nonamechicken (u/nonamechicken)

nonamechicken commented on Cooking on gas could be behind kids' asthma symptoms nltimes.nl/2023/01/09/coo... · Posted by u/jb1991

ahaucnx · 3 years ago

Shameless plug.

If you prefer an open source / open hardware air quality monitor check out our popular DIY air quality monitor [1]. The built uses high quality sensors for PM, CO2, Temperature and Humidity. You can either build it yourself or get a kit from us with a nice plastic enclosure.

You can also get the SGP41 as an optional module which not only measures TVOCs but also NOx and we can see it reacts to gas ovens/boilers.

Since it is open source, you can either send data to our dashboard or to your own server / home assistant etc. So it does not force you into a subscription or a specific dashboard.

[1] https://www.airgradient.com/open-airgradient/kits/

nonamechicken · 3 years ago

I have 3 questions about SGP41:

1. Is SGP41 (the one in your website) something that I can just insert into the PCB like how we could connect a computer case fan into the motherboard header or will it need soldering? Also, I saw in your build instructions that 2 tiny resistors have to be removed for SGP30 sensor. Is that the case with SGP41 as well?

2. Do you sell the "PRO Pre-soldered" kit or any other products/devices that come with SGP41 prebuilt? If not, is there an option to buy the "PRO Pre-soldered" one with SGP41?

3. Will the software automatically start reading SGP41 values or are any changes needed on software side?

nonamechicken commented on Former WSJ reporter says law firm used Indian hackers to sabotage his career reuters.com/legal/former-... · Posted by u/re_re

JumpCrisscross · 3 years ago

> US and India have very enforceable bilateral cybercrime treaties. And it is very well enforced on both sides

Is this documented? If true, I suspect the image of Indian criminals being beyond the reach of the law stems from the spam call problem.

nonamechicken · 3 years ago

Some news related to scam call center arrests:

Oct 4 2022:

On inputs from FBI and Interpol, CBI, police forces search 105 locations to combat cyber crime: https://indianexpress.com/article/india/cbi-operation-target...

31 Aug 2022:

Fake call centre busted in Gurugram, six held for cheating foreign citizens: https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/haryana/fake-call-centre-b...

04 Aug 2022:

Fake call centre: Cyber cell contacts FBI, CBI & ED: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/dehradun/fake-call-...

30 Dec 2020:

India's CBI helped US sleuths shut down a call centre scam that impersonated Microsoft at times: https://www.businessinsider.in/international/news/us-india-c...

17 Oct 2020:

Call centre fraud: US, CBI bust call centres defrauding elderly Americans: https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/call-centre-frau...

nonamechicken commented on Infosys asked HR not to hire 'Indian-origin candidates', 'women with children' timesnownews.com/business... · Posted by u/webmobdev

thumbsup-_- · 3 years ago

Unfortunately not hiring married women with kids or asking women about their plan to have kids, not hiring older candidates or candidates with sick family members is a common practice in India. Glad that these evil companies are being called out in other parts of the world

nonamechicken · 3 years ago

I don't believe this at all. I see the exact opposite happening in my Indian company. They are encouraging women leaders so much. I am right now working with one who climbed 2 grades in 2-3 years (which normally would take several years), and she has an all female team now (which is discriminatory by the way). Her male Indian bosses encourage and support her so much, while my male managers treat me (a male) like shit most of the time.

Indian companies are required to give paid maternity leave of 26 weeks by the way.

https://www.startuphrtoolkit.com/maternity-leave-in-india/

nonamechicken commented on Infosys asked HR not to hire 'Indian-origin candidates', 'women with children' timesnownews.com/business... · Posted by u/webmobdev

nonamechicken · 3 years ago

Infosys stopped hiring Indians in US at least 2-3 years ago, may be before President Trump moved out. Al their job ads (in Indeed) would have this line: "U.S. citizens and those authorized to work in the U.S. are encouraged to apply. We are unable to sponsor at this time."

Example: https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=b8ca8d3db6e11c9e

Majority of those who need visa sponsorship are Indians & Chinese.

And this is not just Infosys. I have seen the same wording in job ads of many American companies.

My friend who worked in Infosys told me that they were so desperate to hire Americans that they conducted a job fair and if selected, they would give offer letter on the same day.

I am pretty sure Infosys did this because of all the negative media about them preferring to hire Indians in US causing Americans to loose jobs.

nonamechicken commented on Infosys asked HR not to hire 'Indian-origin candidates', 'women with children' timesnownews.com/business... · Posted by u/webmobdev

mkl95 · 3 years ago

I was a consultant for an American company that also hired dozens of cheap consultants from development countries. Mostly India but also neighbouring countries and some Eastern European countries.

Indians were by far the hardest to work with. They ghosted women systematically which was a nightmare for our project manager. They also lied shamelessly about their qualifications which led to absurd situations.

The problem doesn't lie in hiring Indian people though. It's in hiring cheap labour for the sake of it. If you want to get from point A to point B you either hire people who can do it or you don't. If you believe those guys have actually been delivering quality software for a decade with some technology despite being dirt cheap, you are just an idiot.

nonamechicken · 3 years ago

> They ghosted women systematically which was a nightmare for our project manager.

What do you mean by this? That they refuse to work with women based on their gender?

"India has more women STEM grads than US, UK or France". And I see way way more women employees in software companies in India compared to US.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/india-has-more-wom...

nonamechicken commented on India's largest stock broker has 30 devs (2020) zerodha.tech/blog/hello-w... · Posted by u/ctxc

mise_en_place · 3 years ago

Out of curiosity what is the Indian tech scene like? Is it a full 996 style of work, or somewhere in between that and US, EU.

nonamechicken · 3 years ago

Some one posted this in /r/developersindia today: https://old.reddit.com/r/developersIndia/comments/vrtk3z/we_...

nonamechicken commented on Boeing looked for flaws in its Dreamliner and couldn’t stop finding them wsj.com/articles/boeing-d... · Posted by u/dangle1

WalterBright · 3 years ago

> the Ethiopian pilots followed Boeing's guidelines on MCAS failure properly.

The Ethiopian pilots did not follow the procedure in the Emergency Airworthiness Directive distributed to all MAX pilots that says:

"Initially, higher control forces may be needed to overcome any stabilizer nose down trim already applied. Electric stabilizer trim can be used to neutralize control column pitch forces before moving the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches to CUTOUT. Manual stabilizer trim can be used before and after the STAB TRIM CUTOUT switches are moved to CUTOUT."

https://theaircurrent.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/B737-MA...

You might want to also read the report:

2018 - 035 - PK-LQP Final Report http://knkt.dephub.go.id/knkt/ntsc_aviation/baru/2018%20-%20...

And note that the first incident of MCAS failure was overcome by the pilots and the airplane landed safely.

nonamechicken · 3 years ago

Thanks for the links. I am not trying to refute what you said above. But I don’t want anyone to think that I am spreading misinformation here. So I checked the Netflix Downfall documentary again. It says at 34:30 that the pilots did what Boeing instructed them to do.

The documentary talks about the Ethiopian crash from 32:00 onwards. The below excerpt is from 34:30 onwards. Name of the person talking is in '[]' brackets.

[Pasztor] Soon after the hearings got underway, we managed to get more information about what actually happened in the cockpit of the Ethiopian aircraft. We got the information from the FAA within hours after they received it from the Ethiopian investigators. It was very late at night, and we tried to put together the most comprehensive story we could. When it came out, this was the first story that revealed that the crew, in fact, realized that MCAS had kicked off. And they did what Boeing instructed them to do.

[Tajer] When the MCAS kicks in, it runs for ten seconds and pushes the airplane very powerfully nose-down. Runs for ten, off for five. Runs for ten, off for five.

[Cox] They’ve got this cacophony of stick shaker, master cautions, airspeed disagree, altitude disagree. All of these…these warnings going off. The captain, who’s flying the airplane, is trying to figure out what’s gone wrong.

[Tajer] The first officer called out, “Stab trim cutout switches, Captain.” I think he said it twice. He did what Boeing said. He turned off the MCAS system. I remember reading that, and I said, “Man, the kid got it right. The kid got it right”.

[Cox] The problem now is that the airplane is going too fast. And because of the force on the tail itself, they cannot manually trim the airplane to be able to recover.

nonamechicken commented on Boeing looked for flaws in its Dreamliner and couldn’t stop finding them wsj.com/articles/boeing-d... · Posted by u/dangle1

amarka · 3 years ago

Not sure if the last sentence is in jest or not, but here's a list of crashes for just one of their plane models:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...

nonamechicken · 3 years ago

When I mentioned AirBus, I was thinking of this - that the Max crash is clearly due to corporate greed. I am not aware of any such scenario with AirBus. Not only that, according to the Netflix documentary, Boeing was trying to blame the pilots of the Indonesian and Ethiopian airlines initially. Then in turns out that the Indonesian pilot was an Indian who was trained in US, and the Ethiopian pilots followed Boeing's guidelines on MCAS failure properly.

I am looking at these blames on outsourcing from that perspective - that Boeing is trying to blame others to hide their greed.

nonamechicken commented on Boeing looked for flaws in its Dreamliner and couldn’t stop finding them wsj.com/articles/boeing-d... · Posted by u/dangle1

nisten · 3 years ago

That's what happens when your executives vindictively outsource important software to the cheapest devshop they can find. You end up with a product being built by a team that by default has no sense of ownership.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-28/boeing-s-...https://www.industryweek.com/supply-chain/article/22027840/b...

nonamechicken · 3 years ago

Common! This gets brought up all the time when the topic is Boeing. Max's issue had nothing to do with the outsourced software. Netflix has a documentary called 'Downfall' which talks about what all went wrong. AirBus also outsources, they haven't crashed right?

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throwaway_1928 · 3 years ago

This "there are options" bit does not help most of the million people stuck waiting 100+ years for the same immigration that their equally qualified colleagues complete in 18 months.

The false equivalence of a 100+ year wait with some vague "Indian politics and bureaucracy" is not relevant. "Romanian politics and bureaucracy" and "Cuban politics and bureaucracy" may be worse than "Indian politics and bureaucracy", but that is not at discussion here. What matters is that Romanian and Cuban H1Bs have an 18 month green card wait time.

And the author clearly considers this unfair process more than "annoying". To him, it is perhaps closer to humiliating and debilitating, which is partly why he has chosen to put up with it no longer.

nonamechicken · 3 years ago

> To him, it is perhaps closer to humiliating and debilitating

Exactly. Considering what I went through already, I can't even think of spending the next couple of years like that hoping I will get GC one day. If I go through again even half of what I went through already, the stress alone will kill me soon. I already lost all my memory - I don't remember anything about my past, no memory of my childhood, parents, school. What I went through probably shortened my life by 10 years. And I am worried if I will get dementia because of that.

Its really disappointing that people are using his gender and caste as excuses for dismissing whatever he went through.