farrelle25

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by farrelle25 1mo ago
> ... series of immediate physical constraints is why these hikes are so addictive for people in high-abstraction fields That really hit home. I work in data analysis but in the early 2000s did a 4-month cycle in Australia and a 7-month
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by farrelle25 6mo ago
100% this … He’s a wounded Soul … desperate to be loved and admired. As someone else wrote - there’s a void inside him that can’t be filled. Yes if only he had the heart/insight to make that 180 U-turn. It’d bring him some peace at la
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by farrelle25 10mo ago
> Software projects fail because humans fail. Humans are the drivers of everything in our world. Ah finally - I've had to scroll halfway down to find a key reason big software projects fail. <rant> I started programming in 199
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by farrelle25 10mo ago
Another interpretation of the double-slit posits a guiding 'Pilot Wave' separate from physical particles... aka DeBroglie-Bohm Theory or Bohmian Mechanics. Apparently it's not popular among professional physicsts though John
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by farrelle25 11mo ago
That's interesting about walking. I've done longish walking pilgrimages lasting several weeks (Camino etc.) and some stomach problems and joint problems improved a lot. I usually walked about 25km a day - I realise that's lon
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by farrelle25 1y ago
> ... is a sophisticated system of ritual politeness that emphasizes deference, modesty, and indirectness. I'm Irish and think we have a similar culture of indirectness and politeness... In the countryside anyway we're rarely v
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by farrelle25 1y ago
This mightn't be exactly what you're looking for - but Leatherman seems an example of a class of people called 'Holy Fools'. (maybe because Leatherman carried a little prayer book) The Holy Fools were semi-religious figu
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by farrelle25 1y ago
> Having no "safe harbour" ... Yes this is soul destroying - the psychological effects are brutal. Not having any little place as a 'base'. I was homeless in Europe for a few weeks and it really crushes someone. I can
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by farrelle25 1y ago
Yes - I think that's the one the OP recommended. Great read. Gives a superb historical overview and the reader can follow the twists-and-turns of discovery. You get to 'know' the scientists as they battled the Quantum. Sets t
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by farrelle25 1y ago
I cycled across the Nullabour Plain in 1998 (Perth to Adelaide)... I have to agree with some parts of this article - there's something Spiritual about the landscape there.
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by farrelle25 1y ago
> I used whisper to transcribe nearly every "episode" of the Love Line syndicated radio show from 1997-2007 or so. Yes - second this. I found 'Whisper' great for that type of scenario as well. A local monastery had ab
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by farrelle25 2y ago
I heard somewhere that we speak a mild 'Elizabethan' English in the West of Ireland... no idea if this is true really. Although my parents use some archaic words: "Pass me yon cup please." (Yon as in yonder = that cup) &
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by farrelle25 2y ago
Totally agree about housing costs. After 10 years of paying high rent in the UK I've returned to Dublin. Currently paying €1,300 per month for a tiny studio. (I'm told I'm lucky) So hard to build up savings. The average price
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by farrelle25 2y ago
I'm early 50s and went to school in the Republic of Ireland - late 70s, 80s. I really feel the same as the OP here. It felt like a daily prison, combined with huge amounts of memorisation for exams. (promptly forgotten) Maybe a child c
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by farrelle25 2y ago
> One usage example is worth a hundred words ... For bash idk if that exists on the internet, ... Totally agree with that - I maintain a big txt file too. Maybe this bash compendium is a bit similar: https://www.commandlinef
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by farrelle25 2y ago
Totally agree about Newton and his 3 ways. I remember reading in Burton's History of Mathematics: "Newton developed 3 different versions of his calculus, apparently searching for the best approach; or maybe each version served a d
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by farrelle25 2y ago
I think that's why I'm redoing my old Physics problem sets - but using the infinitesimal approach this time. To see is it more useful. So far the gains are modest but I find it easier to 'reason' about some of the calcul
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by farrelle25 2y ago
That's interesting - I read something similar in Bell's 'A primer of infinitesimal analysis' where he said the price for 'Smooth World' infinitestimals is giving up the Law of Excluded Middle (LEM). Don't
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by farrelle25 2y ago
Thanks for the tip... it seems to mention Robinson's 'hyperreals' too...!
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by farrelle25 2y ago
I find infinitesimals more intuitive than the formal 'limits-based' approach. I'm currently studying my old degree material but using a fairly interesting book: "Full Frontal Calculus: An Infinitesimal Approach" by
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by farrelle25 2y ago
Along with getting a ZX Spectrum+ in 1985, we got a subscription to "Input" magazine. It's tagline: “Learn programming for fun and the future” https://archive.org/details/inputmagazine It had tutorials o
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by farrelle25 2y ago
... I found it a bit poignant / emotional as well! ... those engineers in a dusty office beside McDonalds... quietly keeping the mission going... in touch with something that's beyond our solar system now... True engineers! No gli
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by farrelle25 2y ago
There's a good documentary about the quirky team of NASA engineers that keep in contact with the Voyager probes... It's slightly melancholic, the engineers are aging, the mission's heyday is long past... but there's some
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by farrelle25 2y ago
This reporting style seems unusual. Haven't noticed it before...(listing the number of people): - according to four people familiar with the talks ... - according to interviews with 19 people familiar with the relationship ..
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by farrelle25 2y ago
Ireland: Swimming togs (!)
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by farrelle25 2y ago
Gosh it's a long time since I heard 'Clipper' mentioned. I used to do 'PC' apps for Banks in the early 90s. Turbo Pascal and Clipper were popular with us. (We used PL/1 rather than COBOL for batch processing) T
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by farrelle25 2y ago
Just back from Poland- they have a great system 'BLIK' that sounds like iDeal... Most merchants have a BLIK button... you click it, enter a 6 digit code created on your banking app. Purchase complete. Takes a few seconds. No card
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by farrelle25 2y ago
Totally agree with this comment. I've worked as a programmer, care assistant, office clerk and for 6 months as a Maths teacher in a UK Further Education College. The teaching was incredibly demanding - way ahead of the other jobs. 6 ho
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by farrelle25 3y ago
Ah I knew I shouldn't have said 'IBM PC 386'...! :-O It was an "Epson Equity 386SX" which - as you say - is my uninformed shorthand for 'a 386-based PC compatible' (actually maybe it was only 286-based an
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by farrelle25 3y ago
Home computers were definitely common-ish in Ireland in late 80s. (Sinclair Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amiga). I'm from a small town in the West of Ireland and about 6 or 7 families got the new "Spectrum 48k" in 1985... By 1988-

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