MrMcCall

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by MrMcCall 2y ago
The ego is, indeed, referred to in a negative sense because most people do not sublimate it to serve the group. It's natural state -- and, therefore, our natural state -- is to be selfish to oneself and one's in-group. There are 1
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Well, the higher-ups (in all organizations) do, indeed, have a greater cultural influence on the group's ideals, attitudes, and behaviors. The especially problematic aspect of this is that we often reward the least compassionate with g
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
The success of any organization depends upon each member behaving selflessly to meet the needs of the group. Selfishness in any organization is a parasitic drain on energy and productivity. Embracing compassion for all those who drift into
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Yeah, I think it was type providers. Thanks for the links and help. That's really excellent. Still, I'm old enough to remember "embrace and extend and extinguish" so I keep Microsoft off my linux boxen. I reject their co
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Also remember that the guilty power-mongers' first defense is always "deny, deny, deny". The first casualty of corruption is honesty.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
All of what you say is true, but the overarching fact remains that all those problems are caused by selfish justification of one party's benefit at the expense of others. While a good people must prepare for war when their neighbor dem
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Yeah, but heating an overheating world in the pipe dream that a 95% accurate black-box solution is good enough is pure madness.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
The Path of Love begins with exercising our free will to choose to not be a selfish ahole. Suppression of our selfish urges is the first step to fully overcoming them, which is the process of purifying one's soul and, therefore, even t
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Let me just acknowledge the excellence of JoshTriplett's comment and add a bit of my own. What you are really saying (not that you have the wherewithall to admit it) is you don't believe this can be done, and therefore no one can
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
We've been in the prologue to Version 3 since the end of WWII. It's the nature of what we, the citizenry, have allowed to happen with our governments and multinational corps: destruction of the environment, subjugation of the peop
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Maybe something to do with autodiscovering, autogenerating, and then utilizing interfaces over the net. I never used it, but watched a couple of the F# guys' vids about it. That's the extent of my involvement, but that was 10+ya,
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
It's a very brief news article but this caught my eye: "He has also been dismissing calls for independent investigations into scandals involving his wife and top officials" Well, there's a standard motive. And, if there&
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
That that movie is by Isabella Tree is such a great example of nominative determinism. And she was adopted by aristocrats! So aristocrates have done something selfless and generous in their lives, I'd've never guessed. Good on `
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Thus facilitating the chick magnet -> chick factory pipeline, which really boils down to just being a regular fucking pipeline.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
"Short cuts make long delays." --somewhere in LOTR Thinking the user of AI can just spec a goal and then the AI automagically produces perfect results is just the pipe dream of the lazy who won't ever have a clue about how to
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Yeah, that's very good, but I'd say "try to give the computer", for various values of "try" :-)
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I consider them to be tools run upon/within other tool(s), their entire purpose being to manifest some kinds of data flow that produce a cascade of changes within a specific context. All the contexts are nested aggregates: software res
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
[The article is concerned with a kind of philosophy of software existence. As a pragmatist (programmer), I'm more interested in addressing the first question concretely, as it pertains to what HackerNews is mostly focused on.] After de
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Back a decade+ ago when I was still using Microsoft in a corporate environment, I found F# and loved it because it changed how I thought about programming (in a very good way) with its being very concise, allowing me to naturally express al
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Same here, but I never sold my soul to them, so, while not having nearly as much money, I have my self respect. I hope you feel good about fighting the good fight, even if you did so by remaining in your natural, more innocent, state. Peace
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
If you can't know the order of your static class init routines' execution, you can't create some kinds of software systems, where such information must be known beforehand. Failing that we have to contrive our own init workfl
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
That's very interesting. Yes, my understanding of Dr. Sapolsky's work comes from rather old videos he did, so, sure, I don't doubt that what you're saying is probably true, but I'm not a neuroscientist, so I'm
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
It is truly sad, my friend, that you have to deal with misguided people who believe their religiosity is enough to countermand the Greatest Command(ment): "To love God with all your being, and then to love your neighbor as yourself.&qu
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Sure, but when the uber-wealthy capitalists make the laws, avoid paying the taxes that support the entire system, and then greedily take as much as possible for their own selves without regard to the well-being of the workers or the Earth,
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
All of our problems are caused by our not prioritizing compassion in our systems' designs and implementations, including how our economic transactions are structured and performed. Compassion is the root of all virtue, and the balm for
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Thanks for that, it makes sense.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I don't doubt it or that it's extremely useful and mostly well-designed. I just wish its font rendering had a bit more meat on its bones. I've never had to use it, so I don't know how it works at all (besides understandi
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Yeah, especially that font rendering. What has it been? 30 years? 40 years? Yikes!
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Yes, indeed. We are still in the "craft" stage of the process of software development. Engineering is altogether something else than what we're doing. Strangely enough, 30ya, my friend getting his EE Masters was mostly taking
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Well, the money guys aren't going to let that kind of outlay dip into their country club membership fee allotment, now are they? Your proposal is a brilliant and necessary idea, but we don't run the world, my friend. The people th

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