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by jes 5y ago
+1 for a helpful recommendation. Much appreciated.
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by jes 5y ago
> Most of us prefer to live inside a game. I am interested in hearing about how you escaped the game, should you wish to say more.
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by jes 5y ago
For whatever reason, I always seem to hit a mental speed-bump when someone mentions "the truth." The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (the SEP) has a long article [1] on the subject of Truth. There are multiple competing claims
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by jes 5y ago
I am reminded of the “To Be or To Do” [1] story about the late Colonel John Boyd. Powell had a hard choice, yet life often puts us in such situations. He should have resigned, in my view. If he did not, he shares in the responsibility for w
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by jes 5y ago
Since becoming a student of Buddhism and other related philosophies, I have more or less lost any desire to strive for particular outcomes. I was a workaholic much of my life. Here is a sermon that I like. It might seem contradictory at tim
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by jes 5y ago
I was hoping to read this article on my iPhone. But the darn thing won’t narrow and stay narrowed so that it can be read without scrolling left and right to read each line. Is it specific to me or is this some behavior specific to this site
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by jes 5y ago
How does one discuss a complex topic with others without some degree of misinformation being present in the conversation?
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by jes 5y ago
Hello -- I did just send an email. I would enjoy a relaxed discussion.
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by jes 5y ago
At 62, I'd probably work for free for a company that used Common Lisp and had half a clue.
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by jes 5y ago
Thanks for a thoughtful reply. > I don’t follow. Do you think a material thing outside of the person is plausibly the main cause for the having the one kind of toast over the other? Is there a main cause? What makes one cause a main caus
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by jes 5y ago
Decades ago I enjoyed working with XLisp [1] for a while. It seemed like well-done and simple Lisp that would be good as an extension language. I'm wondering if this Lisp took any inspiration from XLisp or has a similar goal. [1] http
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by jes 5y ago
How can one know when a choice does or does not principally depend on one’s state? If someone elects to have wheat toast rather than sourdough toast at breakfast, can they really know why they made that choice? It seems like an infinite reg
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by jes 5y ago
I can’t imagine any thoughtful people thinking this is great.
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by jes 5y ago
All of us are controlled, all the time, by how reality happens to unfold. With some practice, it’s possible to accept that this is just how the world is, and to no longer be bothered by it.
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by jes 5y ago
What bacteria are especially bad and found only in human excrement?
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by jes 5y ago
This may interest you: http://intactwiki.org/wiki/Jake_H._Waskett Searching his name on Google Scholar retrieves references to the published articles of Dr. Brian Morris, with Waskett listed as a co-author many times.
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by jes 5y ago
I have been a ham for a couple of years now. I currently hold a general class license. I have found it to be full of interesting things to investigate. I’m loving the hobby. At this time I’d have to say that antenna theory is what interests
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by jes 5y ago
I have found looking into practices around what ancient Indian religions refer to as "no-self" or "non-self" to be helpful in learning to respond better in situations where I have acted wrongly or otherwise felt ashamed.
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by jes 5y ago
I was a firefighter and EMT in Washington State about twenty years ago. On certain EMS calls we routinely dispatched an aid car (ambulance) and an engine to ensure enough crew (two from aid car, usually three on the engine) on scene to hand
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by jes 5y ago
I was fortunate to be able to buy an SE/20 in the mid-80’s or so. I have good memories of using it at my dining room table, drinking coffee and coding in C while my wife and children played together.
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by jes 5y ago
I’ll see your salmon sperm and raise you one penis facial[1], as recommended by Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett. Few people seem to care that the source of the active ingredient in the penis facial is obtained through the egregious action
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by jes 5y ago
> This feels like a lack of planning. In any complex undertaking, how can we know when enough planning has been done?
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by jes 5y ago
In the late 90’s, one of my clients was an ultrasound company in Seattle. I was on a small software team of five or six competent engineers. We gelled as a team, embraced Kent Beck’s Extreme Programming (XP) philosophy, and really kicked as
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by jes 5y ago
I enjoyed the article. Acoustic couplers were common back in the day as well. I used an acoustic coupler a couple of years before I was able to buy my first Hayes modem, which was a 300 baud modem. The coupler was connected to a Zenith Z-19
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by jes 5y ago
In universities it’s usually necessary to submit a proposal to an Institutional Review Board (IRB) and get approval before experimenting on human subjects.
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by jes 5y ago
I don’t understand calling John von Neumann “John” early in the article and then switching to “Johnny”throughout the rest of the article. To me it seems disrespectful. I don’t understand why it was done. What did I miss, if anything? (As an
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by jes 5y ago
You’re right about preprinted coding forms. I wrote a lot of code in Ryan-McFarland COBOL in the late 70’s, and used coding pads I bought at the college bookstore. In some companies, coding forms were sent to keypunch operators. They took y
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by jes 5y ago
Their phones were to be surrendered as part of an investigation. Wiping them is destroying records. It’s different if you’re just returning a work phone, or preparing to sell or transfer a personal phone. When members of a group do it more
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by jes 5y ago
Was it FBI agents, about 18 months ago, that were ordered to surrender their iPhones, and most of them wiped them before turning them in? When I was younger, I respected agencies like the FBI, CIA, NSA, etc. Now I think they are corrupt as
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by jes 5y ago
How well supported is lldb (1) from within GNU Emacs on macOS?

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