new @CMofKarnataka Government, nothing changed after Congress 🙏 -- @DKShivakumar

🌺🌺🌺 Excited and Happy about the Hyderabad Cycling Track, which is one of a kind - first in India and second in the world! Benefits are Multi-fold and this is going to transform the entire Cycling Ecosystem in our city Hyderabad. Looking forward to the Official Government Launch. Thank you @KTRBRS @arvindkumar_ias 👏👏♥️ @HydcyclingRev @BYCS_org @BYCSIndia @BicycleFuturist @modacitylife @bicyclesbeyond @Anne_Hidalgo @MinPres @Cycling_In_LDN @MayorofLondon @CommuteDeParis @pedalandtring @HiHyderabad @swachhhyd @BicycleDutch Video credits @akhil_rao_arc

Chandrayaan-3 Mission: The Rover completed its assignments. It is now safely parked and set into Sleep mode. APXS and LIBS payloads are turned off. Data from these payloads is transmitted to the Earth via the Lander. Currently, the battery is fully charged. The solar panel is oriented to receive the light at the next sunrise expected on September 22, 2023. The receiver is kept on. Hoping for a successful awakening for another set of assignments! Else, it will forever stay there as India's lunar ambassador.

In 2004, my dad filed a case of medical negligence against one of India's most powerful hospitals viz. Batra Hospital, Delhi and Padmashree awardee cardiologist Dr Upendra Kaul. Case was filed in the state consumer court, Delhi & my dad asked for a compensation of Rs. 80 lakh. (80,00,000 INR) After 11 years, in 2015 my dad passed away, without getting justice. My senior citizen widowed mother decided not to give up. TLDR; we won the case after 19 long years, but what transpired is a story that teaches you that, in India, it's better if you can settle outside the court. But, sometimes it's not about the compensation, settlement, or winning a case; it's about making sure the perpetrators are taught a lesson so that the negligence never gets repeated. It's also about closure. Here's the story of how a common middle-class Indian family from Assam fought a mighty & powerful establishment in their own city (Delhi) for 19 long years and brought the hospital to its knees: ---- It's a long story, but I'll try to keep it short. In 2004, my dad went to Delhi alone for a routine heart check-up & returned with a pace-maker in his chest. Escalated too quickly? Exactly my mother's reaction when he called from Delhi asking her to immediately board a flight from our hometown in Guwahati, Assam. Long story short: 1. Dad went for a diagnostic study called EPS. Batra hospital took consent for it. 2. Protocol is that if EPS study came abnormal, RFA is suggested as the next step as a treatment after discussing with the patient. Patient needs to provide a fresh consent for RFA. 3. However, if the pathways are too close, RFA is risky & is not recommended as it can be fatal. 4. EPS shows if pathways are close or not. My dad's EPS showed that pathways are close. In spite of that, Batra hospital and its cardiologists went ahead and performed RFA: a. Without consulting with the patient or relatives. b. Without taking fresh consent as it's a separate procedure. Things then went south real quick. ---- Due to closeness of pathways, obvious complications occurred & my dad's life was in danger. The only way to save him? Put a pace-maker in his chest immediately! So that's what they did: put a temporary pace-maker while informing my mother to immediately catch a flight to Delhi so that they can put a permanent pace-maker the next day. And you would think, the ordeal would end there? Cute. ---- My parents returned home after a few days & dad was supposed to recover. But instead, we saw his chest area getting swollen day by day. We freaked out and consulted a cardiologist in Guwahati. And they confirmed the worse: the pace-maker was not installed properly and one of the pipes pierced through his heart. He needs an urgent emergency open-heart surgery to fix the pace-maker. So, my family went through another few days of anxiety, stress and disbelief. ---- My dad, is known in our friends and family circles as someone who's always been an super-active person; always engaged in some form of work; be it gardening, fixing electronics, repairing things around the house. My mother used to call him the perfect engineer since he could fix anything compared to the other two engineers in the family viz. me and my sister who were lazy compared to him. The series of surgeries and a pace-maker did slow my dad down, but couldn't kill his spirit. However, we could see the difference. We would pace himself while climbing stairs etc. It would hurt us a lot. And him too. So he decided to drag Batra Hospital to the consumer forum. ---- Our family advocate resides in Kolkata and he agreed to take the case up pro-bono. We assumed it'll be an open and shut case. And since it's consumer court, we assumed it will be quick justice. Oh, we are so wrong. So so wrong. My dad attended every single hearing of the case from 2004 till 2015 when he passed away. He used to take a flight from Guwahati while booking a ticket for our advocate from Kolkata. Then there was cost of accommodation in Delhi. Attending these hearings was no cheap affair. When you add up each hearing over 19 years...it quickly adds up to a large amount. ---- On many occasions, someone from hearing judge bench would be absent so nothing would happen. You get a new date, months in the future. Or the opposite party advocate would be absent, or cite lame excuses to stall the proceedings. E.g. once the opposite advocate asked the court for a new date since his colleague was stuck in traffic and couldn't reach the court. And we were given a new date! Imagine the frustration. And this happened over 11 years till my dad passed away. ---- When dad passed away, Batra Hospital might have heaved a sigh of relief. Can't blame them; they had not yet met my mother. She decided to continue the fight. That's when I started taking active participation as well. Let's take a pause and understand why it took so many years? 1. It's a medical case and the judges felt inadequate without proper medical advice. 2. The opposite party was a Padmashree awardee celebrated cardiologist and the hospital was founded by people walking the corridoors of power. 3. Deliberate delays of absenteeism, withdrawing evidence from court etc. The court asked an independent medical board for their recommendations. The medical board tilted in our favour for obvious reasons: the medical negligence was apparent. ---- Batra hospital tried to confuse the judge's bench by claiming that consent was taken for RFA. When asked to provide evidence, they would repeatedly provide the EPS consent form. This would delay the case and do nothing else. They also never submitted the EPS traces to the court. They claimed that the traces were provided to my family and they have no record in their system. Which was utterly bullsh*t because we didn't have the traces. They didn't provide the traces as it would immediately shut the case. Traces will show that the pathways were close, so RFA was not warranted. Unable to provide consent form & Unable to provide traces went against them. And in 2018, we won the case in the Delhi state consumer forum. The court awarded 10 lakh (10,00,000 INR) compensation with 7% simple interest from the date of filing the case. While it was nothing compared to the asked compensation of 80 lakhs, we were happy as it was never about the money anyway. But our happiness was short-lived, as Batra Hospital decided to appeal the judgement in the higher court: The National Consumer Forum. ---- And so we were back to square one. I promised mom that even if it takes another 14 years, I'll continue the fight. And so we did. Date after date, hearing after hearing. Same BS all over again. However, our advocate Mr. Neguive Ahmed is one of the best in the business. A senior citizen himself, he was so frustrated that he took it upon himself to turn Godmode on. I witnessed one of his argument session at court and he ruthlessly thrashed the opposing party left, right and center. He didn't even spare the bench & schooled them for taking forever to deliver a judgement. This time, he was not going to let it continue for 10 more years. So he pushed at every hearing for shorter dates. And in 2023, we won again! Batra was brought to its knees. They can appeal again, yes; but it has to be the Supreme Court. And after getting their a** whopped twice in a row for 19 years, they didn't have the courage to approach Supreme Court. And finally gave up. ---- It begs a question: Did we really win? And even if we did win technically, at what cost? I would say, it comes at a price of your mental wellbeing, financial expense, a lot of frustration, shameless advocates and it leaves a bad taste in your mouth. Batra's advocate is so shameless, he allegedly told our advocate, "We have worked for so many years on the case, won't you give us something? Your client has won a hefty amount" Bloody bloodsucker! You worked AGAINST us all these years and now you want 'something' for your 'service'?! ---- So, is justice delayed justice denied? Definitely yes, my family is just happy that the case is over. But we are also happy to have never given up. I understand that it may not be financially possible for everyone to not give up on a long legal battle, but that's what they want: drown you into date after date so that one fine day, you simply give up because it starts looking futile. If you can, persist. As my mom did and my dad would have. Even if it's justice denied, it's justice nonetheless for the future patients. It's like paying for the next person. At least the next time they perform any surgery that requires consent, they will remember the Goswami family. Thanks for reading.