Damn. You had to open my eyes after all these years.

Yeah...the broth has done me in numerous times in the US. I used to relish the vegetarian (not vegan) offerings at Chilli’s and Rubio’s Mexican Grill. That was until the servers at both places clarified that the rice is supposedly cooked in chicken broth. This was a decade ago and often the servers weren’t sure.…

I remember when Ubuntu came out with their Unity desktop (now dumped in favour of GNOME) they had a wallpaper that listed all the shortcuts. That was the best way to learn them.

As an Indian who speaks 4 languages and who’s traveled a bit around India, I have not once heard it pronounce with an ‘r’. It has always been a ‘d’. I have no clue how the English spelling ended up with a ‘r’.

Not necessarily. It depends on the amount of dishes and the flow of water.

I spent a few years in Phoenix, Arizona. It always amused me when people would use electricity guzzling clothes dryers even in the peak of the dry summer. A couple of hours in the day even in the shadows would be enough to dry most clothes.

If it makes you feel any better, over 50 million people in India have been administered the AZ vaccine, including my Mom and Dad who are in their 60s. People with all kinds of co-morbidities (cardiological problems, diabetes, cancer, kidney ailments, obesity etc) have taken it here and no one has died (excuse my…

Counterpoint : Nature/evolution didn’t give us our food “cooked”. Fire is a human invention. Now ask yourself if your body can digest raw meat or fish or eggs.

It should be the #1 app for anyone who needs to deal with group expenses (which is pretty much everyone). The predecessors to Splitwise were BillPin and Billmonk, both of which shut down as they couldn’t figure out a way to stay afloat. Splitwise, thankfully, has been going strong for nearly a decade now.

The desktop…

That was a very good observation. I read somewhere that “When it comes to online, the minority is the majority.” That should explain why all those people without kids are dominating the comment thread. In the real world nobody seems to listen to them when they advise against having kids. Thus, all that they can do is…

That right there is the ugly truth behind what was initially called ‘global warming’ and then watered down to ‘climate change’.

Increasingly, I am seeing more and more articles across the web nowadays about how not to ask or tell someone something since it may come across as rude or hurt their sensibilities or invade their privacy. We already have people who tend to avoid facial contact or even a phone call and prefer texting. At this rate,…

The original mainframe terminals from decades ago and terminal emulators even today have fluorescent green text or highlighting against a black background. It is only in the past few years that the clamour for a ‘dark mode’ has gone up in terms of PC and cellphone computing. Time has come a full circle.

How about adopting an orphan or a homeless child instead of having your biological child? Or how about sticking to one biological child instead of having two or more? If you think about it simplistically, less equals less plastic.

Doesn’t the server automatically redirect to a “Done” or “You’re all set” page once you have scanned the code once?

I have been through all the How I Work articles featuring the Lifehacker staff and strangely not one uses an Android. I find that highly skewed considering 88% of the world uses Android. I am presuming the “Just works” USP of iOS matters a lot to the Lifehacker staff who would rather focus on generating content rather…

Nearly 1.3 billion people in my country and not once I have heard of, let alone ran into, anyone with a peanut allergy. It may also be that the media over here just doesn’t cover it. Still, it just confounds me how much of a problem it is over there in the US. I see it as a medical anomaly.

For anyone not American and looking for the metric equivalent -
74 degrees Fahrenheit = 23.333 degrees Celsius.

I watched Hereditary yesterday and I found it to be completely hyped up. Yes, there were a few scary moments but to call it the most terrifying movie that I have ever watched or in recent times is a long stretch. Even The Conjuring series and IT were scarier.

usual, a HIW interviewee that uses an iPhone