exocrinous

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Oh I get it now. I also misread it as new war

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Well we write 12 like this: 10

It's easy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 11 months ago

I think the anime fans are just traumatized by the overwhelming stench of axe body spray from the high school gym changing room, and are now scared of deodorant

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

And they ALL suck!

Polearms win 90% of the time

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

It's not a real problem on Stack Overflow. Because Stack Overflow isn't just a forum, it's supposed to be a repository for reference. Let's examine a hypothetical:

Newbie programmer Tim submits a question on Stack Overflow. "How do I deserialise a JSON in C?" An answerer replies "that doesn't make any sense. What are you actually trying to do?" Tim explains that he's trying to make two parts of his program communicate, and he heard some out of context advice that a JSON is a good way to do it. The answerer helps Tim out by explaining a better solution to the problem.

A year later, professional programmer Mark googles "how to deserialise a JSON in C". Mark's client wants to pass JSON data from a web application into a C program they bought, and they don't care whether it's good practice. Mark understands this situation isn't good practice, and he suggested a better tool, but the client doesn't care because they spent a lot of money on this licence and using a different tool would make them look like fools. Mark isn't happy, but he's going to try his best.

Mark finds the stack overflow thread created by Tim, and it's completely useless. Nobody actually answered the question that Tim asked. Tim is happy because Tim's individual problem was solved. But Stack Overflow isn't any help to Mark, or the hundred people like him who were also put in an unreasonable situation by their bosses and clients. By helping Tim, the answerer frustrated everyone else.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Miss you with the greatest passion

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

No, it's observation. An experiment involves manipulating an independent variable while controlling other variables. There's none of that in space, not counting the ISS and Apollo. That said, you can still test hypotheses using observation. And that's equally true in both astronomy and in social sciences.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's irrelevant. Astronomy and polsci can both only test their hypotheses through observation.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (3 children)

What are soft sciences supposed to do when experimental methods are either impractical or unethical?

Same thing astronomy did.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Hey genius, if you need experimentation in order for a field to be a real science, then explain how astronomy is a science.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It's mainly called social science in my country.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Same with Astronomy.

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