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This is an entirely separate argument. My problem with Russell is that he reads the gospels and concludes that Jesus was a great moral teacher which is not one of the conclusions y…

> why I do not think that Christ was the best and wisest of men, although I grant Him a very high degree of moral goodness. No Bertie. He did not leave that option open to us and n…

Start here: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/psychogeography-a-purpose... Karen O'Rourke's book is great too.

I remember reading this post around the same time as I came across the concept of psychogeography, an interesting way of looking at how the exploration of our environments and how …

>only beautiful country where old women still gather acorns by hand, and 80 year-old men who are free to hone their lifelong craft of making tofu. This is absolutely the atmosphere…

I feel personally attacked :) Lots of symptoms of ADHD in here too as well as bipolar (I have both and enjoy Lisp too).

Saffer here who was privileged to see him live in Johannesburg. RIP man.

An almost complete set of helicopter flight controls for XPlane out of wood, aluminum, potentiometers and USB controllers. Works exceptionally well for a virtual Huey.

Plan to throw one away. You will anyway. - Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man Month.

HP12C and HP15C. I also have a 15C emulator on my desktop.

Methane explosion. If it was LPG gas there would have been a flame. Plus there are no gas lines in that particular block.

Hah - I remember this prod. Super Grover ftw! I had done some svgalib work so I had no problem running it as root. In those days I had a Cirrus Logic or a Matrox dual head.

That's sad. If only he had known 7 layer Flemish technique. On the other hand, then we wouldn't have his unique style.

I will, thanks!

I went to the Van Gogh museum in Amsterdam because I was there and it was on the bucket list. Pictures in a book or on web pages do not do justice to how vibrant the pictures are i…

>From a passage of Virgil’s Aeneid, (book VII, v.128 sgg.) it is possible to understand the position of fruits and other products of the fields, on sacrificial breads that function…

>Fans of the Adventures of Tintin comics by Hergé will remember the opening scene in Tintin in Tibet. Tintin has dozed off during a game of chess with Captain Haddock in a crowded …

Oh I agree. The euphoria doesn't last. People need to get on with their lives. None of us have any personal connection to these people nor could we influence their lives even if we…

>And then there’s the audience: massive, constant, mistaking exploitation for fandom. As Truman struggles to escape—the island, the show, and the life that has been imposed on him—…

These diagrams remind me of Lemmings and the builders that would build staircases over gaps you needed to cross.

That wouldn't surprise me. The original Xara could render complex SVGs in under two seconds on a 486-66. The most optimized program I have ever used.

You haven't written a concurrent Go program. Not sure what you're trying to demonstrate.

You may have undiagnosed ADHD. I found this out about myself a few weeks ago and it has explained an awful lot about the last few decades.

Talking about it is good. Rest well and we'll see you when you're ready.

First came across this word in Godel, Escher, Bach.