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mario-mainon The new science of meditation

>there is not agreement on what Christian belief _is_

this isn't true at all. It's quite simply an Abrahamic religion based around following the teachings of Jesus Christ. There are plenty of different doctrines and interpretations but you can tell what is and isn't a Christian church.

Same thing with Daoism. Daoism is both a religion and a philosophy with very specific teachings and traditions. You can argue about how to interpret it, but that's not what pop philosophy books like The Tao of Pooh are doing.

mario-mainon The new science of meditation

van Norden is an award-winning scholar who has dedicated his entire life to classical Chinese philosophy. He has taught the subject at universities for decades. I think his PhD earns him the privilege of being seen as more of an authority on this particular subject than Benjamin Hoff, whose credentials are a BA in Asian art and learning a Japanese version of Qigong as a hobby.

mario-mainon AI Causes Real Harm. Let’s Focus on That over the End-of-Humanity Hype

What is paperclipping? I looked it up and the results were all about a dating trend.

mario-mainon Ask HN: Is SICP/HtDP still worth reading in 2023? Any alternatives?

Would you recommend HtDP to a non-beginner? Like SICP, it seems to cover fairly basic concepts and aimed at first-year CS students.

I always feel like I'm missing out on some sort of magical programming secrets that will expand my mind like a spiritual retreat when I'm in these threads. But it's just CS 101 except you use Lisp? I don't get it.

mario-mainon Show HN: A tutorial for building a 2D game engine with Go and OpenGL

I'd love to follow along with this series, but I'm on MacOS (OpenGL is deprecated for us). Any alternatives? I guess I could try to challenge myself by applying the concepts I learn with your articles with Metal or Vulkan + MoltenVK. Is that a good idea for a beginner like me? I have no experience in graphics programming.