MrMcCall

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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Eisenhower defeated Rommel, my friend, with Patton's brilliant help, dragging a limping Monty along by the hair. He was nearly sacked for insubordination. The Germans only feared one Allied General, and it wasn't Monty (it was Pat
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
"They" defeated Rommel. No one can say whether he would have done so without Bletchley. Personally, I doubt he would have done so without the Med fleet utterly destroying all of Rommel's resupply train, but that's just m
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
That makes sense when one is used to the Visual Studio organization of solutions and projects, with some main method somewhere being the entry point, unless it's a WCF service or somesuch that gets run via a service manager. I only use
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I really like the four-part documentary series called "Staion X" which was all about Bletchly Park. It has numerous interviews with the folks that worked there -- they were a bunch of excellent oddballs, for sure. It's a real
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> controlled by the F# Software Foundation, the .NET Foundation, and Microsoft. It is controlled by Microsoft. It's not going on my Linux or BSD boxes. I know how they work, and I want nothing to do with them.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I don't know what C# has for an interactive prompt nowadays, but F#'s commandline environment, via its fsi.exe, was a revelation back then. It prevented having to have entire solutions to contain test projects to explore different
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I don't doubt it, but I don't run Microsoft software any more. I've seen enough embrace, extend, and extinguish in my lifetime to not depend on them for my code's execution environment. My current work needs nothing the
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
For me, I already had all the featues I needed. Plus, I'm not going to be downloading, configuring, or running any separate code at runtime. The project is the project, it's going to process some files, communicate with some servi
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Curried functions combined with that magnificent pipe operator, overlaid on the .NET runtime. Don Syme et al knocked it out of the park. It's the one programming language that changed how I think about programming. I'm only talkin
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Scaled Ms. Holmes up to around 11 years, IIRC.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
For their socio-economic status? Surely.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
[ETA: Oops, the article is for "Scientific Ballooning". My bad. It's still a great balloon story.] I can't believe they don't have Joseph Kittinger[1], who piloted the balloon that allowed him to parachute from the
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
One step closer to 'Sam Sheepdog vs Ralph Wolf'.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Our teacher explained to us that the most selfish thing one can do is serve the happiness of others, due to the universe's feedback loop that feeds the happiness we've sown in our treatment of others back into what we reap within
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Of course. Very, very few people are fully cognizant of all their existing weaknesses; those are successively revealed as we make progress on the path of love. The spiritual path is not, to my knowledge, ever fully traversed in one fell swo
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
That's why being brutally truthful with yourself is essential in learning how to love others so as to actually become a good person. The worst lies we tell are most often the ones we tell ourselves. It's just like the low-achievin
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> Be here. Be present. Most especially be aware of others' happiness or misery, along with our own heart's intentions and actions and how they affect both others and ourselves. Our sense of inner peace is dependent on how our k
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
I'm not a frayed knot.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
The happiness feedback from making others happier -- even if just less miserable -- is the most excellent feeling known to man. Once a person tastes it, nothing else will ever compare. Lovingly serving others' happiness is a part of th
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
He only directed it. He didn't write it. That's the difference.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
My intuition says that that is truly a film that portrays mankind's potential for humanity, not the depravity of BV. Ironically, from IMDB's storyline for TEM, it says, > Brutish Bytes, his "owner", only wants whateve
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
It's not obscene, IMO, it's DEPRAVED . It is disgusting, it is unnecessary, and it was made to make money. That it was written, directed, and produced by a huge industry and then made available to be watched in a movie theater is
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> I suppose you also hate Dante's Inferno for similar reasons? I don't hate anything or anyone, because hate and rage are solely negative, but, I didn't bother reading that middle ages tripe any more than I read "Wuth
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> he made great things. Read https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090756/parentalguide Anyone who calls that great enjoys the perversion of mankind, and it is nothing less than that. It's a sickness, and lots of
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
They don't wanna know, so they have nothing to tell.
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Well said and insightful, thanks. And the name-comment synergy slaps, as the youngins sometimes say :-)
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Do you also judge crack cocaine's value by its number of users? I don't think most people are capable of doing a cost/benefit ratio calculation on how what they do affects the rest of the world, and the wealthy are far and aw
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
"Why is poor taste ubiquitous?" --Eric Spieakermann in "Helvetica" Because we live in a world who live to be titilated with the inane, lewd, and lascivious. Like a brain-damanged Bower Bird's trashy monument to itse
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
> But does the process of institutionalizing those teachings not go against those exact teachings themselves? Not so long as we keep our moral compass as we are taught, in that we are to love God with all our being and then love our neig
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by MrMcCall 2y ago
Maybe he's referring to the suffering required to actually put the song together, from inspiration to pieces of structure to full structure to final polish. Perhaps. I'm with you in your assessment, however. These jazz folks didn&

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