It’s just so weird to me. I’ve worked at a few big companies and Matlab was just kind of out of the question at any of them. It was Excel or Python

What a waste of money when Python is free

Matlab sucks ass no real engineers use it, only college kids.

Stupid people thinking little Lemmy is too complicated to use is a feature not a bug. If someone can’t figure out how to use the Lemmy interface why would we even want them here?

Yeah it’s a very old concept and used in fantasy even before Eragon.

Yes. God’s name is super interesting because of the extremely strong taboos surrounding saying it, stemming ultimately from the Third of the Ten Commandments (Exodus 20:7)- “Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD they God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guitless that taketh his name in vain.” Note the emphasis on the name of The LORD, and how the word “LORD” is all caps- this is a sort of censorship of God’s actual name, which goes back to the ancient Greek translations of the Hebrew scriptures. When you see “LORD” in a Bible passage in English, the original passage has God’s name in Hebrew. Jews have historically said the word “Adonai” (meaning Lord) instead of God’s name when reading aloud, and almost all translations follow this and just use the word for “Lord” (Kyrios, Dominus, etc.) instead.

Anyway, the name is rendered in Hebrew as “” which is roughly equivalent to the letters “YHWH” in the Latin alphabet. Hebrew doesn’t use vowels, and the vowel sounds hsve intentionally not been recorded by scribes. The modern academic reconstruction is “Yahweh” for the pronunciation based on names for people and places that include parts of the name. You may also see “Jehovah” in some contexts which is based on older German scholarship that incorrectly rendered the vowels of the word. The name’s meaning is given to Moses in Exodus 3:14 where Moses asks who he should tell his people to worship and God replies “I AM WHO I AM” “Say this to the people of Israel: I AM has sent me to you” (in Hebrew, I am who I am is Eyeh Asher Eyeh). Modern scholarship agrees that the name has some connection with the word “to be” and means something along the lines of “The Existing One.”

Myself, I interpret God’s response in the story and the meaning of His name as a declaration of self sufficiency, that God is what exists in His own right, and doesn’t need anything or anyone else to exists. It’s not only a declaration of montheism, but a declaration of supremacy over all of the universe. But yeah, not only does your Bologna have a first name, but God does too if you’re Christian or Jewish.

There are definitions of “God” that I feel are hard to prove, but others that are easy. For example, of your definition is “God is the ultimate cause of the universe” then it’s pretty trivial that if everything has a cause there must be an end of the chain. Of course, this the could be a computer program running the universe simulation or even just the laws of physics themselves if those are truly causeless. But nonetheless, it’s still a somewhat satisfying definition of “God” so I’m comfortable saying I believe in God. Harder definitions include “God is an omnipotent being” (which most of God’s traditional attributes can be derived from) and “God is the being described in the Bible/Qu’ran/other religious text” which I feel like are unprovable.

A lot of religious apologists will make arguments in favor of the easier definition and then try to claim that this means their specific view of God is real. Personally I think that’s insane. Like “there must be some end of the chain of causality therefore God became a Jewish carpenter in the ancient Roman Empire.” Even if you’re Christian that should be a bad logical jump.

I’m Western esotericism, names have power beyond simply being signifiers for the thing they represent- they embody some part of the thing they represent. The word “fire” contains some intrinsic “fire-ness” but not the whole picture. After all, everyone has different names for the same thing. It is thought that everything has a “true name” that perfectly encapsulates all things about it in their entirety, and this true name could be found by intense study, meditation, or etymology. The Bible pays a lot of attention to names in this way. Adam, the first man, names all the animals. Genesis pays a lot of attention to the names of places, and a lot of stories in Genesis are essentially folk etymologies of locations. God’s own name is of special importance, and its meaning was revealed to Moses by the Burning Bush. Even today Jews believe that even saying God’s name is powerful and dangerous and that only the High Priest would be allowed to say it once every year during Yom Kippur. Jewish folklore says that even this name is merely a part of God’s true name, and that Moses pronounced a longer more complete form of The Name to part the Red Sea, and some systems hold that there are even longer and even more complete forms that have been known to rabbis in the past.

This is largely untrue. I have worked in manufacturing my entire adult life and in my experience people are very eager to do manual labor type jobs if those jobs pay well and provide stability. The problem is that most of them don’t. It would make everything more expensive to pay everyone doing these jobs better but it would be worth it longer term by making a society that doesn’t just rely on there being a constant supply of an artificial second class of people that can be underpaid and exploited with impunity. When people say “nobody wants to work manual jobs…” the implied rest of that sentence is “…to make the same amount of money as someone working retail.”

I hate Trump and his idiotic tariffs, but this argument that we need immigrants to do all the jobs Americans don’t want to do is based on the racist idea that Americans are too good to do these jobs- the reality is, they are simply not desperate enough to take them for the amount of pay that is being offered. It’s a blatantly false narrative and it only serves to harm anyone left of Mussolini.

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Lmao hurt Trump? His cultists will be eating rat soup to survive and insist that the economy is great and America is on its way to being Great Again™, and that rat soup is just a necessary sacrifice on that path.

I fantasized about forming a tenant’s union when I was still renting but the people I talked to about it were completely unfamiliar with the concept and thought it was stupid so I gave up. Now the company I used to rent from has bought up pretty much all the apartment complexes in the area and people who rent from them are complaining about immoral and illegal stuff they’re doing but won’t consider actually doing anything about it. Anti union sentiment is deep in America and I don’t have any hope for the American public to do anything to help themselves.

No sympathy for this dumb fuck. Don’t vote for tariffs if you don’t even know what they are.

Legitimate question- do you know any IRL? I am convinced that these people will stand by Trump no matter what. I live in a Trump heavy district and everyone is talking about how hard this is but how it’s all actually a genius negotiating tactic. They truly cannot believe that Trump isn’t their Savior.