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by kashyapc 8y ago
I am not saying to not be human and take all the zest out of the writing. FWIW, I suggest the book On Writing Well . William Zinsser has valuable advice on how we can still retain humanity in our writing without being dull and lackluster w
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The point is, "for fun and profit" is such an overused and utterly boring cliché. Meaningful titles are pleasant to read and shows that the writer has put some effort to bring clarity into what they're trying to convey. (As
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by kashyapc 8y ago
So, Intel indeed redacted the "no benchmarks" thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17833777
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So, as expected, a colleague of mine pointed out—Imad Sousou from Intel's Open Source Technology Center clarified: We have simplified the Intel license to make it easier to distribute CPU microcode updates and posted the new version h
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Regardless of the details of enforceability, this just sends the wrong message to the rest of the industry and community, and doesn't inspire confidence in Intel.
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Yeah, my guess would be it's #1 too; I can't believe that Intel can be so naive that no one on the internet will benchmark the performance—given how all these nasty CVEs are raising such a stink. Serious customers will demand p
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Recently I began reading the glorious P.G. Wodehouse (his books with the inimitable Jeeves and other characters) as a breather from the non-fiction work I read. After a serious day with dry technical work, it's incredibly pleasant to
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Emacs Org-Mode (4 years & counting) for daily work-related notes, design documents, conference talk notes, TODOs -- I'm happy with the default structure it offers (and I use checkboxes and related built-in features). And a plain w
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Hmm, I haven't even noticed the "weird baseline" (what is so weird about it?). On Inkscape, another colleague also suggested it. I'll give it a try next week. My main use of LaTex (with Beamer) + TikZ is for not too co
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by kashyapc 8y ago
I completely hear you. Despite my extremely limited skills with TikZ, My brain "somehow" stubbornly insists to keep chugging along with TikZ, spending unreasonable amounts of time. But I love the end result; the way text and d
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by kashyapc 8y ago
True, being not in the same namespace resolves the confusion. But a decent chunk of people on this forum might end up using both (assuming the chat application takes off). If it's humanly possible, avoid name collision. I'll stop
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Not sure why you are being down-voted for stating something reasonable. Probably because you didn't add something "substantive". Sigh.
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Good reminder. Although subconsciously I realize that, I didn't remind myself that way and after re-reading that paragraph, I thought: "hmm, maybe I should up 'risk-seeking' dial a bit more"—which can be evaluated i
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Something along those lines is what I recall reading in Kahneman's book. I just double-checked the 'Loss Aversion' chapter, and indeed he writes, and elaborates further: " What is the smallest gain that I need to balanc
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by kashyapc 8y ago
[Maybe I'm being excessively cynical] Sorry to rain on your paradise, but is there something old-fashioned about using "Double Irish"[1] arrangement to evade legitimate taxes too? [1] https://www.irishtimes.com&#x2
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by kashyapc 8y ago
That "reaching out" habit out of instinct should be curbed. I realize it's the game of journalism -- "we should report it first!" But just because the journalist's business model requires to "publish as
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by kashyapc 8y ago
[tangent] Speaking of Steve Reich, if you haven't yet listened to his glorious Music for 18 Musicians ensemble piece (duration: 55 minutes), do give it[1] a try. An explanation of the composition and its structure: http://
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by kashyapc 8y ago
This reminds me of Daniel Kahneman's notion of "experiencing self" vs. "remembering self" (the story-telling self). Here's a story he shares in one of his talks[1] about how the "remembering self" di
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Slightly related: I was recently remote-working from a peaceful book café and discovered this just-released book titled Book Towns [1] sitting sitting across me. I flipped through it and immediately bought it. Have a gander at it. From
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by kashyapc 8y ago
We get how this works. You say you don't condone his wretched behaviour, but keep writing these "aphorisms" and sound bites which imply that "you can't do much about it". The bad parts will flourish if you le
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by kashyapc 8y ago
I see where you're coming from. That said, I definitely don't think Jobs "needed" to stab Wozniak in the back there. He still could have shown better moral scruples and be effective. They're not mutually exclus
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Well, that statement requires a lot more detail. Straight on 60 days is simply infeasible, let alone sustainable. Intermittent fasting is something else. Please make sure to provide context when making tall claims like that, which could
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by kashyapc 8y ago
> What is N.B fasting? "N.B" is short for "nota bene" in Latin, which means "note well" or "please take note": https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nota%20bene
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Speaking of technical debt, you might want to remember the following 'handy rule' from the book Team Geek[1], chapter "Offensive" Versus "Defensive" Work: [...] After this bad experience, Ben began to categori
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Amazon's Alexa recorded private conversation and sent it to random contact(theguardian.com)
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I considered it, but Fedora is the beast I know for ~10 years, and I could debug it more confidently if something breaks (and I know I'll inevitably be called for tech support). Also, I've had "great success" with Fedor
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Hmm, I didn't consider that. I'll write to him to ask how it's going, and will suggest if he would like to try this. Thanks for the idea.
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The other week my Dutch language teacher (he's ~55) wrote an email "I would like to try Linux, can you please assist?" after learning about what is open source and libre software. I was pleasantly surprised to receive his ema
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> [...] philosophy has had nothing to do That's an extraordinary claim (which is dubious at best); and we both know the quote about extraordinary claims. Sure, there's a ton of pseudo-philosophy these days, but to brush all o
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How do you prepare and how long do you ought to spend preparing the talk? I'll quote `techtalk-pse`[1][2]: [quote] First, most important rule: Before you start drawing any slides at all, write your talk as a short essay. This is the

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