• @[email protected]
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    1741 year ago

    The brand with the bird and all was actually one of the more valuable parts of Twitter that he bought…

    • @a1mlezz
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      241 year ago

      I too hate this quote for that reason, thank you for your service o7

    • @[email protected]
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      121 year ago

      You’re also in a meme community, commenting on a meme, so while technically correct, it’s not super relevant.

    • @ChickenLadyLovesLife
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      61 year ago

      I mean, Jeffrey Dahmer was universally considered insane and he didn’t “do the same thing over and over and expect different results”. He just killed and ate people over and over and expected them to taste good.

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      Idk, if you’re doing the same thing after your training that you were doing before, you either didn’t need training or you weren’t successfully trained.

      It’s an idiom, it’s not meant to be a clinical diagnosis. Like, yeah if you’re psychiatrist says it to you qnd tries to have you institutionalized, that’s obviously a problem. But I highly doubt that’s ever happened, certainly not in the modern age.

      Ultimately, it’s actually the same exact idea as “Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it,” but in less politically correct terms.

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          For the training, I’d argue that you’re not trying to get different results.

          Each time, the result is minor growth in whatever your goal is, be it strength, muscle mass, or endurance, etc.

        • ThaNookLmao
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          think the meme has some grounds for truth. of course it was designed to be a dramatic speech for a scary character but it has some grounds to it: this may not be the truth but its how it feels. By doing the same thing over and over again and seeing no chance you go insane, and as such it feels like doing so is asking for insanity, thus the characters speech!

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      Not to mention it’s always attributed to Albert Einstein which is not something he said and not something he would ever have said. Doesn’t stop people from continuing to invoke this “definition of insanity” as if its a smart thing to say.

    • lorez
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      If you’re getting different results it’s because you’re adjusting something. That’s training.

      • @[email protected]
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        71 year ago

        Actually when you create a hypothesis and test it and prove it out, it is meant to be 100% repeatable by anyone following the metgod. Otherwise your method or hypothesis is wrong.

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          41 year ago

          Right, but the reason you run the experiment repeatedly is to test the validity of the hypothesis. You’re looking for something different to happen. That’s the point behind rerunning the tests.

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            Right, but if you find a difference you alter the method or hypothesis, to get repearbility. An insane person (not neccessarily crazy person, but one that doesn’t follow sane rationalizarion) will keep repeating exact same thing.

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          But also if you keep running the compiler without changing any of the code hoping for the errors to be magically gone, you are insane. So there’s the same logic being applied to insanity in computer science

    • @kadu
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      Not a meme, it comes from a thought experiment trying to disprove quantum mechanics. It’s often attributed to Einstein, though that’s very likely not true.

      EDIT: This is wrong.

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          Well, digging further it seems like we are both wrong.

          Rita Mae Brown’s quote is not the earliest example of it being used, so it’s certainly not the origin. Though the misattribution to Einstein was adapted into the quantum argument I knew about. Both are not the earliest mentions of the quote, and the exact origin is debated. The most likely scenario is that it originated in a Narcotics Anonymous setting.

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              What an overly aggressive reply. But sure, let’s play.

              Would you look at this, a 1981 Narcotics Anonymous pamphlet that contains the exact quote: “[…] Insanity is repeating the same mistakes and expecting different results.”

              Hmm… 1981… But the book was released in 1983… But your previous comment so eloquently said I’m totally wrong, so you’ve just proven time machines exist! How cool! Einstein would be proud!

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      Doing the same thing over and over with an expectation to see differing results is also science.

    • @[email protected]
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      Doing the same thing over and over with an expectation to see differing results is also science.

    • @_ak
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      21 year ago

      Couldn’t he have just started a blog, like a normal person?

    • darcy
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      131 year ago

      your right. however it is fun to laugh, and sad to realise how much of an impact he can make

      • ThaNookLmao
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        51 year ago

        yep. The fact that lemmy is even needed goes to show how millionaires are never to be trusted.

  • @[email protected]
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    281 year ago

    At this point where he is basically stripping the site of its users (paid + limits) and branding (removing the twitter bird) why didn’t he just start up his own social media site and slow grow it instead of wasting money to pillage the competitor and then strip it of everything that made it what it was, i.e., the user base and the brand recognition?

    • @[email protected]
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      371 year ago

      He didn’t want twitter in the first place. He made some legally binding comments and was legally required to purchase it after meme-ing an offer and thinking he could get away with it lol. Now he’s suing the lawyers that made him buy Twitter.

      Musk is not a very smart man.

      • Hoagie
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        141 year ago

        To be precise, he’s sueing the lawyers Twitter hired in the case to force him to buy, as Twitter paid them a bunch of money they weren’t legally obligated to pay, just before the purchase went through.

        • @[email protected]
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          41 year ago

          Weren’t legally obligated, that we know of. There could have been a fee paid at delivery of the deal being made, since that’s how this firm and the firm that Musk hired to sue the old firm charge. They keep the billable hours down in order to keep the price low unless they win and then there is normally a “winning fee”.

          Without context it makes it seem that the payment was out of left field when it was business as usually, especially since Musk didn’t want to actually go through with it.

  • @SulaymanF
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    It’s like trying to have the hero fight a giant spider in every movie you make.

  • @[email protected]
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    141 year ago

    Still astounding that after so many years Wayland is still inferior in a lot regards to X11. And by design will probably never be able to better in these regards

    • macniel
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      51 year ago

      X via SSH is such a great feature. Would really love to see it in Wayland.

      • zea
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        61 year ago

        There’s no protocol-level support, but all the communication happens over a socket and shared buffers, so that can be serialized. I believe Waypipe does this.

  • @romanrld
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    81 year ago

    Did you mean “inXanity”?