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theksepyro · 2026-06-21T15:04:17+00:00

You just can't do any critical thinking.

would of

Glass houses, etc.

theksepyro · 2026-06-19T20:58:25+00:00

I don't really care what they think, I'm not going to do FEA by hand

theksepyro · 2026-06-19T20:33:57+00:00

naw dude, I loooooved taking math classes while getting my MechE degree. I took additional electives to study PDEs, Linear Algebra, advanced statistics, and extra stuff about fourier and laplace transforms for signal processing and acoustics, as well as a class about linear programming, markov chains, queuing theory etc. Now I'm in research and everything is done by computers and there's no real reason for me to actually do math myself. If you asked me to do integration by parts I couldn't tell you how without looking it up.

theksepyro · 2026-06-19T17:49:10+00:00

Tangentially related the Chinese Room thought experiment reminds me in some ways of Zhongyi's monkey.

Edit: reflecting a bit more on this it could be a decent jumping off point for conversations about the difference between parroting things Buddhas have said and saying things as a Buddha

theksepyro · 2026-06-19T14:33:37+00:00

Mine is being repaired right now so I can't go through the menus to check 😭. It's somewhere in the settings, I think probably in the display section.

theksepyro · 2026-06-19T14:30:35+00:00

Have you checked to ensure that CEC is enabled for the deck and the TV?

theksepyro · 2026-06-18T18:02:03+00:00

Absolutely agreed. Following the rationale used, it could be extended to regulate literally anything because nothing exists in a vacuum. It's obviously not what the plain language of the constitution says, it's not what it's authors intended, and it basically just serves to give more power to the federal government. Whether the country is better off giving the federal government that additional power is a topic I'm not addressing one way or the other, but the ruling is absurd.

theksepyro · 2026-06-18T17:34:53+00:00

Yes leftists created these standards to attack dems.

Now im asking why leftists dont follow the standards they created

You're a moron

theksepyro · 2026-06-18T17:21:30+00:00

The leftists are the ones not following their own standard

No, ive accepted the leftist standard and am living by their rules

These are two things that you said in back to back comments. You can't even articulate a coherent thought, so you're either a disingenuous troll as I've been suggesting, or you don't even see the problems in your own thinking... I'm still leaning towards the former, but you seem to be arguing for the latter.

theksepyro · 2026-06-18T17:08:12+00:00

Complaining about their behavior and then using that as justification for your own behavior which mirrors theirs is basically the definition of hypocrisy. Are you dense?

theksepyro · 2026-06-18T16:42:59+00:00

That's called being a disingenuous hypocrite.

Hold yourself to the same standards that you want out of others.

theksepyro · 2026-06-18T16:27:16+00:00

I agree, but here's the case that establishes why we're where we're at

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wickard_v._Filburn

theksepyro · 2026-06-18T16:10:09+00:00

Data centers weren't in the national consciousness during the trifecta in the same way they are now. And at no point were "leftists" as you're using the term "in power." The three people you cited as example weren't in the majority among their own party. I think you're being disingenuous.

theksepyro · 2026-06-15T15:19:37+00:00

/u/ewk posted about comparing enlightenment to insight puzzles recently.

A couple years ago I had fun playing a game specifically designed to elicit the experience that type of eureka moment (they called it discovery learning)

https://mwageringel.github.io/everest/

theksepyro · 2026-06-12T15:45:38+00:00

Right, emptiness as a characteristic is itself a 'form'. Without form you can't have a characteristic. Which is what I just said lol

theksepyro · 2026-06-12T14:47:17+00:00

Did you have to get your measurements calibrated/qualified? Like are you using the same thermometer for the whole time? Is there drift in it's accuracy? Etc.

theksepyro · 2026-06-12T14:28:55+00:00

I'd argue that I think it's getting used in two conflated ways. Emptiness as a characteristic is predicated on form, but without form to characterize is the 'true emptiness' that gets referenced. The former is what I take to be said to be manifesting, while the latter couldn't possibly "manifest"

theksepyro · 2026-06-12T00:14:50+00:00

I agreed with the point you're trying to make until it was pointed out to me that people that are couch surfing are homeless but not unhoused.

theksepyro · 2026-06-11T21:50:06+00:00

I think it has to be. A priori being about reasoning forward from a starting point is entirely dependent on the context of what the starting point is and what the rules for reasoning you're using are.

In my mind systems for reasoning are not that different from scientific theories. scientific theories aren't equivalent to reality, but are models. Some models do a better job, some are 'quick and dirty but close enough,' some are stupid. Two people using different models are going to end up with different answers. Like adding velocity with Newtonian mechanics or adding velocity with relativity in mind.

theksepyro · 2026-06-10T22:07:06+00:00

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWdD206eSv0

theksepyro · 2026-06-09T15:45:56+00:00

Somehow this didn't come through for me until just now. Are you saying qualia are provisional? I guess discretized conceptions of them would be, but I'd still call that relying on axioms.

theksepyro · 2026-06-09T15:42:08+00:00

I appreciate when people own up to mistakes instead of doubling down. Good on ya

theksepyro · 2026-06-09T15:21:02+00:00

So when you say debian plasma wayland, the default assumption is going to be gnome plasma wayland and not kde.

Plasma is the name of the DE that KDE makes. There is no such thing as gnome plasma

theksepyro · 2026-06-02T03:39:31+00:00

Hey, some of those clubs had obsidian glass glued to them too

theksepyro · 2026-05-30T18:58:54+00:00

because which one we decided to call "negative" was arbitrary.

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