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Only a few languages allow you to change a system while it is running (saving time on deploying new development versions and re-creating state) ... and have a recording debugger (s…

Could the same radio be controlling other nearby boilers unintentionally?

Forgot to add: multiple threads ... multiple DBs ... multiple topics on more than one kind of message queue ... hitting and serving REST endpoints -- all no problem for the REPL an…

I worked with a 60K LOC thing* that talked to multiple services and had complex configuration. Ran fine on my laptop pointed at the company's dev env. The REPL let me test my chang…

The involvement of Saul in the stoning of Stephen is generally seen as an established historical event - AD 34-35 - basically within a couple of years of Christ's bodily resurrecti…

If a memory foam mattress makes a person's pain worse, how does it do that -- or how does a different type of mattress avoid doing that? (honest question)

So the squashing of a tomato or a human or a civilization -- they're just different rearrangements of matter and energy. Our feelings about each are also just chemical reactions. A…

You could imagine a God who is infinitely delightful. If he's the only thing in existence, he could delight in himself without end and would not be wrong in doing so, being actuall…

> the supernatural isn't real So ... only what is physical is real? Like only matter and energy? Then there's no such thing as significance or value, only different combinations of…

Some cultures had (have?) a tradition of naming each successive generation according to the next line in a poem or song. If you ran out of verses, you'd pick a new song to start ov…

Also found out a friend tore a ligament in her knee while skiing, got an MRI showing the tear, prayed, got another MRI showing the tear gone. Doc can't explain, and this has nothin…

My Atari 2600 had an odd behavior with the reset switch. Holding it down at the beginning of the tank/combat game enabled your first shot to go through walls. Did you any Atari bug…

If you __sincerely__ want to understand the answer to your question about babies dying, you should try steelmanning. It’s the opposite of strawmanning. Steelmanning would not take …

The charge is Stranger tricked me. The Prosecutor (you) repeatedly rely on an unproven universal negative claim that miracles never happen, a claim that would require watching all …

> I haven't even watched the video _Every_ trick in the video relied on the mark sitting in a chair with the illusionist holding their legs _off_ the ground for manipulation. I was…

I asked because I realized there's something we probably already agree on, as long as one twist is accounted for. But to get to the twist we should unpack this word Worship because…

I watched the video. My experience didn't match any of the 4 methods shown. Not sure why he didn't include the 5th "and possibly 6th" ways that he thought of in the video. Again, I…

Pretend to be a believer for just a second and think about these two questions: What makes idolatry wrong? How is God not an idolater?

This weekend I spoke with someone who (together with two others) prayed for a woman whose right arm was visibly shorter than her left (around 5 inches) -- so much so that she alway…

The purpose of this post is to describe how a reasonable person can reconcile these two: - a good, compassionate, merciful, omnipotent, and omniscient God - the reality that innoce…

So this has happened twice now: - I refer to the evidence of something in the past (Jesus' empty tomb, the change in my leg) - Instead of stepping closer to learn more about the ev…

There are two kinds of conversations we could be having. (A) Where one person tries to change the other person's mind (B) Where one person explains how a rational person can hold a…

Ok, I'll put the amoral monster response as a direct reply and keep this branch about the tomb. The location of the tomb was well known to three different groups. One -- Jesus' fol…

I can make an effort to. Meanwhile, you can explain the empty tomb of Jesus similarly.

what are you referring to when you say a language can sell out?