To say I found your post smugly condescending isn't name-calling.
And when we do, it's almost always caused by faulty assumptions we didn't have to make.
One can also make non-faulty assumptions that nonetheless lead to what is later revealed to be an incorrect conclusion.
Depending on what sort of conscience you have, it can lead to a "damn, I should have known better" feeling. Sometimes this feeling is called embarassment.
But I shouldn't have known better - how could I? I'm not aware of having read any of your previous posts, and I don't see any clues in the one in question as to its parodic nature, so what can I do but stand by the assumption I made with the information I had at the time?
This certainly avoids a feeling of embarassment but it does nothing to reduce future occurrences and prevents them from learning from their mistakes.
What is there to learn? That people on the internet sometimes say stupid things they don't mean?
Slashdot is not "news for the Linux world," and even if it was, not everyone in "Linux world" is so deeply involved as to keep up to date on every developing piece of software.
All a summary writer has to do is drop in a brief, casual couple of words about what (roughly) it is, and those who need informing are slightly better informed, while those who are already informed don't notice and aren't offended.
Ever notice how the BBC will often refer to "US President Barack Obama," or drop in a reference to the team a famous footballer player plays for, even though one would think those would both be widely known facts among the readership of such articles? Chances are, you didn't notice and didn't care.
And here I was thinking my comment was so absurd, so over-the-top, so obviously hyperbole, that no one would actually take it seriously.
Because of you, sir, I admit I was wrong. Someone did decide to take it seriously after all.
How was I supposed to know you weren't being serious? I don't know how long you've been on the internet, but people say and mean far crazier things than that on a depressingly regular basis.
That feeling of embarassment you experience upon reading this will quickly pass.
Sorry to disappoint you, but I don't feel embarrassed. Why would I?
Or you could take the offensive and berate me some more.
Only for being so smugly condescending as to think you know how I feel. What's that about?
It's kind of sad that we are so disillusioned with our own world that we need to convince ourselves of things like UFOs.
Partly, but I also wonder how much of it is because some people will convince themselves of anything just to feel special because they know The Truth. The more ridiculous the thing, the more special a person it takes to know that it's true.
The fundamentals of the situation remain unchanged.
What, that a website you don't own but provides you a service free of charge gets to do things the way they want to do them? Unless you deliberately click play, it's just an image, and even that can be easily blocked if it offends you so much.
Puhlease. You may be butt-hurt but you haven't been raped. If you ever were you might find the experience surprisingly unpleasant, if this is your threshold.
However here, at least, Slashdot is a little more progressive than some sites in providing a transcript.
It could also be argued that this video (in common with most that do actually make it to Slashdot, to the best of my recollection), being as it is an unrehearsed interview and not a pre-written statement, does add just a little more in terms of context, phrasing, and emphasis than can be gained from reading the transcript alone.
I don't see any helpful "sarcasm" tags in the transcript, for example. Those come in handy sometimes.
Oh, I don't know, once in a while I come across a tutorial that really does benefit from video. Unfortunately about half of those are ruined because the creator didn't think about what he was trying to do first, and just dove straight in. These are easily spotted by constant repetitions of the phrase "I'm just gonna go right ahead and..." followed swiftly by "Okay, that didn't work, let me just..."
Slashdot Mirror
Well... maybe.
The same as is the case with this gem?
It's like stopping a bus from 160 mph on a wet road
which is probably relatively easy if you're given 5 minutes to do it.
To say I found your post smugly condescending isn't name-calling.
And when we do, it's almost always caused by faulty assumptions we didn't have to make.
One can also make non-faulty assumptions that nonetheless lead to what is later revealed to be an incorrect conclusion.
Depending on what sort of conscience you have, it can lead to a "damn, I should have known better" feeling. Sometimes this feeling is called embarassment.
But I shouldn't have known better - how could I? I'm not aware of having read any of your previous posts, and I don't see any clues in the one in question as to its parodic nature, so what can I do but stand by the assumption I made with the information I had at the time?
This certainly avoids a feeling of embarassment but it does nothing to reduce future occurrences and prevents them from learning from their mistakes.
What is there to learn? That people on the internet sometimes say stupid things they don't mean?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Slashdot is not "news for the Linux world," and even if it was, not everyone in "Linux world" is so deeply involved as to keep up to date on every developing piece of software.
All a summary writer has to do is drop in a brief, casual couple of words about what (roughly) it is, and those who need informing are slightly better informed, while those who are already informed don't notice and aren't offended.
Ever notice how the BBC will often refer to "US President Barack Obama," or drop in a reference to the team a famous footballer player plays for, even though one would think those would both be widely known facts among the readership of such articles? Chances are, you didn't notice and didn't care.
Ask Slashdot: Can Star Wars Episode VII Be Saved?
Episode VII has barely started filming. Did you mean "Can Episode VII save Star Wars?"
Well... I expect it to be at least the 4th best film in the franchise.
That's not including the Ewoks movies, of course.
Abrams already ruined Star Trek
Oh, so you're the guy who's opinion is the objective truth.
There is a lot you could help clear up.
One million, seven hundred seventy one thousand, five hundred sixty one tribbles, in fact.
And here I was thinking my comment was so absurd, so over-the-top, so obviously hyperbole, that no one would actually take it seriously.
Because of you, sir, I admit I was wrong. Someone did decide to take it seriously after all.
How was I supposed to know you weren't being serious? I don't know how long you've been on the internet, but people say and mean far crazier things than that on a depressingly regular basis.
That feeling of embarassment you experience upon reading this will quickly pass.
Sorry to disappoint you, but I don't feel embarrassed. Why would I?
Or you could take the offensive and berate me some more.
Only for being so smugly condescending as to think you know how I feel. What's that about?
We all get the wrong end of the stick sometimes.
When it comes to robots, most of us are a bunch of Jon Snow know-nothings
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
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It's kind of sad that we are so disillusioned with our own world that we need to convince ourselves of things like UFOs.
Partly, but I also wonder how much of it is because some people will convince themselves of anything just to feel special because they know The Truth. The more ridiculous the thing, the more special a person it takes to know that it's true.
c.f. conspiracy theories down the ages.
The fundamentals of the situation remain unchanged.
What, that a website you don't own but provides you a service free of charge gets to do things the way they want to do them? Unless you deliberately click play, it's just an image, and even that can be easily blocked if it offends you so much.
Puhlease. You may be butt-hurt but you haven't been raped. If you ever were you might find the experience surprisingly unpleasant, if this is your threshold.
NASA's Plan To Block Light From Distant Stars To Find 'Earth 2.0'
Won't the aliens get cold? Seems a bit harsh.
Alternative post: it got cancelled years ago, and they need to get over it.
However here, at least, Slashdot is a little more progressive than some sites in providing a transcript.
It could also be argued that this video (in common with most that do actually make it to Slashdot, to the best of my recollection), being as it is an unrehearsed interview and not a pre-written statement, does add just a little more in terms of context, phrasing, and emphasis than can be gained from reading the transcript alone.
I don't see any helpful "sarcasm" tags in the transcript, for example. Those come in handy sometimes.
Oh, I don't know, once in a while I come across a tutorial that really does benefit from video. Unfortunately about half of those are ruined because the creator didn't think about what he was trying to do first, and just dove straight in. These are easily spotted by constant repetitions of the phrase "I'm just gonna go right ahead and..." followed swiftly by "Okay, that didn't work, let me just..."
What that be the "Hide/Show Transcript" link directly below the video?
No, just normal people.
Though whether that was for posting a racist comment, or for not even getting the racist comment right, is as yet unclear.
Because they can't be there every minute of every day? What do you want, a policeman stationed in every cupboard?
Bad things happen, and you can't stop them all. Learn to live with it.
When seconds count, the police are minutes away.
Yes? And? Do you have a point, or do you just like parotting soundbites?
Think about this: that storm -- 3 times to size of the Earth at its biggest -- has been visible from the Earth for 400+ years.
Ah, but Jupiter rotates. How do you know it's the same spot each time?
Maybe Jupiter is blushing because it knows we've been looking at its bum.
Jupiter's trademark Great Red Spot — a swirling storm feature larger than Earth — is shrinking. This downsizing...
Or "shrinking" as it is usually known...
C'mon. I know "downsizing" has a specific and vaguely useful meaning but it is generally a pretty dumb-sounding word.
Its use here rankles me almost to a similar degree as hearing a comedian being introduced as a "funnyman."
Urgh, maybe I was. And don't call me chuckle, flower.
There's talk of the gel one being used in time-release drug delivery systems, but you went with the "nail polish" angle?
Not sure why I put "evolve" in quotes...
There needs to be a pathway from "has blind spot" to "doesn't have blind spot" that doesn't go through "vastly decreased eyesight" along the way.
We're vastly suboptimal in many ways.
c.f. the recurrent laryngeal nerve. 4.5m longer than it needs to be in the giraffe, but it can't "evolve" its way to a different path.