Election stuff is going on, but I'm not watching any news. I will hear what others say and thus kind of follow what is going on, but I understand that the election outcome isn't really something that is under my control, so it is a waste of time and energy …
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Many of the difficulties we face are those of our own choosing. Today was a tough day for me in some ways, but the troubles I can think of were all of my own causing. Doing web tech work, it is no mystery today why I had to spend many …
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Learning a new domain of any sort will involve learning new terms—sometimes called (technical) jargon. One challenging aspect of doing this is that you will often have to "overload" words you already use/know—learn a new specialized application of some word form.
What is an "Object" in programing …
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Most of the time, there is a "low/no tech" way to make progress on some problem. Yet, very often, we turn toward tech solutions to make life "easier". What often happens is that the tech over-complicates things and makes us get wrapped up in secondary concerns that prevent us …
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Often, in sunny California, you will run into slogans plastered around buildings, lining sidewalks, in stores, and in other places where people frequently go which give imperatives like,
- READ
- SPEAK
- VOTE
...and so on and so forth.
Now, looking into just who is giving these messages and what they want …
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What is work? I consider this as an important question to answer in order to direct my activities away from being lazy.
To start, there is the most obvious sort of work—physical labor to achieve some tangible end. For instance, you may have to move some supplies up a …
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Computers (laptops, desktops) and smartphones are all tools which can potentially be useful to us. Like a chainsaw, however, they can also be dangerous. Reckless play with these things
Too fast, too slow
The computer I'm presently writing from isn't a particularly fast computer. Using "modern" apps (e.g. web …
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Idle talk is to be avoided; deceptive talk (lying) is prohibited. Having been writing blogs of rather informal character for a while, it would not be challenging for me to just "post something" everyday—to practice of "producing content" for the sake of content amounts to deciding on some schedule …
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Thus far, I've categorized these blog posts as "news"—initially I was doing more talk about politics this and that and stuff going on in the (USA/national) news. Then, this blog has turned to more narration and reflection mixed in with notes on stuff I've been trying and learning …
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There is theory, which can be understood as a (intellectual) model of how something works, and then there is practice in which theory can be applied to get results. Another word for practice is work, in the case that the thing being practiced is applied towards some end with effects …
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