Re: [silk] Your most memorable concerts?

Realised I’ve been to a lot of festivals than independent concerts, but they always had specific standout performances that I’m going to use as stand-ins… Imogen Heap at NH7 Pune: hearing her do Hide and Seek solo on the key-tar was goosebump inducing and practically magical Anderson.Paak in

Re: [silk] What are the things you splurge on that are worth the money?

Everyday essentials: You only buy one or two and they last forever, so bang for buck doesn’t escalate that much with increases in price - Mattress and pillows (you sleep a third of your life) - Jeans, boots and thermal base layers (nothing like being comfortable in the snow) - TV and soundbar

Re: [silk] Questions, or answers?

I think the strip expresses very well why I disliked my formal education. The examination focus seemed very strongly on teachers asking questions, and students having to produce answers. The opposite would have been far more engaging to me. If the focus of my school year had been to find great

Re: [silk] Recommended Reading from 2015

Loving all these recommendations… My book of the year is a collection of lectures by Ursula Franklin, The Real World Of Technology, which considers technology to be any I system or methods used to organise humans thought. It has me thinking a lot about my role as a creator of applications in how

Re: [silk] Bangalore and Chennai food/restaurant recommendations

Overrated Tiffin room battle! I support CTR; benne dosa from there is the one food I regularly miss with all my stomach. On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 4:31 PM, Simmi Sareen wrote: > > > > On 17-Sep-2019, at 19:37, Venkat Mangudi - Silk > wrote: > > > > MTR is over-rated. :-) > > > > CTR (there are

Re: [silk] New member Intro: Jitendra (Jiten) Vaidya

The point of the vacuum bag in sous vide is so the meat is in direct contact with the water heat source but without actually getting wet. I think a glass jar with a vacuum would actually insulate the meat and prevent the heat from transferring. So the only parts of the meat that would receive heat

Re: [silk] Hi, I’m Geetanjali

Hello! And welcome. Cheerio, Ashim Design & Build The Random Lines www.therandomlines.com On Sat, 23 Feb 2019 at 08:57, Geetanjali Chitnis wrote: > Hello! > > Udhay, thank you for inviting me to the last Silklist meet-up and for > adding me to the list! I’m excited to be here. I’ve known a

Re: [silk] What do you do when you get to know that you have been pwned?

solution that works! > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 8:53 PM Ra Jesh wrote: > > > Hahaha. Neat!!! > > > > On Fri, Feb 22, 2019, 20:51 Ashim D'Silva > > wrote: > > > > > For sites I don’t use too often, I was always tempted to reuse > passwords &

Re: [silk] What do you do when you get to know that you have been pwned?

For sites I don’t use too often, I was always tempted to reuse passwords which is a pretty bad practice, so I started just using the forgot password feature more often. So I have a ridiculous entirely random password that I don’t know, and then just say forgot password when I want to log in. It’s

Re: [silk] Tech & Social Good: Please Help Me Collect Readings & Syllabi

Not precisely an answer to the question, but https://8hours.org has a lot about the effectiveness of social good and could be adjacent to what you’re looking for. Cheerio, Ashim Design & Build The Random Lines www.therandomlines.com On Thu, 1 Nov 2018 at 06:55, Yosem Companys wrote: >

Re: [silk] The Mother [was: Capitalism and Climate Change]

It’s well summarised in the oft misrepresented Frost poem: *I shall be telling this with a sigh* *Somewhere ages and ages hence:* *Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—* *I took the one less traveled by,* *And that has made all the difference.* The first line is generally omitted, practically

[silk] Why we know ‘queen’ bees are female…

This is a great thread on how society shapes scientific language https://twitter.com/bugquestions/status/954743598460874752?s=12

Re: [silk] Slow thinking

American politics seems to put a hefty premium on the “fast spoken” style and I think a significant portion of people make up their mind about candidates from debates and town halls trusting the oration and sound bite version of people rather than the research and actual plans. It also, to some

Re: [silk] Capitalism and Climate Change

I think this is pretty well exemplified by the story of Fritz Haber—the German chemist essentially developed chemical warfare during World War I, and later was awarded the Nobel Prize for extracting nitrogen from the air for fertilizer. According to wiki, half the world’s food base is dependent on

Re: [silk] The reader's side of the bargain

.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2018 at 9:54 AM, Ashim D'Silva <as...@therandomlines.com> wrote: > Funnily enough that was among the criticism of the new Star Wars—using a > sci-fi plot style in a fantasy world. The tension in the movie depended > heavily on a craft running out of

Re: [silk] The reader's side of the bargain

Funnily enough that was among the criticism of the new Star Wars—using a sci-fi plot style in a fantasy world. The tension in the movie depended heavily on a craft running out of fuel and therefore generated a tonne of questions about how the spacecrafts worked rather than the fantasy that

Re: [silk] ‘Kind’ technology?

to deal with unkind humans is really important too. And I guess that means we’ll have to develop more structured ways to deal with unkind technology and the humans that control it. On Thu, Feb 8, 2018 at 9:26 AM Tomasz Rola <rto...@ceti.pl> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 07:00:21AM +00

Re: [silk] ‘Kind’ technology?

.@ceti.pl> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2018 at 05:40:06AM +, Ashim D'Silva wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > > > > As of "kind technology", this is exactly a connection of words that > > > wants to revolt my stomach. I put great value in us

Re: [silk] ‘Kind’ technology?

> > > > On some other day, Someone Else wrote: > > >"We are human beings, not human doings". > > This may be very deep and wise and yet I happen to have other opinion > on this: those who do not do might as well cease to be and nobody > would be able to tell the difference. We are perfectly

Re: [silk] ‘Kind’ technology?

I love that thought, thanks Cheeni. It's definitely worth keeping around as we build things. It also reminds me that @jonnysun has made two interesting Twitter bots that fit this conversation—@tinycarebot and @tinydotblot They both really suit the medium well. On Sun, Feb 4, 2018 at 8:24 PM, Srini

Re: [silk] ‘Kind’ technology?

There’s an interesting app I used for a while called Be My Eyes. Super simple idea, both blind and sighted people sign up and when they need it blind users can video chat with someone to quickly help them with something that isn’t exactly friendly like identifying a can of food, or reading a

Re: [silk] Bangalore: Time to meet up

I missed the last one so I’d really to make this one before I’m not around again. On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 6:42 PM Madhu Menon wrote: > On 21 January 2018 at 17:53, Ashwin Kumar wrote: > > Weak Yes. > > > Ditto. > > -- Cheerio, Ashim D’Silva Design &

Re: [silk] Filter bubbles as weapons

I’m a tad conflicted about consuming opposing viewpoints. While I try and read a variety of sources, and will double check most stories of note, there is a line I try not to cross. Because of a general distrust of sources available to us, there seems to be a growing view that the average must be

Re: [silk] PickleJar - Indian Free Stock Photos (Re: Ashim - An Introduction)

I quite like the idea of pay what you want, but monthly so there's an investment in producing more work. And maybe thresholds with different licence benefits. On Thu, Nov 9, 2017 at 2:21 AM, Gaurav Vaz wrote: > > It is also not a bad idea to think abt a "pay what you like"

Re: [silk] PickleJar - Indian Free Stock Photos (Re: Ashim - An Introduction)

gt; more work and fix up the site! > > > > Can you fill me in on the thinking behind PickleJar? Why CC-Zero? And what > was in it for the Photographer? And anything you can share about who used > it and how (apart from seeing a good photo every day)? > > Thaths >

Re: [silk] Ashim - An Introduction

hme...@gmail.com> wrote: > Oh n... It was a super idea. > > On Tue, Nov 7, 2017, 14:32 Ashim D'Silva <as...@therandomlines.com> wrote: > > > > > Rajesh, it got hard to source diverse enough photographs that were useful > > stock I think. So we ran out of mater

Re: [silk] Ashim - An Introduction

hme...@gmail.com> wrote: > I loved pickle jar. Why didn't it work out? > > On Sun, Nov 5, 2017, 11:54 Ashim D'Silva <as...@therandomlines.com> wrote: > > > we > > also tried running a photo site for a while that we’d love to get going > > again: http://picklejar.in

Re: [silk] Ashim - An Introduction

Thanks Ingrid, exactly what I was hoping to hear, and our plan to begin with. I have ended up using so many photo services like these over the years, I’ve lost track of most of them. For an actual portfolio, Adobe’s own service ends up being pretty nice and minimal (https://ashim.myportfolio.com)

Re: [silk] Ashim - An Introduction

rif...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 4, 2017 at 5:29 PM, Ashim D'Silva <as...@therandomlines.com> > wrote: > > > Hello Silklist, > > > > Glad to be a part of something that the more I read about, the more I am > > ashamed to not have known about. Better lat

[silk] Ashim - An Introduction

Hello Silklist, Glad to be a part of something that the more I read about, the more I am ashamed to not have known about. Better late than never then. I’m a web designer and front-end dev, sometimes a photographer and writer; I work with Gaurav Vaz; I like movies and great food and coffee. I