Chais
@Chais@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on I always believe what the people around me believe. Is that truth or what? 1 year ago:
Not quite. The truth is what the facts are based on.
Take the speed of light in vacuum, for example. We don’t know its true value. We have measured it repeatedly, to high precision, using various different methods. Those measurements are or facts. Based on those facts we estimate the speed of light in vacuum to be 299,792,458 m/s. We are quite confident that this value is at least very close to the truth, sure to how many measurements we made and how close they’re bunched together.
But if in the future more precise measurements suggest that it’s in fact closer to 299,792,458.135 m/s then we’ll learn that we’ve been less correct before. - Comment on 2023 Model 1 year ago:
Gesundheit
- Comment on I always believe what the people around me believe. Is that truth or what? 1 year ago:
When the model in your head mirrors the observation. That’s truth.
That conclusion is unsupported. Only the facts are truth.
When your mental model matches your observations and makes accurate predictions about expected values for observations that indicates that your model is at least close to the truth.However if you control the observations, you have to be careful not to introduce a bias. For example you might be tempted not to make certain observations that would falsify your model. Or you might be tempted to not make observations that would require you to expand your model. But in both cases you admit your model doesn’t match reality and what good is it at that point?
- Comment on I always believe what the people around me believe. Is that truth or what? 1 year ago:
As I said, it depends on how you define truth. If it’s enough that people agree with you, your distance from the generally accepted truth can vary widely, depending on the donor of people you base it on. The fact that people agree with you didn’t make something true on its own.
Effectively the question is: How reproducible do you want your truth to be?
If you only need your buddy to come to a similar truth you may not need to argue that much. But to convince a perfect stranger you will probably have to make your case properly. How did you arrive at your truth? Which conformable facts do you base it on? Which predictions does your claimed truth make, that might validate it? - Comment on I always believe what the people around me believe. Is that truth or what? 1 year ago:
That depends on how those people determined their beliefs to be true. And how you define truth.
- Comment on a simple misunderstanding 1 year ago:
According to Wikipedia:
The name pomegranate derives from medieval Latin pōmum “apple” and grānātum “seeded”.[7] Possibly stemming from the old French word for the fruit, pomme-grenade, the pomegranate was known in early English as “apple of Grenada”
- Comment on HBO Max is removing features from my plan without reducing my price. 1 year ago:
Yarr harr fiddle de-dee…
- Comment on Intel's New GPU Drivers Boost Performance Up To 750% in DX11, 53% in DX12 1 year ago:
Had that experience with Borderlands 3.
- Comment on Intel's New GPU Drivers Boost Performance Up To 750% in DX11, 53% in DX12 1 year ago:
On Windows you may be right. A buddy I game with regularly has had trouble with DX12 games crashing randomly.
On Linux they run just fine and frequently perform better than DX11 on Linux or DX12 on Windows. - Comment on JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns 1 year ago:
How so?
- Comment on JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns 1 year ago:
It’s more that I’m giving her a taste of her own medicine. She doesn’t extend this basic courtesy to people she disagrees with, so why should anyone give it to her?
- Comment on JK Rowling prefers two years in jail over using correct pronouns 1 year ago:
He doesn’t.
- Comment on Think anyone would notice? 1 year ago:
I guess with the lower temperature they’d be less of a threat.
- Comment on new adaptor just dropped 1 year ago:
And it will be just as useful as without that adapter.
- Comment on Why do we count sheep before bed? 1 year ago:
It’s something to occupy your mind that doesn’t require a lot of attention but still prevents it from wandering.
- Comment on When does the future begin? 1 year ago:
Always right now.
- Comment on You must be high-leveled to wield a legendary weapon such as this. 1 year ago:
This isn’t for mall-ninjas, though. It’s for the modern DIY-Samurai.
- Comment on Oracle customer support solved another problem 1 year ago:
Classic.
Status: closed Resolution: wontfix
- Comment on Unity Silently Deletes GitHub Repo That Tracks Terms of Service Changes 1 year ago:
Cowards.
- Comment on Develop with Cocoa for Apple devices without using Objective-C 1 year ago:
No
- Comment on Shirley you cant be serious! 1 year ago:
Well, duh. I know. But the original joke works because it exchanges “surely” for the homophone “Shirley.” With “Shirley” already in the title I can’t do that, so swapping it for the not-quite-homophone “surly” seemed like the next best choice.
- Comment on Shirley you cant be serious! 1 year ago:
I am serious. And don’t call me surly.
- Comment on Trump right before his fight with Freiza 1 year ago:
You must’ve watched a different version
Image - Comment on Trump right before his fight with Freiza 1 year ago:
Drumpf is like Mr. Satan, except Mr. Satan is in better shape. But just like Mr. Satan even Yamcha could whoop his butt. And just like Mr. Satan there’d be no end to the stream of excuses how he had the sun in his eyes or it was all rigged or Yamcha cheated or …
- Comment on What is wrong with some of you? 1 year ago:
Heard it called fox-rain.
- Comment on It's called shitposting because it's done on the terlet 1 year ago:
I don’t understand it, therefore it’s bad.
That guy probably
- Comment on Hank Green - The Biggest Science Story of the Week 1 year ago:
Can’t the chemtrail jets do that? 🧌
- Comment on r/TheOwlHouse 1 year ago:
- Comment on Data brokers selling license plate location and analytics data 1 year ago:
What? The unnecessary surveillance of millions of drivers under the guise of safety and convenience actually resulted in unauthorized third parties accessing the data?
I’m shocked! Shocked, I tell you. - Comment on Why SAG-AFTRA’s Streaming Revenue Sharing Proposal for Casts Was Flatly Rejected by AMPTP 1 year ago:
Maybe, but what a salary.
