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Comment Re:Allowing your mind to close. (Score 1) 361

Not really.

My life definitely took an upturn in late twenties and thirties. Yet I hate most of today's music. My teenage music had both good and bad music according to my present self ~40.

Best music was from 15-50 years before I was born - survival bias definitely plays a role there.

Geeks are stereotypically bullied in their teenage, and then earn better than their bullies - or so the tale goes, though that is not my story. If this has any truth, many slashdotters be similar.

Comment Re: News for nerds (Score 1) 866

You say that people who believe in god do so because they believe a particular historical person is a prophet, that is, a messenger of god.

No I don't say that at all. In fact the reason why they believe in god doesn't matter for this statement at all. I'm saying they believe mutually incompatible things, so "wisdoms of the crowds" are canceling each other.

Comment Re:You dont' need another language to do this. (Score 1) 386

Another example of a language that solved the halting problem is Coq

The "problem" in halting problem is that the "language" should be Touring complete. Otherwise either there is no halting "problem", or it can be said that the problem has been solved in 1930s and 1940s. So Coq "solves" it, by not being Touring complete i.e. there was no problem in the first place for 50 years when Coq was invented.

SQL has existed for a longer time, and is a much better known non-Touring complete, halting problem "solved" language.

Comment Re:garbage under, garbage above (Score 1) 386

You didn't answer the question "Please tell me the living thing that is better at programming than human beings."

You made up another question and answered it - doing a "programming task" that "can be precisely defined".

So groups of humans remain the best known programming machines - where programming is defined as repeatably solving real world problems with computers. Which is what a vast majority of programmers do.

Comment Re: News for nerds (Score 1) 866

Large groups of people independently acting in a certain way points at a reason for them doing so.

Yes. Then you look at another large group of people, who are acting in certain other ways, and then you can only deduce that the common parts of these ways have a reason.

Now the common parts are demonstrably non-existent. Large number of people think Mohammed was greatest of all prophets, and belief otherwise is seriously wrong. Another large number of people believes that Jesus was the last of the prophets - he will come back but no one else except people peddling false gods. While simultaneously believing that belief otherwise is seriously wrong. History centric religions are mostly contradict each other.

So no conclusion can be drawn from these large groups of people.

Comment Re:Finally (Score 1) 866

Hence to believe in sky daddy means you're rejecting science, or you're ignorant of it.

Further, a significant number of practicing scientists are religious

Irrelevant. Scientists can reject science in some of their walks of life and excel in scientific enquiry in other walks of life. There is no contradiction there. I know people who reject coffee after sunset because it interferes with sleep , and guzzle it down during mornings.

Similarly memory olympic winners may write down their shopping lists, mathematicians might make a mistake in computing fuel efficiency of their cars, and doctors may not treat some disease they have. All this despite being excellent in their professions.

Comment Re:The GPL (Score 1) 469

The client side decoration transition will certainly not limited to Gnome. KDE is also investigating something in that direction and will is likely to trig similar kind of bugs someday.

That will be as bad as incompatibility between Gnome applications and other window managers, and incompatibility between systemd-logind and other init systems. Currently the Gnome-systemd gang is the most active in this area.

"Write your own" is not the correct answer to any of these incompatibilities, and never will be.

Comment Re:The GPL (Score 1) 469

That's why I pointed to the "discussion", not the bugs. Read the discussion, if you want to understand my statement about their philosophy.

Bugs exist for more than a year, pushed back multiple times by Gnome. The fixes still aren't available for most cutting edge distributions' updates - e.g. Fedora, Arch.

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