mav88

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by mav88 3y ago
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 you can draw, no matter what you think of the reliability of
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by mav88 3y ago
> 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 never meant to. To call him a great moral teacher is to en
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by mav88 3y ago
Start here: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/psychogeography-a-purpose... Karen O'Rourke's book is great too.
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by mav88 3y ago
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 they're made up affects our attitude and emotions. Die
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by mav88 3y ago
>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 of My Neighbor Totoro.
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by mav88 3y ago
I feel personally attacked :) Lots of symptoms of ADHD in here too as well as bipolar (I have both and enjoy Lisp too).
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by mav88 3y ago
Saffer here who was privileged to see him live in Johannesburg. RIP man.
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by mav88 3y ago
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.
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by mav88 3y ago
Plan to throw one away. You will anyway. - Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man Month.
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by mav88 3y ago
HP12C and HP15C. I also have a 15C emulator on my desktop.
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by mav88 3y ago
Methane explosion. If it was LPG gas there would have been a flame. Plus there are no gas lines in that particular block.
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by mav88 3y ago
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.
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by mav88 3y ago
That's sad. If only he had known 7 layer Flemish technique. On the other hand, then we wouldn't have his unique style.
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by mav88 3y ago
I will, thanks!
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by mav88 3y ago
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 in real life. Plus, in the days before additional security wa
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by mav88 3y ago
>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 as “tables”. This reminds us of the moment in which the
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by mav88 3y ago
>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 café. He suddenly yells, “CHANG!!” so loudly that everyon
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by mav88 3y ago
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 tried. It's TV. Switch off or change the channel.
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by mav88 3y ago
>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—he commandeers a boat. The producers create a storm. He f
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by mav88 3y ago
These diagrams remind me of Lemmings and the builders that would build staircases over gaps you needed to cross.
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by mav88 3y ago
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.
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by mav88 3y ago
You haven't written a concurrent Go program. Not sure what you're trying to demonstrate.
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by mav88 3y ago
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.
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by mav88 3y ago
Talking about it is good. Rest well and we'll see you when you're ready.
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by mav88 3y ago
First came across this word in Godel, Escher, Bach.
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by mav88 4y ago
The function runs through the program by incrementing the program counter (*pc++) and dispatching what instruction it sees. It's a stack-based VM so individual instructions are pushed onto and popped from the stack depending on the ope
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by mav88 4y ago
Fascinating insights, thank you. Is it not perhaps that text as is is perfect for programming languages but we could do a lot better in terms of displaying and presenting it?
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by mav88 4y ago
Wait, you wrote the ST version of Flightdeck?
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by mav88 4y ago
I reverse engineered Starglider for DOS to put in a cheat just to convince myself that I really had seen a hopping robot as an enemy once above a certain game score.
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by mav88 4y ago
He's dead. Poison under the thumbnail. His assassin confessed to an associate of mine. The assassin now resides in a hole in the desert. Interesting guy. No, you don't have to believe me. True though.

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