[-] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Even fewer will know that osteopathy is exactly the same type of nonsense. No, an osteopath is not (necessarily) a "bone doctor".

The main confusion is that, in the US, schools of osteopathic medicine picked up enough real science that US Doctors of Osteopathy are real physicians... Even if the osteopathy part of their training is still pseudoscience.

[-] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Part of the challenge of social media is that it leads you to interact with many more people than you ever could in normal life.

While the vast majority of people are delightful, there are significant numbers of people with whom I wouldn't want to interact, either face-to-face or online.

One thing I should get better at is avoiding engagement with those people online who I wouldn't benefit from interacting with.

I don't talk to the crazy person ranting on the street, why would I do it online?

[-] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Jos se toimii, se toimii.

[-] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is reminiscent of social media's favourite, the Dunning-Kruger effect, where in order to assess the level of an attribute that applies to them, an individual must use that attribute itself.

This suggests that there's no relationship between self-assessed and measured intelligence at all as opposed to Dunning-Kruger's exaggerated gap at the low end.

I wonder why Dunning-Kruger doesn't seem to apply here.

[-] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

If you're going to memorise a deck of cards, you're better off learning something like the Mnemonica Stack as you can use it as the basis for a whole load of card tricks.

[-] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've heard that the "hot surfacing old posts" bug is more prevalent on instances that haven't restarted for a while. It still shouldn't happen, but I don't think it's universal.

[-] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

Which would inevitably be followed by "Just one more can't hurt!"...

I hope you're doing better now.

[-] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

It depends on their aspirations.

Did they have too many engineers if all they wanted to do was keep the lights on for their core business? Yes.

Did they have too many engineers if they wanted to have the capacity to deliver more ambitious products and solutions, such as massively scalable live video streams, or social audio, or something entirely new? Maybe not.

[-] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

Maybe it's just the young people I know, but the people I know in their late teens (nieces, nephews etc) are all genuinely good people - better than I was.

They're certainly far more aware and supportive of each other than I ever was twenty years ago.

[-] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

Oh. I'll be off then.😔

[-] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

I'd default to they, and if they tell you to use something else, use it.

[-] TheHalc@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

What you're describing is a perfect thermal insulator.

What does it feel like when you're wrapped in blankets? You feel warm, despite the blankets generating no heat of their own. They do this by insulating you from the outside temperature.

It would feel like being wrapped in a warm blanket, and if you were fully submerged, you'd end up overheating as we're constantly generating heat that we need to get rid of.

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