Computers make you feel competent one minute and incompetent the next. Powerful, then inadequate.
@matigo Not good. I was hoping large amounts of flash storage would become cheap soonish.
@matigo Oh I see, hardware system, not software system. I wonder when spinning disks will become obsolete altogether.
@matigo Well, if the enjoyment is greater than the frustration…
Have you read Eliade's 'History of Religious Ideas'? It’s on my list, but heaven knows when I’ll get to it. My current book is over 900 pages and there are so many other things to read…
@matigo You’ll drive yourself mad trying to find rational explanations for everything. It’s ironic in light of the God vs. evolution arguments that a lot of the tenets of organised religions are codifications of more ancient evolutionary behaviours. Most species don’t go around killing their own kind willy-nilly, especially not in their own community. Why does altruism exist? Because for most of human history, there has been a strong likelihood that the people we interact with on a daily basis share quite a lot of our genetic code.