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I will translate from sarcasm to productive comment: "The analysis appears to be flawed. The C code and Go code ultimately call different functions, making per
by mypalmike 4y ago
I will translate from sarcasm to productive comment:
"The analysis appears to be flawed. The C code and Go code ultimately call different functions, making performance comparisons unreliable at best. Furthermore, the code is single-threaded and will not benefit from 'Go runtime scaling on multiple cores.'"
- tut-urut-utut 4y ago
- belter 4y ago
- kjeetgill 4y agoThere are other choices besides cynicism and sarcasm vs being over-seriously stern. I wouldn't downvote on this basis, but earnest sincerity certainly makes for better conversations — imho.
- Beltalowda 4y agoSure, but there's a time and place for everything. I think this is the wrong place and time.
- jonahx 4y ago> If we had more of it It's the default mode of twitter and other places where conversation is a wasteland. Sure, I'll take a cynical terrorist over a true-believer murdering people, but here we're debating conversation among non-terrorists with and without sarcasm.
- belter 4y agoI appreciate your reply, but there are different tones to it. I see most technical cynicism as frustration and ambition for technical excellence. Most emotionally detached debate gives some undertones of something creepy, I can't really put my finger on. I would not waste sweat on a vim vs emacs war :-) but if you don't get your heart pounding on a Windows vs Linux vs Mac debate for example, there something unsettling about it also. :-) Quoting from the article below: "..So as cynicism about many – perhaps most – things rises, so too does our appreciation and affection for what is good and true. Cynicism leads to more tender feelings towards what is truly lovable..." "In praise of cynicism": https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/10/in-praise-of-cynicism#:~:text=So%20as%20cynicism%20about%20many,towards%20what%20is%20truly%20lovable https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/10/in-praise-of-c....
- jonahx 4y agoI get where you're coming from. Honesty, and raw criticism of things that deserve it, is valuable. I think sarcasm, though, is rarely the right tactic. Sarcasm is, most of the time, the mode of either impotence or petty resentment. If you actually want to affect change or genuinely communicate, it is a poor tool. Occasionally, yes, it can be a righteous blow of justified revolt. And of course this is how the sarcastic imagine themselves, almost always. But far more often they are just indulging their worst impulses.
- andsoitis 4y agoHumor is more effective than sarcasm (casts a wider audience net). Skepticism is more productive than cynicism (searches for improvement rather than diving into the void).
- orbz 4y agoWhile I agree with you for in-person communication, sarcasm and cynicism generally don't translate well to a text-based medium. This is why there exists Irony Punctuation[1] such as /s 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irony_punctuation
- hombre_fatal 4y agoIt’s pure chaff when we are actually trying to have conversation and not write reddit/twitter gotchas. In this case, the de-snarked version is a much better response and it leads to a conversation towards clarity. e.g. the author could respond to why the functions were changed. The original snark doesn’t do that. It just casts judgement instead of seeking clarity. It’s childish and something I would do in my shameful Reddit-arguing days.
- Angostura 4y agoIt wasn't helpful in this case, as I didn't know what the sarcastic commenter was actually trying to say. The followup comment was helpful.
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