Purposefulness for Better Tomorrow

Its been more than 3 months since August security patch update. Out of curiosity I checked Oxygen Updater. To my surprise, Oxygen OS v 10 (based on Android 10) is available. Since this is a stable release, i went head and updated it. Its ended up being a buggy release. For those of you, who didnt get update over OTA, its better to wait for OOS 10.1. Here are the list of issue and the workarounds. Issue #1 :  Phone randomly restarts and then goes to boot loop Workaround : when the phone stuck in boot loop (with OnePlus logo animation), Press Power Button and Volume Down button to restart it Issue #2 : Google play wont work Work Around : Booting to recovery and clearing cache is expected to fix this. will update after testing To booting to recovery, Firstly, turn off your phone: press and hold the Power button for a while or press the Power key once and choose ‘power off’. Once the switch off process is completed start pressing and also holding down the Volume Dow...

Issue: Netgear Router R7800 (firmware version  V1.0.2.62 )   with access control by default blocking access to new devices, is blocks access to new devices but when we allow access to newly blocked device, Router wont allow access and still blocks internet access to device. Solution / Work around 1. Access "Access control" itself is a challenge as Router keeps asking for authentication. Solution is to navigate to "access control" page from Advanced --> Security --> Access Control. This wont prompt for authentication again 2. Once you connect a new device, it will be blocked by default. Currently allowing access though the "Allow" button doesn't help. 3. To connect the device follow below steps Turn off Wifi on new device. It disconnect the device from Router and moves the entry of the device to " View list of blocked devices not currently connected to the network" Copy the mac address of the new device and ...

Like many, I keep hearing about looming recession and Gold as a hedge. But how exactly gold is going to help me and if yes, how to invest is something running behind my mind.  So here is my work on it and hope it helps you too. Why Invest in Gold ?  Fiat currency we are holding is loosing its value at the rate of inflation. But before fiat currency, gold is the standard. Based on current technology, its difficult to extract gold. so in the demand vs supply equation, supply cant balloon like central banks printing money at their will. so i dont need to worry about Gold loosing its value over time. On Supply part, As per World Gold Council estimate 190,040 metric tones extracted and another 54000 metric can be extracted from ground. Refer :  https://www.gold.org/about-gold/gold-supply/gold-mining/how-much-gold On the Demand part, Below are the key drivers of Gold demand Source: Thomson Reuters GFMS, World Gold Council As an investment, From individu...

Years ago, I had a question "is there a manual explaining how to use my (Human) body? " Pursuit of this question send me in different directions. In this post, I will talk about "How to poop properly?" what is the right way ? Before get into it, Why now ? My daughter going through potty training. She naturally prefers Indian style full squat. This initially puzzled me as she newer knew about this way and also this is against what she is seeing / observing in Potty training videos and what is being taught at school. Being born in India, crouching is the way for us. Now being in western world, forcing my daughter against her natural will, makes me feel guilt. So i started searching about what is the right thing to do. Came across  Dov Sikirov who researched on Human Digestive diseases. In his 2013 article (refer  https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1024180319005 ) he studied straining forces applied when sitting or squatting dur...

Pros web scrapping methodology very user friendly Control - Correct - Command method using in build ML Cons While using Desktop app, it is very slow. Not sure if Browser with in Desktop app running from local machine or Parsehub server. This will be a concern while passing login credentials to scrap secured data Some interesting Parsehub blog posts https://www.parsehub.com/blog/scrape-twitter-tweets/ https://www.parsehub.com/blog/ https://www.parsehub.com/blog/mining-tweets-for-sentiment-analysis-part-1/ https://www.parsehub.com/blog/mining-tweets-for-sentiment-analysis-part-2/ https://www.parsehub.com/blog/portia-vs-parsehub-comparison-which-alternative-is-the-best-option-for-web-scraping/ https://www.parsehub.com/blog/parsehub-vs-scrapy-comparison-which-alternative-is-better-for-web-scraping/ https://www.parsehub.com/blog/parsehub-vs-import-io-which-alternative-is-better-for-web-scraping/

As a NRI living in US, I used to various associations like Gujarathi, Tamil, Telugu, Telangana associations etc., But when India was bad mouthed in Western press after Article 370 removal on behalf of Muslim brotherhood, felt like need of United Indian voice. While Pakistani officials spread rumors in Twitter, they kept debunked by various fact finding organizations. But voice isnt enough to make it to main stream media. Refer On the other hand, India as a nation is so diversified , that each state has its own culture, norms, cousins. Traditionally these differences kept Indians abroad apart coming under one umbrella. Since there is no external uniting force, looks like Modi has taken it upon himself to bring all onto one platform. As per 2015 estimates, around 1.5Million are Indian Americans with voting rights. Refer  https://aapidata.github.io/quick_stats/national_data.html and another 300K are pending with approved green card petitions. While these folks are star...

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Overview Context of the issue Key events Abrogation of Article 370 of Indian constitution Diplomatic fight Use of rouge forces Information warfare through rumors   Role of regional events US election in 2020 and withdraw of forces from Afghanistan Pakistan strategic depth China's want to deminate South China Sea Solution sdfas Latest on Kashmir Important: Update on Restoration of Normalcy in Jammu & Kashmir. pic.twitter.com/ot1Mt7DaxW — Sheikh Aadil (@AskSheikhAadil) September 9, 2019   Former Pakistan ambassador to US confirming "Pakistan's military terror must end, for India to consider talks" [[KEEP WATCHING THIS SPACE AS I MAKE UPDATES]]

Watching recent tweets and news article in western media, I would like to spend some quality time and understand the enmity between India and Pakistan. In this pursuit, some interesting reads and my take a ways India-Pakistan partition - Birth of a country based on religion  Subsequent incidents Current states 9/11 Terrorist attacks and Intelligence war What wrong with Islam State of Pakistan and reasons for some of its troubles by a Pakistani 10-September - 2019 Pakistan Army begins operation in POK

On July 4 morning, a mild earthquake measuring 4.0 rocked CA at about 10 AM. Personally I didnt experienced it and came to know about it only when another earthquake measuring 6.6 hit. Since moving to CA, it isnt my first earthquake. I experienced few before.  Just like before, googled to see whats going, enjoyed fun in Twitter and continued with my day as usual. Next day evening,  I experienced something bigger.  This one is different from previous ones. It keeps shacking for a while. By 9 PM PT, it's subdued but a ton of questions racing through my mind..  Its night time and we will be in middle of sleep. Will it be safe going in ?  This one is differently bigger than yesterday. Will the next one going to be bigger ? If yes, how soon ? I started searching for answers, but all i can see is " WELCOME TO CA " messages. I am not new to CA and living here for a while. This isn't felt normal. So I started se...

India vs Pakistan World Cup 2019  This engagement flooded twitter with memes. Collection of few of them below The last India vs Pakistan match pic.twitter.com/aDYdFE0jAt — Ch ahsan ismail (@Chahsanismail) June 16, 2019 . @RanveerOfficial is feeling the adrenaline rush at the #IndiaVsPakistan game. pic.twitter.com/uWlRIQlK8y — Filmfare (@filmfare) June 16, 2019 Spotted this couple at the #IndiaVsPakistan @cricketworldcup game and was intrigued by their jerseys! Husband is from Pakistan, wife from India so both stitched up India-Pak jerseys & wore them! Both are Canadians, watching the game in England, rooting for peace #SpiritofCricket pic.twitter.com/KrUjtkjFMn — Lakshmi Kaul (@KaulLakshmi) June 16, 2019 https://twitter.com/Chahsanismail/status/1140180507617112064 https://twitter.com/Chahsanismail/status/1140180507617112064 https://twitter.com/Ranjeet993949/status/1140153138768306176://twitter.com/Chahsanismail/status/11401805076171...