Hackers' Pub

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`"` keyword `"`	Finds the string within quotes, including spaces. Case-insensitive. (Escape quotes inside with `\"`)	`"Hackers' Pub"`
`from:` handle	Finds content written by the specified user.	`from:hongminhee` `from:hongminhee@hollo.social`
`lang:` ISO 639-1	Finds content written in the specified language.	`lang:en`
`#` tag	Finds content with the specified tag. Case-insensitive.	`#HackersPub`
condition condition	Finds content that satisfies both conditions on either side of the space (logical AND).	`"Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
condition `OR` condition	Finds content that satisfies at least one of the conditions on either side of the OR operator (logical OR).	`#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" lang:en`
`(` condition `)`	Combines the operators within the parentheses first.	`(#HackersPub OR "Hackers' Pub" OR "Hackers Pub") lang:en`

Robert Roskam @raiderrobert@mastodon.social

2/21/2026, 4:26:36 PM

Public

I'm reclaiming "hypothesis to theory" to convey my confidence instead of "theory to law".

"Law" has a lot of weight to the term that we simply don't get in life, even for well tested phenomenons that have a lot of "facts" behind them.

Most "facts" are proffered as solid and fixed—when most of them have a bit of squish to them.

The world and our observations of them are very likely, probably what we think they are. But we might be wrong.

Theory conveys that better than law.

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