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by kashyapc 6y ago
I'd guess Prof. Sabine Hossenfelder (herself a physicist, and a Research Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies) must be pretty annoyed, to put it politely. She posits that a lot of current physicists are working with o
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Speaking of which ... for the last year, I've been using a combination of these two for my daily note-taking. I'm extremely delighted with them (especially the nib): - Waterman Hémisphère fine nib pen[+]. It costs between 80-105
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Thanks for taking time to write this down; sounds very interesting. The discussion leading into relevant rabbit holes, like other essays and books, that make the reading experience that much richer is something I look forward to. Luckily, I
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I see, keeping the reading short and focused plus an essay sounds effective. (I'm not good with alcohol, so I'll skip that part ;-) I can stay on track reasonably well without any external stimuli.) This evening I'll be out
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by kashyapc 6y ago
Very timely topic. Please excuse me for hijacking this to gather some input on the following: I'm curious to hear if anyone has stories, success or otherwise, and methods on organizing a non-fiction study group. (Assume: small groups,
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Glad to be useful. A poor translation is definitely a deal-breaker. It is absolutely worth investing in good English translations (taking time to do some research helps). Most of the good translations have a robust introduction that situ
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by kashyapc 6y ago
On Nick Lane's "The Vital Question": I gifted myself The Vital Question in 2015 December. While Lane writes effectively without any mind-numbing jargon, the book still has quite a bit of technical chemistry (understandably)
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Why "lead a virtuous life?" To build stable and lasting joy that is not subject to the whims of Fortune or chance events. (I'm assuming you value this kind of joy.) A few choice quotes below. These two are from the introdu
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> It turns out that humans need some pleasure in their lives Yes, don't cut out pleasure. You might want to borrow a leaf from A.A. Long (the preeminent expert on Stoicism): I was sometimes asked which one of the three schools I f
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by kashyapc 6y ago
I first heard of Marcus Aurelius more than five years ago when I was reading a book called "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" , by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (pronounced as Me-High Chick-Sent-Me-High )—itself a book I hig
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> This very idea lead to several prominent Stoics to commit suicide, because might as well hasten my eventual ceasing of being? To put a name to what you speak of, Seneca was forced to commit suicide by the emperor Nero. In letter 58
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by kashyapc 7y ago
For those who wish to truly deep-dive, I strongly suggest to skip the "meta books" on Stoicism, and go straight to the original works. There's the Big Three—Seneca, Epictetus, and Marcus Aurelius. Be prepared to invest at
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by kashyapc 7y ago
Aw, thank you. I must admit, I'm such a novice with Steam and online games in general that I didn't even know what are "Workshop Mods" until I looked up now. :-)
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Thanks for the suggestions. I haven't even scratched the surface with TTS.
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Thanks, will check out Wingspan. Haven't heard of it before.
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A few weeks ago I tried Tabletop Simulator with two other friends to play Gloomhaven[+]. I admire the developers that took on such a (positively) complex and rich game as Gloomhaven. But it was a far cry from in-person playing (I realize)
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by kashyapc 7y ago
Speaking of hermits ... it's a great time to read the excellent book about the "North Pond Hermit" (in Maine, the US state)— The Stranger in the Woods [1]. I learnt about it when I was in Denver, CO, last year at an outstandi
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Oh, thanks for bothering to give that pointer; didn't know that.
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Ah, didn't know the "reverse AeroPress" method makes a stronger cup. And indeed haven't yet tried it yet; although I've seen it online. I keep meaning to try it, but when I wake up about 7, my bleary-eyed self goe
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by kashyapc 7y ago
I hear you, on not scaling it for a family. I make it for one or two people at most (a full AeroPress can be shared for two, unless you're a Real Guzzler). I mulled about the burr grinder in the past, but then I already had the Bosc
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I was worried about that initially, but the plastic is sufficiently robust (I have to say, my AeroPress got a bit chipped at the top when it fell from my hand as I was cleaning). I'm still wondering if a glass-based, non-plastic varian
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I used to swear by my French Press. Some two years ago I casually said to my sibling that I wanted to try AeroPress to see what the fuss is all about. One day it showed up as a present in my mailbox. I opened it, ridiculing it, thinking I
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TransferWise has a robust "no bovine manure" approach. I've used different kinds of services from them over four years, and they have been consistently excellent. I make sure to tell so whenever I talk to them, and pol
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by kashyapc 7y ago
On the essay form, I don't yet see a mention of the excellent Essays of E. B. White [1]. Yes, the same one from 'Strunk and White' of The Elements of Style . Two essays that I still vividly remember from the book (both wer
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"Unlike traditional corporate research managers, Sutherland added individuals from fields like psychology, cognitive science, and anthropology to enhance the work of his technology staff." /me wonders how many 'modern&#x
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From last sunday, at FOSDEM 2020, a talk[1] by QEMU developer Julia Suvorova, on integrating io_uring into QEMU (the open source machine emulator and virtualizer), and related performance implications. From the abstract: "iouring en
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[I work at Red Hat, but not related to CoreOS.] A small nit-pick: Not having Vagrant is not a "significant restriction". FWIW, there is the robust and well-documented virt-builder [1] tool that plays well with KVM, Xen and other
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People like to talk about and associate with Marcus Aurelius, because he was a Roman emperor , and thus books like these will sell: "How to think like a Roman Emperor". How about "How to think like a crippled Greek slave wh
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One approach that helped me convert some of my non-tech friends to Signal Messenger is by calmly focusing on the long term aspect -- "Think about it, you'd be using these tools for the next 40+ years. A small inconvenience for a f
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You are making a sweeping generalization of the entire book. Bear in mind: As has been repeatedly pointed out, it is only the priming-related chapter (called 'The Associative Machine' in the book) that put "too much faith i

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