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by kashyapc 3y ago
I don't know what kind of context you mean here. The main thing that matters is: does the music resonate with you or not? The rest of the "context" is a nice-to-have. (Also, by "this music", I'm assuming you m
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by kashyapc 3y ago
Yeah, Max Cooper is really nice. I just checked - I have 25 liked tracks from him on my Spotify; saw him live a couple of times too. In terms of replay value, I seem to get more out of Hopkins than Cooper. I guess it's a bit hard with
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by kashyapc 3y ago
Without clicking, I guessed it would be the track "Immunity"! :-) It's an outstanding melody. Related: if you liked it, you might like the track "Briefly" by Nils Fram. It is 27 minutes[1]. It's like a hike in
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by kashyapc 3y ago
Related: I personally find "Lady with an Ermine"[1] painting by da Vinci far more appealing than Mona Lisa. (I discovered this in Walter Isaacson's outstanding bio of da Vinci.) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by kashyapc 3y ago
"Many of the commonest assumptions, it seems to me, are arbitrary ones: that the new is better than the old, the untried superior to the tried, the complex more advantageous than the simple, the fast quicker than the slow, the big gre
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by kashyapc 3y ago
Absolutely. The aggravating thing with Newport is that for a guy advocating "minimalism", he churns out too much needless crap. The irony seems definitely lost on him. As for avoiding the plague that is the filler books, a robus
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by kashyapc 3y ago
On "framing personal success", Michael Sandel puts it very well[0], when he says: "Meritocratic hubris reflects the tendency of winners to inhale too deeply of their success, to forget the luck and good fortune that helped t
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by kashyapc 3y ago
This is besides the main point, I really wish "Open AI" renamed themselves to "Opaque AI" or something else. Their twisted use of the term "open" is a continued disrespect to all those people who are tireles
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by kashyapc 3y ago
It's not about being "not that bad". Unless you really know what you're talking about, it is simply "good internet manners" to not sleep-walk into such an overloaded cliché. Most readers on the internet are
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by kashyapc 3y ago
I don't buy it. It is still absolutely distasteful to reach to the nearest cliché as a bait. This much-abused phrase falsely implies one man's personal take as a broad consensus. (Also see karatebot 's excellent point[1] i
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by kashyapc 3y ago
Thank you! :-) Glad you say the phrase "it [full marathon] just doesn’t feel like the human body is particularly made to do it". I don't mind the training, but question the long-term safety aspect. My left foot is flat and i
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by kashyapc 3y ago
Thank you for the validation. :-) Absolutely agree on "staying with it". I'm not "craving" for a full marathon or prove anything to anyone. I'm trying not to burn myself out by over-training. I hear you on lo
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by kashyapc 3y ago
> to clarify, is that 2hrs daily, or 2hrs 3-4 times a week (i.e. every 2 days, or avg 1hr per day)? Sorry for being ambiguous. No, I didn't mean 2 hours daily (heavens forbid! :-)), nor was I talking about training time per week[
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by kashyapc 3y ago
More power to the man! That said, as a relatively new runner I'm really undecided whether to train for a full marathon. For context: I'm 38; I began running about less than 2 years ago. In the last 12 months, I ran 3 half marath
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by kashyapc 3y ago
I see comments about the quality of the writing in the article. For a more higher-quality treatment of Bruegel, Manfred Sellink's books[1] are not to be missed. Sellink is the leading Bruegel scholar. [1] https://books.goog
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by kashyapc 3y ago
Thanks for the excellent references! (I was recently planning to be in Vienna to check out some of these works at the Kunsthistorisches.) Ah the 2018-2019 exhibition you're referring to was done for his 450th anniversary. I recall go
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by kashyapc 3y ago
I don't know about the full-size reproductions, but I own a (hardcover) copy of "Bruegel in Detail" book[1], which zooms into specific details of many paintings and provides great explanations. I also own an excellent large h
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by kashyapc 3y ago
Nice to see Bruegel on HN. Google's "Arts and Culture" project has some splendid high-resolution images[1] of some of Bruegel's works. E.g. See this[2] detailed explanation of one of his classics, "Harvesters"
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by kashyapc 3y ago
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing this. The word "bummel" (a German word for "stroll") is described wonderfully in the last paragraph of the book, it is quoted here[1]. A modern day example of the above "overhauler&qu
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by kashyapc 4y ago
The author is supposedly[1] a computer scientist; he should really have pushed back on using the term "mind" here. But I guess it was too tempting to resist the click-bait impulse. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com&#x
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by kashyapc 4y ago
If I may, I'd like to slightly temper the enthusiasm about Newport. I'm familiar with his work for 4-5 years. He has a few things of value to say, but he slathers them in too much filler and churns out "books" (they ma
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by kashyapc 4y ago
It's absolutely not a "tangential annoyance" in this case. Your serious point is critical and it must be considered.
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by kashyapc 4y ago
Sorry to pile on the name thing, but it is important! A venerable UNIX tool's reputation shouldn't be misappropriated like this. The name "grep" brings up the imagery of an efficient search tool for most Linux users. Th
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by kashyapc 4y ago
[Hi, I am not trying to be confrontational.] > [...] and then links to a page of advice on the internet [...] There's a world of difference between an armchair internet-dietitian (no, I'm not implying you are one) and a registe
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by kashyapc 4y ago
There is so much misleading "advice" in the above comment that it's not even worth refuting. I just want to warn to others lurking here to be cautious with it. From the little I know (which is nothing!), going the "keto
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by kashyapc 4y ago
Yes! On "diet" — as the saying goes, "you can't outrun a bad diet." I want do some strength training besides the usual bicycling and running 3-4x a week. But I keep dragging my feet with it.
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by kashyapc 4y ago
Uh, "stop eating carbs 2 months before" sounds like bad advice that needs a lot of heavy caveats. As you know, carbs are precisely we need when going the distance. I know long-time runners who even eat pasta for breakfast before
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by kashyapc 4y ago
Thanks for this explanation. I'm a newbie runner -- been running for a year-and-a-half. I'm aiming to break the 2hr mark in my 3rd half-marathon next month. My last half-m in Oct 2022 took 2hr9min. I know, 9 minutes is a lot to sh
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by kashyapc 4y ago
First, to understand what Epicurus said, I strongly recommend "On the Nature of things" by Lucretius. It's a beautiful (and poetic) work on the core ideas of Epicurus. Second, a small nit-pick on the subtitle of the article:
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by kashyapc 4y ago
Yeah, it's annoying to see these quick takes by "contemporary authors". Although, the above caricature on virtue can be somewhat forgiven—we do see a constant riffing on "virtue is the highest good"; "virtue i

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