#1864: All Too Human
Friday • August 16th 2024 • 10:38:13 pm • 7KB
The experiment of life runs in parallel across the entire vastness of space, you emerged in one of the lucky patches where everything went mostly right. You are a product of a lot of time, a lot of space, and a lot of chaos, a lucky permutation of...
#1863: Bad Grades; Or, You Were Never Dumb
Thursday • August 15th 2024 • 11:45:03 pm • 4KB
Preface All you need to do to see the bad, is ask about effective and real results, ask about coherent education, tolerance of cramming, and kindling of creativity. Authentic education results in new capabilities daily, as each new lesson strongly...
#1862: Why Is Learning Programming So Unfriendly?
Wednesday • August 14th 2024 • 11:52:48 pm • 7KB
Because you are not yet angry enough, to write the software everybody needs. There are online code bins like codepen and jsbin, and p5.js editor which comes with great tutorial series. And they are good for learning, and back of the envelope experiments....
#1861: Get Serious About Growing Up
Tuesday • August 13th 2024 • 11:39:33 pm • 3KB
Your engineering degree or medical license, is too far in the future. And that future, is too expensive, and fetuses too much overwork, and up-front fees. You are thinking about dropping a fortune, on a school, that will not refund your money… If your...
#1860: The Rise Of The Couch Potato; Or, If It Is Too Hard, Then You Are Doing It Wrong
Monday • August 12th 2024 • 11:25:40 pm • 5KB
Fitness is all about, gradual adaptation. If you push your body too hard, it will stop the exercise. And there will be no adaption, because the exercise was too short. Without a long, sustained exercise, there will be minimal adaptation. People who choose...
#1859: The Golden Books
Sunday • August 11th 2024 • 1:01:16 pm • 4KB
Preface We need guidance at a young age, and terachers are not nearly enough. The notion of using grades, to encourage students to learn is cruel. Students tend to measure themsleves, with what teachers use as a trick Parents arent enough, they are made...
#1858: Are Programmers Scientists Or Just Really Weird Wizards?
Saturday • August 10th 2024 • 11:33:40 pm • 5KB
I was once tricked into going to swag plundering event, opening of a carpet store or some such. Where they gave away free pens, and staplers, or coasters, and other useless junk. I don’t know what this company was thinking, I didn’t know people kept track...
#1857: The Gym Problem; Or, The Lift Heavy For Big Muscle Myth
Friday • August 9th 2024 • 10:43:22 pm • 5KB
Dumbbells at the gym are for the body, the way narrated books at the library are for the mind. And both places are equally special, and must be viewed with great respect. Unlike some other institutions, neither the gym, not the library, has ever aimed to...
#1856: Svelte, Vue, React, Angular Considered Evil: Just Loop Over Signals With A Signal Loop Web Component
Thursday • August 8th 2024 • 10:22:28 pm • 3KB
I am not entirely serious, but I am not half joking, listen to the following with a sprinkle of salt. Nor do I seek to start flame wars, don’t hate, learn, build the next svelte or react in a 100 lines of code. I too have once looked at C, Perl, Jscript,...
#1855: Burn Fat, But Get Serious, And Protect Yourself From Giving Up
Wednesday • August 7th 2024 • 11:16:01 pm • 4KB
You must start by walking and hiking, and only gradually increase intensity of your workout. Just signing up for gym, and trying to lift like everyone else, will only increase your chances of giving up on weight loss. Lifting similar weights but with less...
#1854: Multiversal Travel; Or, Life After A Neat Nap
Tuesday • August 6th 2024 • 8:54:28 pm • 5KB
Buckle up buckaroos, another programming adventure, to doubt the strangest poem this side of missis-hippie. When I came to America, all the TV shows, were talking about getting in touch with your inner child. But none warned children, not to do that. That...
#1853: Towards A Flourishing Humanity
Monday • August 5th 2024 • 11:46:03 pm • 4KB
Some say that there is no morality without commandments, but that is a result of trickery, of being tricked out of wisdom. Others say that humanity’s aim is enlightenment, which tricks them into thinking that it can be reaches through multiple cultures....
#1852: Hominus Noctrurna; Or, What Is Late Night Programming, Anywho?
Sunday • August 4th 2024 • 11:15:28 pm • 3KB
It is a thing of legends, a break from the mundane, the crisis nights are some of the most interesting nights you’ll have at work. Nobody admits to it of course, but everybody loves those nights to bits. I only had a couple as I am a learner; fixing MySQL,...
#1851: Programming Data Structures; Or, Inventing A Machine That Is Already Old And Wrong
Saturday • August 3rd 2024 • 11:28:51 pm • 8KB
I recall some expert giving his opinion on the work of a young researcher, that went something like: “All the new breakthroughs they claimed to have made are old, and everything else has already been proven wrong.” I think this is lovely, and I am sure the...
#1850: Food, Body, And Mind; A Picture Of A Simple Integrated Workout
Friday • August 2nd 2024 • 10:40:41 pm • 4KB
There appears to be only one simple exercise, that will fix up your body and give you muscles quickly. I call it, endurance lifting. Where you work your way up to lift dumbbells, three hours per day, five days a week. For as long, as it takes. And it will...
#1849: Think Of Your Body As An Animal
Thursday • August 1st 2024 • 7:48:22 pm • 5KB
You wouldn't stress your fat or old cat, dog, or horse to the maximum, because you would be worried that they may get hurt. But knowing that fitness would make their aches go away, and put them into a state of second youth. You would begin strategizing, on...
#1848: Why Do Some Students Get Worse Grades Than Others
Wednesday • July 31st 2024 • 8:53:18 pm • 6KB
Let us imagine for a moment a school isn’t manipulating grades, and that the students memorization score is their own. Students who have already been challenged by life, will both seek functional education, and be less equipped to focus on memeorization....
#1847: Timeless Book Friends
Wednesday • July 31st 2024 • 1:10:58 am • 4KB
Humanity is not just divided by borders, but also by education. What may seem to you as obvious, and maybe a bit wrong to you, is necessary and vital for a person stuck in an old or broken culture. You begin with the narrated book at the library and...
#1846: Above The Common Levels Of Life
Monday • July 29th 2024 • 9:26:41 pm • 4KB
Bukowski, might have hinted in his poem "Go All The Way", that growing up, is not going to be sweet. He hinted that you may become a cast away, lose jobs, and maybe mind, as you rise higher, your mind will shift. My classmates noticed that back when I was...
#1845: Programming Has Teeth
Monday • July 29th 2024 • 1:00:28 am • 3KB
I think, that all teenagers must learn programming, and their first language should be JavaScript, the language of the web. Programs like Node-RED, p5.js and electronjs fiddle (fiddle tutorial), make for a really powerful introduction to programming. It is...
#1844: Adventure And Wisdom
Sunday • July 28th 2024 • 1:01:09 am • 2KB
Even if we had real schools, the very first lesson we would be taught… Would be to search for wise books at the library, books from which we can inherit the heights of wisdom and culture. I disagree that there are many mountain peaks, Humanity ought to be...
#1843: The Future Of Programming, Where Everyone Can Create Beautiful Applications
Friday • July 26th 2024 • 10:35:30 pm • 4KB
The world of programming is always changing, but now with AI tools those changes are more colorful. It is really important to begin learning programming, especially advanced technologies like Web Applications. User interface design, is now more adventurous...
#1842: Muscles Like A Chimpanzee, But Is This Really The Right Look For Me?
Friday • July 26th 2024 • 12:59:47 am • 2KB
It all started with my noodle noggin, some weeks after I took up jogging. After much huff and puff, I noticed that my legs got pretty buff. I was like - Ah Ha! - I knew it! this is how the bodybuilder do it. Nice and long sustain, muscle strain. Of...
#1841: Holiday Mischief; Or, A Tiny Little The Last Minute Thanksgiving Gift
Wednesday • July 24th 2024 • 11:45:11 pm • 4KB
Big holidays tent come as a surprise for me, I am always programming something and I lose track of time. Couple of times a year I am startled to discover, the city I live in shut down without announcement. Sometimes even after kind people at my gym, put up...