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- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 35 minutes ago:
Which is fine as far as it goes, yet does very little if anything to address the body of the above concerns.
What? Of course it does. A near-unanimous consensus by experts in the field is worth more than whatever you are bringing up in your Lemmy comment.
I mean, it would be possible to lay out logic so compelling that even if experts in the field felt one particular way about it you could make a case otherwise, but weird strawmen like wanting archaeological evidence of Jesus’s specific skeleton or something is not that.
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 46 minutes ago:
In a 2011 review of the state of modern scholarship, Bart D. Ehrman wrote, “He certainly existed, as virtually every competent scholar of antiquity, Christian or non-Christian, agrees."[13] Richard A. Burridge states: “There are those who argue that Jesus is a figment of the Church’s imagination, that there never was a Jesus at all. I have to say that I do not know any respectable critical scholar who says that any more."[14] Robert M. Price does not believe that Jesus existed but agrees that this perspective runs against the views of the majority of scholars.[15] James D. G. Dunn calls the theories of Jesus’s non-existence “a thoroughly dead thesis”.[16] Michael Grant (a classicist), “In recent years, ’no serious scholar has ventured to postulate the non historicity of Jesus’ or at any rate very few, and they have not succeeded in disposing of the much stronger, indeed very abundant, evidence to the contrary."[17] Robert E. Van Voorst states that biblical scholars and classical historians regard theories of non-existence of Jesus as effectively refuted.[18] Writing on The Daily Beast, Candida Moss and Joel Baden state that, “there is nigh universal consensus among biblical scholars – the authentic ones, at least – that Jesus was, in fact, a real guy."[19]
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 55 minutes ago:
Most modern scholars think that none of the gospels were written by eyewitnesses.
It’s a little bit academic (har har) anyway, since they all went through so many layers of translation often by people with specific agendas that the modern English versions can’t really claim to be “authentic” to the originals anyway, but regardless of that they almost certainly weren’t written by those specific disciples of Jesus (even if you accept the events described in them as semi-authentic.)
- Comment on Not to get all religiony but why in the old testament God was all fire and brimstone and fatal consequences? But the new testament God is all about forgiveness and such?? 2 hours ago:
If you want an honest answer, only my own theory for it but supported by actually having read and learned academically about small chunks of the bible which I think is more than a lot of people who have opinions on this topic, your answer is:
- The people who wrote the old testament lived in a world that was almost unfathomably dangerous and difficult compared to today’s first world. Death, disease, starvation, natural disasters, the collapse of whole towns and settlements, unexplained daily suffering for which there is not even an explanation let alone a cure, were constantly present. If you’re in that place, and you believe there’s a God who’s in charge of it all, there is absolutely no conclusion to come to other than he’s a real son of a bitch.
- I definitely believe that Jesus had some kind of genuine religious inspiration, that a lot of what he was teaching was for-real insight about life. The stuff about forgiving your enemies, living for good works through action and how it really doesn’t matter what you say or what team you’re on, trying to build a better life by caring about people around you, taking care of the sick and injured, even if they are beggars or prostitutes or foreigners or otherwise “bad” people in your mind simply because of their circumstances, seems pretty spot on to me. It was 100% at odds with the religion of the day, pretty much as much as it is with modern religion. What Jesus actually said does obviously have “spiritual” and supernatural elements also, but it is also focused to a huge extent on what you as an individual can do, and a sort of alignment towards the greater good and a calling for humanity, as opposed to this wild half-Pagan mythology about a capricious and bad-tempered God who might kill you at any instant.
- Comment on White House Plans Broad Crackdown on Liberal Groups 1 week ago:
This you?
Hope it was worth it, you clowns. They're definitely coming for you, too, even AJ and the "good ones."
- Comment on My instance is lagging behind 14 hours of federated content... 2 weeks ago:
First possibility that comes to mind is a backed up federation queue on lemmy.world for some reason.
It could also be some failure on sh.itjust.works, but if I had to guess I would say it's more likely an issue on the sending end.
- Comment on My friend got this when she tried to view a Reddit post about a dental issue that got marked as NSFW 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, dental issue. Sure.
- Comment on OpenAI reportedly on the hook for $300B Oracle Cloud bill 2 weeks ago:
Pretty much. Some decades ago, I read a story from a guy who didn't have a lot to do at work because things were poorly organized, and he created a script to just move windows around and enter numbers and gibberish on the screen, and he would leave that running and just sit at his desk daydreaming. Eventually he got promoted, because every time his boss stopped by, it looked like he was actively doing stuff (which wasn't true of most people there).
- Comment on OpenAI reportedly on the hook for $300B Oracle Cloud bill 2 weeks ago:
It's already happening. HHS has OpenAI for everyone who works there, and as of now they're required to use it.
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- After Ukrainian testing, drone detection radar doubles range with simple software patcharstechnica.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 1 comment
- Comment on Trump Administration Halts I.R.S. Crackdown on Major Tax Shelters 2 weeks ago:
Inb4 the IRS gets weaponized against anyone who has large amounts in their publicly available record of who donated to the Democrats.
IDK if the Trump people are even organized enough to do something like that, but it wouldn't take all that much skill to do it.
- Microsoft, Linode, warn of cloud latency spikes due to Middle East submarine cable problemsgo.theregister.com ↗Submitted 2 weeks ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 1 comment
- Comment on Would you ever give up your right to leave a bad review about a company? 4 weeks ago:
I would never hire a company that had a clause like this. Just find someone else. There's a reason they felt it necessary to include that.
- Comment on What's going on with imgur right now? 4 weeks ago:
That's all it's ever been. These nations rise and fall like villages in the Ice Age. We just have media and systems to make it look like everything is all organized and "professional" now, and it kind of is sometimes, but at the end of the day we're still living on the same uncaring planet by the same rules.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong - Release Date Trailer (September 4) 5 weeks ago:
This interview is really phenomenal. Among other things, they talk about why it took so many years to release the game.
“We’ve been having fun,” Gibson said. “This whole thing is just a vehicle for our creativity anyway. It’s nice to make fun things.”
The lengthy production wasn’t the result of development challenges or obstacles, they said. They just needed all these years to ensure that Silksong was exactly the game they wanted to make.
“It was never stuck or anything,” Gibson said. “It was always progressing. It’s just the case that we’re a small team, and games take a lot of time. There wasn’t any big controversial moment behind it.”
“I think we’re always underestimating the amount of time and effort it’ll take us to achieve things,” Gibson said. “It’s also that problem where, because we’re having fun doing it, it’s not like, ‘It’s taking longer, this is awful, we really need to get past this phase.’ It’s, ‘This is a very enjoyable space to be in. Let’s perpetuate this with some new ideas.’”
The longer development lasted, the more pressure Gibson and Pellen felt to ensure that everything was as fine-tuned as possible. They’d already spent four years on it — why would they rush now? The more time they spent polishing some parts, the more time they needed to apply it consistently across the rest.
“There’s a level of finish that has to be met throughout the entire game,” Pellen said. “All the way the systems interact, all the hidden work that pops up later on. It’s multiplicative. As you add stuff, the process of tying it all back together just increases.”
Gibson and Pellen say they’re happy that the game is finally coming out — and even happier that they will get to keep working on it, which they still find enjoyable even after seven years. They haven’t burned out or shown any desire to take a break. Instead, they’re already making big plans to add extra content to Silksong in the months and years to come.
This is, of course, what work is supposed to be. But we have lost the way.
- Comment on If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier? 1 month ago:
You seem to be assuming that the volume is immediately replaced by the external atmosphere, which I doubt is valid
No, I was assuming your volume decreases. I don't actually know that to be the case, but my assumption is that there isn't "extra" space inside a person, and so if you lose material from a part of your body that isn't encased in anything rigid your volume decreases slightly.
So maybe I did have my terminology wrong. When a hot air balloon deflates, it falls. The density went up, but that's not what's directly relevant. The weight went down, I guess, but the "number on the scale", weight minus buoyant force, went way way up, because it lost some lower-density volume that was making the whole thing float. The weight (in a strict physics sense) went down, sure. But the number on the scale (which I was incorrectly calling "weight") went up. Same thing for a farting person.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Oh... yeah, that makes more sense than "decrypting" it to inspect it.
Anyway, I think I'll delete the article, I think you're right and it is unuseful.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Hm, I think you are right. Looking at it again, there's also this:
For one, enterprises largely disable QUIC and force websites like Google to downgrade back to TCP. This is because there’s only a single firewall vendor that can decrypt and inspect QUIC traffic (Go Fortinet!).
I definitely don't think that is how it works. Maybe enterprises disable QUIC, but it's not because they can decrypt and inspect HTTPS traffic.
- Comment on If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier? 1 month ago:
- Comment on Slay The Princess - Official Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
"Why I got a bird hand? Why I got a bird hand? Oh..."
- Comment on Slay The Princess - Official Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
Yeah, it sits at this very satisfying cusp where it is clearly saying something, once you get over the "look at this upsetting thing I'm showing you" level, but I can also totally believe people coming to totally different conclusions about what it is saying. It's wild.
- Comment on If I stood on a precision scale and farted, would I get lighter or heavier? 1 month ago:
Fart gas is warmer than the surrounding atmosphere, therefore less dense. Your digestive system is under very slight compression (10-20 mmHg gauge pressure according to the internet), which I would guess does not equate to enough pressure to be more significant than the temperature gradient. Fart gas is also less dense than air at a given pressure by a pretty significant margin (1.06 g/L compared with 1.20 g/L).
When you fart, you're releasing gas that is less dense than the atmosphere, which means you get slightly heavier. Think of yourself as a hot air balloon with a very tiny chamber, and when you release a 90 milliliter fart, you lose a little buoyancy and sink a little. You get heavier when you fart.
I haven't done the math, but I looked around on the internet at some numbers, and that's what I think. I also ignored this because it is clearly AI slop, which is a little upsetting.
- Comment on Slay The Princess - Official Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
Updates are usually automatic (at least in the modern days with Steam), and DLCs are optional.
Okay so by that definition, this one is a free DLC. Glad we got that cleared up lol, that was why I described it as a DLC.
I don't think of DLC as having an explicit connotation of either free or paid, it can be either. Whatever. I've now edited the title again to what I should have titled it in the first place. Hopefully everyone can put this to bed and move on to some other equally urgent internet disputes now.
- Comment on Slay The Princess - Official Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
IDK what is the panic about the distinction between a game update and a game DLC. I posted it because I played it and it was awesome and I wanted to let people know. In any case, I edited the title to say "update," hope you're okay with that phrasing.
- Comment on Slay The Princess - Official Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
What in your mind is the difference between a free update, which you can download, that adds some content, and free DLC?
- Comment on Slay The Princess - Official Announcement Trailer 1 month ago:
It is excellent. It is brilliant. Everyone's different, surely there are people who won't like it, but for me it was top notch.
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- Comment on Linus Torvalds on why desktop Linux sucks 1 month ago:
Yeah. It feels like the issue is that really solving it is hard work (you can feel, with the proliferation of Linux/Windows runtimes that get downloaded behind the scenes for Steam, how much effort they're continuously putting into releasing new runtimes that make slight adjustments for particular issues), and organizations like Ubuntu are always tempted into these kind of "we'll just set up a simple system that means we don't have to work on it because it'll be solved" approaches.
Honestly I think Linus is being a little over simplistic about how easy it would be to create ABI compatibility in userland. In the kernel it's realistic, but in userland it would be hopeless. But he's not wrong that the current situation, however it arrived, is pretty crappy from a POV of wanting to ship something to people outside of the distro's package management, and IMO none of the solutions that have come along since then are effective at solving the problem.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds on why desktop Linux sucks 1 month ago:
When did he discuss OnePackage or any other packaging project?