Recent content by kiran6680

The terms "unnatural" and "mutant grade abomination" are not specific, falsifiable or concrete enough to really prove / refute anything about them. But as much as is possible : 1. The wheat and rice we have are "unnatural" in the sense that if you go in a random forest and just come across a...

Yes, I got that message too that from 03 July, the charges are 299+gst.

I tell them this thing, they assign a technician to me, and then that technician calls me and says nothing needs to be done in my router because in my connection (not sure what is special in my connection, fibre is everywhere) the static IP is all handled on their side. Then that technician...

Is anyone using the static IP service from Airtel? I added the static IP feature in my long term Airtel broadband connection about 5 months ago for about Rs 200 / month, and my IP address keeps changing every 2-3 weeks. I never noticed earlier, but probably even before paying Rs 200/month, the...

Yes, I agree with your assessment. Though some corporates don't control*, they just ask you to do work for which you need these special applications like those from Adobe etc. Many of these applications don't have manners. * E.g. Google, some orgs within Apple and IBM give their employees a lot...

Since you are using this machine for work, could even be some badly behaved corporate application that is creating and running these files. E.g. one guy had Adobe Acrobat create hexadecimal named files right in their drive root ...

While I agree that lots of advice from the document seems questionable, these political documents are limited by their bosses and even if their authors know better, they cannot include some good stuff. Like the obsession with grains and carbohydrates. But we agreed on this thread earlier that no...

Not sure about iCloud, but there are proper alternatives too Gmail that are mainly email and related services. E.g. proton mail, fastmail etc.

Yes, ICMR's conflict of interest and political control are big red flags. Some of the criticism is also not powerful. The only serious concern to me seems to be this, somewhat badly phrased "Two, it does not mention how frequently these adverse events were reported by the sample population to...

There are elderly friendly Android interfaces too. If the caregivers can make sure the phone is charged, and accessible all the time, the hassle of Android phones is minimal. I've tried Big Launcher a few years ago, it was ok. Slightly buggy, but didn't matter for casual use. It can be...

https://indianexpress.com/article/health-wellness/covaxin-side-effects-bhu-study-icmr-9340377/ If ICMR is right, it was shameful for BHU to conduct such a poor study. Though I can't be sure if ICMR is right.

It's good, definitely a step up over stackoverflow, going through documentation, and googling. Especially for languages/frameworks you are not familiar with. But even slightly more complicated stuff, and they make a simple mistake in spite of asking it to avoid that mistake. That mistake often...

Oh, I've seen 2 different clock repairmen advise against using duracell, and recommending regular cheap Eveready type of batteries. Both of the times, I was waiting to get my own watch/clock repaired, and another customer asked about batteries. Nobody asked the reason, and I'm miserly so I...

Yeah, just academic .

There is something called reverse mortgage. https://www.bankrate.com/mortgages/reverse-mortgage-guide/ You give your property to an insurer. They pay you until you die. If you don't have property, but liquid assets, you buy an annuity, with an option to receive income until death. Burning...