MrMcCall

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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Yeah. Nothing will ever be as funny as Holmes' deep voice, though. The fact that she conned so many people is really one of the greatest modern examples of just how effing stupid most people are, especially those with a fair bit of pow
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Celebrity can be used to create ripples in the ideation of the masses, however, but that's a hard row to hoe, and only a rare few have the wisdom or good intentions to know where to begin. As well, the forces that facilitate celebrity
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Like all we are fortunate enough to receive, the effects upon ourselves are based upon how you use it. Of course, we have to acquire such resources through non-harmful means; e.g. it can't be theft or selling coke. Regardless, if we us
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
God has left the truth in our hands to honor or disrespect as per our free will's choices. When a person truly loves God, they will love other human beings. If a person wants worldly power and self-superiority, they will live in destru
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Compassion has always been the minority position for all human beings, regardless of religiosity. That's why the world is the way it is. For most people, selfishness for their group is the reason they claim any religious affiliation wh
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
It makes sense to scatter a bunch of seeds on fertile ground, and then pick the strongest plant that shows the most growth. There are many kinds of smart, ambitious people; some will form teams that succeed, others will fall prey to unfores
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Human beings are the only creatures capable of self-evolution, using our minds to analyse the world around us and the world we have nurtured within us. Over time, we can stagnate into ossified animalistic patterns of selfishness, or we can
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Yes, the prayer rug is not sacred, per se, but it can be embued with a measure of sacredness by our practices upon it. Please know that Zikr (remembering/repeating one of the many Names of God) is the highest form of worship. (Zikr is
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Loving God is not for God's benefit, but for ours. Our emanating love towards our Creator helps us emanate compassion for all our fellow human beings. It is the Greatest Command(ment), and the sole purpose of religion. As such -- as yo
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
It's all the Hanif Religion of Abraham, whose texts have been lost to time. Compassion is the only purpose of all God's religions, and is the ultimate arbiter of our life's chosen actions.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Only the Quran is guaranteed to be unchanged (but the interpretations and translations are not so guaranteed), the Hadiths are not. The proper perspective is that if the Hadith and Quran are in conflict, the Quran is the authoratative sourc
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I haven't followed stories about him, but I doubt that all or even most of his stories were made up. I mean, the Korean Air (IIRC) one can't have been fudged, right?
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Well, yeah, that's how it works. On Earth here, we're an oasis of warm thermodynamic blessedness in a sea of frigid brutality. Be thankful there's no humans on Uranus.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Eugene Parker and Ludwig Boltzmann are familiar with your argument, and I doubt you even have Lord Kelvin's credentials. As Prof. Parker said, "We'll see who falls flat." (That's a paraphrase from memory; I doubt it
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Movement, yes, but does it explain why they just keep moving about in that cloud? I don't think so, but I'm open to learning.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Yeah, I guess. I rather enjoyed those days but was always craving more power to just get on with it. And those build times were nothing compared to waiting for a long SQL process. It's all really just determining whether the data flowe
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
That story in Gladwell about the (IIRC) Korean Air having to switch cockpit languages to English in order to escape the intrinsic layers of deference built into the language was hardcore. They were going to get delisted in Canada if they di
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Thanks, that's another fantastic answer.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
That is a truly fantastic answer. Thank you so much. Our high school son was studying his high school genetics today, so it's also a fantastic tie-in. (He prefers his days off during the week, so he put in some hours today; flexibility
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
It appears to be an extremely difficult problem involving serious tradeoffs in each direction. The only real solution is to have honorable actors on both sides: the citizenry and their govt. What that means is that we're left with, a
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Its difficulty and uniqueness is why it just hasn't been 'engineerized' or 'engineerified' yet. It's still a craft, as opposed to an engineering discipline. As such, that means the quality of the software produ
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
In this ~40yo case, I'm guessing it was more of a "I got into a very prestigious state university because I busted my butt in high school and I've learned that CS is a high growth industry." The talented and hard working
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Our final CS course, Operating Systems, was in C, after all the previous courses were in Pascal. Luckily, I had already gotten access to various Unix systems and had taught myself C (thanks, K&R !!). And I say luckily because it was e
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
The key observation about the Dunning-Kruger study is that humility, hard graft, and honest perseverance towards improving oneself are the three most important factors in achieving proficience in crafting large software data flow systems. H
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Dark energy is the force that counteracts the combined gravity of our enormous universe. It also keeps the electrons flowing around the nucleus, but not into it. The universe started with a single Big Bang, but is maintained by an interrela
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Phlogiston is such a great bit of the history of "science". >> we don't really understand gravity I would say that what we don't understand is how the universe is structurally layered, vibrationally/dimensiona
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
It may be that black holes punch through the barrier that separates us from our neighboring dimension(s), where the dark matter exists (and where our matter is dark matter to them). How that relates to your second sentence is well beyond my
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
>> hidden Brazil ductwork steampunk menagerie As a huge fan of William Gibson, that's some lovely writing, my fellow greybeard. >> I was an obsessive control freak There are 'control freaks' and there are the rest
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Dick Hurtz was disappointed he didn't make the list.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Shouldn't they be paid a decent wage for the teaching, itself?

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