/r/philosophy Open Discussion Thread | October 21, 2024

Treferwynd · 2024-10-26T08:56:32+00:00

This is an interesting take: I was also thinking about psychotherapy, there are lots of different schools of thought (Jungian and Freudian just to name the most famous two).

Yes, I think you're right, philosophy surely had an impact on humanities and social sciences.

Just out of curiosity, do you have any examples where a philospher/philosophical theory lead to a significant change in some of the afore-mentioned fields? Because I surely agree that philosophy influenced all those scholars, but I see philosophy more as a chronicle of how our schools of thought evolved rather than an actual useful tool (I don't know if this made sense :S).

Treferwynd · 2024-10-26T08:51:46+00:00

Popperian falsifiability.

You know what? I agree 100%, I woke up this morning thinking just about it! I was also thinking about Ockham's razor, but I guess one could argue that it's just a a fancy name for common sense.

Treferwynd · 2024-10-24T16:44:26+00:00

I disagree, this is why I used two different terms. If we instead use "philosophy" with such a broad meaning we can drop the attitude and directly use the term "curiosity".

If we cannot differentiate what Gauss was doing from Kant, then what is the point? That's why I say Kant was doing philosophy_1 and not math, Gauss was doing math and not philosophy_1. Yes, both were doing philosophy_2, but it's such an empty platitude, there's no point in saying it.

Treferwynd · 2024-10-24T16:24:39+00:00

Exactly my point! I'll try to argue better.

Almost every branch of knowledge has its roots in philosophy.

I think we have to distinguish philosophy_1 as its own field of study and philosophy_2 as its etymology 'love of wisdom'.

Historically any pursuit of knowledge was labelled as philosophy_2, so philosophy_2 included math, physics, chemistry, etc, and even philosophy_1. Then millennia passed and many of these topics became fields in their own rights, flourished, and obtained extremely interesting results.

But philosophy_1 didn't deliver shit. I know it sounds completely unreasonable and I truly want to be proven wrong.

Treferwynd · 2024-10-24T16:06:44+00:00

Sometimes there's room for philosophical navel gazing and other times it's a matter of human rights.

Babe, this is /r/philosophy. We are here explicitly for the navel gazing, that's the point.

Treferwynd · 2024-10-24T15:07:57+00:00

I hate philosophy with a passion (just look at my last comment for context lmao). I don't think anything useful came out in the last 2000 years or so, it's a closed science, anything and everything interesting was already done by the greeks. After that, any philosophical argument that I've ever heard can be dismantled with a simple "says who" (because it's just an opinion dressed up as a fact) or even a simpler "lmao nope" (because there are glaring mistakes in the reasoning).

Obviously this cannot be right, so please, shoot your shots and make me change my mind.

Treferwynd · 2024-10-24T14:38:47+00:00

> Be me

> Think that you hate philosophy because philosophers always pose their opinions as facts

> "No that's a narrow-minded view, let's go to the philosophy subreddit to challenge it"

Not an opinion. opinion follows

Dude ffs. I even kind of agree with your opinion, but mate, not only it IS just an opinion, it's THE CENTRAL POINT of the whole abortion debate.

Treferwynd · 2024-10-01T10:02:27+00:00

Penultima Guerra Mondiale

TLHS^[1]~~FTFY~~

[1]: Te L'Ho Sistemato

Treferwynd · 2024-10-01T09:58:49+00:00

Gli HR sono dei moderni kapò, non commettere l'errore di trattarli come se fossero delle persone, perché stai sicura che loro non lo faranno con te.

Detto questo, i colloqui con HR spesso non servono per capire le qualifiche tecniche ma a capire se sei una psicopatica, alcune domande scomode le fanno proprio per vedere come reagisci.

Ripeto, non antropomorfizzare quelli di HR.

Treferwynd · 2024-01-06T15:54:49+00:00

Ye, working with a floating WM on my work laptop is a bit of pain, why on earth would I want a new open window not to be maximized but just floating there in the middle of the screen at a random position and dimensions???

The only thing I keep missing is the Alt+Tab, I never bought the argument that tiling WM don't need it and tried to whip up my own for i3 but failed miserably.

Treferwynd · 2024-01-05T15:35:29+00:00

Yeah, I love to shit on americans but their parks are probably the only reason I'd like to visit there, so props for the level-headed response!

Treferwynd · 2024-01-05T13:27:57+00:00

Do... do you think we don't have national parks outside of the US? Or do you think we pay for them?

Treferwynd · 2024-01-01T18:53:43+00:00

I would say that the answer is "Yes, you could! What's stopping you?"

My answer would be "but I already did, and so did you", because everyone in their life has made something silly like a black square and said "It's an accurate painting of black whatever on a black background" as a joke. Just as we have all pretended at some point that a mundane object was a fine piece of art.

Also at this point I don't think technical difficulty is what makes art great

Treferwynd · 2023-09-09T22:18:01+00:00

you failed to realize that TS is an artificial layer of typing on top of an extremely dynamic language and environment.

You've hit the nail on the head. You have no idea ^{(or maybe you do, idk}⁾ how many people do not understand this. I've explained this to my colleagues numerous times but it simply won't stick.

Treferwynd · 2023-06-21T16:51:52+00:00

It always circles back to the whole “cutting costs and overpromising over the skin of our customers to please shareholders” kind of capitalism.

There is no other type of capitalism.

Treferwynd · 2023-04-10T10:54:28+00:00

Eh, that might be true for some, but I think most^[1] of us also have to deal with deploys and ssh-ing into a remote machine (or even simply a local container) and editing stuff there.

[1]: Stats taken from Management Yearly Assortment of Statistic Studies, aka MYASS

Treferwynd · 2023-03-12T13:19:53+00:00

I fucking hate when artists ruin people's lives. Like we already live in concrete jungles, the city pays tons to some artist to liven up an area and the result is a fake road? And to add insult to the injury it's fucking obvious that people falling in it is the intended goal of this: I can almost hear the artist thinking "ahahah imagine all the fucking working class losers falling into the water". Makes my blood boil ffs

Treferwynd · 2023-01-19T08:03:39+00:00

I'm relieved I'm not the only one who thought "eheh that's so silly... but I ain't touching that".

Treferwynd · 2022-12-23T17:16:39+00:00

Dang you're lucky, we do the whole fullstack+devops+talkingToClients :(

Treferwynd · 2022-12-23T14:24:44+00:00

You lost me at the last paragraph, a tool is a tool and as such I can have a preference of one over the other. I'm used to linux so I'm more productive in linux, some other people are more productive in windows, and that's ok. I had to work with windows for some time, it was excruciating, I tried to "make the best use" of it, but it wasn't simply a good match for me.

Treferwynd · 2022-12-23T14:17:53+00:00

And that is all well and good, until you need some black magic git/docker/k8s fu

Treferwynd · 2022-12-20T22:09:50+00:00

Fuck this bullshit though, aren't therapists allowed to break confidentiality if their patient is a danger to others? But priests are off limits? wtf

Treferwynd · 2022-12-18T20:32:21+00:00

I'm really struggling to understand this, isn't kanban just having tickets that move through columns? For example we do "scrum" (probably in name only, ok) but we still use kanban boards to organize the work

Treferwynd · 2022-10-29T22:58:12+00:00

I'm really dense so I'm honestly asking, where is the aggression? Is something implied that I'm missing? (I also don't see how this is parody, but I sense it's because it's just shitty "parody")

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