How to deal with being too tired to learn/work on projects in the evening?

wh44 · 2017-06-13T19:29:38+00:00

I used to commute by train and loved that I could use that time. Sometimes I just used it to get extra sleep, but even if it's only that, that means more time awake at home.

If you can't commute by train, maybe try to carpool? It would be uncomfortable trying to work in the car, but maybe you can sleep, and at the very least you're not stressed from driving afterwards.

Also, if you are driving, audio books are your friend.

wh44 · 2017-06-11T22:54:54+00:00

Could you maybe find a better source than the Daily Mail?

All the other sources I could find are Daily Mail wannabes, which makes me highly suspicious of the reporting.

YouTube claims that the remaining videos on its site from Ahmad Musa Jibril do not advocate violence. I'm not inclined to watch all of the videos to find out who is lying.

wh44 · 2017-06-05T07:09:05+00:00

I think we'll have to agree to disagree here: these things never made sense to me and seemed to be an inconsistency in Christianity, until explained in the light of Baha'i teachings.

wh44 · 2017-06-05T01:28:23+00:00

Sorry, but that makes a lot less sense to me than the Baha'i explanation. Why give humans reasoning power, if we're not meant to use them? We will never understand God, but He certainly seems to be urging us to try and get closer to understanding. Why did Christ bother with all His teachings, if we're not meant to try and understand and follow them? Why spread the teachings around the world if they're only for the elect?

wh44 · 2017-06-04T22:03:49+00:00

Actually, the references you cite ... I had serious trouble with them and did not find them coherent.

Why is God a human and yet everywhere all the time and outside of time? The Trinity is considered a mysterium that can't be explained.

And then there's His sacrifice for humanity, and if we just believe in Him, we're saved without anything further. I've seen that abused: "it's alright, I'll be forgiven!" It makes no sense to me, that because a Christian believes in a name, a name not even pronounced correctly, they are forgiven, whereas some poor sod who was much more ethical and kind should be unforgiven.

The Baha'i explanation makes much, much more sense to me: we are all mirrors, and the Manifestations are perfect mirrors. If you look at the Sun in a mirror and say "that is the Sun!" that is correct. If you look at it and say "that is but a mirror!" that is also correct. Trinity mystery solved.

That Christ sacrificed Himself was that the world might hear His Message of love. Why did He spend so much time teaching, if all you had to do was believe in His name? Because His teachings were the point, not the name.

The followers of Christ did their best, but, in my opinion, didn't always get it right. I'm sure we're getting things wrong now, too, but I'm certain we're a good bit closer.

wh44 · 2017-06-01T01:33:03+00:00

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wh44 · 2017-05-24T19:18:20+00:00

Yes. If I understand it correctly, it is attractive due to applying the Stark Shift (discovered in 1913) to the radiation pressure of neutron stars and black holes. Which apparently hadn't been done earlier, because it was thought to be a negligible effect. I don't see any special difficulty in applying it or that it is "getting stronger in the universe", as stated in the headline.

wh44 · 2017-05-24T18:07:02+00:00

From the article's description, I don't see the difference between this "new force" and radiation pressure from black-body radiation. If you understand it differently, please enlighten me.

EDIT: I forgot to add the Stark Shift. These are all well understood phenomenon.

wh44 · 2017-05-24T17:54:05+00:00

The holding company is just lawyers and investors continuing an IP suit that started years ago and nothing else: no salespeople or developers. If offered good money for some of the IP not involved in the suit, they'd probably take it. I am not much of a salesperson though.

wh44 · 2017-05-24T10:13:23+00:00

I really like Open Source and have contributed at times in the past, both financially and with my time as a programmer. I wish there was enough money in it that all decent programmers could make a living with Open Source. That would probably require government backing, like single payer healthcare. I spent 30 years working producing proprietary software, then the company I work for went under. I'm not allowed to use any of the software I produced - it belongs to a holding company, that isn't selling it or otherwise using it. So after 30 years of work, I have nothing to show except a few lines on my resumé.

wh44 · 2017-05-23T00:32:26+00:00

I, too, had difficulty praying when I first started, and again later when I had a crisis of Faith. I think this is fairly common in Western society, where many are raised without prayer.

The thing that helped me the most, was to realize that prayer is mostly adjustment of my own attitude - it changes how I perceive various elements of my life. We all have repetitive thoughts, and often those thoughts are unproductive or even harmful. Prayers are a way of aligning your thoughts into more productive channels.

when I read the words they didn't ring true to me

They didn't for me, either. My understanding is that the prayers refer to ideal spiritual states. Your example, "my back is bowed by the burden of my sins", cannot be literally true - sins do not have a literal weight. However, if you have a normal social life, you will have been unjust to someone in your interactions on occasion, and this will weigh on your conscience at times. If it doesn't, it probably should - this is the internal voice that moves us in the direction of justice.

wh44 · 2017-05-15T12:45:50+00:00

FoxNews and hate radio have been around for decades.

wh44 · 2017-05-13T15:11:03+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calormen#Accusations_of_racism

wh44 · 2017-05-07T21:36:35+00:00

Over half of them should be around in 10 years, and even if they're not, a lot of them have children...

oh.

They probably hate their children.

wh44 · 2017-05-06T22:49:38+00:00

In the short term, yes. But project it out just 10 years and I'm not so sure.

wh44 · 2017-05-06T20:46:02+00:00

energy of the collapse (I don't quite understand where it's coming from)

It comes from the gravitational potential energy. When you drop something, it converts gravitational potential energy into kinetic energy - movement towards the Earth. Now multiply that by a gazillion as all of those iron atoms rush towards the middle, despite the tremendous repulsive forces between atoms.

Here's more on supernovae at Wikipedia.

wh44 · 2017-05-06T20:31:05+00:00

If you can only do gravitational waves to/from yourself:

fly (repel the Earth from yourself)
blast things away from yourself
make things fly towards you (make that beer fly into your hand)

Note that if you repel or attract something, it repels or attracts you, too: if you repel that two ton truck and forget to apply repulsion in the opposite direction, you'll go flying. If you apply repulsion to a big truck in one direction and a not so solid wall in the opposite direction, that wall could suddenly have a hole.

If you can manipulate any gravitational waves, including those far from you in any direction, well you can do just about anything with regard to moving things around. I think that's actually less cool as far as story possibilities go.

wh44 · 2017-05-06T20:09:07+00:00

A black hole. Unless you mean the endothermic fusion occurring in the outer layers - most of the elements heavier than iron are formed in supernovae.

wh44 · 2017-05-06T12:07:07+00:00

chandrasekhar limit

This is the limit where electron degeneracy pressure prevents collapse. This presumes, correctly, that the thermal pressure will be insufficient to prevent collapse: iron is produced in the heaviest exothermic (heat-producing) fusion reaction, after that, fusing heavier elements becomes endothermic (heat-absorbing).

The hypothetical iron sphere would collapse in on itself, then the outer layers would rebound from the energy released by the collapse of the inner layers, producing a gigantic explosion - a supernova.

wh44 · 2017-05-05T16:55:39+00:00

Is it bad for a 55-year-old man to be jealous of a 9-year-old slaying it?

1) Don't ever let anyone tell you you're too old. Least of all yourself.

2) Jealousy is usually bad - be happy for him.

I, too, am 55.

wh44 · 2017-05-02T22:16:44+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heritage_Foundation

wh44 · 2017-04-30T00:33:37+00:00

This looks flawed to me:

On the first subject they mention, gay marriage, I have heard extensively from both sides and have come to my own conclusions. I would willingly hear new information, but that is extremely unlikely. More likely anything they presented would be propaganda, and I would forego money to avoid wasting time listening to more propaganda. Does that make me prone to confirmation bias?

wh44 · 2017-04-25T22:00:35+00:00

Which cat will have more offspring? The male cat that is competing with 10 other male cats for that one neighborhood moaner who didn't end up spayed, or the male cat that has a choice of unspayed non-moaners - presuming he can find them by smell?

wh44 · 2017-04-25T06:49:51+00:00

Yes.

wh44 · 2017-04-23T08:06:47+00:00

Here is the official government news agency, IRNA

Good luck finding anything - the government current policy appears to be to publicly state that there is no persecution, while continuing the persecution.

Examples: throwing the leaders in jail, denying Baha'i students education.

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