I think the point here is that it's subverting and redirecting Bentham's own utilitarianism against itself. How does the utilitarian decide which one of those has more utility? That's a rhetorical question and it's sort…
It seems like 1.25 is a month and a half out from retirement, maybe it's related to that. Kubernetes 1.25 (in Danny Glover voice): I'm getting too old for this shit!
Your definition of loyalty sounds like it's more loyalty to yourself/your own values or an idealized/rose-tinted view of the company from the past rather than loyalty to what the company is at the present time, which is…
> Re: ORMs, I respectfully disagree. I’ve come across many teams that treat their Python/Rust/Go codebase with ownership and craft, I have not seen the same be said about SQL queries. It’s almost like a 'tragedy of the…
> Could you share more specific details? Happy to look over / revise where needed. Sure thing! I'd say first off, the solutions may look different for a small company/startup vs. a large enterprise. It can help if you…
It seems like the article is written by someone just starting to get into the data engineering subfield and they thought they were going to be writing python (pyspark is my guess) to support some kind of ML effort, but…
I'm not saying that hardware shouldn't be open in some form or another (at least in a way that doesn't stifle innovation, maybe also taking another look at how the patent system works and such). I guess I'm just having…
How would opening up the hardware solve the issue for the average consumer? Let's say the official update channel goes dead on your smart fridge, the company has gone out of business. What would happen in that scenario…
I think I would agree with pretty much all of the above. There is a sort of hierarchy of belief, and quantum mechanics is probably close to the top of that. However, even so, it is still not infallible. It is possible…
I wouldn't reject objective facts, but I also wouldn't believe they exist any more than I would believe Santa Claus exists, unless someone can successfully argue for their existence. AFAIK this has yet to be done by…
If objective reality exists, which is still a pretty big if last time I checked, not only do we not know what it fully is, we don't even know what any part of it is. The best that we can do is get better and better at…
Yes it's a bold claim philosophically. How would you justify it? No, flat earth "theory", if you can call it that, has close to zero supporting evidence and AFAIK has no actual predictive power. Stick with consensus…
> There are objective facts about the nature of reality This is a pretty bold claim and you would have to do a bit of work to make it more convincing. Besides, it's not really how science works. Different theories wax…
I feel like that's where most people probably start, and then get some response like "we can't change the KPI's because blah blah" or get the runaround. Once you have established that you have no agency to change the…
Not everyone, I still do not have this in mine and I have paternal haplogroup G-M201 which is related to Ötzi.
The paper seems to be paywalled so I have no clue about how they arrived here, but this: "That said, the results indicate that the probability we are alone (<1) in the galaxy is significant, while the maximum number of…
What about a third option, "everything may or may not matter, but the answer to that question is currently inaccessible to us (and possibly may always remain inaccessible)"? In this way you could be led to a kind of…
What lay people mostly mean by 'relative' is subjective; ie., they're committing the genetic fallacy of the form: since understanding X requires a perspective in which to evaluate it, X itself must be a…
I've also found talking about what you just learned is very helpful. If you don't have an interlocutor available, ChatGPT is a good stand-in.
> It's exactly the other way around. It's lay people using 'relative' to mean 'subjective'. I've actually found the opposite - people will often use "subjective" when they really mean "relative". They often unwittingly…
This is true in everyday conversational English usage of the terms, but in the context of philosophy, they acquire additional meaning and connotations. It's kind of like how when we (programmers) say "functional…
No, we're talking about a completely different usage of the term here. Objectivism in this context has nothing to do with Rand's Objectivism. It's just the term being overloaded with multiple meanings in different…
In the context of philosophy it's usually meant in contrast to objectivism. So a moral objectivist might say that there exist an objective set of universal morals that apply to everyone. In contrast, a moral relativist…
I think this is close, but I'd go even further and say that the problem is that with real debt anyone can see the money in black and white, they require no special training to be able to understand real debt and read…
That's a fair point, but I don't think it's a problem with the blacksmith per se. You can't really expect every blacksmith to hold themselves to an arbitrary high standard and turn down work when they're possibly one or…
I think the point here is that it's subverting and redirecting Bentham's own utilitarianism against itself. How does the utilitarian decide which one of those has more utility? That's a rhetorical question and it's sort…
It seems like 1.25 is a month and a half out from retirement, maybe it's related to that. Kubernetes 1.25 (in Danny Glover voice): I'm getting too old for this shit!
Your definition of loyalty sounds like it's more loyalty to yourself/your own values or an idealized/rose-tinted view of the company from the past rather than loyalty to what the company is at the present time, which is…
> Re: ORMs, I respectfully disagree. I’ve come across many teams that treat their Python/Rust/Go codebase with ownership and craft, I have not seen the same be said about SQL queries. It’s almost like a 'tragedy of the…
> Could you share more specific details? Happy to look over / revise where needed. Sure thing! I'd say first off, the solutions may look different for a small company/startup vs. a large enterprise. It can help if you…
It seems like the article is written by someone just starting to get into the data engineering subfield and they thought they were going to be writing python (pyspark is my guess) to support some kind of ML effort, but…
I'm not saying that hardware shouldn't be open in some form or another (at least in a way that doesn't stifle innovation, maybe also taking another look at how the patent system works and such). I guess I'm just having…
How would opening up the hardware solve the issue for the average consumer? Let's say the official update channel goes dead on your smart fridge, the company has gone out of business. What would happen in that scenario…
I think I would agree with pretty much all of the above. There is a sort of hierarchy of belief, and quantum mechanics is probably close to the top of that. However, even so, it is still not infallible. It is possible…
I wouldn't reject objective facts, but I also wouldn't believe they exist any more than I would believe Santa Claus exists, unless someone can successfully argue for their existence. AFAIK this has yet to be done by…
If objective reality exists, which is still a pretty big if last time I checked, not only do we not know what it fully is, we don't even know what any part of it is. The best that we can do is get better and better at…
Yes it's a bold claim philosophically. How would you justify it? No, flat earth "theory", if you can call it that, has close to zero supporting evidence and AFAIK has no actual predictive power. Stick with consensus…
> There are objective facts about the nature of reality This is a pretty bold claim and you would have to do a bit of work to make it more convincing. Besides, it's not really how science works. Different theories wax…
I feel like that's where most people probably start, and then get some response like "we can't change the KPI's because blah blah" or get the runaround. Once you have established that you have no agency to change the…
Not everyone, I still do not have this in mine and I have paternal haplogroup G-M201 which is related to Ötzi.
The paper seems to be paywalled so I have no clue about how they arrived here, but this: "That said, the results indicate that the probability we are alone (<1) in the galaxy is significant, while the maximum number of…
What about a third option, "everything may or may not matter, but the answer to that question is currently inaccessible to us (and possibly may always remain inaccessible)"? In this way you could be led to a kind of…
What lay people mostly mean by 'relative' is subjective; ie., they're committing the genetic fallacy of the form: since understanding X requires a perspective in which to evaluate it, X itself must be a…
I've also found talking about what you just learned is very helpful. If you don't have an interlocutor available, ChatGPT is a good stand-in.
> It's exactly the other way around. It's lay people using 'relative' to mean 'subjective'. I've actually found the opposite - people will often use "subjective" when they really mean "relative". They often unwittingly…
This is true in everyday conversational English usage of the terms, but in the context of philosophy, they acquire additional meaning and connotations. It's kind of like how when we (programmers) say "functional…
No, we're talking about a completely different usage of the term here. Objectivism in this context has nothing to do with Rand's Objectivism. It's just the term being overloaded with multiple meanings in different…
In the context of philosophy it's usually meant in contrast to objectivism. So a moral objectivist might say that there exist an objective set of universal morals that apply to everyone. In contrast, a moral relativist…
I think this is close, but I'd go even further and say that the problem is that with real debt anyone can see the money in black and white, they require no special training to be able to understand real debt and read…
That's a fair point, but I don't think it's a problem with the blacksmith per se. You can't really expect every blacksmith to hold themselves to an arbitrary high standard and turn down work when they're possibly one or…