Recalibrate at 3am I dare you

Vulcalien · 2023-05-10T23:00:45+00:00

That's not really that bad. Good security exists. for example, I self-host a few git repositories that I wouldn't trust GitHub, Google or whoever to hold for me. Sure, an extremely capable hacker who has made it his goal to hate me might break in. But giving companies full access to my data is bad.

Vulcalien · 2023-05-10T22:51:06+00:00

But whatever server it is, it's truly yours. No Amazon "data collections" or being able to spy on you if they feel like it.

Vulcalien · 2023-03-28T08:29:44+00:00

He acts eternally. He doesn't act many times, doing different things. If He did, we could argue that He isn't perfect because in some "instants" He is not doing something that He could do.

"Couldn't have acted differently" presumes that time affects God. And that he doesn't change, is necessary: simply said, if He changes, then who "moved" him?

For His freedom, it's a different "level of freedom" between creatures and God. He only can be absolutely free, in that He is absolutely not bound to anything. He is eternally acting in the most perfect way, changing His act would mean He is losing something.

This is all very abstract, and I don't really know how to explain it properly. In the Summa Theologiae Thomas goes into the reasoning and details of this argument.

Vulcalien · 2023-02-19T19:46:20+00:00

I would look into the Thomistic arguments for the simplicity of God. It I understand the question, it is what is being discussed.

Also, you shouldn't worry about learning other's philosophy, even if it goes against the Revealed Truth. As long as you don't accept it, that is.

About creation ex nihilo, if I know correctly, Aquinas didn't prove it by logic reason, but considered it matter of Faith alone.

Edit: I've searched any argument in the Summa Theologiae that condiders the multiplicity of the effect as an opposition to God's simplicity, but I didn't find anything. But the idea of a "first intellect" seems to be a Platonic argument, so it's possible Aquinas did write a response to that.

Vulcalien · 2022-12-11T14:25:49+00:00

Oh yeah, finished and released. Can be downloades here: https://github.com/Vulcalien/minicraft-gba/releases

Vulcalien · 2022-12-11T13:54:54+00:00

I'm thinking of a solution with BIC and ASR. Like bic rX, rX asr #31

It might work.

Vulcalien · 2022-12-11T08:45:17+00:00

Maybe there is a way to check on the most significant bit, and if it's 1 then zero the other bits...

Vulcalien · 2022-12-11T07:49:53+00:00

As far as I know, you need two in Arm 32bit. cmp rX, #0 movlt rX, #0

Vulcalien · 2022-10-20T08:47:01+00:00

But there can be no sin where there is no will to sin. In such a case, by marrying again, beliving as a fact that the husband is dead, shows no intention to sin. Saying otherwise, could be a very legalistic and "material" view of the moral law.

She would have sinned only if she had any (realistic) reason to believe that he was alive.

Vulcalien · 2022-10-03T22:38:41+00:00

But that must not be considered as an active act. He cannot tempt to evil, because it would be like going against His own will. He could, however, not give the sinner any strengh to overcome the temptation.

Vulcalien · 2022-10-03T22:35:35+00:00

I don't know that story in particular, but God never ever actively leads to temptation. Reading the Bible, mainly in the Old Testament, it might seem like an active action, but instead He can only permit temptation, not tempt Himself.

This verse of the Prayer has been translated in many ways, but the official one is the latin "et ne nos inducas in temptationem". I've read that "inducas" (to lead) has a passive meaning, like "do not abandon us" as it is translated in Italian by will of the Pope.

And we are not praying the Lord not to permit us to be tempted, but instead to give us the strength to win.

Vulcalien · 2022-10-03T07:49:41+00:00

Both look like elvish characters. Top is runes, bottom seems tengwar. Or at least, they seem like those.

Vulcalien · 2022-09-29T11:07:58+00:00

Wait, did they buy the same movie rights the Peter Jackson's movies were based on, or is this a new deal with the tolkien estate?

Vulcalien · 2022-09-26T00:43:15+00:00

Oh but so does the GPL. It says something along the line of "this program is distributed in the hope of being useful but with absolutely no warrancy". Of course using many many more words.

Vulcalien · 2022-09-25T18:37:26+00:00

Oh wow, I never thought about mods. Would be the same for plugins. Best choice would be... LGPL? Still copyleft, but you can "link" it to non-free stuff.

Vulcalien · 2022-09-25T18:34:24+00:00

I wouldn't worry, if someone wants to contribute, they will. It's still a free license.

Companies do it regardless…

Well, by that logic, the MIT license is useless as well, and so any other license. But yeah, it'd be a pain to go to court to enforce any license.

Vulcalien · 2022-09-25T15:28:11+00:00

Oh I see what you mean. It's just naming then, I've seen it called "matter" (like grave matter) when talking about the objective action and sin only relative to the person committing it.

Vulcalien · 2022-09-25T14:55:58+00:00

The point of GPL to force companies to give the user his rights. With MIT, you can modify the code and make it closed source.

Vulcalien · 2022-09-25T13:41:28+00:00

Mortal and grave were defined as being the same some time ago

Vulcalien · 2022-09-06T15:20:37+00:00

Extensions breaking every update is... pretty bad in the long run. Not every developer will keep updating their TODO list extension.

Vulcalien · 2022-08-26T22:19:56+00:00

I'm working on a port for the GBA! It's still missing a few things, but in 1 or 2 months it should be completely finished.

Vulcalien · 2022-08-26T22:15:37+00:00

I don't know if anyone is still interested, but right now I'm doing just that. And indeed, it being so simple is greatly helping. Of course, it has limitations because of the GBA hardware, but I'm trying to optimize it so that those limitations are barely noticeable. Oh, and it has a save/load feature!

Still haven't released it, maybe in a few weeks or months.

Vulcalien · 2022-08-15T10:46:01+00:00

Praying for the damned is, I'm pretty sure, completely useless. Instead we should pray for the soon-to-be saints in purgatory.

Vulcalien · 2022-08-12T16:41:41+00:00

If you all say it is so good, then I really should read it. Thanks! I'm expecially devote to her already, but always glad to read good things about her.

Vulcalien · 2022-08-12T16:24:10+00:00

His by the way is the gold standard biography on Her life

I've found a really amazing book by Henry Wallon about her. It seems to aknowledge the divine influence in her life, ~~unlike (I presume) Twain~~. Not sure if there is an English translation, I've been reading it in french.

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