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draken@lemmy.villa-straylight.social to Memes@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

The definition of "insanity"

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The definition of "insanity"

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

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

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        Relevant xkcd

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      it’s also what i do when i run my programs over and over again hoping the bugs fix themselves

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      Yeah but Vaas is iconic and absolutely arresting in every scene he’s in.

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          Quote Investigator tracked it to some AA meetings around 1981.

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    • 🆑🅰️🅿️🅿️ℹ️🆖🔙@lemmygrad.ml
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      ☝️ 🤓

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        the original commenter was who downvoted this

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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.

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

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      You miss 100% of the DSM that doesn’t get discredited 3 years from now.

      —Michael Gretzky

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

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        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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          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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          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

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

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      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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        So they tasted good? If not, where’s the difference?

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

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

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    He’s just a big fan of X11.

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      Nobody’s a big fan of X11

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      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

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

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          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.

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    He’s been hanging onto that x.com url for so long, he insists it’s gonna get used

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      The best part is he had to buy the rights back from Paypal, he just did it back in 2017.

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

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    Is anyone going to tell Elon he cant own the letter X

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      That’s a pretty terrible trademark

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        Tell that Apple.
        Didn’t they try to sue someone for using an apple as a logo in Switzerland?

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          Not sure about Switzerland but they did try in Poland https://www.pcworld.com/article/461258/apple_vs_a_pl_tech_company_sues_online_polish_grocer_over_logo.html

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            curious what the result of this case was, quick search didn’t come with any updates.

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              Very hard to find updates indeed, this doesn’t say much more but it’s from 2015 https://itkey.media/apple-sues-polish-entrepreneur-over-ap-pl/

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    Giving a shit about some corporation rebranding itself?

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

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

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    Enemy Unknown

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      The Lemmy Project has been activated. You are our first and last line of defense!

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        Pvt. Musk is under Alien Control

        Pvt Musk is going berserk!

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          “Nononooo i wanna go home!!!”

          Aims at ally

          9💥 CRIT

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        Shoot down that UFO! We can’t lose our Furry funding!

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    He failed at PayPal and they kicked him for it, so surely the X is totally a good omen for him right? That’s why he keeps going back.

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

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      Spiders are the fiercest killers in the insect kingdom

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        Spiders aren’t insects.

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          “Bats aren’t bugs!!!”

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          Tell that to John Peters

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      Spiders are the fiercest killers in the insect kingdom

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      Spiders are the fiercest killers in the insect kingdom

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    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?

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      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.

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        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.

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    what company is he gonna buy now, and name it S ?

    and what company is he gonna name e ?

    and what company is he gonna name y ?

    https://electrek.co/2016/07/30/tesla-vehicle-naming-convention-sexy-model-y-elon-musk/

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    Did you mean “inXanity”?

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    Elon Musk Wants to Relive His Start-Up Days. He’s Repeating the Same Mistakes.

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    Thanks Vaas

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      Turns out an insane guy isn’t the best person to correctly define insanity.

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    The legal term for not knowing the difference between right and wrong? I suppose that still applies.

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