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Aditya

@adityamandrekar.bsky.social

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Aero/Space Software guy, flannelled fool in the summer, Earth-bound misfit. No image reposts without alt text. (he/him)

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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · Nov 11

I think everyone needs to see Olive at her dignified best. #DogsOfBlueSky

A golden retriever lying on her back on a grey carpeted floor getting belly rubs. Her front paws are in the air, curled, and her eyes are shut as her tongue falls out of the side of her mouth in blissful contentment.

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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 15h

Dammit. #IndVEng #cwc25

Definitely the fourth-best team in the competition, if not lower.

Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 17h

Was it an Alfa Romeo?

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Philip Purser-Hallard @purserhallard.com · 19h

"But soft! What light through yonder window... BRAKES!"

Sky News @news.sky.com · 1d

Shakespeare family home damaged by reversing driver

A 17th-century building that housed William Shakespeare's family has been left damaged after a driver reversed into it.

news.sky.com

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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 17h

Well played.

Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 22h

BY LAWD, IS THAT DAN BROWN'S MUSIC I HEAR?!

Pam Nash @pamnashes.bsky.social · 22h

Louvre museum in Paris closed after robbery, French minister says - live updates

France's Culture Minister Rachida Dati said the incident happened as the museum opened this morning.

www.bbc.co.uk

Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 22h

Thank you!

Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 23h

Last night's focaccia, got lucky with intercepting the rise before it over-proved. Wish I had the correct-sized tray for vertical edges but it doesn't matter, it tasted fine! #BreadSky

A square slab of focaccia bread viewed from a little above one corner, sitting on a metal rack on a hob. The surface has small dimples and there are flecks of sea salt across the top. It's roughly the height of the average thumb.

A slice of the same focaccia now sitting on a plate next to a bowl of tomato soup with croutons. The texture of the bread is reasonably hole-y and you can just make out that the bottom has crisped. In the background are apples and further on an armchair.

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Antifa Baltussen 🇳🇱🇪🇺 @baltussen.bsky.social · 1d

Pie chart thats mostly blue and a sliver of red. Legenda reads red: EHHHH MACARENA
Blue reads: asdwdqdnhjvxhg

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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 23h

I once - 2014ish - went to a wedding of an Indian guy and a Chinese girl, and their uni friends from all over the world. At the afterparty, the only song everyone was perfectly in sync with was the Macarena. I think discos all around the world are also helping keep it relevant.

Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 1d

Deedee dadada!

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Silky @silkyweineck.bsky.social · 1d

with alt-text.

Sara Whitmer
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I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into Fscist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town.
Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming.
Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance.

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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 1d

...Hoga, Woh Mera, Intezaaaaaaar....

Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 1d

My German Bsky friends, how do I find out if www.indiansupermarkt.de is trustworthy? I'd like to place an online order to be delivered to someone in Germany.

IndianSupermarkt - One Stop Online Shop

Indian Supermarkt is an online Indian market where you will find variety of Indian Grocery, Indian Bedsheets, Bangles, Indian Festival items, Herbal Indian skincare products, Indian Home Remedial medi...

www.indiansupermarkt.de

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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 1d

Close - the word is Kadhi. These days in North India and maybe the west it refers to a thin, yoghurt based curry. Curry leaves are literally Kadhi Patta.

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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 1d

My utter sympathies. I work in too specialised a field for it to be of any use in its current state at least. My team wouldn't really find LLMs useful really even if they were allowed them at work (and some do use them at home for experiments).

Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 1d

To add to what @plognark.bsky.social said, even for coding there are "offline" AI tools that means they don't burn huge amounts of energy for every little query you ask of them, and you can deploy them on your own servers, just update them once in a while from the vendor.

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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 1d

I like this framing. This view is shared across everyone I work with, from specialist engineers to Gen Z juniors.

I'm lucky that the people I work with aren't rushing head first into "AI" like it's a goldmine, but outside of that it seems to be a shit show.

Anil Dash @anildash.com · 2d

Okay, for the folks who asked: here's the majority AI view, writing up the reasonable, thoughtful view on AI that the vast majority of people in tech hold, that gets overshadowed by the bluster and hype of the tycoons trying to shill their nonsense. anildash.com/2025/10/17/t... Please share!

The Majority AI View - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

anildash.com

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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 1d

I don't normally read long judgements on the internet, but today was a different day

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John Bull @garius.bsky.social · 2d

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again.

www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

New Work by Gary Larson | TheFarSide.com

Get an exclusive look at brand new cartoons and artwork from cartoonist Gary Larson, creator of the iconic comic strip The Far Side®.

www.thefarside.com

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Micro SF/F by O. Westin @microsff.com · 2d

There was a 'womp' sound from the yard. I looked out the window.

Where the large pile of leaves had been, a dragon sat.

"Oi!" I called.

"The hoard was unguarded," the dragon said. "I claim it."

Every damn year. It'll leave once the leaves lose their golden hue. Meanwhile, I can't order takeaway.

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Foxes In Love @foxes-in-love.bsky.social · 2d

A comic of two foxes, one of whom is blue, the other is green. In this one, Blue and Green are walking. Blue listens intently as Green goes on talking as he talks, leading the way.
Green: Once we get home, I'll read a book, weave two baskets, re-arrange the pantry, learn esperanto-

Blue interrupts Green, who turns to listen.
Blue: That's quite a list. Are you sure you're being completely realistic?

Green takes a momentary pause from being cartoonish, being now depicted as a painstakingly detailed and shaded painting of a fox, with fur texture, whiskers and all.
Extremely realistic Green: Of course.

Returning back to normal, Green keeps walking. Blue follows, looking at Green with suspicion.
Blue: How long did it take you to draw that gag?
Green: A lot longer than I am willing to admit.

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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 2d

The one at Parihar Chowk in Aundh was damn good and yes I remember it from the ₹3 days (around '04-05).

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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 2d

Interested to hear what your pricing is!

I've been away for so long that I've lost all sense of what things cost. In my head it's still ₹2.50 for a vada paav and then I come home and I find that I've to cash out my pretend FDs to buy two.

I'm going to go with ₹100/180 respectively.

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Waffle 🧇 @wafflecut.bsky.social · 3d

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION SAFETY BOARD
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Investigation of:
LOSS OF THE SUBMARINE TITAN
IN THE NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN
ON JUNE 18, 2023
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Accident No.:
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Interview of:
Co-designer/Pilot
Deepsea Challenger
DCA23FM036
via Microsoft Teams
Friday,
July 26, 2024

INTERVIEW OF
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BY LCDR
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A.
Well, I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic.
When I
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set down the path to make that film, the first thing that I did
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was arrange to be introduced to the head of the submersible
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program at the P.P. Shirshov Institute in Moscow, a guy named
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Professor
I. I did that through a mutual friend
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of ours, a guy named
, who is one of the preeminent
underwater cinematographers in the world. And had been on a
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submersible expedition out to Titanic the previous year with the
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Russians. And that was organized by a Canadian company that was
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Aditya @adityamandrekar.bsky.social · 2d

How about those of us that understand its limitations, find it useless for many tasks, know that for others we'll need to upload proprietary info and also hate the fact that it's destroying the environment while also fucking over real artists and copyright owners? Which category is that, Justin?

Justin Wolfers @justinwolfers.bsky.social · 3d

There are basically only two positions in the debate about AI.
1. I’ve barely invested any time in learning how to use it effectively. AI sucks.
2. I’ve invested in learning how to use this tool. Holy cow, it’s transformational.

Position #1 has lower barriers to entry.

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