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Astronomers discover 12 new moons orbiting Jupiter(theguardian.com)
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Yes, preceisly what allanienhuis says above. The Chimney Sweep taks are important, but mundane. E.g. some (a lot of) people dislike bug triage, but it's damn important. I like triaging (and fixing) bugs. To a decent extent,
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Reminds me of how an excellent engineering manager I know calls such tasks like "review help file for accuracy" as Chimney Sweep —work that needs to be done, but is utterly mundane. And rotate such tasks across the team to ens
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by kashyapc 8y ago
A related tip for mobile users is Firefox Focus . It is a variant of Firefox that does the following: "The new Firefox Focus automatically blocks a wide range of online trackers—from the moment you launch it to the second you leave
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by kashyapc 8y ago
There's a reason why parts of the Linux community has an event named: The Linux Plumbers Conference :-) https://linuxplumbersconf.org A reputed community conference, co-organized by contributors and maintainers of the Lin
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Even if the program was totally "free of human interaction", it shouldn't be marketed as "cognitive"—an exceptional word that requires exceptional evidence, when used in context of software. Otherwise, it's a
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by kashyapc 8y ago
I interpreted it ("with little timidities") as a subtle joke.
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by kashyapc 8y ago
True, I fully see your point of people imposing their subjective views over-confidently. It is a real problem. :-( But I don't think Zinsser there means to get rid of all 'timidities'. The subtext my mind's eye read
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by kashyapc 8y ago
That impreciseness is one reason why William Zinsser in his book, On Writing Well , argues: - "Get rid of the adjective-by-habit." - "Don't hedge your prose with little timidities. Good writing is lean and confident.&q
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Occasionally, like any other human. I keep healthy work hours. And I try maintain a decent life besides work, with hobbies that doesn't require me to sit like a vegetable and stare at a screen.
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Last night I randomly decided that today I'd like to work from the cosy city next door. (It's a one hour train ride.) Before heading out, I did a bit of homework about coffee shops from where I can work from. I woke up early, bik
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Okay, here is something potentially bold (given Intel is also a Platinum Member of the Linux Foundation): How about exploring the frontiers of open hardware (RISC-V)? The back-of-the-envelope calculation from an LWN comment[+] (on the discu
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Yeah, I agree. FWIW, I've been participating in Linux Foundation's technical events since late 2012. Not everything they do is golden (w.r.t coordinating with open source communities or partnerships with companies), but for now
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Plenty. E.g. pay for critical infrastructure projects[1][2]—OpenSSL was "manned" by just one or two developers who were grinding themselves to the ground. People barely realized it until "Heartbleed" CVE. Other things
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by kashyapc 8y ago
No frelling way you'll get rid of it ( https://xkcd.com/1782/ ). For the last 10 years, been working on open source software for a living. Been an IRC user for equally long; `mutt` for the last five years. Thank
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Since we're bike-shedding, just wanted to mention: "unfettered software". It has a liberating ring to it like none other. :-) Wikipedia even says [+]: Stallman has suggested that the term "unfettered software" woul
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Also in the same vein of plain text (command-line only): GNU `pem` (Personal Expense Manager): https://www.gnu.org/software/pem/ It's a single Perl script. Used this for my monthly expenses before I bought a
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Then you will have an awful salad of separate commands that you have to juggle around. I am all for "UNIX philosophy" within reason; it has its bounds, let us not over-romanticize it.
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Are they really "terrible" with "awful usability"? In my day-to-day debugging, I do find `journalctl` much better. Let's see a couple of quick examples: - Show logs for the current boot: $ journalctl -b - To
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by kashyapc 8y ago
For AMD, in context of virtualization — you would need to also expose a new CPUID flag: 'virt-ssdb', which all hypervisor vendors will expose to guests on AMD hosts. More from the libvirt patch[1]: Some AMD processors only suppo
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by kashyapc 8y ago
If you are using Linux-based virtualization (KVM), besides requiring updated kernel and Intel microcode (which is not yet available), you would also need updates for relevant layers: QEMU and libvirt. Patches are posted[1][2]. Virtual Machi
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by kashyapc 8y ago
I hope more scientists, specifically those in the public eye, don't blatantly berate philosophy "because they can't do experiments on important questions". The incident that jumps to memory involves the science "pop
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by kashyapc 8y ago
I think so. It's probably a reason why some people prefer a bit of "human buzz" when working remotely — e.g. a not-too-noisy coffee shop or a pleasant library, where you can work at peace, but still feel the human presence a
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Hm, guess the down votes are for the useless remark in brackets at the end, which I already hesitated before hitting "reply"; was genuinely trying to recall. (And probably for the chiding of the post author in the first paragraph
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Yes, as an everyday user of OpenVPN for years , I find the above "death chants" extremely off-putting and amateurish. It implies the author of the post has little elementary common sense to resist not to foul-mouth existing pro
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by kashyapc 8y ago
I see where you are coming from. My main work laptop has 24GB (recently refreshed; the previous one had 16GB), so I can trivially spare 300MB, if I want. That said ... I work on open source Linux virtualization (KVM-based), and I fiercel
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Definitely in great doses (or maybe not; see nolite 's comment). And I don't think it would be far-fetched to say they were willingly blind (by greed) to future repercussions. And now suddenly "wake up", after RSUs &
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by kashyapc 8y ago
Sure. But did they truly believe all those "assurances" about how they could keep the original WhatsApp values indefinitely while getting acquired for an obscene amount of money?
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by kashyapc 9y ago
Sorry, it was indeed an off-the-cuff remark in poor taste.
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by kashyapc 9y ago
That's the header you get when he himself replies. But his auto-responder has: I am not on vacation, but I am at the end of a long time delay. I am located somewhere on Earth, but as far as responding to email is concerned, I appear

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