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The ABC are reporting wonderful–if long overdue–news:
[Australian] Cardinal George Pell has been charged with multiple counts of historical sexual assault offences and ordered to appear in a Melbourne court next month.
This won’t heal wounds, and closure is overrated Hollywood fantasy. But it’s a relief to finally see justice done. The challenge will be getting Mr Pell back to Australia to face the music:
In 2014, he was chosen by the Pope to get the Vatican’s finances in order and he moved to Rome. Ill health prevented him from returning to Australia in 2016 to give evidence to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.
Noel Debien wrote back in May of the gravity and challenges of a guilty verdict, and lack of precendent:
The Ballarat-born 75-year-old is potentially the pope in waiting. All it takes is for Pope Francis to die suddenly, and one of the 120-odd Cardinals will be the next pope. It could be Cardinal Pell.
Cardinal Pell is the head of the Vatican secretariat for the economy. Effectively he is the third in charge of the 1.2 billion-member Catholic Church. The Cardinal has diplomatic immunity as a Vatican official, and Australia has no extradition treaty.
This issue has been simmering in Australia for decades, but came to a head last year when Victoria Police began a formal investigation. Mr Pell denied any wrongdoing, and accused investigators and the national broadcaster of a smear campaign.
Doc has a great list. I thought he might appreciate comments from a 31 year old reading them.
The purpose of life is death. Death produces materials that add beyond measure to feed and sustain more life, and add to the abundance and variety of everything that can be named, and far more that can’t. [..] Bottom line: death is a grace of life, and both are icing on the cake of existence.
It’s a beautiful idea, but I painfully struggle to learn this.
The challenge of life that depends on death is to appreciate the endless tug between certainty and possibility. Gandhi: live as if you’ll die tomorrow; learn as if you’ll live forever. And stay open to the possibility that both can be true.
I still find too much comfort in certainty. I don’t take enough risks.
We are here for others, and not just for ourselves. We come and go with nothing, but we can always leave something. This is also called love.
This. Even if you’re selfish, helping others makes your community and world a better place for you to live, too.
Humans are learning animals, and among the things we all learn eventually—or should—is that knowledge is provisional, truths are opinions, and our first calling is to learn more and keep our mind open, even though that gets harder as experiences accumulate and prejudices with them.
If I had any criticism of this list, it’s that truth is opinion. Truth is fact. But Doc’s core message of keeping your mind open stands despite this.
Everything has deeper causes than the obvious ones. The universe, life, knowledge, language, math and the Internet all changed everything. Each has no other examples of itself. That’s a sign of full depth.
This. Though to be fair, it’s why I find comfort in certainty. I obsessively plan and find it hard to commit to a project precicely because I fear there are other causes at play, and therefore won’t turn out.
When investing, always buy in the past.
Doc always had a sense of humour! But certainly I’m building savings and investments for the future. Because we won’t be buying houses.
Knowledge is the best investment. And it is best to invest in the most rewarding, useful and durable kinds of knowledge—for example of music, languages, sports and other skills—when the mind and body are still young. They’ll pay interest for the rest of your life.
I already feel I’m too late with some of this, like learning an instrument or more languages. But we’re the youngest we’ll ever be while we read this, so it’s time to start.
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CRN Australia are running a poll. The options are:
I remember as a kid erring on the side of choosing 3 or C in multiple choice, because statistically they were more likely to be true than others. I’m fairly sure that was nonsense.
But the shoe fits in this case. Government policy is directly responsible for the shambles of the current system, with all the other points being collateral damage.
We’ve also just seen news that rural areas are getting crappier NBN speeds than those in metro areas. It’s unsurprising, but frustrating. The entire point of the original NBN was that someone in Orange could compete with someone on an even playing field with Sydney. Gough would have approved.
Speaking of aviation, today I learned the heavy designation isn’t limited to widebodies.
If you haven’t heard the term used by pilots on your avaiation documentaries of choice, Wikipedia has a great summary:
The term heavy is used, with exceptions noted below, during all radio transmissions between air traffic control and any aircraft which has been assigned a maximum takeoff weight (MTOW) rating of 136 tonnes (300,000 lb) or more
That exception is the 757.
Of special note here is the narrow-bodied Boeing 757. Under current guidance, the 757 is considered large, as it has a maximum MTOW of 116,000 kilograms (256,000 lb).
The 757 has a fascinating airframe. It looks like a thin, unsharpened pencil. You can see from the long landing gear they learned their ground clearance lesson from trying to shoehorn CFM-56s in the Next Generation 737s. And in a case of Morissettian irony, it was the stretched 737s that eventually replaced the 757 line.
It also shares common cockpit and certification with the 767, which is likely to be replaced with the composite 787 once the current run of orders finishes.
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The Homebrew devs originally decided not to duplicate software bundled in macOS, and to build against what was already available. I could see advantages to this, but Apple often left us with such outdated stuff.
The original solution was to tap homebrew-dupes, then install your tool. So for example:
$ brew info bc
==> From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/bc.rb
Hey, wait a minute. The URL points to homebrew-core now. Has homebrew-dupes been depracated?
Homebrew/dupes (depracated)
These formulae were those that duplicated software provided by macOS. All formulae were migrated to Homebrew/homebrew-core
Latest commit by MikeMcQuaid 3 months ago.
How about that! I approve of this.