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by kashyapc 4y ago
USB-C for laptop power ports seems to be incredibly flaky. :-( Let me share my ongoing horror story (excuse the verbosity): I've got a barely 3-months old Lenovo X1 Carbon (Gen-9) work laptop. A week ago I noticed the battery draining
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by kashyapc 4y ago
Almost anything written by the inimitable LWN.net[1] — their feature-length articles, technical conference coverage, etc. Something that springs immediately to mind is their 7-part series[2] Linux kernel namespaces from 2013. The full seri
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by kashyapc 4y ago
A quick few thoughts based on using IRC for 13-ish years: • I like IRC because it is clean and a light-weight text-only interface (well, you could use emojis, if you wish). I prefer text-based conversations when possible. I'm equal
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by kashyapc 4y ago
This sounds a bit clichéd, but bear with me: Definitely check out Leonardo da Vinci's biography by Walter Isaacson. It gives a delightful account of da Vinci's life and his exploits. It's hard not to feel inspired after rea
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by kashyapc 4y ago
You're making a blind sweeping generalization here. As has been repeatedly pointed out in the past[1][2][3], it is only the priming -related chapter (called 'The Associative Machine' in the book) that put "too much fa
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by kashyapc 4y ago
Nice work! On using tikz for vector graphics, I use it mostly for technical presentations. I'm terribly slow and abysmal at writing tikz code, but still I was hell-bent on using it—just because of the clean and smooth melding o
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by kashyapc 4y ago
The pyramid does confuse and muddy the waters a lot. Scott Kaufman's post[1] on his "sailboat" metaphor unpacks the problem well: The familiar pyramid shape suggests that once we complete each step, we’re done dealing with t
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by kashyapc 4y ago
I hear you. Maslow does make some leaps and he often points out it when he's making. He was acutely self-aware. I disagree with several of his arguments, which are quite outdated now. But he made many valuable observations that are st
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by kashyapc 4y ago
Careful there. It is true that Maslow did not have as much data as he should have (and would've liked). He admits it as much, and repeatedly warns in his books that "more data is needed". That said, on your point (2),
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by kashyapc 4y ago
Indeed, Maslow never drew anything like that. The psychologist Scott Bary Kaufman debunks this myth more thoroughly in his 2019 write-up here[1]. (Aside: Kaufman updates Maslow's "hierarchy" idea with a "sailboat"
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by kashyapc 5y ago
Okay, it's clear you overparsed it, as you seem to be needlessly upset. Please take it easy, and try not to read minds on the Internet.
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by kashyapc 5y ago
Thanks for the extra details. I do agree with your last point. That said, perhaps you could be a bit more charitable? I was not trying to provide extensive treatise on Gage's injury. I was highlighting one specific point of emotional
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by kashyapc 5y ago
Yeah, fully agree on being cautious here. On Phineas Gage — indeed, he made headlines for his seemingly "normal functioning", but the devastating impact on his emotional capacities was skipped over in the popular press! So let&#x
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by kashyapc 5y ago
The title is click-bait as hell and is actively misleading. Damage to prefrontal cortex (PFC) — the region of the brain that's important for emotion regulation, cognition, impulse control, planning, etc — can be very subtle. Visibly, s
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by kashyapc 5y ago
Hi, Matthew! I've always found your technical talks, blog write-ups, and mailing list posts to be interesting and educating. And thank you for all the work you did, and do, in the various FOSS communities — that's already a signi
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by kashyapc 5y ago
For current work, Paul Bloom comes to mind: "The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering ..." Probably there are others too. From about 50 years ago, I'd also highly recommend "Toward a Psychology of Being" by Abraha
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by kashyapc 5y ago
There's a reason why Kahneman famously gave up[1] on happiness research, because of our muddled thinking about it. Instead, he argues (which I fully agree with) that we should focus on reducing misery . As a society it is far more di
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by kashyapc 5y ago
> Run it yourself! I get where you're coming from. But, most people just simply don't have the appetite to run their own mail. What we need are: paid services that are reasonably reliable, secure, respect your privacy, and pr
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by kashyapc 5y ago
For e-mail, definitely check out https://mailbox.org . I've been a happy user of their service for more than a year now. Clean, secure, and effective. I'm not associated with them, but here is a decent review of it[1
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by kashyapc 5y ago
FWIW, I'm a happy customer of https://mailbox.org for more than a year now. I know several other users who are also happy with them. It's a no-frills, secure setup for a decent price. I definitely recommend mailbox.org
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by kashyapc 5y ago
A shout out to Adam Williamson, the author of this post. He's one of the most excellent open source people I've ever worked with. He tirelessly helps run and lead Fedora Linux's QA. It's always fun troubleshooting a g
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by kashyapc 5y ago
Speaking of computers commanding us ... a few years ago, I was visiting a friend's parents (practicing dentists). They told me in horror how Microsoft forcefully upgraded their work machines to Windows 10 overnight. And one of their
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by kashyapc 5y ago
Wow, "at quarter on ten" / "at half of ten" takes even more brain cycles for me to parse. Thanks for the Slovak/Czech examples. (Incidentally, I work with a lot of Czech colleagues.)
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by kashyapc 5y ago
Well, I have heard in real "half nine" used by an Irish colleague. And looking up on the internet, there's similar confusion[1], and someone clarifies "half nine = 9.30" And thank you for the "vol" &#x2
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by kashyapc 5y ago
It reminds me of a similar problem I face in Dutch (and still trip up if I'm not conscious): In Dutch (my 4th language), "half nine" ("half negen") means 8:30 . Whereas in English[1] "half nine" means 9
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by kashyapc 5y ago
Hi, I've read Voss' "Never Split the Difference". But I do not recommend it. I found it manipulative in a subtle but sleazy way. Also, the FBI bravado was a tad too much for me. At best, my rating of it is: "a
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by kashyapc 5y ago
Fair point. I was wondering about it from an intention and misrepresentation point of view. To me, it's misleading to claim "we make Fedora" by a lone individual while the real "we" is thousands of contributors. Dis
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by kashyapc 5y ago
Yeah, this particular comment[1] is quite damning—the person got booted by FOSDEM, FSF Europe, Debian[2], Alpine Linux and more. I wonder if the court considered all this past evidence. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/887
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by kashyapc 5y ago
Please don't be needlessly upset. First, the "link" is referring to a comment in this thread, and the fuller "definition" in the linked comment is a URL to a long email. This is how we link to things to keep mes
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by kashyapc 5y ago
Hi, in my case, it's not for the reasons you imply. I'm perfectly comfortable with and appreciate the importance of the "small-talk handshake", which is more critical in person. That said, avoiding "naked pings&quo

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