yetiftw
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- Comment on Half as Hot 1 week ago:
that’s not true. there are things that are not definitions. like my bed for instance, there are aspects that are arbitrary (my personal preferences, design choices, etc) and aspects that are not arbitrary (its physical form that exists beyond definition)
- Comment on Half as Hot 2 weeks ago:
maybe you’re the one who doesn’t understand the ramifications of its meaning
- Comment on Half as Hot 2 weeks ago:
literally every definition ever is arbitrary
- Comment on Half as Hot 2 weeks ago:
just because it has a reason doesn’t make it not arbitrary. you can ultimately come up with a reason for all arbitrary decisions
- Comment on Half as Hot 2 weeks ago:
absolute scales are still arbitrary. you would probably want to use a scale that measures “perceived heat” which is different than average kinetic energy
- Comment on Half as Hot 2 weeks ago:
arguably setting zero to absolute zero is just as arbitrary
- Comment on Elon Musk’s legally problematic $1 million voter giveaway 2 weeks ago:
everyone is morally problematic depending on who you ask
- Comment on Girl without smartphone unable to join in lesson — 'I feel guilty for not buying my daughter one for school' 2 weeks ago:
yes but in order to effectively use technology to replace memory you still have to commit things to memory. if I don’t know something exists then how can I Google it?
- Comment on I designed a cardboard cutter that turns boxes into free cat scratchers 1 month ago:
👍
- Comment on SpacebarChat - a selfhosted, Discord-compatible communication platform 1 month ago:
oh no!! good thing that doesn’t impact anything
- Comment on I'm listening to a motivational speaker at a corporate conference when I realize... 1 month ago:
nope, totally genuine! the book explicitly states that actually
- Comment on I'm listening to a motivational speaker at a corporate conference when I realize... 1 month ago:
the motorcycle maintenance is used as a metaphor for attending to one’s own needs
- Comment on I'm listening to a motivational speaker at a corporate conference when I realize... 1 month ago:
it’s not really about the motorcycle maintenance
- Comment on I'm listening to a motivational speaker at a corporate conference when I realize... 1 month ago:
you should try reading zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance
- Comment on Objectivity 4 months ago:
thank you leto ii
- Comment on Objectivity 4 months ago:
arguably science itself has been constructed in a social context ie a social construct
- Comment on Explain yourselves, comp sci. 6 months ago:
matlab likes to pick the smallest available spot in memory to store a list, so for loops that increase the size of a matrix it’s recommended to preallocate the space using a matrix full of zeros!
- Comment on Which way, Western man? 7 months ago:
that’s half of the joke, good job!
- Comment on xkcd #2880: Sheet Bend 9 months ago:
why would it be connected with reversed polarity?