How does religious influence negatively impact software development? Near as I can tell it benefits the software if the developers are motivated by something higher than themselves. SQLite seems to benefit.
He's Alive!! Happy Easter all!
Seriously, this is a celebration of the biggest event in the universe, may it change us as much as it has changed history.
It's going to cause us to pay extra for applications hand coded by the Amish.
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Good to be back.
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For what is worth, I don't intend to go to war with China.
Never play "she loves me, she loves me not" with a dicotyledon.
My reply was a generic Eliza-like reply
The Catholic Church is very open to metaphor. I get to believe in evolution and stuff!
I don't think the message is that the desire for knowledge is flawed. I think the message is that not trusting God to share knowledge with us is flawed.
He specifically made us to be like himself. But we were all, "we'll figure it out ourselves thanks" but due to the limitations on epistemology we can't (or Kant). So God, knowing that life apart from Him was going to be a literal hell, cut us off from the tree of life, giving us a chance, through death to trust him again. The invitation to Godhood still exists.
Note that questioning =/= lack of trust. For instance. I remain Catholic because for every question I ask it and every answer I find it is there before me. Thus I can trust it even while I question it.
But man does the Adam and Eve problem have me confused. I am supposed to believe that at some point we had a pair of first parents that sinned. When was that? Were they the only members of the species at the time? If not what happened to everyone else? Maybe they still exist in an alternate reality, sinless and happy.
Maybe Adam and Eve weren't the only humans but they were the only ones with a rational soul and they screwed it up?
This isn't my experience at all.
deepSeek is trash.
Llama is by far the best local model.
Claude is the best coder
Grok3 is the most intelligent and informative. If you want correct answers use grok, yes to privacy concerns.
The more questions you ask the more answers you will find!
At least that is the hope. There certainly those that ask without seeking. The main thing is to lack confidence. Once we become confident in the answers we have we no longer seek to find better.
I feel I should clarify that it is the six children only who are under 12. Anyone else can be safely assumed to be at least twice that age.
I don't actually have irl friends, but I do have a wife and six children under 12. I met my wife online so I appreciate the modern ability to widen horizons. Also having moved a great distance to marry, I am glad I can use technology to keep in contact with my parents, nine siblings, and some subset of my 34 cousins.
I also think e-commerce is a good, as are news, information, limited entertainment, and interesting conversations with like-minded but far-flung individuals.
I merely question what the balance should be. I get a dopamine hit from merely unlocking my phone. I hate that. I should be using technology to do useful things, not merely to feed an addiction. My tech-wired brain will take any excuse, so time away helps me figure out what is actually indispensable.
No not gone. Just spending less time online. I come back once week. The future will be for people that can figure out how to use technology to aid, rather than replace, in-person interactions. I am still pondering what we should ultimately want from our computers. Would we want them at all if friends and family were always near?
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