mosh + tmux + emacs I can't believe how few people mentioned mosh. I work on remote boxes "across the pond" all the time and it makes a huge difference. Laptop going to standby, VPN dropping, slow connection, all…
It sounds like it's best to be doubtful and unsure about my knowledge. So as long as I can make sure I'm unsure, I'm good. But can I be confident that I'm unsure? It's turtles all the way down.
"Why draw the line at family and friends? It's a natural place to draw the line. I think if you study psychology and the evolution of the human mind that's pretty obvious." I think if you study those things, you'll…
I don't really get your second paragraph. If you can afford to help strangers, then you can afford to help your friends. What point are you trying to make? I'm not sure. And why do you help your family and friends? Why…
Everybody is biased. Having a somewhat left-of-centre bias myself, I like to read the FT and the Economist precisely because they don't simply reinforce my beliefs.
I also speak three languages, and I'm learning another two. I'm also a hacker. I find programming and foreign languages highly complimentary. In both cases I'm supposed to communicate ideas in a specific vocabulary and…
I prefer anthropology, sociology, history and psychology to fiction when it comes to learning more about humanity.
mosh + tmux + emacs I can't believe how few people mentioned mosh. I work on remote boxes "across the pond" all the time and it makes a huge difference. Laptop going to standby, VPN dropping, slow connection, all…
It sounds like it's best to be doubtful and unsure about my knowledge. So as long as I can make sure I'm unsure, I'm good. But can I be confident that I'm unsure? It's turtles all the way down.
"Why draw the line at family and friends? It's a natural place to draw the line. I think if you study psychology and the evolution of the human mind that's pretty obvious." I think if you study those things, you'll…
I don't really get your second paragraph. If you can afford to help strangers, then you can afford to help your friends. What point are you trying to make? I'm not sure. And why do you help your family and friends? Why…
Everybody is biased. Having a somewhat left-of-centre bias myself, I like to read the FT and the Economist precisely because they don't simply reinforce my beliefs.
I also speak three languages, and I'm learning another two. I'm also a hacker. I find programming and foreign languages highly complimentary. In both cases I'm supposed to communicate ideas in a specific vocabulary and…
I prefer anthropology, sociology, history and psychology to fiction when it comes to learning more about humanity.