[anthk]

I can't stand the ESR view on hacker-supposed media, music or martial arts. And I say this as a former Shotokan branch graded Karate alumnus. On music I can shift from psychodelic rock to Tangerine Dream to hard rock to electronic avant-garde jazz.

On sci-fi, OFC I like it, but the mistery genre it's really fine as it's pretty close to debugging a problem but with real life issues.

On tech, Unix philosophy and Emacs are polarly opposite. Unix it's focused on multiprocessing parallel tools doing the work for you (preferabily scripted) where the less code your run, the better; while Emacs wants you to reuse Elisp functions everywhere, with an always-loaded philosophy and not lightweight at all if you have tons of modules in memory. Also, Emacs it's single threaded, so Emacs is very prone to be I/O locked, while Unix will spawn background subprocesses like nothing not affecting your main task at all.