DrSteveBrule
@DrSteveBrule@mander.xyz
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 days ago:
No doubt. I wasn’t trying to imply that either one is useless, but things change and new technology takes over. Another person replied to me comparing cursive and typing on a computer. I catch myself thinking that new generations are at a disadvantage because they don’t learn the same things I did. But it may not always be necessary that they do. I am of the computer typing generation. I didn’t learn to write beautiful cursive, but my life hasn’t been negatively impacted even though many people have expressed sympathy for my awful education. I was just trying to say I think it’s a rather normal thing for old systems to get phased out of a classroom from time to time. It’s not really a good reason to believe that younger generations are doomed. But like I said I fall into that line of thinking myself from time to time.
- Comment on Don't fix the problem just change the parameters 3 days ago:
One part of me wants to feel disappointed that kids aren’t learning to read analog clocks, but another part of me thinks there was a time when people grew disappointed that the younger generations stopped learning to use an abacus in favor of digital calculators. I certainly don’t want some old geezer giving me shit because I don’t want to learn to use an abacus. I also don’t want to be that old geezer.
- Comment on Share your poops! 1 week ago:
You mean writing on paper? Like cave people?
- Comment on Organization. 2 weeks ago:
Its a movie. Wanted.
- Comment on They deported my Chihuahua 3 weeks ago:
I’m not saying you’re wrong but I think it is interesting that your interpretation of the meme is that it is a joke against the people being targeted by ICE while I immediately thought the meme was about how brain dead ICE officers are that they would target a dog simply because it had a sombrero on. I have no idea what the OP’s intention was when making the meme. Maybe I just made my assumption based on the fact that this was shared on Lemmy which is overwhelmingly against ICE. If I saw this shared by a conservative person I would more than likely share you sentiment though.
- Comment on I finally decided to go full piracy against big companies 3 weeks ago:
I pirated the RDR remaster and felt very entitled to because I bought it way back on xbox360 with the Undead Nightmare mode, but that whole DLC is broken even though they still sold it to me on the Xbox store. So I pirated to new remaster and when I went to play Undead Nightmare, it’s still broken lol
- Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice. 4 weeks ago:
First point I disagree with completely. As I already said, when practicing something like shooting three pointers, you are making conscious decisions on what you need to fix and work on to get better. If you shoot the first time and get an air ball because the ball came up short, you will have to make the decision to put more power into your shot to make the ball go further. If your ball goes too far left, next time you consciously aim more to the right. Practice isn’t the magical ability to be good at something because you did it a lot. It takes more effort than simply doing the bare minimum.
As for your second point, that is a slang use of the word. It is not meant to be taken literally. Where I think we fundamentally disagree is that I and many of the other users here seem to take the original quote you posted as being more literal than you take it. I interpret the original quote to mean that no outside factors manipulate the expected results. Human error is negligible.
Imagine you are holding a ball. You want to observe what happens if you suddenly let go of it. Will it fall down? Will it float in the air before you? Will it fly off in some random direction? You let go and it obviously falls down. You do that a million times because you hope that eventually it will stop falling down. This is an example of what I think the original quote is implying. No amount of practicing dropping a ball will change the results of gravity having a predictable effect on it.
All of your examples assume that the phrase “the same thing” is taken to be figuratively. That there is some element of “but not exactly the same” attached to the each example.
I’ll be honest here, I really don’t know the origins of the quote is or what the context was. But I do feel that you are in the minority when it comes to believing that the part that says “the same thing” isn’t meant to be taken literally. But that doesn’t necessarily make you wrong either. I quite enjoyed where this debate went even if neither of us was convincing to the other, I can still respect your argument. I said I felt you were trolling at first, but I can see how it can be left to interpretation.
- Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice. 4 weeks ago:
You’re arguing that human error doesn’t allow for the same results which I agree with. But if you want to achieve the goal of being better at something through practice, you have to rely on more than just hoping that by chance, your error will achieve a better result than the last time you tried. That does not contribute towards learning to be better at a task. You must make conscious decisions to correct mistakes. If said decision changes something you did last time, I wouldn’t call that “doing the same thing”.
- Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice. 4 weeks ago:
How do you define the phrase “the same thing”?
- Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice. 4 weeks ago:
I feel like you’re purposefully arguing in bad faith. Are you legitimately trying to convince me that “the same thing” means “not really the same thing”? Regardless of how you meant to ask the question I believe most people, in this thread at least, have a very different sense of what the original quote meant. Your responses throughout the thread feels like trolling.
- Comment on Doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results is not the definition of insanity. It's the definition of practice. 4 weeks ago:
You don’t think the context of the quote is implying doing the same exact thing repeatedly?
- Comment on Lies, all lies 5 weeks ago:
I also work in an OR and Spotify does the same thing. We will just leave on something like 80s rock radio playing over night and when we come back the next morning we hear Snoop Dogg blasting from the same playlist lol
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Where did you hear that from?
- Comment on Scientific unprogress... 1 month ago:
I can’t think of one thing he’s done that looks good given his current job title.
- Comment on Like a heart 1 month ago:
She maybe looked offended or confused for about two seconds before she realized I just had no idea what I was doing lol. She told her mom and two sisters who all got a good laugh over it too. She was also rather busty but otherwise short and and kind of petite. I got her a T-shirt as a gift early in our relationship. I’m about 5" 11 and she was about 5" 3. I wear large or medium shirts. So I figured she must wear small to medium. I think I picked a small for her. As soon as she saw it she just started laughing and asked how she was supposed to get her boobs in there. I was hopeless in my teens haha.
- Comment on Like a heart 1 month ago:
The first time I bought tampons and pads for a girlfriend I was about 19 and didn’t know there were different sizes so I just grabbed the first package I saw. I don’t recall what it was labeled but it was the kind that women typically get right after giving birth haha.
- Comment on Y'ALL NEED TO WAKE UP!! 1 month ago:
In this house Donald J Trump is a hero!
- Comment on Dance 1 month ago:
Reminds me of the vaults in Fallout. A sign reading “Hard work is happy work!” Right next to the overseer observation window lol.
- Comment on hey wallmart, this milk went bad 2 months ago:
There is a grocery chain in southeast US called Publix that will absolutely refund expired milk and other items. They have a weekly rotation of BOGO free items. If you return those items after they aren’t on sale anymore you will recieve a refund for each item. They’ve had this policy for decades aa far as I’m aware so it must not be abused too badly. They are also often twice as expensive as other grocery stores so maybe that justifies it.
- Comment on Next ‘BioShock’ Game Changes Leaders After Development Turmoil 2 months ago:
I thought BioShock Infinite felt like something new compared to the first two.
- Comment on Pure Shame 2 months ago:
I work weekends at my job and there are a few departments that don’t work weekends. I’ve walked past people I work with going to and from their bathrooms lol
- Comment on Tea app leak worsens with second database exposing user chats 2 months ago:
Encouraging people to be safe and care about their privacy on the internet is not victim blaming.
I’m sure their privacy policy gave the standard promises about storing their private data in a secure way, which _they did not do. _
This is what people want to warn others of. The developers of Tea are hardly the only offenders. Definitely not an example of victim blaming.
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 2 months ago:
I absolutely love that show but I can’t recall that episode at all. Guess it’s time for a rewatch!
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
It is public, youre right. That’s why anyone can post to it. The rule is if you admit to not being a woman, you get banned.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 2 months ago:
A group of people with the intention of privately sharing details of people in order to track their behavior is definitely going to lead to doxxing. Maybe I’m getting the wrong idea, but it sounds like they are sharing the names of people they went on dates with. I assume that would include the city or town the date occurred which would infer where abouts they live. Given enough “reviews” of a single person I’m sure there would be sufficient info to call it doxxing.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 2 months ago:
Thanks I fixed it
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 2 months ago:
I agree 100% that women face many more dangers especially in the dating scene than men. I’m all for having resources available for them to remain as safe as possible.
I don’t see how a Rate My Professor type app would work well for dates. I feel like people would only spend the time to rate poor dates. If you had a really good date with someone, you would presumably start dating them so why would you let everyone else know they are a good person to go out with? I have no doubt there are some awful people out there that others should be warned about, but this type of app is a bit too risky to justify that in my opinion.
The background check feature sounds much more legit, but I don’t think a group chat feature needs to exist along side it.
All that being said, anyone enjoying the doxxing of others is just an asshole. There’s definitely nothing fair about it from either side.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 2 months ago:
I 100% agree that it isn’t relevant to the doxxing. I dont think the doxxing is warranted at all from either side. Most of what I saw about the app is just from various social media users as well as the Google PlayStore reviews. Personally I find it hard to believe the app wasn’t made with the purpose to dox people just based on the name alone. The ads make it seem like a safespace for women and if that’s all it was meant to be then it for sure had a very unfortunate name.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 2 months ago:
I’m all for groups of safe spaces for women. Especially when it’s designed to keep them safe while dating. I have my doubts that Tea was that. Even if it was advertised as such, “tea” is slang for the word gossip. I’ve heard stories from several sources that it was used to dox people as well. Not saying what happened to the users is right. I think some users here are just feeling smug that this might cause the app to fail or shut down.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan 2 months ago:
Considering that “tea” is common slang for gossip I’m not convinced there was many of the latter.