Scott Sinclair

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Recent posts by Scott Sinclair

That complexity is just the fluff around the fear of not surviving.



Some of the stuff you are saying John Smith sounds a bit like self dislike.

I agree with you that most complex issues people may have, probably stem from some pretty basic deep down issues. And that complexity in thought or manner is a by-product of avoiding these issues in daily life due to fear.

And as for thinking about death and being afraid of death. The thought occurred to me on the john today at work, (a really good place for thinking ). That saying we are all going to die yada, yada, yada is a bit of a cop out. Aren't you saying "what does it matter if I piss about and don't care, we are all going to die anyway, and there will be the big crunch later on and the universe won't exist so what is the point?." If you have that kind of approach I can understand why you think about fear a lot.

I personally don't believe in the afterlife I think I will be only dust in the end, optimistcally an oak tree would be nice. Although if I think of my life as eternal (as a thought experiment) then I immediately want to take responsibility for all aspects of it and I feel more calm and less fearful. I like this feeling and so I will continue to adopt this mindset and see how it goes. Hopefully it will be good for me.

I don't want to sound preachy or anything, (I know I do), but I just mean it is the hardest thing in the world to be a well rounded, responsible, healthy person, and I hope someday to describe myself like this. And blasting people for having kids (it is the product of fear don't you know?) is just *not* the way to go about things in my opinion.
18 years ago
I'm surprized nobody has mentioned Jethro Tull yet.

I'd go with

Led Zepplin - later albums were a bit weak though.
Mettalica
Jethro Tull
19 years ago
you could use unix and do something like

find src -type f -name '*.java' -exec cat '{}' \; | wc -l

it would ouput the number of lines.
19 years ago
Hi,

I came across some unexpected behaviour today, regarding double,float and double,double multiplications. I get the values 240000.0 and 239999.99463558197 respectively when the program below is run.



I expected both results to be the same since the float b2, was being cast to a double which would mean that the same underlying calculation would be performed. But I just found out (right now!) that the widening conversion to double of b2 produces 0.07999999821186066 and not 0.08 as I expected. I do not understand why this should be as no calulation is being performed which would introduce the usual float/double error, just a simple widening conversion.

Oh well, I guess I'll stick to doubles for now...
19 years ago
Oooh, What a great answer!, I'll be sure to use that myself.
19 years ago

A couple of days ago I suddenly had an idea - the thought "There is nothing" only has meaning because I think it does - its just a series of sounds



If you say the thought doesn't have any meaning then how can you proceed from there, since any other thought will have just as little meaning?, and any analysis of this would have just as little meaning since it is also based on thought.
19 years ago