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by kashyapc 7y ago
[Disclosure: I'm a long-term Red Hatter.] Hmm. That's painful indeed. Sorry that you had such a dispiriting experience with the 'procps' package. For what it's worth, allow me to share my experience (I joined aft
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by kashyapc 7y ago
Last night I read the "Happiness" chapter (no. 18) from Steven Pinker's fine book, Enlightenment Now , where he reviews data on loneliness in the US students (among two dozen other graphs in the first twenty chapters). Pinke
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by kashyapc 7y ago
I vehemently agree with the theme of your message, and of course the fine quote at the end. But I have a non-trivial quibble -- please don't be too quick to dismiss Richard Dawkins' science writing. Keeping comparisons with the g
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Ah, indeed. Thanks for the nice trick to avoid the tedium.
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by kashyapc 8y ago
> Once you add `-nodefaults`, the list of arguments grows because now you must add a bunch of things that were there by default [...] Partly true (refer below). > If by "minimal command-line" you mean [...] I appreciate
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by kashyapc 8y ago
I can see the value in "putting the command-line in a script and launch it anywhere". Many of us use bespoke QEMU command-line scripts for test and development. And I even know a small hosting provider who manages their product
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Precisely so. Couple of us have mentioned libvirt as a recommendation in the comment threads above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19736609 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19736722
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by kashyapc 8y ago
FWIW, QEMU's upstream README does mention libvirt and higher-level managment tools: "QEMU aims to fit into a variety of use cases. It can be invoked directly by users wishing to have full control over its behaviour and settings. I
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Launching QEMU directly is not merely "tricky", but incredibly inefficient and ineffective once you need something that's beyond bare minimal. E.g. here is a minimal QEMU command-line that gives you access to a serial console
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by kashyapc 8y ago
QEMU is one of the core building blocks for many of the KVM-based data center virtualization and infrastructure projects (e.g. OpenStack, oVirt, KubeVirt, etc). And is used by a wide variety of other projects for various use cases (e.g. `s
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Mandatory reference: the brilliant Matthew Walker: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/295/295665/why-we-sleep/9780... I'm halfway through the book, and it has already influenced my behavior. I began
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by kashyapc 8y ago
The topic you touch on is addressed quite poignantly by the inimitable Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (or Prof. C), in his book, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience . (I've mentioned this book here before, but it's always worth
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Speaking of ZX Spectrum ... you might want to check out the QEMU Advent Calendar disk image[1] for it from 2016. The blurb: "ZX Spectrum was one of most successful 8-bit machines of all time -- with still an active community! Relive t
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Hmm. Five months ago I spent about 230€ prescription glasses -- as a 40-hour "screen starer", I went for a reasonably good quality French vendor ("Studio FB", and the glasses themselves from Ziess). I shelled out that m
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by kashyapc 8y ago
The great Roman emporer, Marcus Aurelius, says the following in the beginning of his book, Meditations : To read attentively—not to be satisfied with “just getting the gist of it.”
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Yeah, as someone who has to deal with bugs from systems layer to userspace, a non-trivial chunk of reports (not from customers per se) are: "crap blows up, please figure out". FWIW, some four years ago I wrote this for this "
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Yes, that is is one my favorite stories from Kahneman. If you look up "The riddle of experience vs. memory", you can hear Kahneman himself narrating it.
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Not quite. In my view, Prof. C's work is more fundamental in nature; he doesn't prescribe anything particular. But describes what works, based on his observations, and lets us judge for ourselves. Among other things, he goes i
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Afraid, I completely disagree. How could you meaningfully "sum up" someone's lifetime's worth of work into a couple of pages and explain the related complexity? (Not talking about academic abstract-style summaries.) P
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Newport is on a 3-book contract[1] on more or less the same subject with slightly different framing. So he's obliged to drum-up attention about it. Also as someone else pointed out in a different thread, Newport places too much att
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by kashyapc 8y ago
I know we agree on some level. Still, I can't help but feel like you have a somewhat narrow definition of "developer". A thoughtful senior developer who is in it for the long-run (read 15–30 years), and thinks in terms of &
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Even if a "Product Owner" brings a lot of customer information, it is still damn important for those developers who are genuinely willing (and able), to interact with customers— even if it is only via medium-bandwidth tools lik
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Oh, very interesting information on "postmarketOS"; didn't come across it before. I'll need to do some research about what that community's goals are (although, the name implies some), how sustainable they are in t
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Afraid, I'm still in the process of switching to LineageOS :-( I am first doing my homework by reading related forums, etc. On the current Android OS, I don't use much of GApps. All the applications I use are: Keep 'notes&
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by kashyapc 8y ago
A proud owner of Nexus-5 for five years waves hi. It's still in top-notch condition; only had to replace the screen protector once, and did a small surgery to replace the "irreplaceable" battery. I keep telling my friends t
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Yes, that's a great example from Kahneman; and FWIW, I quoted it here before. But I also wished Kahenman wrote that in a more prominent location, like edge.org, or publishing a public errata to his book—so that people reading the &#x
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by kashyapc 8y ago
I came here to precisely point out that Ezra Klein and Sam Harris's episode, and Klein's total lack of intellectual honesty in that episode. I'm glad I first searched to see if it's already mentioned here. I recall list
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Thanks for correcting. I briefly did pause to think it could be a 'her' (as I recognized Jill is commonly a female name), and even went as far as doing a half-hearted second skim of the Amazon URL, but still I lazily went wit
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by kashyapc 8y ago
When you make such extraordinary subjective claims, please also bother write a small blurb as to what you found so enthralling about it. Because from I read, people are calling out this book out for its terrible bloopers and the author n
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by kashyapc 8y ago
A small digression on Nick Lane's book: I gifted myself The Vital Question in 2015 December. While Lane writes quite effectively without any mind-numbing jargon, the book still has quite a bit of technical chemistry (understandably

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