Personal stuff, specific to me. Rants, observations, etc.
One of the things I never understood were the so-called “7th-day laws”, at least from the religious side of things. Now, I am by no means a fan of (US) organized religion, but if you believe that God created man in His own image, then would He not want man to grow? To accomplish greater and greater things and thus become more like Him?
If so, then how more like God could we be than to create life ourselves?
Or maybe I just do not get it – anyone want to clear it up for me?
Just a thought…
A recent discussion raised the fact that C#, often called “See Sharp” is technically incorrect because the symbol used is not the musical symbol sharp, but is the octothorpe, also known as Pound, Hash, Splat, Number Sign, etc.
An example of the differences is shown here (provided your browser and current font set support it). The character above the 3 key on most US keyboards is this: # – but the musical sharp symbol is this: ♯. See the difference? Simply, one has angled vertical lines (“pound”), but the other has angled horizontal lines (“sharp”).
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