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by kashyapc 9y ago
Very much agree with the point about how accessible (especially via email) RMS is. A month ago I too have exchanged some email with him about license clarification of some slides he's worked on in the past. He responded within a day
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by kashyapc 9y ago
Paul Bloom (who's provocatively-titled book Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion is prominently discussed in the article) says something like the following: "For example, consider long-distance charity. Someone who
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by kashyapc 9y ago
Yes, you raise a difficult point about the phone number required feature. And you're at least the second person I hear (legitimately) complain about it; the other was from a technical friend, during an in-person conversation. I real
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by kashyapc 9y ago
This sounds potentially useful. I mostly used (for more than a year) Telegram for ad-hoc interactions at technical conferences. (E.g. EuroPython 2016 & some groups I interact with at FOSDEM 2018 used it, so I "had" to use it
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by kashyapc 9y ago
Interesting that you mention Thomas Metzinger. I learned about him via a podcast he did with Sam Harris (who's mentioned on this thread a few times), titled "The Nature of Consciousness"[1]. From my faint recollection, Metz
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by kashyapc 9y ago
This reminds me of the following, from the book Team Geek[1], chapter "Offensive" Versus "Defensive" Work: [...] After this bad experience, Ben began to categorize all work as either “offensive” or “defensive.” Offensiv
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by kashyapc 9y ago
Hmm, frankly, "SpaceX will 'replace' NASA" sounds quite naïve. That makes no sense whatsoever. I think you meant assist / boost / "lend a hand to" NASA, by delivering some payloads to ISS and col
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by kashyapc 9y ago
Although the book still has tremendous value (FWIW, I've read it too), I hope more people also read the above blog (& the comment on it by Kahneman himself), to keep a balance of perspectives and the current "replication crisi
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by kashyapc 9y ago
Although straightforward, I'm still proud of how I replaced the "un-replaceable" battery of my 4-year old Nexus 5 (still in mint condition). /me even made an opening pry "tool" by cutting an eraser holder into
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by kashyapc 9y ago
For those interested in Linux-based Virtualization (includes Xen, KVM, QEMU) and IaaS topics: https://fosdem.org/2018/schedule/track/virtualization_and_ia...
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by kashyapc 9y ago
"Apple is to be admired as the world’s most valuable listed company for the simple reason that it makes things people want to buy, even while facing fierce competition." Really? Apple gets a clean chit for everything? I live in t
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by kashyapc 9y ago
Funny happenstance that I had to see this thread just as I come back from my Dutch language class. Tonight I had to debate (of course in Dutch) for 15 minutes, as part of an interim exam, with my co-debater about "Are smartphones maki
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by kashyapc 9y ago
FWIW, as a relatively novice LaTex (in combination with the Beamer program, largely for technical presentations) user, I can imagine why such people nit-pick over typography. The Computer Modern and its derivative Latin Modern fonts ar
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by kashyapc 9y ago
I should have used the term 'coordinated disclosure', which probably reflects reality more. The links (with remarks from tptacek ) pointed out by JdeBP (thanks) up-thread are a useful read.
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by kashyapc 9y ago
There's such a thing called: 'embargo period', wherein CVEs are (in most cases) responsibly disclosed to various parties---including several Linux distributions---much ahead than the general public, to coordinate security er
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by kashyapc 9y ago
Some of you here must surely be familiar -- one of the most engaging biographies of Tesla was written by Margaret Cheney: Man Out of Time : http://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Tesla/Margaret-Cheney/... (T
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by kashyapc 9y ago
You maybe "unsure", but for an outsider reading Callahad's response, it looks like so. Besides, it's meant to be read as: "one of your teams". Also, your all-company event maybe "intensive", but it do
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by kashyapc 9y ago
Related: Speaking of word origins, here's a fun example. How a Mistake Gave Us the Word 'Cherry'[+]: [quote] The Old North French word for 'cherry' is 'cherise'. English speakers heard the 'se' a
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by kashyapc 9y ago
Ah, thank you for the suggestion, I'll certainly give it try. (And no, not a strong prescription.)
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by kashyapc 9y ago
Oh dear. That sounds sickening. (I'm due for a new pair of glasses and I'm in Western Europe). Recently, I happened to visit a store to look for a new pair of frames (& glasses). The frames were so insanely expensive I had
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by kashyapc 9y ago
I split my time between Gerrit-based and email-based projects. While I appreciate Gerrit for its benefits (like the excellent CI integration), I instinctively tend to gravitate towards my email-based workflow that is blazing fast, allows m
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by kashyapc 9y ago
Yep, you hit the nail -- it's the casing, indeed. Much like other humans here, I read it 4 times, and still got stumped until I saw the comments section. (While coffee is next to me, and Paris is almost a stone's throw (3 hr t
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by kashyapc 10y ago
You made a sweeping generalization about libvirt's complexity, and characterized it as a "simple observation", without any concrete pointers. And you seem to be comparing Virtual Box with libvirt, which is equivalent to compa
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You are simply overstating the issue. Was not closing the discussion down with security -- that line of thought didn't even occur to me. The `virtual-box` equivalent in the KVM stack is `virt-manager` (under the hood, it uses libvirt A
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by kashyapc 10y ago
Please don't make suggestions like "libvirt is too convoluted, just resort to [QEMU] command-line" -- FWIW, I'm saying this as an every day QEMU command-line user -- without having the complete picture. Yes, there ar
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by kashyapc 10y ago
Those who have down-voted the above almost certainly do not know the situation on the ground. FWIW, I recently had to explicitly inform the Canonical Virt maintainers (of which there seem to be very few) about which patches that ought to be
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by kashyapc 10y ago
[Disclosure: I spend a (not too large) _portion_ of my time on the OpenStack Compute project, so adjust my comments for bias.] Please. You seem to be making the same mistake, that many make on blogs and news websites, of exclaiming "co
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by kashyapc 10y ago
Me nods. I clicked on it with a 100% expectation to see Computer Modern Roman (CMR) font, only to be surprised. Not that I was repulsed with what I saw. Still nice, but I'd have also posted a variant with CMR. :-)
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by kashyapc 10y ago
FWIW, I prefer to use it (LaTex with Beamer) to make technical presentations at conferences. This[1] was my most recent output. Though, I spent way too much time than I care to admit making those, especially tweaking the TikZ 'diagrams
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A long-time kernel developer happened to be sitting next to me, while I was listening to this talk at FOSDEM last weekend, and he politely pointed out after the talk (paraphrasing): "Hmm, I'm not quite convinced -- this lives in t

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