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Emails became so much intertwined in our daily life. Whatever the internet service it be, eventually it comes to identifying you only through your email1. The newsletters used to be my source of information. I gradually unsubscribed to newsletters and marked the providers as important in my everyday feed of Twitter & Facebook. There is a couple of first order effects, I inadvertently started following so many users related to the news feeds The email inbox, once used to be zero inbox turned out to be filled with spams and filths Beyond First Order2

The future generations must be viewing this as a biggest psychological experiment, worst case scenario and the inhumane practice to save humanity and much more. This is COVID-19 lockdown. Lockdown was imposed on March 25th 2020. Being a social animal, we went through a lot. The ill effects of lockdown ranges from anxiety induced due to potential job loss - historic unemployment rate, potential downturn of investments in coming years, struggling to keep up with daily work-from-home with it’s own challenges.

My SO asked a curious question. I froze, like a Windows XP machine, couldn’t answer then. After the incident, for several nights, the question ran through in my head to decipher the answer. Let’s start with little about me . I like to read books. As of today, reading is one of the hobby for me. For her, reading is a boring chore, like majority around me. The question was simple and on to the point.

The relationship lasted for 2 years, 3 months, 11 days. Barring restroom moments, we were together all the time. I’m talking about my Pixel 2, which has provided me a wonderful experience on any electronics gadget that I’ve ever owned. There are few things, worth mentioning here, both positive & negative. Software-hardware, made for each other - Even though I haven’t used any flagship mobile till then, I feel P2 showed me how it feels when OS is made for hardware.

The outbreak is here. Turned into Pandemic, spreading across geographies without much of obstacles. The impact is felt in so many domains, from hospitals to hospitality, from tourism industry to ride-sharing. Governments are scrambling to slow down its spread. The corporates are equipping employees with work-from-home options. Unorganized sector is going for a toss. So, how could the COVID-19 affect the governing bodies? Late 2010s and the raise of Nationalists The Nationalists or Conservatives or Right wingers are in raise in the 2nd half of 2010s, across the world.

Last July marks the Quadrennial year working in an MNC. These years had taught me several valuable lessons. Learnt either from first-hand experience or learning from others action. What I learnt is that our fundamentals are flawed as several important things are not taught at young age. There are 2 important things that must be included in curriculum. Career vs. Job : In earlier generation, its pride to be working with an employer for long duration (say, in terms years or decades).

Waking up at the morning, after finishing morning-activities I noticed there was no water. I should have checked the water can in the night. Duh!! Should have called the water can vendor if I reached home came earlier. He did delivered the cans after a call and waiting for a hour. Breakfast time. Rushed out to road-side eatery. While waiting for dishes to be prepared, had conversation with the owner-cum-server, came to know that the continuous rain for 3 days the last week has affected their business.

Are you connected to WiFi?, isn’t it slow?” First part of above sentence is objectively denotes ‘WiFi’. The second part contextually denotes ‘WiFi’ through the word – ‘it’. According Merriam-Webster, Context is defined as, The parts of a discourse that surround a word or passage and can throw light on its meaning Every tech giant is boasting that their digital assistants can understand our contextual conversation. Indeed it is a big step for machines to understand our natural speech.

Some reference on how to connect to a Raspberry Pi running in the same LAN network. I’ve been using Raspberry Pi running in home, for last 10 months. Until a month ago, the sole purpose of the RPi is to filter off the ads using Pi-hole1, then a speed test module was scheduled to run on it. By the setup, the speedtest-cli runs every 10 mins and fetches internet into csv file.

I’ve been working with Big data since 2017. As I’m from data warehousing background, it was easier for me to understand what’s what, and build an analogy between DWH & big data frameworks. However, the various file formats used in HDFS always caught me off guard. In DWH, I never considered how the files are stored in DB, it’s managed by the database, maybe DBA might know how its done at the backend, as a DB developer it never bothered me.