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Comment · 1 year ago
> Neglecting to do it or meaning to do it then getting pulled in to some meeting (or other important distraction) and then imagining you did it.

If your job is to make sure your file system and your database—SQLite, Pg, My/MariDB, etc—are tuned together, and you don't tune it, then you should be called into a meeting. Or at least the no-fault RCA should bring up remediation methods to make sure it's part of the SOP so that it won't happen again.

The alternative the GP suggests is using Btrfs, which I find even more irresponsible than your non-tuning situation. (Heck, if someone on my sysadmin team suggested we start using Btrfs for anything I would think they were going senile.)

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A lot of motion blur: have they tried adjusting the shutter speed…
Comment · 1 year ago
> There are true facts, but a human observer can never be sure of them

See:

> Epistemology is the branch of philosophy that examines the nature, origin, and limits of knowledge. Also called "the theory of knowledge", it explores different types of knowledge, such as propositional knowledge about facts, practical knowledge in the form of skills, and knowledge by acquaintance as a familiarity through experience. Epistemologists study the concepts of belief, truth, and justification to understand the nature of knowledge. To discover how knowledge arises, they investigate sources of justification, such as perception, introspection, memory, reason, and testimony.

> The school of skepticism questions the human ability to attain knowledge, while fallibilism says that knowledge is never certain. Empiricists hold that all knowledge comes from sense experience, whereas rationalists believe that some knowledge does not depend on it. Coherentists argue that a belief is justified if it coheres with other beliefs. Foundationalists, by contrast, maintain that the justification of basic beliefs does not depend on other beliefs. Internalism and externalism debate whether justification is determined solely by mental states or also by external circumstances.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemology

A philosophy joke:

> When I talk to Philosophers on zoom my screen background is an exact replica of my actual background just so I can trick them into having a justified true belief that is not actually knowledge.

* Mohammed Abouelleil Rashed, https://old.reddit.com/r/PhilosophyMemes/comments/gggqkv/get...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gettier_problem

Comment · 1 year ago
> Agreed, however, people with a good education _usually_ learn think intelligently about a variety of problems.

Depends on the problem you're trying to solve.

Perhaps it's "how can I get more for myself?" versus "how I improve the lives of humanity?".

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