Philosophy of Everything

If you could take a drug that gives you 100 years of constant pleasures in your bad, with no side effects, while someone would feed you by a tube, would you take it? If you think a bit about this question, the answer has an interesting consequence: there must be more in life than physical pleasures.

"Believe" is often associated with religion. However, even for using the " scientific method ", we are forced to assume certain qualities of the Universe that we cannot prove nor fully verify. The most basic assumption is that there are common laws that are universal and they function the same across the whole Universe. This is a leap of faith that we have to take if we believe that the Universe can be understood at all by humans.

Intelligent people learn to adapt to environment,  unintelligent people adapt environment to them  (popular joke) 1. Change the outside Few people can be happy when basic needs are not met. When you are hungry or in pain it is unlikely that something else would make you happy. Even with the basic needs fulfilled, many people have higher order needs, like being appreciated, achieving their highest potential.

  Better read: Data Consistency in Distributed System - CAP, PACELC Morality series - a heptalogy This blog is mainly focused on my Philosophical and theoretical ideas. From time to time I have practical posts that are too few to deserve a blog by themselves. I still hope my other work (like above) is even more valuable than such practical article as below. * * *     Update 2022: Bose QC45 is almost the same as Bose QC35 II , however it has USB-C charging. Note that Bose QC 45 does not have NFC anymore - used for fast Bluetooth connection.   Updates 2020 :  Bose QC35 II (2) is basically identical as sound, look and feel to the original QC 35. The only adding is a button that can be used to activate Google Assistant or alternatively to change the noise cancelling level. Bose QC35 (1 or 2) remains the best noise cancelling headphones that I ever tried, especially because of the ear comfort and ergonomy, along with long battery life. Another big advantag...

"Noise cancellation " is a feature in recent high-end headphones that aims to actively remove the outside noise while listening music. You can also use them without music, however the efficiency is lower. "Noise cancellation" is a relatively new technology and you must be aware of what is reasonable to expect from such headphones. Noise cancellation - how it works

In a temperate musical octave , there are 12 possible sounds. However, in a certain melody, usually, only 7 of them are used. When you see, for example, "Symphony...in Do major", you should expect that it is based on the white piano keys only. When using others scales, like for "Symphony... in Re#", some of the white keys will be replaced by some of the black keys. Let's see the 12 keys in one piano octave: