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by baldfat 8y ago
Best thing I have ever gone through and very dense. Don't know if you care but if you do a little more then skimming there is some gems in there. http://www.htdp.org/
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by baldfat 8y ago
Welcome to philosophy and why we are still in this mess academically in the 21st Century. Welcome to philosophy's number one question. What can we base anything on? To Spinoza it is rationalism. Soren Kierkegaard (My son is named after
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by baldfat 8y ago
On the general level, Objectivism and Rationalism differ because the former is a philosophical system encompassing metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, and politics. Rationalism is a particular epistemological viewpoint, and not a system. So
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by baldfat 8y ago
I never understand the idea that Spinoza was an atheist. Sure his ideas of God were not Judeo-Christian but he did believe in the super-natural that we see in action through nature. Spinoza was 100% a theist and wrote about God and advocate
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by baldfat 8y ago
> For a Christian, at least, the world is a sinking ship. That isn't universal and as a Theological student it isn't even what is written in the scriptures. In fact you can't read anywhere in the scriptures where people go
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by baldfat 8y ago
I find reading Spinoza's rational idea of Ethics oddly resolves around the concept of love. I find that I first read Spinoza as the source for Spock in Star Trek. First the idea of love for Spinoza is that truly free persons actively a
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by baldfat 8y ago
I seriously don't see that happening with Unity. The community justly or unjustly voiced their dismay with the project, I vote unjustly. I don't see where Unity fits in with a world of KDE, Gnome and hundreds of other DEs. Unity w
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by baldfat 8y ago
Well, I would have to say the documentation is so well done that it is fairly easy to find whatever you are trying to do. The tutorial steps and answers are straightforward. http://docs.racket-lang.org/quick/index.html
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by baldfat 8y ago
BEST BOOK EVER Most dense book ever Took my 30 restarts to get through it. This is my way of doing programming books: Read till I get stuck or feel unconfident in what I learned. Restart at page 1 and I ALWAYS get through where I was stuck.
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by baldfat 8y ago
I do it with two monitors like this: https://i.imgur.com/QZWIvNq.jpg
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by baldfat 8y ago
> There's really no insanity here. No the insanity is 100% the legal status of fonts and typefaces in copyright law. They contradict each other. > pay for them. Otherwise, use free fonts I did state I have paid for some fonts. I
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by baldfat 8y ago
Legal status of fonts and typefaces is INSANE. The cost of some of these fonts in $199 https://www.typography.com/fonts/isotope/overview/ And well you can kind of have a strange position in copyright law in
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by baldfat 8y ago
Can break a lease. If you do you pay the full price of the balance. The only thing we can do is after the lease is over we get a new lease.
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by baldfat 8y ago
> consumers are starting to wise-up to the benefits of paying cash for a mid-range device rather than taking the "free" upgrade when their contract expires. What "free phones" they are all leased now. There might not
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by baldfat 8y ago
> Art is aesthetics with elements of intellect
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by baldfat 8y ago
My personal definition (Coming from a more philosophy discipline. Art is aesthetics with elements of intellect - Science is an intellectual pursuit which can contain beauty. https://academic.oup.com/bjaesthetics/artic
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by baldfat 8y ago
I got the app for free from Amazon and then I heard how that hurt the company and went and bought the app on Google Play. I have never looked for another podcast player since this is next to perfect.
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by baldfat 8y ago
I think sharing experiences is good. Sharing "medical knowledge" is poor. My son, found when he was 7 and died when he was 12, had cancer and the idea of a trial can seem almost magical unless.... My son had bone cancer. To be i
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by baldfat 8y ago
> But there's really no equivalent of "cheating" in real world industries where it's the results that matter. e.g. nobody cares if you took wrote the software yourself or got it from someone else's library, as l
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by baldfat 8y ago
A) Cheating hurts everyone. > is nothing compared to the massive grade inflation one sees at top universities in the US B) Because student at top universities (For the most part) have higher GPA in high school and a higher SAT scores al
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by baldfat 8y ago
As a former University Librarian and Residents Director A) Cheating happens more then it doesn't. In a Philosophy Class which had a dozen seniors all cheated in Spring Semester. Professor flunked them all by giving them an F and told
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by baldfat 8y ago
You forgot the /s But I cannot plug my headphones AND charge my phone.
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by baldfat 8y ago
My anecdotal evidence has been the opposite. My daughter has always been an Apple user and she has had so many more issues with her phone. Either she never upgraded her phone due to storage limitations because she refused to uninstall certa
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by baldfat 8y ago
The only issues that this really could address. Would be nice to have a "Wall of Shame" for these gaps. A) Racket is so enjoyable everyone builds their own solutions B) "The view that full-fledged problem solving almost alway
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by baldfat 8y ago
Sharing your awesome Python program is its Achilles heel. I have 5 computers I work on a weekly basis. I stopped using Python and Haskell due to all of this. Racket's exe are so simple and quick to share. raco exe foo.rkt ht
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by baldfat 8y ago
I learned when my stereo broke as a teenager and my dad worked with me to rebuild it. Radio Shack was my best friend back then and I would order in different parts. Took 2 months to get it working and it sounded awesome. If I had access to
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by baldfat 9y ago
Bad research! > Pre-industrial societies such as the Hadza tribe in Tanzania also seem to have a far lower prevalence of sleep problems, like insomnia. “When we asked members of the Hadza whether they thought their sleep was good, they a
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by baldfat 9y ago
Took me a bit to understand what you are saying. The 3700 mb read is what I am intrested in exactly. I really think we are going to have some foundamental change in chip design to make 5K video and 8K (For commercial video it will be 15-20
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by baldfat 9y ago
Here is a great article for Davinci Resolve (Industry standard for color grading) https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/DaVinci-Resolve-1... The issue is after you have done a few processes on the video for c
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by baldfat 9y ago
I just changed my work video editing workstation order. I will have two 970 EVO NVMe for my OS and Project drives. There actually is a bottle next with raw 4K, 5K and 8K Video and playing it in an editor.

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