How I Am Maintaining Multiple Emails For Git On A Same Machine – blag

direnv is one nifty tool which lets you have different environment variables based on directories/path. The best part is, as soon as you enter into a directory, direnv does it’s magic, so you don’t have to remember that you have to run direnv Source: How I Am Maintaining Multiple Emails For Git On A Same […]

Brain dump on the diversity of AI risk | Jascha’s blog

My top fears include targeted manipulation of humans, autonomous weapons, massive job loss, AI-enabled surveillance and subjugation, widespread failure of societal mechanisms, extreme concentration of power, and loss of human control. Source: Brain dump on the diversity of AI risk | Jascha’s blog

Mental health in software engineering | Hacker News

In almost 30 years of software engineering, I came to the conclusion years ago that most deadlines were entirely arbitrary. The business isn’t going to fail if you slip a week, or frequently even six months and if it does its probably not the fault of engineering unless its so dysfunctional as to repeatably blow […]

Character Amnesia in China

I happened to have a cold that day and was trying to write a brief note to a friend to cancel an appointment that afternoon. I found that I could not recall how to write the Chinese characters for the word ‘sneeze’. I asked my three friends to write the characters for me and, to […]