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Hopefully Uttarakhand can follow Himachal Pradesh, but it is ravaged by national parties as of now, best case scenario, the new youth leadership of UKD actually wins and does some work


Uttarakhand will not develop unless there are incentives to invest outside of Dehradun.

HP doesn't have a "Dehradun", which means local netas have an incentive to invest in their zilla instead of hoarding cash and real estate in a major hub. Thus, Himachal benefited from a Pharma and Food Processing industrial policy in the 1990s-2000s that industrialized the rural area around Baddi and Una, and a lot of other smaller food processing and light manufacturing industries across lower Himachal.

Also, Uttarakhand has too few MLAs for the size of population. UK has 70 MLAs but 10 million people, but HP has 68 MLAs with 6.5 million people. This means UK MLAs are much more divorced from local panchayats compared to in HP.

There is a good case study about this at Harvard Business School [0]

[0] - https://www.hbs.edu/ris/Publication%20Files/Asian_Survey_550...


Agree on the point of Dehradun, as for the number of MLA's, that is due to the growing concerns of the native Pahadi population. The plain regions of Uttarakhand have been settled by desi people in recent decades and due to the difference in population density and fertility rates, their population is growing more and more. Now the Pahadi people have genuine concerns that everything they fought for during the Uttarakhand Movement will go to waste. And this is already happening, the finance minister of Uttarakhand abused pahadi people in the Vidhan Sabha, thankfully due to many protests, he has resigned. But if plain regions get majority seats, it would give approx 18% of UK the right to govern the entire region!


> best case scenario, the new youth leadership of UKD actually wins and does some work

Trust me. You don't want that. Ussi najuwane nu khadi pata ni hege (Kangri but translate to your equivalent)


Even if they lack experience, they are still a better alternative than BJP and Congress who have done nothing but loot Uttarakhand up to this point!


Would you be willing to share how did you that? New to both Kagi and Guix!


I can actually just share the lens I made directly with you!

https://kagi.com/lenses/l7mPOuJp7zljHquBjsekFn6dM9Thw1A8

I'm not sure if adding that to your account will include the configuration I have set to access the lens with !guix, but if it does not, you might want to add it. The lens basically just uses this pattern for search result sources:

logs.guix.gnu.org/guix/, lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/, lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-guix/, lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/, lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/*, guix.gnu.org

I don't think I can share the assistant directly, but if you have Kagi Ultimate, you can just go to the Assistant section in the sidebar of the settings page, and add a new assistant. You can set it to have access to web search, and you can specify to use the GNU Guix lens. You can pick any model, but I'm using Deepseek R1, and I set my system prompt to be:

> Always search the web for answers to the users questions. All answers should respond relating to the GNU Guix package manager and the GNU Guix operating system.

and that seems to work well for me. Let me know if you have trouble getting that set up!


> non Euclidean space and only using sonar for visualization

Pretty good idea for a video game!


> I had to read it, and your reaction to the implied obvious reasoning 3 times, to figure out the implied obvious reasoning, and understand your intent was the toddler was standing and the wig was laying in a heap.

It seems quite obvious even on a cursory glance though!

> toddler was standing and the wig was laying in a heap

I mean how would toddler be laying in a heap?

> Would a toddler even understand the question?

Maybe not, I am a teen/early adult myself, so not many children yet :) but if you instead lay those in front of a toddler and ask which is higher, I guess they would answer that, another argument for multi-modality.

PS: Sorry if what I am saying is not clear, english is my third language


I don't really know if anybody will read this, but if somebody does and knows what it is, please give me some advice. I see double text, not anything else, only sources of light, like anything on a computer screen. It is like what I am seeing from both of my eyes does not line up correctly. On a completely white background, I see spotches of grey. I have visited two or three doctors and each gave a different prescription, currently I have -1/1 approx, (I don't remember correctly). Man I am only 19, don't want to live like this T.T


That sounds like an astigmatism to me, which basically just means your lens is a little misshapen. I have a pretty bad astigmatism in one eye and have double vision in that eye without glasses, especially so from lit things like screens.

Go to an eye doctor, they can diagnose. It's likely just something as simple as an astigmatism and some glasses should help you with that.

https://www.conshohockeneye.com/why-am-i-seeing-double-visio...

> Astigmatism is one of the most common causes of monocular double vision, and can be easily corrected by glasses or contact lenses.


early stage keratokonus, if this is true you need to get the corneal crosslinking procedure done asap while you are young as the condition progresses rapidly in your 20s. The double (triple, N-ary) vision can be corrected by special contact lenses. You may need a specialist ophthalmologist for this diagnosis. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keratoconus see “signs and Symptoms” image, and note that is advanced, as a 19yo I recall a single, sharp double image when looking at the moon at night. You can also try lowering an index card in front of your eye and looking across the edge at the moon and seeing if the double image goes away when your eye is partially occluded, this is because the doubling is caused by a physical distortion of your cornea and if you manage to cover the distortion you will see clearly


Shit, It did match, looking at the text through the edge of a card does make it clear for me. Although the blurriness is not as extreme as given in the wiki page.


https://www.reddit.com/r/Keratoconus/ -- but do not freak out, most cases are completely treatable with scleral contact lenses, social media bubbles up the outliers. Next step is ophthalmologist, ask for a corneal topography (photograph and measure the surface shape of your eye w/ a computer) to establish a baseline and monitor for progression. Not all ophthalmologist offices have the corneal topography machine so ask for that on the phone. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corneal_topography To get a KC diagnosis they will likely want to see progression over time in these topography readings. You want to get this sorted while you are young, the corneal cross-linking procedure will halt the progression of the disease and "lock in" your current vision. I did not get the CXL procedure when I was young (it was still experimental back then) and regret it, my vision is fine with correction but the scleral lenses are a pain and it's unclear if i'll be able to read in bed without lenses in my old age.


I was recently diagnosed with keratoconus, I'm 28.

I'm unable to get CXL for at least a year due to demand.

What sucks the most about the diagnosis is that the opthalmologist explained that there's essentially no treatment, it's progression can only be slowed, and I'll never be able to get LASIK or SMILE.


I have keratoconus and stigmatism. 8 years ago I stopped wearing glasses since my vision was good enough for laptop, phone and watch but distance was always a problem. I've been doing eye exercises daily for 8 years and my 3D vision returned last year and on more and more days I can read the street signs across the street, as street signs in the US. My prescriptions used to vary between -3.25 and -4.25 with 90% distortion. My laptop vision is better also. Lately, the glare that emanates from the source of light is less and reflections off of glassy surfaces are also less. My first diagnosis was 35 years ago and over the years various surgeries and fixes were offered. Over the years, technology improves, so I feel I wait. Prognosis so far is manageable. Best of luck to you.


Have you visited ophthalmologist? I’d start there. Your situation sounds too specific for good advice on HN…


I have visited two or three of them, but each one just gave a different prescription though turns out I have a little blood clot in one eye due to an accident I had a few years ago and a cataract in the other one, though it is to the side and not directly in the front, so no operation is required for that as of now.

Also, currently a broke college student, so don't really have the money to visit a good ophthalmologist :)


Hope you find some relief soon...


Thanks man!!


Apologies if not helpful: have you tried consulting an AI?

(This is not medical advice)


wait why?


Well, JPEG can be thought of as an compression of the natural world of whose photograph was taken


And we can answer the question why quantization works with a lossy format, since quantization just drops accuracy for space but still gives us a good enough output, just like a lossy jpeg.

Reiterating again, we can lose a lot of data (have incomplete data) and have a perfectly visible jpeg (or MP3, same thing).


and don't the most important of them all, neofetch, it is posited that they used it for colorful displays to attract mates. How successful it was, we do not know ;)


There is a downvote button here??


> There is a downvote button here??

Haha yes. You get access after getting a bunch of karma.


only after you prove you fit in


Well Himalayas are definitely better than Alps! :)


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