daniel wigton

Catholic stay at home father of 5, interested in Mathematics, Engineering, Software Development, Space Exploration, Truth, Jesus.

[daniel wigton @codingfodder]

@Robotbeat All our toil and tears should be to create a world where people with Down's Syndrome can just be happy, and maybe the rest of us could learn to be happy as well.

[daniel wigton @codingfodder]

@patriayzendegi @BretWeinstein I think failing to understand this simple concept, is less a reflection on the writer than the reader.

[daniel wigton @codingfodder]

@normonics @BretWeinstein Belief does not equate to knowledge or even certainty. It is closest to "trust". Not in a "this is what is true" kind of way, but in a "This is what needs to be true" way. I place all my eggs in the basket, because there is no other basket. Hope is the companion virtue to faith.

[daniel wigton @codingfodder]

@BretWeinstein I have come to the same conclusion from the other direction. You don't get the evolutionary advantages without actual belief. But that implies a very resilient local maximum or an actual truth.

[daniel wigton @codingfodder]

@Robotbeat @thefuzz247 The other solution is to be a short enough family that you can move the other rows forward a bit. We are not a short family, So we don't use the 3rd row much. It did ironically come in handy when the ICE van wouldn't start in the cold. Battery issues.

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@Robotbeat @thefuzz247 We have it. I am trying to figure out the legality. You can't put booster seats back there because then their feet can't go under the seat in front of them, but the only kids small enough legally are supposed to be in a booster. I just figure the shoulder belt is low enough.

[daniel wigton @codingfodder]

This is simultaneously the most Japanese thing and the most Catholic thing ever. We don't need more Elon Musks, we need many more Etsuro Sotoos.

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Am obsessed with La Sagrada Familia.

I wrote about my fave part of the story…Etsuro Sotoo: https://t.co/jeLuKdPkM4

In 1978, the young Japanese art professor visited Barcelona for the first time and was so awed by La Sagrada Familia that he moved to Spain, learned Spanish and converted to Catholicism.

Sotoo has now spent past 45+ years helping to finish Gaudi’s church.

[daniel wigton @codingfodder]

@asksomeone_else @Robotbeat Yes, maybe it was because of that, but the Spanish took far greater pains to incorporate the natives into the new culture they were building. Going so far as to put them into leadership positions. In North America we mostly just pushed them out whenever convenient.

[daniel wigton @codingfodder]

@LauraFlowD @Robotbeat This is especially telling since, aside from some words, North american culture looks very like european culture. The Spanish may have converted natives, but we did worse. we ignored them.

[daniel wigton @codingfodder]

@LauraFlowD @Robotbeat This is a good point. But I don't think the second part of the second sentence follows. Yes they established missions, but I think "eradicated native culture" is not demonstrated. The differences between old and new world indicate that they rather "integrated native culture."

[daniel wigton @codingfodder]

@ibuildthecloud qwen3.6:27b has proven highly usable for me. It doesn't fully replace frontier models for coding, but for smaller tasks it is my goto because I don't have endless money for tokens. With your setup you could have a larger context window and better quants.

[daniel wigton @codingfodder]

@paulg Twitter's character limit forced me to confront how poorly I communicate.

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@Robotbeat Yes, but you have to catch one wild yourself using nothing but a burlap sack and a yellow hat.

[daniel wigton @codingfodder]

@c_den1 @davepl1968 I can accept those terms. Windows is what you keep around to run legacy software. If I want to connect to the Internet I'll use a modern OS.

[daniel wigton @codingfodder]

@SydSteyerhart Appealing to intuitive understanding is an emotional appeal, not a rational argument. Understanding is hard won after fully engaging with ideas, you are attempting a short cut to agreement.

[daniel wigton @codingfodder]

@SteveSkojec Don't mean to minimize the curbstomping. That part I am sure is real. It is the holding on part. I am too stupid and stubborn myself to trust letting go. Much to be admired in folks who are honest about where they are.

[daniel wigton @codingfodder]

@SteveSkojec Understood. But I'd be lying if I didn't think some of it is self inflicted. You did 1p5? That and a handful of other sites had/have a tendency to take church events slightly uncharitably. I think that leads to perspective drift where it is hard to see God working. My poor $0.02

[daniel wigton @codingfodder]

@SteveSkojec I roughly get it. I have the same class of struggles, but I am a bit more willing to assume the apparent abandonment is somehow great for me. (He gets an earful about it though.) "How very convenient for you that blessed are those who have not seen and have believed."

[daniel wigton @codingfodder]

@SteveSkojec Physical actions have natural consequences. They are not inevitabilities, they are likelihoods. The Farther you deviate the more likely there will be consequences. Same with spiritual actions. God recommends safer courses of action to help us avoid consequences that we can't see.

[daniel wigton @codingfodder]

@SteveSkojec I don't think this is anything other than reality. Faith isn't knowledge, it is trust. Most folks need no distinction since all their knowledge is from a trusted authority. The "Or else" is likewise a simplification taken but never implied.