I would love to hear a full analysis from your part on the question of "are the reasons of war absurd" because I am not convinced by your argument about "groups competing for limited resources" and honestly it felt like a clumsy generalization of some facts (which could be made-up).
Well, macho-ism is an abstraction constructed/used in order to communicate about some system of ideas or ideals related to "having pride in one masculinity". I am not interested in discussing whether or not this is a cause of war or not (but obviously it is a cause of conflict).
My previous comment was a parody of its parent (even if I tend to agree with what is said in it), the desired effect was to reveal how intensely absurd was the previously evoked " parent".
Three affirmations made from a borderline perspective, no arguments given.
Macho-ism is a psychopathetical ideology, it's the worst part of being human. It's the reason of wars and absurd conflicts, and everything bad that has come from it. You don't need theories to conclude about its toxicity.
Just give cardboard purses to persons from highly cultural cities through cultural events, your enemy is the so called 'tote bag'. cardboard purses should be disposable, solid enough to transport something (e.g. some book the person bought) from a museum to the person house, but fragile enough to last only one week or so, IMPORTANT : the purse should be "cool" enough so people will prefer this to let's say the usual paper bag you get at the grocery store.
Then, when you have taken the place of the tote bag, you can build the start-up that will manufacture and sell real purses, which will prove useful due to the downsizing of the men pockets, to transport phones, books, and coin purses.
You didn't understand me properly/something was elliptical in what I said.
I am not refusing to believe our perceptions can be warped by nostalgia. I said that our perception was warped anyway and I explained why "X is obviously the better movie" is a nonsense sentence.
That's absurd to imply I am nostalgic about a movie made about 20 years before I was born, even I prefer that one to the new one.
I continue to prefer that one over the new one even when I know more people of my age prefer the new one.
When you say "Hitchcock has not adged well at all" (which I disagree), aren't you simply telling that you are unable to enjoy things that are not a part of a current story-telling/technology "trend" ?
I do enjoy old things mainly because it brings some sort of fresh breeze to the current aesthetics of cinema. Old things are new to me.
One of my favorite musical composition of all time was written about 300 year ago; implying by this that my mind is warped by nostalgia and that I'm biased is pure nonsense.
Music has changed, but I reject the idea you implied that this change is an " improvement"; I don't think art is improvable stricto-sensus.
Ah, I'm interested in parsers these days (I just wrote one for parsing org data, I am a bit unsure about the architecture of the project but at least it does what I needed personally).
I am right now at a friend's place that just showed my the dragon book from its shelves, that's a funny coincidence.
I will check out Code.
Do you have any ressources to share ?
I am a self taught developer, I do stuff at my level (typescript, lisp), also because when you work alone, such high level languages allow you to express things nicely and fast. I kinda know how a cpu works, I understand what is going on when you perform some bare metal programming, but I never barely went down the rabbit hole and performed some low level stuff.
I'm in the situation where I don't know what I should learn to be on par with graduates/undergraduates students. I am searching ressources about networking, operating systems, or anything that could enhance my proximity with low level stuff.
I don't understand how you seem to have no problem to say "2049 is obviously the superior movie".
In the end your opinion is still an opinion, and your opinions warps your perception of reality.
I prefer the vibrant, dusty, chaotic mood of the first one rather than the minimalistic and controlled approach of the second. The town is much more interesting to me in the first than in the second movie, and that's not due to nostalgia.
I frankly find the idea that nostalgia is warping your perception of reality to be funny; aren't your tastes doing the same, and what about your whole brain ?
We are talking about a cultural entity, it's not like if we had the ability to talk without any bias.
The worst I felt was touching both a charging device and the skin of another person at the same time, did someone experienced this ? It feels weird, almost like magnet sticky, but also almost like you aren't touching the other person.
Well, at 13 I did build some weird CLI based text adventures in c++, mostly imperative style and badly written.
I knew only how to declare a variable, how to cout/cin, loops and conditions, due to the fact that access to information was almost impossible (we had something like a subscription plan with a limited 20 hours of internet, and finding websites that I could understand about developing in C++ was hard).
I remember the feeling I had the day I learned about classes and functions, a true "wow" moment.
Unfortunately those text adventures died with the hard drive of the computer my parents had.
I fail to define what is "fun".
I fail also to determine the limit of what is an emotion and what isn't.
Emotion must have an effect on my brain, and maybe cause some behavior.
Joy and sadness are emotions, they do encourage specific and somehow different behaviors.
It seems like "fun" is local, and "joy" global. Also "fun" seems to be more immediate and have a specific (shorter) lifespan.
Fun seems to be linked to a situation.
When the situation ends, fun ends.
You perfectly identify what is fun while the cause of joy can perfectly be unclear or complex.
But does that make "fun" something else, in nature, than joy ?
This is my first true open source contribution as I am relatively new in this field. Some parsers already exist for js even for clojure/script, but somehow they failed to parse complex formatting expressions (italic and bold at the same time), or they failed to parse large files.
I tried my best to solve these problems, and I would love to see that this work could help someone in the same need.
On my machine I am able to parse a 16mB file in approximately 4 seconds, small files are sub 4ms. I didn't try to optimize this yet, because I felt satisfied with this result.
I plan to use it in order to interface it with some other project I have concerning some front end component library.