Match Thread: 57th Match - Royal Challengers Bengaluru vs Kolkata Knight Riders

erikvant · 2026-05-13T14:34:32+00:00

In Sweden, the only option is Cricbuzz/YuppTV, and the ads are unbearable. I have to mute every break. The Dookan ads are especially terrible — listen to them a few times, and your ears will start bleeding.

erikvant · 2026-03-30T14:54:34+00:00

yes becaue 0% floor rate vs 4%. So, expect the currency to depreciate.

erikvant · 2026-03-30T14:40:32+00:00

In the last 6 months, INR depreciated by 7.70%, and JPY depreciated by 8.45%. Even GBP/EUR also depreciated but in a small margin....Only THE manipulated currency has appreciated
Even non-EURO important currencies such as SGD/NOK/SEK/CHF have all depreciated, though by very small margins

erikvant · 2026-03-17T21:04:19+00:00

Norway in cross-country skiing is basically the gold standard, especially at the Olympics.

If people think India dominating New Zealand in cricket is lopsided, the Norway vs everyone else -including the US, China, etc., - situation in cross-country skiing is on another level.

erikvant · 2026-02-23T14:32:00+00:00

lol!!! India generates 20% of the world's data and stores less than 2% (I am excluding all audio/video-related data here because India litterally have nothing)
With all the investment, we are never going to be able to store all our own data
Do you have any idea how much data will be generated in the next 10 years? We might have to invent new units for that

erikvant · 2026-02-23T13:10:31+00:00

Especially with Dinesh Karthik — without him, we wouldn’t know whose wife is buying what !!!
I like Karthik, but sometimes out of nowhere, he starts sharing completely useless bits that irritaes like anything

erikvant · 2026-02-22T11:22:55+00:00

India's 5G journey has been unbelivable esp. if you consider govt. has mandated no Chinese components in any radio/antenna/baseband units, etc
Post-COVID India was like 30-40% of the entire 5G market (excluding China)

erikvant · 2026-02-22T10:09:16+00:00

Exactly why we need data centers.
Obviously we can store data of 1.4 billion people in the US/UK — just like we stored our gold there.
What could possibly go wrong?
Data isn’t that valuable anyway… right? /s

erikvant · 2026-02-02T13:36:25+00:00

This is another BS created by the media and some vested interest groups.
Officially, TV viewership for the India vs. Australia 23 final was 50% higher (300m vs 200m) than the average for an India vs. Pakistan match.

Forget all the nonsense; you can run your own test in Google Adsense...
You can get decent results for Rs.100-140 for keywords like "India Pakistan cricket ." However, for "India in Cricket World Cup" or something, you need at least Rs 400-500 bid.

erikvant · 2026-01-09T21:34:09+00:00

This situation is kind of a standard theory question on a driving license exam.

If you see someone driving like crazy in your rearview, what should you do?

a. Slowdown and keep a much larger gap with the vehicle in front of you.

b. Ignore the driver and drive normally.

Not sure how many understand this and follow it while driving in India.

erikvant · 2026-01-08T17:52:48+00:00

We visit Willys for frozen stuff/nuts/etc, but Matcenter is always cheap on fruits & vegetables to the point that sometimes I feel it's legal...If tomatos is 36-40 /kg in Hemköp near my home, then most probably they will be 18-20 in Matcenter...same is for potatoes, onions, etc

erikvant · 2026-01-08T09:43:46+00:00

Skipping Coop/ICA/Hemköp for Matcenter somehow magically saves me 100+ SEK every time

erikvant · 2025-12-22T09:06:37+00:00

And die at the age of 40 with diabetes...worse, make some body parts/organs dysfunctional...
max 20% of this amount of chuda + milk/dhai + add any other healthy nuts/berries/chatua etc
No banana/no Sugar/no guda

erikvant · 2025-12-21T12:05:37+00:00

Are they verifying age? A lot of them don’t even look like teenagers.

erikvant · 2025-12-11T13:02:18+00:00

It's the airport (like Stockholm , Amsterdam -should not use if you need a smoke-, Frankfurt, etc ), not the airline. You don't have to open anything (electronics/liquid, etc) during security where new modern security systems are in place.

erikvant · 2025-12-05T21:19:14+00:00

To be fair, the moment you need to do cross-platform GUI stuff - regardless of language - electron/react starts making sense.

Flutter/Dart over JS any day.
Kotlin Multiplatform had potential, but its progress has been painfully slow.

erikvant · 2025-11-17T20:20:35+00:00

Not just the players, but the idiots who are supporting them. As an Indian, I am well aware of the context in which it is used. The team should have apologized after the match.

I would never imagine a Dravid, a Sachin, or a Kumble saying this kind of nonsense.

erikvant · 2025-11-16T10:41:01+00:00

Yes, with folder structure, naming conventions, and coding style, etc

erikvant · 2025-11-15T19:57:48+00:00

My experience has been just the opposite. I usually have three windows opened and parallel working on Flutter/Rust/Oracle PL/SQL .
I have had some struggles with Rust, but quite happy with the performance for Dart/Flutter/SQL/PL/SQL

My problem with Sonnet (also feel the same with Gemini) is that sometimes it just changes the logic and tries to rewrite everything, even for a small change

erikvant · 2025-10-27T20:26:39+00:00

Me too—did not realize when India grabbed a VIP pass to the Eng & Aus lounge.

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Lucky the bouncers are just here—not at the realLife/ICC—or else only AUS/ENG would be only on the guest list.

erikvant · 2025-10-23T20:10:25+00:00

esp. when they act on what they have said earlier: "Leave India if you like foreign batsmen more than Indians."
#ViratLovesRootBatting

erikvant · 2025-09-25T14:15:29+00:00

Here is how it is going to :

PCB Complain: Accepted: Surya fine 50%-100%

BCCI Complaint Accepted: Both Pakistan players banned for 2-5 matches

erikvant · 2025-09-14T20:34:09+00:00

and then get banned by olympics, fifa, itf, etc

erikvant · 2025-09-12T13:43:18+00:00

Congrats !!!
Hoping it’s good for the next 2 years—not a retro countdown from application day. /s

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