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by kashyapc 7y ago
Speak for yourself ;-) Most times I wear good clothes (and sometimes even shoes, when at home).
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[Disregarding the click-bait title and & related bits in the article...] Given the Right Set of Parameters™ (omitting for brevity's sake; much has been written about them), Remote Work can be the "panacea", and a path tow
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<digresssion on the above mentioned ship (Vasa)> Incidentally, I happened to spend a few hours at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm earlier this year. It's a glorious 17th-century wooden ship. In 1628, it sank like a stone, after trav
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by kashyapc 7y ago
Speaking of UEFI ... if anyone wants to try Secure Boot with OVMF—the open source implementation of UEFI for virtual machines—in a Linux-based environment, here's a stupid shell script (usual caveat, please inspect it before you run :-
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[Forgive if I've missed this in the deservedly KM-long thread; I didn't find any in a couple of rushed `grep`s.] On the "sheer quantity of it is so overwhelming": Not that I didn't already guess the workload would b
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It goes into a lot of detail about how complex life arose through the "deadly rise" of 'eukaryotes'. (All complex life forms, "including plants, animals, fungi, algae and protists such as the amoeba, are made of eu
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Yes to Nick Lane and "The Vital Question". However , as excellent as Laine is at explaining, after the first 100 pages or so, the book gets quite technical (necessarily so). Unless your biochemistry is reasonably good, it is s
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by kashyapc 7y ago
I will quote a previous comment on a similar thread[1] I made verbatim here. It is from Steven Pinker's Enlightenment Now , where he reviews data on loneliness in the US students (among two dozen other graphs in the first twenty chap
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A special book that I'm thoroughly enjoying right now: "Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts"[1]. Why? I'll let the abstract speak: "[...] The idea for the book, which is entirely new, is to invite the reader into
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I'm truly hoping the Matrix protocol takes off. (FWIW, /me has been using Matrix-based chat clients for group and individual chats at conferences. Quite happy with it.)
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"Complete trash"? Please. I realize I'm feeling (objectively?) "defensive" as an everyday professional IRC user for the last 10-ish years. That said, having tried many of the recent obese chat tools (which do ha
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by kashyapc 7y ago
[Me raises his hand.] Most of my LaTeX usage (and I suck at it, but still stubbornly stuck with it for the last 5 years) is with Beamer, for technical conference presentations. Besides the inimitable typesetting and the quality of text, n
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I whole-heartedly agree with your broader point about having sensible names and descriptions that draw necessary attention to critical flaws. (And "+1" to the excellent related article from patio11 .) But sometimes it seems to b
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True, that's indeed the word I was looking for, "kulturkaufhaus". (I was trying to recall the exact word, and didn't bother to look up. Thanks.)
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> Perhaps the best-kept secret in the world is that it is getting better by almost every measurement. [...] The late, great Hans Rosling was superb at breaking down these dimensions in video form [...] but if you want the real deal, I
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C'mon, that's too high a bar. I was there a few months ago (went twice in a week and spent some non-trivial time). While, Dussman has unparalleled selection of books (it's a 4-storied bookstore after all), they are also a
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by kashyapc 7y ago
Yes! I'm an active IRC user for professional open source work (and personal projects) for the last 10-ish years. And still going strong. What many people say IRC "lack" in comparison with Slack (or whatever new-fangled tool o
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by kashyapc 7y ago
Like some others here, I've been a diligent and an extremely happy Org mode user. I use it extensively for work and personal projects, to generate reports, documents, summaries, and task tracking of all kinds. And since about a few mon
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by kashyapc 7y ago
On "cool, smart, or successful" and "deserving of happiness", you might want to hear what the Stoic philosopher, Epictetus, had to say: One central message [of his book, "Discourses, Fragments, Handbook"] is t
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by kashyapc 7y ago
The boring answer is, there are range of preferences; some prefer offices, others prefer remote-only, yet others prefer a combination of remote and office. To each unto their own. On "But whole-team remote work? No thanks!": One o
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[I realize you can't quite compare American and European roads in the context of bicycling, given the huge surface area in the US. Still, a small anecdote.] I live in a small Western European city with a serious biking culture. As an
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As I've noted here before[1], Newport is on a 3-book contract on more or less the same topic with minor tweaks. And is likely to subtly market them to the hilt at every opportunity. Besides unsound fundamentals (relying too much &quot
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Especially for those who work remotely, I (English is my third language) can't overstate the importance of deliberately working on writing skills. As remotees, we are often judged by our words, whether we like it or not. A couple of
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Ah, thank you. That's much better.
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This has been my modus operandi: • No push notifications (except for one human, and that too via SMS). • No "social media" accounts (never had it on the phone to begin with; and removed my FB account 5+ years ago). • Use gray scal
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by kashyapc 7y ago
Thank you for the background and recommendations. Just read the very interesting abstract[1] of the book by Seroul and Levy; queued. (Wish it were a tad less pricey than €64). [1] https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9
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by kashyapc 7y ago
Speaking of cemeteries... At the end of this March I was in Stockholm. One of the most unusual "highlights" (I consciously choose to visit this place for its nature) of the trip was the breathtaking woodland cemetery called Skogs
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[I recall posting this here in the past, but worth re-posting.] The "handy rule" from the book Team Geek -- the newer edition is called Debugging Teams [1]. It's from chapter "Offensive versus Defensive work": [
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> the source out it there [Typo: "out it there --> "is out there"]
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Fedora comes very close. But I'm biased, as a user of (and contributor to) it for about ten years. Don't take my word for it, read the related documentation[1]: "The Fedora Project focuses, as much as possible, on not deviat

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