Another way to mitigate the force of inductive skepticism is to restrict its scope. Karl Popper, for instance, regarded the problem of induction as insurmountable, but he argued that science is not in fact based on inductive inferences at all (Popper 1935 [1959]). Rather he presented a deductivist view of science, according to which it proceeds by making bold conjectures, and then attempting to falsify those conjectures. In the simplest version of this account, when a hypothesis makes a prediction which is found to be false in an experiment, the hypothesis is rejected as falsified. The logic of this procedure is fully deductive. The hypothesis entails the prediction, and the falsity of the prediction refutes the hypothesis by modus tollens. Thus, Popper claimed that science was not based on the extrapolative inferences considered by Hume. The consequence then is that it is not so important, at least for science, if those inferences would lack a rational foundation.

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/induction-problem/

I just knew my philosophy degree would come in handy one day.

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Nice.

Kill a bunch of people? Better raise your rates.

I’d love to know if there’s an easy way to set this up for mobile. Lemmy is one of the things still on my list.

Hah, I’ve been looking at gruvbox in a terminal and theming everything else with it for 7 or 8 years.

Randomly coming across gruvbox is one of my favorite things.

Just enough for a batch of toum.

Who was it that also recently used that “my heart goes out to you” phrase again?

Oh right.

I’m sure it’s all just a coincidence.

I’ve been giving cockpit a try for the last couple weeks.

So far it has been pretty great, especially with the podman plugin.

https://cockpit-project.org/guide/195/feature-virtualmachines.html

“Catholics aren’t Christians” was a common phrase evangelicals used throughout my childhood.

Yeah…

Where I’m at, the Allen’s hummingbird is not uncommon. They make a crazy loud buzzing noise in flight, but it’s just their wings! It can be heard in most of the clips here.

https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Allens_Hummingbird/sounds

What a boring dystopia.

I don’t know off hand, but you did remind me of this post about how hard the problem of setting brightness can be.

https://blogs.kde.org/2024/09/04/brightness-controls-for-all-your-displays/

Please do better than CA!

Oof, barely over a quarter of a Scaramucci!

• How to get people to store roadkill for your pet hawk in their own fridge.

Did Benioff fall off the Trump train already?

Context: he’s the salesforce billionaire who owns time magazine.

They call it the lone star state because everyone is the star of their own movie about rugged individualism, or so I’ve heard.

It’s time for reapportionment.

The projects were a flawed concept not least because it concentrates inequality leading to the obvious results.

So instead we have a morass of inscrutable regulations on 3-4 levels (federal, state, county, city) with wildly complex funding schemes making the few expert developers wildly wealthy while building tragically few affordable units.