Dove

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by Dove 1y ago
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.
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by Dove 1y ago
I miss perl. I encountered it in school, in 1998, and fell head over heels in love. Used it professionally a lot longer than was probably justified, given the mores and availability of programmers. The Camel Book set my formative opinion
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by Dove 1y ago
To be sure, I agree that wild animals, even small ones, should be treated with respect and given space. I did not mean to imply that humans should go around picking fights with geese. Anything can happen in a fight, and I certainly agree
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by Dove 1y ago
Oh, I don't know. They seem like a lot more "honk" than "bonk". ;) I get that they have a lot of aggression and deterrence going for them. But in a fight between a goose and a human, the human is mostly risking bi
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by Dove 1y ago
You tell me. What's awesome right now? :) Some times are better than others, and I can't tell whether we're in a lull or I just have a case of "getting older" and "kids these days". ;) I will say that gold
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by Dove 1y ago
When I was in college, I once walked down a sidewalk that had been taken over by geese. Twenty or thirty big geese, sat down on the ground, who didn't even bother to get up on their feet I as I passed by. I wondered how they knew I w
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by Dove 1y ago
It's normal for achievement in any given genre to have a golden age. It can happen at any time and for mysterious reasons, but I think it is very common to have a golden age right when something new begins to mature and gain cultural
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by Dove 2y ago
Delightful. I love the coopetetive aspect. I'd love to be able to send a game link to people I know. :) ... I naturally play faster than 2 moves per second sometimes.
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by Dove 2y ago
Calm down, guys. It's transitional, and it's not unusual. From the article: > The hiring freeze is governmentwide, whereas a pause on communications and travel appears to be limited to the Department of Health and Human Servic
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by Dove 2y ago
Your suggestion that bad behavior by all-male teams would be improved by the addition of women rests on a couple of assumptions that are not true: that women are inherently better behaved than men, and that women naturally see each other as
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by Dove 2y ago
Pawpaw may be worth looking into.
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by Dove 2y ago
I appreciate this detailed write up. Thank you for taking the time!
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by Dove 2y ago
I think mice are worse. They pee on everything and it can be difficult to tell they've been there. And hantavirus is no joke! On the other hand, overly sanitary spaces don't seem to make us healthier overall. Living life fully
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by Dove 2y ago
I'm not the person you're asking, but I may be able to satisfy your curiosity a little. I have given birth without anesthesia -- in fact, I did so twice. I found it arduous and difficult, and there certainly were moments of pain
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by Dove 2y ago
I am a skeptic about the diagnostic criteria for hypertension, and especially about low targets for management. Cochrane did a meta review not long ago that made it sound like the signal was pretty weak below about 160/100 (as you mig
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by Dove 2y ago
You know, the names of a couple of the oldest books of the Bible in English are not very good. "Numbers" does have a census for the first few chapters, and I'll grant that a census isn't gripping reading. It impresses u
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by Dove 2y ago
There are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy I know, right? These works are deeply mysterious and not to be dismissed lightly. I remember coming away from the Bhagavad Gita with the same sense of Who?
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by Dove 2y ago
Thank you for that, I will.
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by Dove 2y ago
Thank you for the recommendation - I'll take a look!
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by Dove 2y ago
There can be only one answer to that - the Bible . Twenty years ago, I was convinced the content alone justified the claims of a divine origin, which opinion has only grown stronger in the years since. Even if you don't believe in i
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by Dove 2y ago
This is one of my favorite books as well. While I read it several years ago, I still ponder and apply its advice on a near daily basis. The section on Lincoln and criticism should be required reading before getting married. I have been su
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by Dove 2y ago
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is splendid. Some of the most vigorous writing I've ever encountered. I agree, it is highly recommended.
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by Dove 2y ago
Physical security isn't an intractable problem, but effective security requires expensive expertise and maintenance. The cost of good security is why you keep your spare couch in a self storage center but your jewelry in a safe depos
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by Dove 2y ago
There are companies that will sell you rental car insurance as a standalone policy. Google "Rental Car Insurance". Last I was dealing with this problem myself, the policies were something like half the cost of what the rental ca
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by Dove 2y ago
While I don't want to get involved in a political and radioactive topic (and don't intend to participate in an ongoing discussion), it seems to me there is something important to be said here. To my mind, there are two critical mo
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by Dove 2y ago
I had a very similar observation about engineering early in my career. The first project I worked on professionally felt vast compared to anything I'd seen in school. At first I was embarrassed to be new, to have to ask questions, to
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by Dove 2y ago
>> A measure being objective doesn't make it good >That completely misses the point. It’s not about what’s good The loss of context here makes me wonder if I am talking to an AI. The comment you originally replied to was,
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by Dove 2y ago
I'm convinced that the standard form of these text messages is wrong. A (legitimate) example I received recently read Your CorpName verification code is 305825. Do not share this code. CorpName will never call you for this code.
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by Dove 2y ago
Goodness is fundamentally a subjective attribute. Trying to measure it objectively is attempting alchemy. You cannot make the subjective out of the objective - you will always have smuggled subjectivity in somehow. Suppose I say that good
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by Dove 2y ago
I say this often. Code is for people, and the qualities of great code parallel those of great writing: clarity, efficiency, and a sort of profound obviousness and inevitability. The job of software architects is the role Heidegger ascribes

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