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by kashyapc 8y ago
Speaking of e-mail clients, come to the bright side and use blazing fast tools like `mutt`. Thanks to such tools, my day-to-day "computing experience" has become far more pleasant for the past five years.
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Thanks for the suggestion; never heard of it before. Not sure if it's integrated into Org itself; it looks like so. but the Remember Mode seems to have Org as one of its "backends"[1]. Reading the documentation ... sect
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by kashyapc 8y ago
There are still a couple of open slots, so feel free to send ideas (or even better -- prepared images) to the contact e-mail address mentioned on the website.
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by kashyapc 8y ago
My sole use of Emacs is for Org-Mode (for extensive note-taking, task breakdown, writing reports, etc). I'm glad I invested the time three years ago. During the upcoming holidays, I should try to explore and "stumble upon" a
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by kashyapc 8y ago
This year also marks the 15th anniversary of QEMU.
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Consider putting the "edit" at the top of your first comment---noting it upfront is important, IMHO.
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Still . Your friends are not a representative audience, when speaking on a global internet forum. Even though "you can leave at any point", Vipassana, for all its benefits, is absolutely not recommended for first timers! Ple
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Yes, Enlightenment Now makes one systematically reflect over humanity's progress; it repeatedly bludgeons the reader with illuminating data. And speaking of Pinker ... looking forward to see him in person tonight here in Ghent, Belgium
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IMHO, starting with Sapiens is better—as that is the really core expertise of Harari, and it's a masterful distillation of human history into a single book.
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Thanks for sharing that. I'm learning Dutch (Flemish) for the last two-ish years, taking night classes). I heard my teacher say you can string along three infinitives, but didn't realize you can go up to seven ! I recently fini
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Haha. A German colleague called it "inferiprovement". But I like the version you heard better.
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Speaking of words ... here's one of my favorite German compound words: Verschlimmbesserung — "an intended improvement that makes things worse" I'm sure many of us here can relate to the word :D History of the word: &qu
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by kashyapc 8y ago
FWIW, here's an alternative setup to consider if you don't want everything to do in Emacs (I use it daily for its wonderful Org-Mode): * OfflineIMAP -- to download and synchronize local Maildir with remote IMAP. * Mutt -- E-mail c
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FWIW, I'm in Western Europe, and "social media"-free (besides occasional use of HN) for about good five plus years. Not that I was a ravenous user before that. Happy to report that overall well-being, reading pleasure and co
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It's the result of people writing "articles" in a hurry, and going with the nearest and stupidest cliché that occurs to them.
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They may be "beautiful" to look at through a microscope, but goodness forbid you don't want to "experience" one! (My experience was only a tiny stone 8 years ago, that was "resolved" by drinking litre
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Hmm, let's precisely define what Mr. C calls as flow (or "optimal state"), as mentioned in his book: The optimal state of inner experience is one in which there is order in consciousness. This happens when psychic energy—o
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Yeah, I hear you. FWIW, I'd much, much recommend the book by the Hungarian psychologist, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's (or Mr. C): Flow -- the psychology of optimal experience . I'm reading it the second time on a physical cop
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You're missing the larger point. I'll try one last time. Labor "at will" doesn't mean you get to abuse the conditions "at will". If you can , and do have all the wherewithal in the world to make your
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What are you talking about? Jimnotgym is precisely asking to not screw the society and follow the law (yeah, they found some "legal" loopholes, therefore one could argue that Amazon is in the "legal green zone") pay
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True; Singer's argument that "everyone should get enlightened on this" is a hard sell and isn't going to happen in real life. Thanks for the other recommendations.
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Your question reminds me of the Australian moral philosopher (and one of the founders of the "Effective Altruism" movement) Peter Singer. I have an inkling that you know him. He talks about (and makes people squirm) "how muc
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Indeed, I agree. I'm ~70% through the translation by Gregory Hays. FWIW I've picked up this translation after some research; there are several of them. Hays' translation also as a nice reference on related reading in the b
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/me can relate; I recall that neighborhood (was in Barcelona a couple of times in winter, for conferences). Here I just bicycle the complete opposite direction from the center to go to "known quiet spots" where we can get er
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By "you", if you mean the city, I presume so—when I see the cafés, restaurants open almost until 03:00 AM (at least during the ten days of the festival), and probably the local musicians and artists might also make a buck or two f
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I live in a relatively small (population ~260,000) Western European city. It's really pleasant during most of the calmer months, but come summer (and the festival of nearly ten days), there's 2+ million people visiting during tha
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by kashyapc 8y ago
True, the book is indeed about "future", so I of course accept that by definition there will be speculation. I'd be lying if I didn't find the book valuable. I think my gripe is about his not-so-strong solutions—but
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On a similar vein, I'd also recommend the book Factfulness by the fantastic Hans Rosling (who, sadly, died last year). It is full of exciting anecdotes from the real world and much-needed reminders with lots of informative and fun s
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Without giving any spoilers, unfortunately, as the book (Homo Deus) progresses, there's more and more speculation. He also wrote a third book, that will come out in a week, with a heavily click-bait title :-( 21 Lessons for the 21st C
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Speaking of David Deutsch, the fine man needs more visibility. To get a taste of his thoughts, might want to listen to the podcast[1], Surviving the Cosmos , between Deutsch and Sam Harris. (They did a second podcast together as well, bu

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