Natural Laws vs Man-made Laws

An American鈥檚 experience in Luxor made me write this. The story is long and vivid, but the core theme is how she and many other foreigners were duped into buying and then selling properties losing money in the process.

Status Symbol

When Sony鈥檚 Walkman was expensive, we used them with cheap earphones. Once the music players were cheap, we shifted to more expensive headphones as a status symbol.

January 27, 2024 路 1 min      Misc

Using Python & Poetry inside Docker

Poetry is a great build system. And in 2023, I believe, no one should use the pip for a private Python codebase. Getting it right inside Docker is a different issue, however. Consider a simple Flask-based web server as an example Bash 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 # Install poetry $ pip3 install poetry==1....

Ushuaia

Ultimate guide to traveling in Ushuaia Argentina

Ushuaia, the southernmost city in the world, is located in the remote Tierra Del Fuego region of Argentina. Despite its remoteness, unlike Alaska, the city is gorgeous and prosperous. The whole city is mostly oriented around one single street (Ave. San Mart铆n). And I would recommend staying close to it.

The English 蓻 - a popular vowel missing in Indic languages

English has a very commonly used vowel that doesn鈥檛 exist in Indic languages natively. It is 蓻- Open-mid front unrounded vowel. Consider the word bet, its vowel sound is halfway between bat/啶啶むぜ and bait/啶啶むぜ. This vowel is fairly common in English, for example, tech whose vowel sound is halfway between tack and take. Or met which is half-way between mat and mate. Now, this sound is not natively written in Hindi....

Notable quotes from "How to Live" by Derek Sivers

Some notable quotes from " How to Live" by Derek Sivers. It consists of 27 stories independent of each other. Some contradict ideas from others. And that鈥檚 what makes this short read even more provocative.

How to add a new formula to homebrew package manager

I recently added adb-enhanced to the Homebrew package manager. Here are some of my learnings and future tips to smoothen up the process.

El Caminito in La Boca neighborhood - great food and souvenir options here

Ultimate guide to exploring Buenos Aires

There isn鈥檛 a single city in Latin America that鈥檚 as gorgeous as Buenos Aires. The city is aptly termed Paris of Latin America. The city has relatively good public transport. There is a single SUBE card that one needs to use in the expansive bus and metro system of the city. There are two major airports EZE and AEP. EZE is used primarily for flights in the South American region and AEP for international flights outside this region....

Overnight bus journeys

Overnight bus and train journeys are a great way to save time during long-distance (6 hours+) travel. I still have vivid memories of my overnight bus journeys from Guatemala, Kenya, Egypt, and Peru. Here are some tips to make them easier.

Timing

Two cryptocurrency exchanges came out early on from Y Combinator. One is 2012. One in 2013. One returned 1500X to early investors. The other one ceased to exist after 2 years. What happened?