Dennis Hackethal’s Blog
My blog about philosophy, coding, and anything else that interests me.
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What do you mean by "most jobs being hateful"? That most jobs are worthy of being hated?
The post has moved here: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/the-true…
Criticism of @DavidDeutschOxf’s ‘Taking Children Seriously and fallibilism’: blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/criticis…
And environmentalists might unironically say the north is better off. twitter.com/MarinkoKordic/…
RT @micsolana:
just heard someone unironically refer to herself as a recovering vegan and felt like, ok, we're gonna make it
Muesste es nicht 'Krankenschwesternde' sein?
Es koennte ja logisch sein, mit abnehmender Sicherheit:
Geimpfter mit Maske > Geimpfter ohne Maske > Ungeimpfter (mit oder ohne Maske)
Also ist die Kritik nicht falsch.
(Was aber def. falsch ist, ist der Gastro-Branche vorzuschreiben, was sie zu tun und zu lassen hat.)
RT @SJobs_Stories:
"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste. They have absolutely no taste - I don't mean that in the sm…
RT @QuarkDDR:
Zur Klarstellung und weil dauernd neidisch gemault wird: pic.twitter.com/tPkZItCzrj
Another instance of a pretty girl using a genuinely interesting phenomenon to feature herself in a video about it to show off her beauty. Which makes the video really about her, not the phenomenon.
Do you feel disgust at this picture? If not, why not? twitter.com/micsolana/stat…
RT @a_nnaschneider:
Wie man jetzt versucht, alle Kritiker des ÖRR als „rechts“ und vermeintlich demokratiegefährdend abzustempeln, ist scho…
Was daran ist denn bitte "rechte Narrative"?!
You don't think this link refutes the claim that "pro-choice lobbying in the US had dwindled to historic lows before Roe was overturned"?
Pro choicers often suck at persuasion and discussing productively when they don't consider that they could be mistaken (see blog.dennishackethal.com/posts/chat-wit…) but that is not to say they don't discuss or organize.
Even Wikipedia says "[t]he decision [...] caused an ongoing abortion debate in the United States":
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roev.Wa…
Roe v. Wade was in 1973 but there was just as much talk about legalizing abortion in the 90s: books.google.com/ngrams/graph?c…
And pro choicers still considered it their mission to 'educate' those 'flyover-state brutes' who effectively banned abortion by making it really difficult to get.
It's not true that only pro life talked and organized. Whenever pro lifers attacked planned parenthood clinics, for example, there'd be an uproar by pro choicers.
RT @malwaretech:
Why Web3 Is Less Secure Than Web2
youtube.com/watch?v=t68pNM…
Ja, die bösen Reichen. Das Proletariat sollte regieren. Für die Umwelt.
But didn’t Roe v. Wade give pro lifers more of a reason to discuss? And try to persuade pro choicers for fear they’ll be killing babies in the meantime?
Again, there were lots of discussions about abortion. At all times. So it can’t be true that “discussions were essentially shut down by Roe”.
Is that meant to be a refutation of my precious tweet? If so, how?
Isn’t it spelled “nullius in verba”? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nullius_i…
RT @dvassallo:
My real business plan: Avoid going back to this pic.twitter.com/cPmISwgTXO
RT @naomicfisher:
When we demonise screens, we risk demonising the things our children love. We denigrate their choices. We give them the m…
They could not have discussed and persuaded each other before? I remember heated discussions about abortion happening before Roe v. Wade was overturned, and ppl are always free to petition the government.
I found early on just asking myself: “would I hire this person if I knew what i know now?” seemed to always produce the…
RT @paulg:
Inexperienced founders are usually too slow to fire bad people. Here's a trick that may help. Have all the cofounders separately…
RT @Cokedupoptions:
Congratulations to the IRS on winning the $846.3 million Mega Millions Jackpot! pic.twitter.com/1pCJKNdLBJ
RT @dvassallo:
The hidden risk of steady income is letting past stability fool you about what to expect from the future. You start entering…
RT @SJobs_Stories:
"The Mac Hardware is not at the top of the food chain, let's just say. We wanna get it there. We ARE gonna get it there.…
Overall, these low numbers sound like good news to me, because they indicate that engineers continue to be in high demand and that they quit when they don't like their job anymore.
Vesting schedules can become a prison where you try to convince yourself to just 'hang on' a few months longer when you've long been ready to quit.
3) As @dvassallo has said, only intrinsic motivation lasts. Vesting schedules are designed to keep you for the long haul, but in the end money doesn't fulfill you. You have to be personally interested in the work you do. And interests change, sometimes rapidly.
I see several reasons for these numbers.
1) Switching to another company is often lucrative. Poachers make it worth your while.
2) As I believe @paulg once tweeted, developers want to build. They don't always want to maintain. Much of the building happens early on.
I spent four years at Apple, more than twice the average.
I'm surprised the Apple average is only 1.9. Several of my colleagues had been there for 10+ years, and even more 5+.
But yes, even four years is considered a long time in this industry. And it is. twitter.com/typesfast/stat…
Below you can see programmers building AI and then claiming it’s sentient. twitter.com/liron/status/1…
Vielleicht koennten Menschen mehr Trinkgeld geben, wenn Politiker und Staat es ihnen nicht in Form von Steuern und Inflation rauben wuerden.
Ihr Account gibt vor, wissenschaftlich zu sein, gibt aber eigentlich nur rot-grüne Ideen von sich. Bei einer zwangsfinanzierten Institution vielleicht auch nicht verwunderlich. Aber definitiv widerlich.
I think I remember reading in one of Popper’s books that any idea claiming that ‘objects from the heavens’ could influence objects on earth was considered astrology and therefore false. Same for moon being the cause of tides.
RT @PR0GRAMMERHUM0R:
Return node. reddit.com/r/programmerhu… pic.twitter.com/wUzjJGjhdI
RT @Bozena15259009:
So the rest of the world is warming faster than the rest of the world... 🤔 pic.twitter.com/gz2wJQLOEF
@silvan_amberg @MinistryofTru16 @AlainS1991
“der weisse Cis-Mann” 😂
RT @WokeTemple:
I first heard this expression over 30 years ago, at university. It disturbed me then and it disturbs me now. It rests on a…
RT @realchrisrufo:
SCOOP: Portland Public Schools is now teaching elementary school students to subvert the sexuality of “white colonizers,…
@CerebralWisdom @lavern_spicer
And because America stands for freedom, it does not stand for forcing citizens to help others.
Ich zwar nicht. Aber viele. Unbedingt lesen: twitter.com/micLIBERAL/sta…
RT @dweekly:
I sued a spammer!
Did you know you have a right to sue folks that send you unsolicited text messages or calls?
I received a…
“protecting the American people”
I once filed a report with you after being hacked and you didn’t even acknowledge it let alone investigate it.
That sounds worse to me than anything trump has ever said while in office. Have a particular quote in mind?
there's no guarantee, but quite possibly it would, yes
RT @firstofequals:
We can lick this recession before it even begins. All we need to do is shut down the economy for two weeks to flatten th…
RT @marvin_wank:
Ja, Menschen sind soziale Wesen. Sie haben Freundeskreise, gründen Firmen und treten Vereinen bei.
Doch wenn Politiker vo…
RT @infiniteprogrs:
@KKirjailija @DavidDeutschOxf
took Popper‘s optimism and ran with it. pic.twitter.com/MRjtpVboto
@infiniteprogrs @KKirjailija @DavidDeutschOxf
Eine Quellenangabe mit Titel waere super, falls andere das Buch interessiert. :)
@egm0nt @alejandrosgms4 @Rainmaker1973
What makes you think I'm acting on that assumption?
RT @michaelmalice:
The trouble with any bureaucracy, government or otherwise, is that the people making the decisions are almost never the…
RT @Rainmaker1973:
If you take a Petri dish, castor oil and some ball bearings and put all in an electric field, you might happen to spot a…
RT @RonPaul:
We know from decades of unnecessary wars, and years of covid authoritarianism, that propaganda works.
But it doesn't work al…
@alejandrosgms4 @Rainmaker1973
So the common-sense explanation still stands: the kids watching the math video really are just bored and do not like having their free time filled, against their will, with stuff they don't want to do. That's how any healthy individual would react.
@alejandrosgms4 @Rainmaker1973
That reasoning is false. We hold lots of information in our brains while watching a movie. Who the characters are, their relationships, the movie's conflict, how the characters are trying to overcome it, etc. We never observe passively, we actively construct (Popper).
1 year ago
When I was in class 11 than I have write "hello python" on Pydroid 3 app on android..
that was very…
RT @firstofequals:
This is the moment we have all been waiting for. Our glorious President Joseph Biden is about to defeat the SARS-CoV-2 v…
RT @PessimistsArc:
The SF NIMBYs that love SF so much would have opposed the Golden Gate Bridge:
And: can the resulting printer ALSO make more printers, and so on? twitter.com/misscarterthor…
RT @SystemSunday:
If you want to reclaim 40 hrs/week (I’m not kidding), read this:
Mit dem Affen und der Banane haelt es sich m. E. genauso.
Ich war damals fest davon ueberzeugt, dass da Bewusstsein im Spiel sein muss. Heute weiss ich, dass man sowas prinzipiell recht leicht vorprogrammieren kann. Das Verhalten ist irgendwo schon raffiniert und flexibel, aber das kann trotzdem vorprogrammiert sein.
Ich kannte mal einen unglaublich schlauen Hund, der ganz viele Tricks drauf hatte. Zb konnte man ihn jeden beliebigen Gegenstand riechen lassen, dann verstecken und ihn suchen lassen. Er suchte dann, bis er den Gegenstand fand oder aufgab. Sah im letzteren Fall sogar traurig aus.
Affen koennen durch Belohnung und Bestrafung auch neue Dinge 'lernen' – sie greifen also nicht nur auf angeborene Ideen zurueck –, aber dieser Lernbegriff ist ein ganz anderer als der menschliche. Menschen lernen durch Kreativitaet. Und nur Kreativitaet erzeugt Bewusstsein.
Ideen schon, aber keine Kreativitaet. Weil diese Ideen genauso gut vorprogrammiert (angeboren/in den Genen gespeichert) sein koennen. Es sind also nicht Ideen im bewussten Sinne.
Die Antwort auf die Frage "Ist die im Menschen abgebildete Kreativität das minimale Level?" lautet also: "Die Frage beruht auf falschen Annahmen."