On 06/05/2025 23:00, Heather Madrone via Silklist wrote:
I've been rather absorbed with the self-inflicted train wreck that is
the US right now and hadn't noticed that I hadn't heard from silklist in
a while.
The cheery international news has me thinking about you all, and
wondering how you'r
On 10/10/2024 05:48, Veena Venugopal via Silklist wrote:
I did not have a problem with the "what do you do" question as long as i
was doing what i loved, which was being a journalist and writer. These last
5 years, I've worked for Apple and I realised when people asked what I did,
I'd say, "I use
On 09/10/2024 18:08, Rajesh Kasturirangan via Silklist wrote:
I don’t mind the ‘what do you do’ question. I make up an answer that’s both
true and contextually relevant. What bugs me a lot more is ‘where are you
from?’ - often with the connotation of ‘where are you really from.’ To which I
giv
On 07/06/2024 02:40, Venkatesh Rao via Silklist wrote:
Thanks Udhay for adding me to this list.
To introduce myself briefly, I’m Venkatesh Rao, blogger at
ribbonfarm.com since
2007, and indie consultant. More about me at venkateshrao.com. Based in
Seattle. Since this is an old desi list… I used
On 28/05/2024 18:55, Suresh Ramasubramanian via Silklist wrote:
I and four of my old school friends just had a longish dinner with drinks (beer
or juices) and just split the bill five ways. It gets to be fun when people
agonise over the split so much. If you end up a bit short in one dinner i
On 01/05/2024 12:33, Manar Hussain via Silklist wrote:
About the existence of a God. I'm an atheist.
What would count as "sufficient evidence" for you in this context?
[...]
I suppose if I define God as an agent with the power to perform magic,
then I could be convinced of His (or Her o
On 30/04/2024 10:41, Manar Hussain via Silklist wrote:
((fwiw l I've been told that despite a barrister saying otherwise, this:
+65(5): a correction may be made at any time
must be read in the context of this:
+ 65(4): a correction must be made if requested with 28 days
At which point it means
On 29/04/2024 12:47, Udhay Shankar N via Silklist wrote:
What is a deeply held belief of yours that you think you would change if
presented with data that contradicts the belief?
To be honest, I try not to have deeply held beliefs; merely provisional
hypotheses.
The most recent example of c
On 17/01/2024 02:05, Kingsley Jegan Joseph via Silklist wrote:
Looks like the conversation has moved far from the original point Peter
Griffin made. I too see the value in "the sense of community, the places of
contemplative silence, the art, the music". Not so much the art or music
themselves bu
On 15/01/2024 01:54, Charles Haynes via Silklist wrote:
Ah, ok. How much of the theoretical foundations of math are you familiar
with? The 9 axioms of ZFC are the things that underly math that no one can
prove. Sort of by definition. Which is one way if getting around the
"faith" argument in math
On 03/09/2023 04:36, Thaths via Silklist wrote:
From the earliest days online, which for me was the early 90's, what drew
me to the internet was partly the information that was available online,
and equally the social aspect of communicating with someone else (maybe)
far away.
My wife recently
On 28/08/2023 10:18, Nandkumar Saravade via Silklist wrote:
/- In a fear society, control is kept by the fear of retribution. The fear
worldview focuses on physical dominance. A person in this culture may ask, "Will
someone hurt me if I do this?"/
I've noticed that the rhetoric of right-wing
On 22/03/2023 01:33, Jules Yim wrote:
Our paths may have crossed in Gloucestershire, as I boarded for extended
spells in Stow-on-the-Wold with colleagues I call my UK surrogate parents.
The drive via Bishop's Cleeve into Cheltenham in a long summer's night is
quite the treat.
Yeah, we have som
On 20/03/2023 11:07, Jules Yim via Silklist wrote:
Hi everyone!
Welcome!
I'm Jules, born and raised in Singapore, and based back in Singapore after
a few years working abroad in the UK.
Ahah. I'm Alaric, born and raised in the UK and still here. I do very
nerdy things in computer software
On 19/01/2023 15:09, Jo Pattabiraman via Silklist wrote:
Thank you, Udhay, for adding me to the list. I am honoured!
Hi folks,
my name is Jyotsna, I'm a long-time Bangalorean. Like many of you, I am an
internet veteran - my internship was at IISc ERNET where I helped build a
GUI monitor for the
On 13/12/2022 13:51, Ameya Nagarajan via Silklist wrote:
Alaric, I'm sorry for your loss <3
Thank you! In practice, it was a gradual loss over a few years... with
the final end being a relief, if anything.
Which is a controverial thing to say... We're expected to be more
horrified about a n
On 13/12/2022 13:11, Udhay Shankar N via Silklist wrote:
On Tue, Dec 13, 2022 at 5:31 PM Alaric Snell-Pym via Silklist <
silklist@lists.digeratus.in> wrote:
I am fighting burnout right now. Work is rewarding, a lot of pressure
has been taken off me at home with the death of my mother-
On 13/12/2022 03:23, Udhay Shankar N via Silklist wrote:
Hello people:
As an aside, I discovered in this process that "mailing list" in 2022
generally means an email marketing solution - i.e, a broadcast service to
pump out marketing materials to a large list of people - and typically not
a di
On 16/06/2022 06:03, Udhay Shankar N via Silklist wrote:
What about you folks?
Hmmm, I don't like putting unnecessary wear and tear on lithium
batteries (or the faff of charging them), so try and avoid "wireless"
devices with their own batteries where possible.
My daily charge device is ju
On 02/11/2021 02:22, Udhay Shankar N via Silklist wrote:
> I have a question for the collective.
>
> With so much not going well with the world, at almost all levels of
> abstraction, what are the things that are still great? In fact, what are
> the things about your own life that have improved ov
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