What you can expect at GitHub Universe 2022: cloud, security, community, and AI
Register now to attend GitHub Universe virtually or in-person at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco on November 9-10. ⌘ Read more
Tips & tricks for using GitHub projects for personal productivity
GitHub Issues is a core component of how developers get things done and, as we built more project planning capabilities into GitHub, we’ve found some fun and unique ways to use the new projects experience for personal productivity. ⌘ Read more
The problem I have with the vast majority of social movements, left or right, is that they often lead to projection instead of introspection. Instead of person A trying to decide how person B can treat person C better, person A should try to decide how person A can treat person C better.
Minimizing Liabilities Is Making It
The default way to look at financial “independence” nowadays is to think that means “making a lot of money.”
That’s understandable.
But then you see stuff like this:
Or this:
It takes until 30 for a person to be as rich as they were when they were born. (And this is average net worth, … ⌘ Read more
I just discovered that my phone app (on my personal smartphone) shows me the total call duration of all calls made with the phone so far. A total of about 137.5 hours, which is over five and a half days (!). And that’s just the calls I’ve made using the phone app in the last 22 months. With Telegram and WhatsApp (and my landline phone), I’m sure a few more hours could be added. I’ve often heard the statement that smartphones are hardly used for making calls anymore these days. But apparently I can disprove that. On … ⌘ Read more
Regina Ip is the right choice to steer Hong Kong’s comeback as Exco convenor
Given her qualifications in the political arena and personal experience in overcoming setbacks, she is more than capable of shaping the terrain of Hong Kong’s political landscape. ⌘ Read more
Man in China with no arms shows millions how the disabled can live full lives in videos of cooking, writing and sewing with his feet
A man in China who lost both his arms as a child shows millions that a disability does not mean you can’t have a full life, with videos of him cooking, farming and even sewing with his feet. ⌘ Read more
Prince Charles says Commonwealth nations free to decide on dropping queen as head of state
Addressing a summit of Commonwealth prime ministers and presidents in Rwanda, the monarch also expressed ‘personal sorrow’ at Britain’s legacy of slavery. ⌘ Read more
‘See you next year’: China’s ‘King of gaokao’ fails to get marks for dream university after sitting the entrance exam for 26th time
A man in China who shot to fame after repeatedly sitting the country’s university entrance exam has failed to get the score he wanted for the 26th time — but plans to try again next year. ⌘ Read more
Exclusive interview: Hong Kong’s leader-designate John Lee says ‘I am a pragmatic person’ and ‘I will be open to everybody’
In a wide-ranging interview, John Lee describes his approach to governing, his views of the civil service and the priorities of his incoming administration. ⌘ Read more
‘Glocalised’ school-based curriculum at Caritas Wu Cheng-chung Secondary School empowers innovation and inspires students from nearly 20 countries and regions
Caritas Wu Cheng-chung Secondary School (CWCC) embraces ‘glocalisation’ to optimise its students’ learning experience as well as their personal growth and character building. ⌘ Read more
US, China talks in Luxembourg may set stage for Biden-Xi face-to-face summit
US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan and Chinese Communist Party Politburo member Yang Jiechi met in Europe’s Luxembourg on Monday, the 4th in-person meeting of US-China officials in 15 months. ⌘ Read more
US billionaire Warren Buffett’s last charity private lunch sees record US$19 million bid
A wealthy person has bid a whopping US$19 million to eat at a New York steakhouse with Warren Buffett, 91, in his last such auction for San Francisco charity Glide. ⌘ Read more
Google co-founder Sergey Brin seeks divorce from second wife Nicole Shanahan after 3 years of marriage
The world’s sixth-richest person filed a petition for dissolution of his marriage to Shanahan, citing ‘irreconcilable differences’. ⌘ Read more
Japan’s new tougher cyberbullying laws prompted after Hana Kimura’s suicide sparks free speech debate
Anyone convicted of using abusive language to insult a person in a public setting, including online, now face up to one year behind bars or a fine of up to US$2,236. Previously, a conviction could have led to a maximum prison term of 30 days or a fine of US$75. ⌘ Read more
Kevin Spacey granted bail after ‘strenuously’ denying sex charges
The actor is accused of four counts of sexual assault and one count of causing a person to engage in penetrative sexual activity without consent. A plea hearing is scheduled for July 14. ⌘ Read more
Western outcry over Hong Kong’s anti-doxxing laws smacks of hypocrisy
Data privacy is a global concern, with many countries developing legislation to protect individuals’ personal details. Yet, in Hong Kong, such laws are suspected of masking a hidden agenda. ⌘ Read more
China parenting: rock star Zheng Jun in child abuse scandal claims son’s 1,000 kowtow ‘punishment’ was ‘Buddhist ritual’
A Chinese rock star who punished his son by offering him the choice of sitting in an uncomfortable position for an hour or being physically beaten and then recorded the incident and posted it on social media is under fire for alleged child abuse. ⌘ Read more
One developer’s journey bringing Dependabot to GitHub Enterprise Server
A personal story about building the feature you want and sharing it with the world. ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Journal Podcast - May 30, 2022
Listen now (17 min) | Lunduke is heading back to in-person conferences! (SO EXCITED!) ⌘ Read more
The Lunduke Journal is heading to in-person conferences!
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Linux Sucks 2020
Watch now (73 min) | The first Linux Sucks not recorded in front of an in-person audience. ⌘ Read more
Linux Sucks 2022 is now available!
“This time it’s personal.” ⌘ Read more
Linux Sucks 2022
Watch now (68 min) | “This time it’s personal.” ⌘ Read more
No standstill?
When I reflect on myself like this, I have long had the impression that I am a person who cannot live at a standstill. I always need a topic that keeps me busy, a thing in my life that I can optimize or at least a frequently changing topic that I can dive into. ⌘ Read more
Ground Zero for the Personal Computer Industry: 1977’s West Coast Computer Faire
The introduction of the Apple II and the Commodore PET. ⌘ Read more
Childhood Toys
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Childhood Toys
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okay, so here’s a claim: axes of personal development à la Kegan are in principle orthogonal to meditative attainments
Google reportedly planning subscription service for your personal data
“For the first time ever, we will allow people to own their own data. This is truly revolutionary.” ⌘ Read more
Sure, the big five model is okay, but I prefer a real personality model: dishwasher totalitarians versus dishwasher anarchists
short story about a cancer researcher who starts murdering patients in the control group because he expects there to be a null result, but he always puts on a mask that prevents him from directly seeing the person he kills—double blind
Lots of personal preference, but I disagree on Acme: it’s far and away my preferred editor on unix-like systems, too.
that is to say, both might be relevant for personal effectiveness, and both are tangentially related to big problems (how do we bring about good states of consciousness & how does society organise sexuality so that everything works ~well), but not much beyond that.
i think posting about personal meditation practice on the EA forum is bad, because personal meditation practice is as relevant to EA as advice on seducing people.
that’s why cold approach in person works so well, or why programming is easier than mathematics, or why you should build explicit models as quickly as possible (even if they’re shit), or why meditation is so hard
Trudeau, Freeland met with Ukrainian neo-Nazi party cofounder
funder (thunder but with fun, f*** under, fun; der, person who gives funding)
This morning Kaja’s condition deteriorated and by about 6h they weren’t able to recussitate her. I already miss the huge personality from such a small creature
. this stuff is seriously profound, and you’re able to change your bodymind in profound ways that mightn’t be obvious at first
you are a successful person who has started recently reading lesswrong, i am a novel rodent control agent
every copy of Jensen’s inequality is personalized
A new text-mode “Psuedo-3D Engine” written in BASH
Imagine an old-school dungeon crawler, first person game. In ASCII art. Running in your terminal. It’s a thing of beauty. ⌘ Read more
@prologic@twtxt.net I am seeing a problem in which not-so-active users, such as myself, are ending up having a blank “Recent twts from…” under their profiles because, I assume, the cache long expired. What can be done about it? Business personalities such as myself can’t be around here that often! Could something be implemented so that, say, the last 10 or 20 twts are always visible under one’s profile? Neep-gren!
The Revenge of the Hot Water Bottle
Imagine a personal heating system that works indoors as well as outdoors, can be taken anywhere, requires little energy, and is independent of any infrastructure. It exists – and is hundreds of years old. ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: MLK and Personalism
In my recent post on idealism and identity, I mentioned my attraction to the philosophy of personalism, with its emphasis on human dignity. It is perhaps a little-known fact that Martin Luther King, Jr., was greatly influenced by that very philosophy. Early in life he ventured north to study at Boston University, then the center of personalist thought in America, where he completed his doctorate under theologian Edgar Sheffield Brightman. We can see the deep influence of personalism on King’s … ⌘ Read more
Finding our Nerdy Happy Place
I’d like to take a step back from my regular Mega-Nerdy ™ articles for just a moment… To talk about things from a more personal point of view. Today was a rough day in the news. I won’t go into the details here, but things were happening out there in the world that made me pretty sad. And frustrated. And afraid. Things that hit close to home. ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: Idealism and Identity
Personal identity is a deep, and deeply meaningful, subject: at some level, what’s more important than what makes you you? Paradoxically, throughout history and across cultures, often personal identity has been a social construct, tied closely to tribe, clan, family, ethnic group, race, caste, class, societal role, and so on - usually in opposition to some Other (“I’m a Capulet, not a Montague”, “I’m a proletarian, not a bourgeois”, etc.)…. ⌘ Read more
My 2021 in Review
The year has almost reached its 100% progress, so it’s time again to take a look back and see what happened especially for me personally so 2021. I have written a monthly review every month (already the second year in a row), so here are the highlights of the past 12 months: ⌘ Read more
Web3 being “democratic” makes perfect sense if you can’t tell the difference between a dollar and a person.