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by Dove 2y ago
I love how many of us who are IT or software professionals now got our start cobbling things together at the dawn of online gaming. Not as professionals, just as people who happened to be there and wanted to make something work. The 90s w
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by Dove 2y ago
To add some missing context (though perhaps also to spoil my husband's joke) - Koolbear, whose real first name is Mike, founded and was instrumental in the life of the forum where the two of us met and has been a hero and inspiration t
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by Dove 3y ago
Some of the best advice I've ever heard comes from the following observation: Blundering is often a result of trying to overplay a small advantage. If you are playing thoughtfully, with an eye on the whole game, you are smart
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by Dove 3y ago
I remember, back in 1997, how magically good Google's search results were compared to other search engines. I'd look for something on Hotbot and somewhere in a sea of seemingly randomly ordered keyword matches might be the releva
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by Dove 3y ago
Better warning labels is all we need. My nasal rinse has red text that says, "Warning: Do not use tap water unless sterilized by boiling." Given the absolute proliferation of useless warnings, we all ignore a dozen such notices o
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by Dove 3y ago
Newspaper articles detailing method, outcome, and witnesses. Marvel at what man is capable of when he wants to believe.
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by Dove 3y ago
Actually, the browser did. Your double space is still there in the page source. :) (I still do it, too, and mine is also there.)
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by Dove 3y ago
I doubt you speak from experience, but I do - I've spent a couple decades doing government contracting of one sort or another. I'm not desperate - I know I could make a lot more money in another sector - I'm patriotic. And
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by Dove 3y ago
Technology, as modern sorcery, is neither inherently good nor evil, but is infused with its maker's spirit and intent. What a refreshing spirit is displayed in this idea!
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by Dove 3y ago
Mine started with homopolar motors! They're fun and easy and great kid-level physics and engineering. I can also recommend Snap Circuits for Christmas. :)
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by Dove 3y ago
The seven year old can make an electric motor out of spare parts (batteries, magnets, wires), and routinely makes electromechanical Minecraft contraptions that I don't comprehend. We just hope they choose to use their powers for good.
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by Dove 3y ago
We have penrose tiles on the fridge that I 3d printed years ago and glued magnets into. He begged and begged and begged me to make similar hat tiles. There were two problems - the 3d printer was currently broken, and work had slammed me
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by Dove 3y ago
Thank you! We think so! This kid's scratch page is wild - https://scratch.mit.edu/users/noonagon/ One of my favorite joint projects with him was a python implementation of Game of Life in which individual ce
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by Dove 3y ago
My son (13) is extremely mathematically adept, and current research on cellular automata generally and Life specifically is one of his passions. When the final pattern was discovered earlier this year, he was extremely excited about it, an
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by Dove 3y ago
42 is special, though, as the longest cycle that requires a its own solution. 43+ can be made as a Snark Loop. https://conwaylife.com/wiki/P43_Snark_loop
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by Dove 3y ago
Our family celebrated the event with a custom t-shirt: https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/49108604-life-is-omniperio...
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by Dove 3y ago
That's good to know! Some high end products I buy will sometimes carry a link to a lab report quantifying the concentration of some critical component in that batch - curcumin in tumeric, for example, or polyphenols in olive oil - or h
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by Dove 3y ago
I would expect factories to do batch testing as part of internal quality control. In fact, I know they do, with a lot of products, for a lot of problems. I wonder what went wrong here.
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by Dove 3y ago
Well - I myself think historical methods are perfectly reasonable for establishing historical facts - and the credibility of Christianity is primarily a question of historical fact. And Keener's books were what convinced me that miracl
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by Dove 3y ago
> treat him with disdain That's the pride and anger I was expecting to find. Your commentary towards God and his works is hostile, quick to judge, to the point (I would say) of even being unfair and hasty. Any excuse for an insult
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by Dove 3y ago
Ah, post-edit. Perhaps I misread you. If you are serious about this - Speaking only for myself, if you presented to me objective, verifiable facts consistent with the existence of the chrsitian god, I would absolutely change my belief reg
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by Dove 3y ago
It is a book that shouldn't exist, powerful enough to found a civilization and turn the world upside down, and to turn individual people upside down and inside out in an astonishing range of contexts. The same tome is the battle cry o
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by Dove 3y ago
> I simply rephrased the parent post’s definition of faith, nothing more. Oh, I know, I know, and both of you are only rehearsing what is common knowledge in the culture. It's just, that culture consists of people who don't
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by Dove 3y ago
That is the definition of faith used by the irreligious -- as hostile a definition as if you asked one political party to explain the beliefs of the other! An insider, and particularly a Christian, would never define faith that way. Speaki
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by Dove 3y ago
I think many of the paradoxes of prayer are most easily comprehended if we remember that God is called our Father, and we are called his children. How would the situation in question work out, between a father and a child? Suppose there ar
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by Dove 3y ago
One particularly aggravating manifestation of the medical industry's inability to be wrong is its tendency to blame patients. It is famous for doing so in the area of obesity. But one rather entertaining incident happened to me: I wa
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by Dove 3y ago
> What happened is that during my literature review, I disturbingly realized that what I had been told at the hospital ... was an assertion based on very weak scientific foundations. And yet ... has been taught as though it was a proven
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by Dove 4y ago
You're right about all of that. :) I guess I assumed the context of the question was online services. People working on web sites, back in the 90s, often messed around right in production. But if I remember correctly, the mid nineti
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by Dove 4y ago
Totally off the cuff, I would say 1995. As to why? Because developing in production often breaks production, and about that time, we started to care about that. Before that, we were happy when things were working at all and didn't
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by Dove 4y ago
Indeed. According to [1], it would appear 58% of the US officially believes in angels by creed (Protestant, Catholic, Mormon, Orthodox, Jewish, or Muslim). Only 11% are atheist or agnostic, and there's a 30% group that's religio

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