Hi everybody,
I'm José María (Chema) Mateos, a Spaniard that emigrated to Montreal a
few years ago to pursue a career in academia and that quit, bored to
death, to reincarnate as a Data Scientist, where things seems to be more
fun.
I used to have Twitter / Facebook accounts but social media
On Thu, Sep 06, 2018 at 06:25:23AM +0530, Deepa Mohan wrote:
> Welcome, Jose! That was an interesting comment of yours about mailing
> lists... would like to hear a little more.
Just something I've experienced first hand. Mailing list discussions
tend to be more nuanced and carried in more good
On Tue, Oct 23, 2018 at 08:13:48AM +0530, Prashant P Kothari wrote:
> A question for the hive mind: do you have any tips for how to organize
> files/ folders on one's computer.
> My challenge: after multiple laptops/ desktops/ hard rives and transferring
> data and files from one to the other, I
On Thu, 25 Oct 2018 07:37:37 +0530 Deepa Mohan
wrote:
> Which blog do you use, and why?
I started my blog in 2003 using Drupal (!). The I moved it to Movable
Type. Then it was WordPress, and it stayed that way until 2014, when
the whole thing crashed due to I don't really know why. By that
On Thu, Nov 01, 2018 at 08:16:36AM -0400, Bruce A. Metcalf wrote:
> I respectfully suggest you include in your effort someone
> knowledgeable about the literature of science fiction. A significant
> fraction of stories in this genre touch quite directly on the social
> impacts of technology,
On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 06:54:41AM -0800, Thaths wrote:
> In addition to all of those steps, I also recommend using unique
> passwords in all the sites. It is not going to be possible for you to
> remember that many unique passwords (especially if you choose strong
> passwords). I recommend you
On Thu, Oct 17, 2019, at 12:28, Thaths wrote:
> https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/8xwe9p/yahoo-groups-is-winding-down-and-all-content-will-be-permanently-removed
>
> "Users won't be able to upload new content to the site after October 21 and
> have until December 14 to archive their content,
On Tue, Feb 25, 2020 at 05:35:27PM +0100, Srijith Nair wrote:
Hi all,
I would like to pick your brains on how you organise and retrieve information
that you read in books (physical or ebook) and long-form articles online.
Over the years I have been getting increasingly frustrated at not being
On Thu, Feb 27, 2020 at 07:02:16AM +0100, Srijith Nair wrote:
That is a refreshing contrarian view.
Do you store the metal paragraph in some form or other somewhere other
than in your head?
No, I don't typically write anything down after I read some book or
article. For me, it's enough to
On Mon, Jan 13, 2020 at 08:13:27PM -0800, Heather Madrone wrote:
In a similar vein, I realized that I deeply value quirky businesses
where people come together to try to fill a need in the world. Many of
these businesses provide mundane things at reasonable costs, and the
people who work there
I just want to take a moment to appreciate places to have quiet and slow
discussions, such as this list. I was reminded of how much we'd miss it if
(when) everything goes to hell while reading this article:
https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2020/01/16/the-internet-of-beefs/
Cheers,
--
José María
On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 07:18:11AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
My use of e-commerce is like a game for me, trying to see what is the
lowest price I can get for something (tip: you can ALWAYS get it cheaper if
you just put it on a watchlist for a month and have price data). To this
end, I've
On Sun, Mar 08, 2020 at 06:00:41PM +0530, Peter Griffin wrote:
What behaviours (if any) have you changed because you're worried about the
coronavirus?
Stuff that you would recommend others do too. For instance, washing hands
more, using hand sanitsers, avoiding crowds, not going to events,
On Sun, Mar 08, 2020 at 12:41:45PM -0400, José María Mateos wrote:
In my case the reaction has been mixed. Day to day hasn't changed much.
I try not to hold on to the rail in the metro as much as before, and
anyway I was always washing my hands when getting to whatever place I
was getting
On Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 11:03:49AM +0530, Biju Chacko wrote:
I feel like *I'm* stuck in the 20th century because I still like mailing
lists. Recently when I tried to explain that for engineering discussions a
mailing list would be better than a slack channel I had to stop to explain
what a
On Mon, Dec 07, 2020 at 09:21:44PM +0100, dev...@dvb.homelinux.org wrote:
Completely unrelated to the current thread, but I just had a blast for
the past. For years, I had the domain chema.homelinux.org pointing at my
home computer when I was finally able to get a cable connection (well,
my
On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 07:05:56AM +0530, Udhay Shankar N wrote:
The first message on silklist went out 23 years ago.
There are some members who have been around since then, and many others who
hopped on at a later time.
How did you find out about silklist? Share your stories.
I quit social
On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 10:25:31PM +0530, Peter Griffin wrote:
Looking back at that weird year we just went through, what are the
positives for you?
Answering more to this than to the second part: to me, work from home. I
really love it, and I'm lucky that I have that option. I save 1 hour
On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 10:50:59PM +0530, Madhu Menon wrote:
What resources are you using to learn?
Just books. I already play guitar, but my grasp of theory is
rudimentary, so I basically had to start sight-reading from scratch. I
bought the two volumes of "Bastien piano for adults" so I
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