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Evaluating Epistemic Underdetermination Research Question:To what extent does the Quine–Duhem thesis challenge theory falsification in science? An Extended Essay in Philosophy June 2025 3817 words Citation style: APA 6th edition Introduction Science is largely based on the assumption that it is possible to test individual hypotheses to distinguish whether a single theory is true or not, as the iterative scientific process is based on our ability to formulate individual scientific theories a...| Runxi Yu
I haven’t found a single language with error handling to my liking: C: errno sucks and I haven’t seen anyone that disagrees yet, and the thing some libraries like OpenSSL does with its custom error type and detecting the underlying errno is even more annyoing Hare (and to some extent, Rust, though I haven’t gotten to really know Rust yet): IDK, it just feels really unnatural to me (I’ll see how I could explain in the future) Go (and to some extent, Linux x86 asm): Hella boilerplate (e...| Runxi Yu
Recently I got to operate a Windows 11 machine. It was a ThinkPad T14 produced in 2020, with 16 gigabytes of RAM, a relatively recent Intel Core i5, and a 512-gigabyte PCIe SSD. This is much more powerful than one of my usual computers, a ThinkPad X220i. When I opened taskmgr I was met with about 200 processes1. Opening a new window in explorer, the file manager, takes about 5 seconds to respond, and an additional 5 seconds in a blank window. Windows updates have taken more than 20 gigabytes ...| Runxi Yu
I’ve recently read Drew DeVault’s blog post, How I decide between many programming languages. I figured that I should write my own. C Pros Simple. Interoperable with almost all other languages. Direct access to system calls (well, for most system calls that I’d use, anyways). Good ecosystem, and most packages I’d use are in my system’s repositories. Using the system package manager is the only way to sanely manage dynamically linked libraries. Flexible macro system. Yes, there are p...| Runxi Yu
I generally use my own Git server for my projects. I also use my sr.ht account for issue tracking and mailing lists, and their Git for some projects too. Regardless of whether I’m using my own infrastructure with plain Cgit and plain mailing lists (except that my mailing list manager is slightly broken for now), or the slightly better-integrated environment sourcehut provides, a contributor who wishes to submit some of their commits may simply do the following with git-send-email: Configure...| Runxi Yu
Summary “他” uses the “人” (person) radical, and should cover all people, because not all people are male. “他"字的偏旁为单人旁，应该要涵盖所有人，因为并非所有人皆为男性。 Details in English In contemporary English, the traditional plural pronoun “they” is often used as a gender-inclusive singular pronoun, alongside the feminine singular “she” and the masculine singular “he”. However, there is no equivalent in Chinese. “他” is consid...| Runxi Yu
Under the Sway Wayland compositor, we could set set xkb_layout and xkb_options for keyboards in order to do weird key mapping related things. Many people use caps:ctrl_modifier and caps:escape in xkb_options (see xkeyboard-config(7) for other options) to make Caps Lock function as an extra Ctrl or Esc key. If all you want to do is do a relatively common modification like that, chances are that xkb_variant and xkb_options already has what you want, and you should just set that. But if what you...| Runxi Yu
Often times when the word “really” is used in as an adverb in an assertion or proposition after a word that expresses negation, it may be useful to replace it with “in some sense”, and seek to ask or clarify “in what sense”. It shall be recognized that questions that arise may be legitimately hard to answer, but it may be still beneficial to consider them. The same applies for “actually” and similar words when used this way, though in my experience, people tend to use “reall...| Runxi Yu
These are some random, unorganized thoughts on Purple Hibiscus, particularly around the bildungsroman of Mama. Adiche wrote in chapter one that Mama polishes the figurines often, especially after episodes of family violence, suggesting that the figurines were of symbolic importance to Mama. After they were shattered as Papa flung his missal at Jaja and missed, “it was not just the figurines that came tumbling down, it was everything”, suggesting that the figurines symbolizes family unity....| Runxi Yu
(This is a very early article in my journey through epistemology and might not necessarily reflect my current understanding of things…) Utilities developed in mathematics are often used to apply theories of the sciences, such as the use of basic arithmetic, calculus, complex analysis, and everything in between in empirical/experimental sciences such as physics. We often take for granted that mathematics as we know it today would work in the sciences. However, considering my impression of ma...| Runxi Yu
When I go to an average “modern” World Wide Web site with the default configuration of Lynx, a wonderful plain text Web browser, I am usually greeted with things like example.com cookie: some jibberish Allow? (Y/N/Always/neVer) for which I’d press V a couple times. Then, I would press C-f or page-down a couple times to scroll past a giant navigation bar full of nested lists, a few HTML login forms, multiple search bars. Then I’d see the actual text of the article I’m looking for. Or...| Runxi Yu
In “free software” and “free hardware”, the “free” in “free computing” does not refer to price; it refers to freedom and liberty of users. This section is mainly for posts on hardware hardware designs. Without which, no computer user is free. In fact, access to schematics, boardviews, datasheets and any other documentation is critical to software freedom. —Leah Rowe, founder and lead developer of Libreboot We can’t make free software, especially bootloaders and operating s...| Runxi Yu
Unless otherwise specified, “democracy” in this article refers to representative democracy. “Country” can additionally refer to other regions that have people and its own policies, such as a state, provinces in some countries, etc. We usually think of “democracy” as people influencing the policies of the country by electing trustworthy experts that serve their interest to make actual decisions about running the country. This type of democracy, representative democracy, has evolved...| Runxi Yu
This was written quite a while ago and I should update it sometime… In 1973 the Supreme Court of the United States of America ruled seven-to-two in favor of Roe’s rights to abortion against a healthcare official of the state of Texas. Roe argued for abortion with “privacy”, derived from the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendment of the US Constitution. As the U.S. has a precedential judiciary system, this effectively legalizes abortion across the country. However, as Roe’s case was argued ...| Runxi Yu
This was originally an email to the Libreplanet-discuss mailing list. I am a secondary school student from Shanghai, China. This email discusses the problems I discovered in the Chinese educational system, in terms of students’ right to freedom in computing and options to control the COVID-19 pandemic from the standpoint of a person living in China. When COVID-19 broke out in 2020, students were required to watch lecture videos produced by the city’s education department for twenty minute...| Runxi Yu
Abstract Free Software is undoubtably a good thing for society. However, modern computer users are stuck in the proprietary “ecosystem” for historical reasons. This document describes the justification and best current practices of using proprietary platforms to spread the ideas of Free Software. Status of This Memo This document describes the author’s viewpoint. This does not represent the ideas of the Free Software Foundation or any other entity. Distribution of this memo is unlimited...| Runxi Yu
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Here are just some thoughts for comment; no implementation exists yet, and I| runxiyu.org