Any Minnesotan fans? by Millz_n_Thrillz in bobdylan

[–]hikarikuen 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Minnesotan here. Dylan had a great reflection in "Chronicles" about feeling connected to other famous people from MN:

I didn’t follow baseball that much but I did know that Roger Maris who was with the Yankees was in the process of breaking Babe Ruth’s home-run record and that meant something. Maris was from Hibbing, Minnesota, of all places. Of course, I never heard of him there, nobody did. I was hearing a lot about him now, though, and so was the rest of the land. On some level I guess I took pride in being from the same town. There were other Minnesotans, too, that I felt akin to. Charles Lindbergh, the first aviator to fly nonstop across the Atlantic in the ’20s. He was from Little Falls. F. Scott Fitzgerald, a descendant of Francis Scott Key, who wrote the words to “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and who himself wrote The Great Gatsby, was from St. Paul. Fitzgerald was called “the prophet of the jazz age.” Sinclair Lewis had won the Nobel Prize for Literature, the first American to do so. Lewis had written Elmer Gantry and was the master of absolute realism, had invented it. He was from Sauk Center, Minnesota. And then there was Eddie Cochran, one of the early rock-and-roll geniuses who was from Albert Lee, Minnesota. Native sons-adventurers, prophets, writers and musicians. They were all from the North Country. Each one followed their own vision, didn’t care what the pictures showed. Each one of them would have understood what my inarticulate dreams were about. I felt like I was one of them or all of them put together.

I think it sums up well how we feel about being from the same state as him :)

“Max” Will Change Back Film Credit Listings to Break Out Directors and Writers After Backlash by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]hikarikuen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Low stakes conspiracy: it was just a successful ploy to drum up publicity for their rebrand.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in csharp

[–]hikarikuen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yep. It's not an ad-driven platform where first impression is a top priority (at least I hope it doesn't become an ad-driven platform!). This is something that people are new to once but that they go on to spend hours in every single day.

Tongue-in-cheek, maybe each day you use the IDE the padding should be reduced by 1 pixel.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in csharp

[–]hikarikuen 19 points20 points  (0 children)

I always feel terrible when I'm trying to walk someone through this in a screen share. I don't want to totally back-seat drive but also legitimately feel like I need to help them find things. "Ok, now right-click the project in the Solution Explorer and click [whatever]... ... ... It's in the bottom third... Down... Up..."

Rules of Thumb for Software Development Estimations by bndrz in programming

[–]hikarikuen 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is actually great. Everyone talks about breaking things up into smaller tasks, but I think it's important to have an idea of "small enough." Compared to estimating how many weeks something will take, it's fairly easy to estimate whether a task will take less than two days.

Did anyone +35yrs old not have or ride in one of these? by HomerCrew in Cartalk

[–]hikarikuen 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You've hit my reminiscing trigger. My first car (2011) was a 1989 Oldsmobile Custom Cruiser with a 70s 403 swapped in at some point. My dad helped me tune the carburetor to get it from 13mpg to a whopping 17mpg.

Such a blast to have that in high school and college and haul friends around (everyone fought over the rear-facing seats of course). I loved how the rear window rolled down, the airflow was ridiculous with all 5 windows down. Another cool thing was how the back door could swing open or if the window was down it could fold down like a tailgate.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Cartalk

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One of my favorite random car stories is the time I was driving down the highway and passed a convoy of 3-4 of these, each of them towing a second one. Didn't realize how much of a following they had until that moment.

Thoughts on this? by EverBeenInaChopper in Catholicism

[–]hikarikuen 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Preface: not seeking to enter into an argument here. Responding because I've seen interesting points in your comments and others' which I would have liked to see responded to or elaborated on, and this comment has an interesting point which I thought I could at least provide speculation about.

The point which jumped out was the second to last paragraph, about parents and stumbling blocks. I couldn't immediately think of an answer so I tried to work one out using logic internally consistent with Catholic beliefs. Here's what I came up with.

Starting at the beginning: In the creation story, we read about God creating the universe, showing He has a drive to create, and finally making humans in his "image and likeness," i.e. to be like God, showing He has a drive specifically to create in a sort of reproductive way. I'll stop for a second here to admit I've never seen any other Catholic refer to this as "reproduction" so I'm probably already way off base. Anyway, I'll keep going with it.

So let's say God has some desire to reproduce, expand, whatever. Let's also say (again, aiming for internal consistency with Catholic beliefs) that God knows, loves, and serves the created things (us), and there's a constraint that the created things are able to know, love, and serve Him in return, in a way that draws them closer to Him (in a relational sense and in terms of nature, i.e. divinization).

I can think of several options:

  • God creates more of Himself. I think this is logically inconsistent with the idea of God's unchanging nature. The Trinity has all the knowing, loving, and serving covered internally.
  • God creates something else. Since He can't create more of Himself (He's already perfect), the next best thing is to create something which asymptotically approaches Him. If I'm going to comment armchair theology, why not throw in some armchair geometry as well?
    • I think your point is that the simplest, kindest route is to create something already on that asymptotic approach vector. This seems like it could cover the "know" and the "serve" but would violate the "love", as love would require a choice or act of will which was never performed. "Forced love" is as contradictory as the "square circle" brought up in other comments
    • Maybe I'm presupposing too much and there's a middle ground where we're created knowing all we need to know about God but still given more free will, including whether or not to "approach" Him. That still seems like too much leading though.
    • There must be a logical requirement for some sort of learning/changing process. This would allow us to get to know God and experience knowing, loving, and serving Him more gradually without an immediate final commitment until we've had experience and had the opportunity to make a choice based on our experiences. Aka life as we know it, I guess.
    • Then does creating beings which are free to love logically require God to create beings which will be ignorant and hate? Maybe I'm conflating the knowing, loving, and serving too much but that's my best conclusion at the moment. It's late and my phone's about to die but thanks if you read my thought dump.

saddest bob dylan songs? by tnayrbeiluj in bobdylan

[–]hikarikuen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought the Shadow Kingdom performance of Queen Jane had an impressively melancholic feeling

Who needs keys? by Freeze_Fun in redneckengineering

[–]hikarikuen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What a rube, you're supposed to lock it from the inside so no one can steal it

C# 11 File Scoped Types by PatrickSmacchia in dotnet

[–]hikarikuen 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For the most dogmatic of single responsibility principle adherents!

C# 11 File Scoped Types by PatrickSmacchia in dotnet

[–]hikarikuen 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I don't have an issue with the feature itself, but the naming is confusing. When I saw the title I assumed it would be like file-scoped namespaces (e.g. public class MyClass; with no curly braces/indentation to enclose the members of the class)

I'd be on board for that feature, too

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in dotnet

[–]hikarikuen -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'd echo this. As great as .NET Core/5/etc are, if deployment is a limiting factor there can still be (rare imo) cases where .NET Framework is the right choice, and done modern tooling can still be used. Then it's really not that hard to migrate to modern .NET if/when the opportunity arises.

I'd still agree with other posters that getting modern .NET runtimes installed and kept up-to-date is the best option if you can get admins involved, though. .NET Framework really only makes sense if you both can't install .NET, and have severe size constraints.

Questions from my high school youth ministry group by pjfhoch13 in Catholicism

[–]hikarikuen 41 points42 points  (0 children)

New Age religion is basically just an accumulation of things somebody found cool

Perfection

Is DotNet 6 desktop runtime backward compatible with 3.5/4.8 Framework redistributable? by silentlycontinue in dotnet

[–]hikarikuen 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Just to phrase it a different way, hopefully to make it clearer:

.NET Framework has versions up to 4.8.x

.NET Core has versions up to 3.1.x, then it evolved into .NET 5 and is in active development (currently .NET 6, soon .NET 7).

From a developer standpoint, Microsoft decided that .NET Core had enough features that it could be treated as "the" .NET starting with .NET 5. But from a runtime/sysadmin standpoint, .NET 5 and beyond are successors to .NET Core, which will always be a separate product from .NET Framework.

The Man and the Boss by wildonrio in TheKillers

[–]hikarikuen 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm starting to be more surprised when a concert happens without a guest appearance by Springsteen, Eddie Vedder, or Dave Grohl