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  • Okay I’m free now.

    Im so glad you gave me this gem.

    Your response itself relies on several fallacies… false equivalence, hasty generalization, equivocation, a strawman, and non sequitur reasoning, probably more?

    You’re incorrectly conflating logical fallacies (which are clear mistakes in reasoning) with inductive uncertainty or experimental limitations in science. Logical fallacies invalidate reasoning structures. Scientific reasoning explicitly includes uncertainty and error correction as fundamental principles; it’s not fallacious; it’s cautious and probabilistic.

    Additionally, your example of Socrates is actually demonstrating deductive validity, a different kind of reasoning entirely. Thus, your argument misrepresents logic and science simultaneously. Please correct these fallacies if you want this conversation to proceed productively



  • Why do we not have some brilliant mind just fully memorize all of the ins and outs of how these arise and just crush bad faith arguments by simply labeling them in real time rather than engaging with them?

    Like, if framed correctly “I don’t engage in logical fallacy. I will immediately call it out, move on, and go back to the relevant topic.”

    “Oh you don’t care about starving children?”

    “That’s an appeal to emotion. I won’t engage with this obvious logical fallacy. I will address the causes of children suffering to alleviate their suffering.”

    “But the cause is illegal immigrants!!!”

    “That’s a strawman. I won’t engage with logical fallacies. If you’d like to have a discussion about solving problems, Im all ears, but until we’re done pointing fingers, this conversation is over.”





  • I’m done arguing. Not gonna respond to whatever fedora fanboy nonsense to follow.

    Ubuntu holds around 30 percent of the Linux desktop market. Fedora sits around 1 to 2 percent. Ubuntu focuses on Long Term Support stability, massive community documentation, seamless hardware driver support, and minimizing breakage for new users. Fedora deliberately pushes bleeding-edge kernels, experimental libraries, and rapid changes that regularly introduce breakage. Beginners do not need the newest kernel version or experimental features. They need stability, predictability, easy troubleshooting, and access to a massive community when things go wrong. Fedora is excellent for intermediate users who know how to fix their own problems. It is irresponsible to recommend a testing ground distro to someone who is still learning how to use the terminal.

    If Fedora were actually a good beginner distro, it would dominate beginner spaces like r/linux4noobs, It does not. Fedora is respected, but it is not designed for beginners. Even Fedora’s own documentation assumes technical competence that a first-time Linux user will not have.

    It is objectively not a good distro for beginners. Not even Fedora thinks it’s a good distro for beginners. Your arguments make no sense. I certainly don’t care to hear anymore of them.

    Good day.













  • Traveling salesman doesn’t apply to Uber eats.

    Just because it’s routing doent mean it’s traveling salesman.

    Traveling salesman, and P vs NP is about the difficulty rapidly growing out of scope as the problem size increases.

    For delivery, there are exactly 2 nodes. Pickup, delivery. This problem is beyond solved, it’s childs play.

    Uber eats would fail to give you the best route to hit every taco bell in America the fastest. That’s traveling salesman. It’s traveling salesman because it’s be already out of scope to simply say “find me the best route to hit 1 McDonald’s in every Continental us state.” Even 48 nodes is insane.

    Edit: to answer what kind of algorithms these applications use? They’re really simple greedy heuristics. Not complex at all.

    For example, a greedy strategy for the travelling salesman problem (which is of high computational complexity) is the following heuristic: “At each step of the journey, visit the nearest unvisited city.” This heuristic does not intend to find the best solution, but it terminates in a reasonable number of steps.