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  • Well his argument is that the concept of an objective reality requires the subject to abstract away its own existential entanglement with said reality, whereas the phenomenon everyone percieves directly is always the world that affects ones own existence, not the world as it is on its own. That’s not crazy, it’s an idea you can have. It also doesn’t mean there is no reality or no truth or that scientific measurement is pointless, just that the “experience” of the world is the primary thing and everything else is a derivation. And for me it truly is a problem that today’s notion of science tends to only value quantitative measurements, because for the humanities, that is a pretty big assumption about your subject that really narrows down the approach. (I feel there is a tendency to emphasise on producing measurements rather than on their interpretation) Maybe there’s even a link between that and the fact that it is so impossible today to imagine an alternative to capitalism.












  • I used to like the idea of nixos because it felt “tidy” to configure everything centrally. However that tidyness is achieved by adding an extra layer which just replicates the configuration options of every program. If there is a bug in that layer or something is just not implemented, either you have to learn the whole inernals of nixos and nixpkgs, for which there is no real documentation, or you have to resort to doing things imperatively again, which is hard because of the opacity of the generated system and also defeats the whole purpose. So basically, you are completely dependent on nixos developers for things you could have easily done yourself on arch.