velox_vulnus

In India, bachelors have a hard time getting a place for rent. They often have to pay exorbitant prices. And obviously, no drinking/smoking at home, no pets, there’s also dietary restrictions some times, no inviting friends, especially of the opposite sex. But that was for the millennials. For us Gen-Z kids, it gets so much worse.

Both the Bengals are burning.

“My name is Björk and your television is just about to explode!”

Porter Robinson is really nice. I kinda like Shelter a lot.

What does this have to do with world news?

Oh yes, they’re also available, but owing to the China-maal (China-stuff) sentiment, which is the Indian equivalent of Chinesium, propagated and fueled by the western media, I’m not sure if expensive products like cars will be well-received.

However if local companies step in for a partnership, like for example the Tata-Chery venture, then they would have easy entry in the market. BYD was temporarily associated with Megha Engineering, who were involved in huge cases of corruption, so there’s that too.

I don’t know who the current partner of BYD is (OHM E Logistics?), but as long as they can stay away from NDA-associated corrupt companies, they could probably do well.

1. Guix isn’t as popular as NixOS, but that’s probably because some of the packages are outdated. At least for Guix, I’d say that the packages are quite lacking, but as a contributor, I do what I can to help. NixOS has a variety of packages, which is probably the ideal distro to pick, but personally, I don’t like the weird Haskell/YAML hybrid DSL with poor debugging. Scheme, on the other hand, is a full-fledged language, and not just that, certain apps can be debugged via Shepherd, using the Guile REPL. The learning curve is quite, I’d say, but you don’t really have to worry about that as you can use them as a third-party package manager, just like Flatpak.

2. They’re quite easy in the sense that they have good defaults, but you can use them for advanced stuff using flags.

Eh, don’t care. A sane person would’ve pick something well established, like a Tata Nexon, a Mahindra XUV400EV or a Citroen eC3. Or in premium segments, a Hyundai Ioniq 5, a KIA EV6 or those BMW cars whose names I don’t remember. Only rich, entitled ancap brats in India would buy something as expensive and proprietary as a Tesla.

Wouldn’t it be better to have folders instead? With tree, find and grep, searching gets a lot easier.

• I use Guix to make my Linux setup reproducible, really nice because I’ve basically automated the process of installation an entire OS on a new machine.

• you don’t have to use online tools to convert files, ImageMagick and Pandoc are two really good CLI tools.