MrMcCall

62 ms·

931.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
"The selfish / selfless binary is a bit simplistic to explain corruption." Corruption is selfish gain. If one eschews corruption because they realize that it harms the society-at-large, then they are acting selflessly. If one
932.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
"You can't stop it with upbringing." You're right; we all have the choice to be saints or demons, or anywhere in between! We can be one on one day and the other on others. What is important is to teach empathy as the ant
933.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
My son and I are fans of Stephen E. Ambrose's books "D-Day" and "Citizen Soldiers" (as audiobooks), but would really love a video companion to the books that charts the territories being discussed. It would be like
934.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
"You get imparted the best morals in both cases." That is simply not true, for the vast majority of the world's cultures and societies. Yes, we all have a conscience (inner moral compass), but few of us are taught how to hone
935.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
All human moral behavior straddles the line betweeen selflessness and selfishness, at some particular scale, from the personal to the societal/cultural. Racism? Selfishness for the group. Religious bigotry? Selfishness for the group. M
936.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
I'd say that there are two kinds of 10x devs, as per who is doing the determination of '10x': 1. From the perspective of the money folks (managers & up): they get their jobs done very quickly, thus spending minimal time,
937.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
Every old-growth forest should be protected and treasured. They are the well-springs of fertility that link the entire Earth back to our pre-industrial ecosystems. And, of course, ground-working animals such as gophers should be valued for
938.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
I was asking about whether or not OCaml has the ability to target specific integer size and signedness, as F# does. I would like to construct precise software that targets the specific kinds of ints that compilers have historically facilita
939.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
Sir/Ma'am, I live in America. What is reasonable and compassionate and sensible is simply beyond the grasp of most everyone, looks to me.
940.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
Python suffers by having been created by an evil corporation? Have I missed something GvR or his team did?
941.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
(OCaml Question Ahead) I agree on F#. It changed my C && OO perspective in fantastic ways, but I too can't support anything Microsoft anymore. But, seeing as OCaml was the basis for F#, I have a question, though: Does OCaml all
942.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
Thankfully, none of us has had asthma. As far as anecdata: The device does have a what-appears-to-be-accurate AQ (air quality) sensor on the side. In the presence of smoke, it turns red, cranks itself up, and then returns to blue (clearest)
943.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
(< $500 category) Legal doctor-prescribed pharmaceutical cannabis bud. Home cooked between 200-250F for an hour or so -- no smoking, only eating. Got highest grades (24-28% IIRC); eat only three fingertips pressed into very finely cut bu
944.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
(< $1000 category) Living in American public housing, we used our pandemic stimulus money to buy two RabbitAir MinusA2 HEPA air purifiers. At $600 each plus $95/yr (for filter change) they're utterly fantastic and the pre-HEPA
945.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
On a recent episode of NHKOnline's Design Stories, about sleep, they tour an updated capsule hotel, with separate men's and women's floors, and built-in biometric monitoring to evaluate sleep apnea and such, anonymized and de
946.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
Indeed. One cannot get absurdly wealthy without making money from millions and millions of others. It's the nature of such wealth, and it is a sign of a society's moral decay. I'm not against making lots of money by providing
947.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
You can search YT for "William Gibson Reads Neuromancer", and it's the first result, a playlist of eight pieces. It starts the same, but it seems to be of a higher quality. It says it is abridged, and I didn't realize ho
948.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
I'll never forget that the first mp3 I ever downloaded was WG's self-read (and quite edited) Neuromancer audiobook -- must've been late 90's or early 00's. It is four pairs of 45min files and features an excellent t
949.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
Well, first off, let me just say I've been busy-brained my entire life. What I can say about that is that how we tune our heart is far more important than dealing with our thoughts. Sure, disposing of negative thoughts by not adding
950.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
Yes, indeed, but a study of the streams of thoughts and feelings that barge into our attention is more obviously fruitful to our improving our personal and collective well-beings. Learning how to discern negative/selfish/callous&#
951.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
I apologize for treating you as I like to be treated. I like to learn and, as such, I share what I know to be true. That is what makes me the expert I am. And that is the deepest meaning of the Dunning-Krueger study: only in humility can we
952.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
Well, what I call poverty is merely the American technical definition for the term; it bears no resemblance to what most other countries of the world would call poverty, e.g. the favelas of Brasil, most of Africa, etc. As such, we have EBT
953.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
> If you are asked to pick your favorite philosopher, you will have a few names pop into your mind, but you will not have control over those few names. Free will is not about choosing what comes into one's head after sending an inqu
954.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
The best we can do with them is to "pay them no mind", i.e. just let them pass though us and then into the void of non-effect. The important understanding is that we can choose to act upon them or ignore them. Ignoring negative im
955.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
And yet he cannot explain where the impulses come from. As to argument against free will: do you not have the ability to choose between giving the next homeless person you see some money or being rude to them? Of course you do. You are also
956.
by MrMcCall 2y ago
Excellent. Amazing what we programmers have time to explore while we stare at our screens as we try to "work" ;-) Overall, as human beings in 2024, we are advanced technologically, but not spiritually (yet). At the basis of our be