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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Very nice blogpost, thank you!

But this one part really grinds my gears:

I’ve learned through a never-ending process of building mental models, proving them to be wrong, and then adjusting those models to reflect new knowledge.

Is that not the definition of learning? It sounds weird to me to explain it redundantly like this, akin to: "I've walked 10 steps forward through a process of my neurons firing signals which cause contractions in the muscles of my body in a particular rhythmic way"

Or am I misunderstanding something?

Cheers

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

XKCD. Ten Thousand.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Do some people need to read a definition of learning to learn how learning works?

I thought the process is intuitively understood by everybody who has ever learned anything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

If that were the case, the scientific method would not exist.

[–] codemonk 3 points 6 months ago

Unfortunately this is not the case. A lot of people leave school assuming that scientific discoveries are eternal, unfailable truth that we just know to be true. Few ever understand how we acquired our knowledge and how to lewrn to understand it. Many assume you 'just have to learn it'. Those your play around with computers or other stuff have an advantage. They know how to gain understanding not just how to learn facts.