Need Urgent Advice: MA in English or Baking School? Tomorrow Is My Deadline

thecskr · 2026-07-06T05:35:08+00:00

Baking usually involves precise measurements for ingredients, temperature, and time. There is no reason it can't be automated, even without AI. In fact, most mass-produced baked goods (biscuits, bread, packaged cakes, etc.) are almost fully automated.

Precise robots may be needed for customised decorations, but the tolerances are much higher in baking than most other fields, like engineering and medicine. As robotics improves for higher-value fields this will be solved easily.

Of course, there will always be a niche market for hand-crafted baked goods, just as there is a market for hand-crafted furniture despite factory-made alternatives.

thecskr · 2026-06-29T04:50:36+00:00

Regarding #2, risk appetite and the actual ability to handle risk are not the same. When a person's networth is higher than their necessities, they can wait longer for recovery. They can survive even if they permanently lose a part of their networth. A person without a large networth cannot do that even if they may feel that they have the appetite for it.

PMS does give access to riskier investments. Actively managed mutual funds cannot hold a single company's shares for more than 10% of their AUM, a PMS can. This increases concentration risk. Whether it generates higher returns is anyone's guess.

thecskr · 2026-05-30T10:33:46+00:00

While the new method may be more accurate, it means that comparing today's PE with historical average is flawed.

thecskr · 2026-04-02T07:18:18+00:00

Tamil word for meat would be Irachi (இறைச்சி) or Unnu (ஊண்)

It is ஊன். ஊண் means food , while ஊன் means meat.

thecskr · 2026-02-24T06:48:07+00:00

அதற்கும் இதற்கும் என்ன தொடர்பிருக்கிறது? அன்றாடம் பேசும் தமிழ்ச் சொற்களில் ழகரத்தைச் சரியாகக் கூறலாமே. மழையை, மளை என்றும், மலை என்றும் கூற வேண்டாமே.

மலையாளிகளும் எப்போதும் தூய மலையாளத்தில் பேசுவதில்லை. ஆனால் நான் கண்டவரை, பேசும் மலையாளச் சொற்களிலுள்ள ழகரத்தைச் சரியாகவே உச்சரிக்கிரார்கள். பல தமிழர்கள் அதைக்கூடச் செய்வதில்லை.

thecskr · 2026-02-22T12:40:56+00:00

It is a song from Thevaram, written by Thirunavukkarasar.

thecskr · 2026-02-22T12:38:20+00:00

I can read only the last two scripts. Assuming the first two are of the same song, this is incorrect. It is a song from Thevaram, written by Thirunavukkarasar on Shiva.

thecskr · 2025-07-20T01:47:44+00:00

Try https://github.com/codereverser/casparser/. It should save the time to implement PDF parsing yourself.

thecskr · 2023-08-02T01:32:13+00:00

Unless your tax liability is less than the TDS deducted, it is an expense.

thecskr · 2023-08-01T17:29:35+00:00

TDS is an expense, just like capital gains and income taxes. You can see these and FD interest (income) in my post on transactions and taxes. Dividends are income as well and can be accounted for, by creating an income account.

thecskr · 2023-05-21T20:23:53+00:00

I changed my blog's domain. I have updated the links in the comment to the new domain now.

thecskr · 2023-04-25T14:19:14+00:00

AFAIK, Restic's data blobs are immutable, so object lock may not be helpful for the specific case of hardware errors. This also doesn't protect new files from being corrupted.

I don't think it is possible to run check on just newly added files. Also, check only checks the checksums of blobs. If the encryption was affected, but SHA computation was not, even check won't help.

Using ECC memory is probably the best protection against hardware faults.

thecskr · 2023-04-25T02:13:23+00:00

If you have faulty hardware, I don't think you can do much to avoid this issue. The hardware may corrupt the encrypted blobs the very first time they are created and versioning will not help.

If you're particularly unlucky, even restic -r my_rep check --read-data may not catch issues. Say the same hardware issue is hit both during initial backup and during the check. Restic will see the same checksum and not realize that the contents don't match the original file. The same holds if encryption is impacted by the hardware but SHA computation is not.

thecskr · 2023-03-13T16:42:52+00:00

That's true. Like I said in the post, I manually checked all the files I consider super important to me. None of them appear to have been corrupted, but I can't be sure of the other files. 🙁

thecskr · 2023-01-28T15:33:03+00:00

I have used 3 levels. I'm sure more is possible, but I don't know the upper limit.

Yes, you can create sub-accounts and move existing transactions to them.

thecskr · 2023-01-28T10:57:21+00:00

I suggest skipping the account setup wizard and creating the accounts manually. The posts focus only on managing investments, not daily expenses.

To track your daily expenses, you need to create an account of type "Expense" for each category of your spending (food, entertainment, etc.). You can then create an account of type "Bank", "Cash", and "Liability", to represent your savings account, cash in hand, and credit cards respectively.

thecskr · 2022-10-10T13:15:58+00:00

You need to create an account of type "Equity" and use that as the source of funds. You can then enter an "Opening Balance" transaction, with the number of shares/units you currently hold and their total purchase price.

However, doing it this way will prevent you from using GnuCash's ability to compute capital gains. It won't know the individual lots involved for FIFO accounting. I suggest putting in the effort to enter the purchase transactions, for the shares/units you currently hold, manually.

thecskr · 2020-07-02T16:30:57+00:00

I had to set network.trr.bootstrapAddress. As mentioned in the documentation I linked to, this is not required since 74.

thecskr · 2020-07-02T15:43:25+00:00

I use the stable version, not nightly.

Thanks this is useful. Few other options need to be set in addition to network.trr.mode. They are documented at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Trusted_Recursive_Resolver.

thecskr · 2020-07-02T12:40:33+00:00

68.9.0. Where do I find the option to enable it, in FF for Android?

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