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NEPRA Approves $58 Billion Power Expansion Plan Despite Major Objections

The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (NEPRA) has approved an 11-year power generation and transmission plan involving around $58 billion … Read More The post NEPRA Approves $58 Billion Power Expansion Plan Despite Major Objections appeared first on ProPakistani .

NEPRA Approves $58 Billion Power Expansion Plan Despite Major Objections

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5 Errors I Hit Building DeFi Bots (And How to Fix Them)

Building production bots on free APIs sounds cool in theory. In practice, you hit walls immediately. Here are the 5 real errors I encountered while building two Ethereum monitoring bots, and exactly…

  • WebSockets timeout issue resolved by switching to polling every 15 minutes
  • CoinGecko rate limit avoided by reducing polling frequency or tokens tracked
  • Supabase Row-Level Security issue fixed by disabling RLS or creating policy

Who gets rated higher: age, age gap and the reciprocity myth - from 24 million ratings

In the previous piece I went through 24 million ratings from our app Rate Me (people rate each other's photos 1-10) and showed four things: the dip at nine, men underrating men, countries rating…

  • Men rate women more generously when they are older
  • Women rate men more critically when they are older
  • No reciprocity effect between ratings given and received

Getting the text out of five screenshots inside one PDF

The document is a three-page weekly ops report with five screenshots pasted in: a growth dashboard, a chat channel, a spreadsheet, an alert and a kanban board.

  • Five screenshots in three-page report contain diverse tools
  • ImgIn's OCR tool extracts text from all screenshots accurately
  • Spreadsheet data tab-separated for easy spreadsheet import

I treated publishing as a queue. The queue lied.

On September 11, the publishing ledger said 29 articles while the public profile showed 30 . I had one stale editor buffer, one repaired series assignment, and no trustworthy answer to a simple…

  • Reporter treated publishing system as a queue, but it was a small distributed system.
  • Multiple histories existed in the queue: editorial rotation, public list, and browser session.
  • Mistake assumed counts represented the same thing, leading to duplicate publications.

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