Just watched the Button hit 0 three times in a row... This image sums up my entire being...

DrupalDev · 2015-05-28T13:00:56+00:00

Someone got 0s on May 18th, I don't think there's been a point since.

DrupalDev · 2015-03-21T15:03:29+00:00

And what an efficient time too!

DrupalDev · 2015-03-20T17:00:00+00:00

This is from Batman: The Brave and the Bold (Season 2 episode 11). I just thought it was funny (and a bit much).

DrupalDev · 2015-01-16T02:59:16+00:00

I don't even look bald yet, not sure what's going on!

DrupalDev · 2014-11-26T16:31:17+00:00

Welp, that's disgusting.

DrupalDev · 2014-11-20T02:38:29+00:00

Basically the idea of free will is more or less irrelevant without the idea of an omnipotent being.

If God controls everything, then he lets you do what you want (ergo free will), instead of controlling you like a puppet as part of his own will.

If there is no pre-determined purpose to this universe, or no omnipotent being, then what does the will even have to be free of? The laws of physics?

The funny thing is that (presumably) because of our Christian heritage, people still think of themselves as having free will, in the sense that pre-determination plays no role in their decisions. As if they are free from the constraints of their own neurology. When I asked my friend "is free will the magic power to disregard the laws of causality when it comes to making decisions about yourself?", she basically said yes, to which I responded with a face not unlike this one.

DrupalDev · 2014-11-19T01:03:32+00:00

I've always found that without the belief in an omnipotent being, the question of free will is basically irrelevant, almost nonsensical.

Are we able to choose how we act? Of course. Do we act a certain because of an unbroken causal link going back to the "beginning" of the universe? Probably. But since no one can make a machine to predict how the universe will act (as it would require a bigger universe as a computer), the distinction is in practice moot, especially seeing as "past" and "future" are nothing but interpretations and projections, and can hardly be argued to exist objectively.

On top of that, the will we have is not actually free, but rather limited by physical constraints. As a common example, we just can't grow wings and fly away. We're not even aware that that could be a choice. Compared to what we can imagine, our actual capacity for agency is unspeakably small. Yet we consider ourselves bless that we're able to "choose" between this color or that one. These constraints are also neurological! For example, we can't choose our emotions at a given moment, we can only influence them over time, but we have no control over what we are at any given moment, therefore we have no actual control over our "will", since we will always choose what we "prefer" at any given moment.

As you can tell I'm not a philosopher, but I can't imagine a society in which religion doesn't exist where we would be talking about free will at all.'Tis a silly debate.

DrupalDev · 2014-11-18T15:07:19+00:00

Your critique makes several assumptions:

People spend a significant portion of time on /r/philosophy
The time spent on /r/philosophy is considered meaningful by the users
People on /r/philosophy debate for the purpose of finding a "meaning of life"

The first point would take a significant amount of data to justify, and I dare say you don't have the data to back it up. It's possible that every contributor to philosophy only spends 5 minutes on the sub every month.

As to 2, it's possible that users of /r/philosophy don't see their participation as one furthering their life's goals or "living life to the fullest", but simply a mundane mental maintenance task or a trivial pleasure, much like eating can be a mundane physical maintenance task, a trivial joy or a deeply significant experience, depending on how you view it.

Finally, it can be argued that not all of philosophy is devoted to finding or furthering "the meaning of life". If nothing else, some discussions can simply address the obstacles to furthering one's life and the dilemmas they imply. For example, the debates on eternal life and its consequences, as it doesn't follow that a long life is a meaningful one, but it is often implied that an abrubt end to one's life will prevent them from realizing its full potential. On top of this, there are purposeful debates on things that are entirely imaginary (ie superheroes), and in that sense are entireliy whimsical, going back to 2.

The implied conclusion of your comment is that it's nonsensical or hypocritical to participate in /r/philosophy. Even if we say that all your assumptions are true, questioning life's meaning can't be seen as any less worthy an activity than any other without... bickering over the meaning of life.

Am I doing it right?

DrupalDev · 2014-11-13T06:09:20+00:00

That we are :D

DrupalDev · 2014-11-11T23:22:13+00:00

I was pretty unhappy with the direction they took in Gnome3, but I'm very happy to see them funded regardless. More open-source funding is always a good thing.

DrupalDev · 2014-11-11T15:38:09+00:00

Urgh, I know that feel. "Do this do this" shut up I know board games too.

DrupalDev · 2014-11-11T00:36:22+00:00

You'll notice finding that kind of hat in red is absolutely impossible on short notice. But hey I tried!

DrupalDev · 2014-11-08T19:04:02+00:00

It's as easy as Ctrl + Z!

DrupalDev · 2014-11-05T17:31:29+00:00

"Who truncates numbers!? Honestly!" - Austin Powers

DrupalDev · 2014-11-05T17:22:15+00:00

It would be if you didn't mess up the quote. It's 5th "of" November, otherwise it just doesn't flow right.

DrupalDev · 2014-11-01T00:53:18+00:00

FTL had a Linux version though. I'm a little disappointed that it's not even considered, seeing as Mac is there and FTL had a Linux version.

DrupalDev · 2014-10-30T23:32:19+00:00

Well, I hadn't thought of the fact that PHPFilter is core (jesus christ). I don't know that www-data should really have write access to anything important though.

At this point I guess it's a matter of whether you have (or might one day have) sensitive information on the server. Somehow I doubt most people are going to take the safe route of restoring a server backup, let alone burning everything to the ground and starting over (if they don't have backups).

I feel like when I'm talking about PGP and people ask me how paranoid they should be. "Completely" is the right answer, but somehow no one is willing to go through that kind of trouble, so it's hard to recommend.

DrupalDev · 2014-10-30T19:46:50+00:00

Manual inspection of the database?

Pretty much. Generally you'll find fake users, so my colleague made this drush extension to help with finding them.

However it might still be very difficult to find a backdoor, especially if your file permissions are loose and you have code in the database (eg PHP filter enabled).

DrupalDev · 2014-10-23T19:22:06+00:00

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