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by calf 2y ago
The problem with this argument is that two professors are using a PMC-type of argument about "self-regulation" theory—a pop-psych fad since the 2010's—to psychologize a peer whose behavior is more simply explained as being a
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by calf 2y ago
All I want is an Escape Velocity MMO
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by calf 2y ago
The evidence of your confusion is that you cited one sentence in their comment but ignored the next sentence which provide the justification in abstract for that sentence. Therefore your basic reading comprehension skills are confused. It e
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by calf 2y ago
This power law argument immediately reminds me of education studies literature that (contrary to the math teachers in this thread) emphasize that mathematical ability is learned cumulatively, that a student's success feeds on itself an
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by calf 2y ago
Then it is you who are confused and lack the correct foundations for rational argument, a strawman is very different thing than contextualization, and in fact the latter is used by neoliberal professionals to relativize values making critic
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by calf 2y ago
That's just a lot of words to dismiss academia as an ivory tower, and to ad hominem leftism as being part of the ivory tower, which is a bad argument. It is true that the academic clerisy is a problem and a few leftists actually argue
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by calf 2y ago
Garak is a compelling literary figure and is very popular among Trekkies, for good reason, you're understanding the character wrong for example not even Kira Nerys would say only what you reductively said about him.
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by calf 2y ago
Wrong, what you are suggesting is the easy road, to treat reading Latour as a thought exercise about intentions and context. Fundamentally you are confusing some useful techniques - contextualization and intellectual empathy - with the crit
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by calf 2y ago
It's funny, my comment said exactly what it said and you construed it all incorrectly. It's as if the more philosophy you people read, the less you can catch your own mistakes. Even people with PhDs (iirc they were a theoretical p
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by calf 2y ago
That just sounds like Mastodon users, many who are academics, are more to the left than you are, and you are cleverly framing their culture as more "divisive", "performative", and/or "tribal" compared to y
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by calf 2y ago
Do you hold this standard for Team Red? Do you tell them to use their listening skills too?
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by calf 2y ago
This is actually one of those sophisticated bullshit meta arguments used to defend any sort of intellectual garbage. "You have to see things from their context, intentions, history". No, we do not. And there is no authority that s
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by calf 2y ago
Or Latour and the others really are just pseudo thinkers, maybe they have some things to say but it is muddied and bloated by all the wrong (Not Even Wrong) things they are saying, and history might judge the French postmodernists for takin
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by calf 2y ago
You lack theory of mind, people may "experience" regexes in practice but not make the careful distinction/connection to the elementary theory (and theorems, e.g. about the limitations of regular expressions) taught in CS majo
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by calf 2y ago
I used to be like you until I lived with my mother then saw first-hand problems from her point of view. Things like the weight of the cast iron means lifting it with wrist, cleaning it (in the sink). Other things like making it easy to cook
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by calf 2y ago
Did you know that Software Engineering is a university level degree? That it is a field of scientific study, with professors who dedicate their lives to it? What happens when companies ignore science and worse yet cause harm like pollution
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by calf 2y ago
We are sorely lacking a "Make Computer Science a Science" movement, the tech lead's blurb is par for the course, talking about "SWE productivity" with no reference to scientific inquiry and a foundational understand
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by calf 2y ago
Is there a review that demonstrates and corroborates this issue? Is it a difficult problem if choosing to buy a new display for a Mac mini? My old display is 10 years old and I would have to get a new one then.
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by calf 2y ago
(Hope crossposting this historical tibit I thought was interesting/nostalgic is ok) https://www.reddit.com/r/VintageApple/comments/1gd50w1/tryin...
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Open Sesame 1.1 (vintage Mac automation software based on early neural nets)(macintoshrepository.org)
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by calf 2y ago
I recall 90's Macs had a 3rd party app that offered to observe your mouse/keyboard then automatically recommend routine tasks for you. As a young person I found that fascinating. It's interesting to see history renew itself.
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by calf 2y ago
It's a controversial mount amongst the player base, lots of flaming between two sides on the official forum and on Reddit. I hope someone writes an article about microtransactions and such gaming trends in general to lay out the broade
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by calf 2y ago
Thanks, I don't know about Jim Keller. Did they discuss Moore's Law specifically, or other relevant factors, or instead did they focus on the standardization argument for ISAs? edit: Ah, I see he's the "Moore's law
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by calf 2y ago
Creationism is an American protofascist phenomenon, it actually is propaganda and does not need to be taught in a science class in order to nurture and develop critical thinking skills. If you are referring to traditional cultures, they hav
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by calf 2y ago
Then you need to finish high school, because if you define neutral as "trying not to be not-neutral" then you are using a circular definition and so you really need to work on your basic skills which are usually taught by high sch
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by calf 2y ago
Well said. There's are several sayings, such as "neutrality is the both-sideism fallacy", which is one of the most obvious critical thinking examples that humanities students are taught early on, but it is not so easy to conv
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by calf 2y ago
Neutrality is problematic because in practice it serves the powerful, like every instance of bureaucracy and scientism we can point to through civilized history. Instead you are appealing to some politics-free context-free notion of neutral
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by calf 2y ago
What backwater high school did you go to that had you study creationism of all religions? We never covered propaganda in science, in Canada.
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by calf 2y ago
Neutrality is a problematic ideology because it serves the powerful and the status quo, the first question to ask back is are they (an authority, an institution) really neutral/impartial?
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by calf 2y ago
Pretty sure PP was referring to mainstream criticism and concerns which tend to be about plastics in foods, etc. but less acknowledgement of the problem of fast fashion switching from cotton to plastic based textiles.

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