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I find it interesting that you are claiming to have known all of this all but your original proposal was “plugging a 20TB HDD into a RaspberryPI, tossing it on

by acdha 3y ago

I find it interesting that you are claiming to have known all of this all but your original proposal was “plugging a 20TB HDD into a RaspberryPI, tossing it on a high speed connection (and charging for transfer), and getting 6x annual returns”. If I was asking someone else for free training, I’d want my question to accurately reflect my starting knowledge and willingness to do my own homework.

blagie 3y ago
Imagine this scenario: - You have an uncle with skin cancer. You bump into an oncologist at a party. You ask some technical questions. Annoying lady cuts in and starts talking about essential oils. Oncologist wanders off. - You're an armchair general (a nerd who has never been in the army, but reads a lot), and you bump into a government intelligence analyst who studies the situation in Ukraine. It's a goldmine! Someone who read an article on Fox News cuts in and starts lecturing you on Putin. It's not even quite wrong, but it's so shallow it's pointless. The analyst wanders off. That's basically how I read your intervention. I didn't ask you for free training or anything else. I asked rsync a question. You decided to butt into a conversation uninvited, without having anything to contribute, figured you knew more on the topic than a cloud storage provider, and proceeded to deliver a lecture at the level of what my child might learn in their grade school IT class. I'm not claiming to be brilliant, but I don't get why people like you do that. I think that's a place you could provide a more interesting insight than about anything technical. (And to answer your question: I wrote a question and not an essay; an extreme example is often just a concise way of phrasing something like this)
- acdha 3y ago
  > You have an uncle with skin cancer. You bump into an oncologist at a party. You ask some technical questions. Annoying lady cuts in and starts talking about essential oils. You know, you could have written that without the casual sexism. I also find it interesting how you feel this intense need to simultaneously claim that you already knew about all of the same details I mentioned but also dismiss them as irrelevant: if they’re grade school level, what does that say about your original question not indicating awareness of them? If they’re “essential oils”-level quackery, which is hard to reconcile with them being in grade school curriculum, why are you so concerned about saying you knew everything already?

by acdha 3y ago

blagie 3y ago

Imagine this scenario: - You have an uncle with skin cancer. You bump into an oncologist at a party. You ask some technical questions. Annoying lady cuts in and starts talking about essential oils. Oncologist wanders off. - You're an armchair general (a nerd who has never been in the army, but reads a lot), and you bump into a government intelligence analyst who studies the situation in Ukraine. It's a goldmine! Someone who read an article on Fox News cuts in and starts lecturing you on Putin. It's not even quite wrong, but it's so shallow it's pointless. The analyst wanders off. That's basically how I read your intervention. I didn't ask you for free training or anything else. I asked rsync a question. You decided to butt into a conversation uninvited, without having anything to contribute, figured you knew more on the topic than a cloud storage provider, and proceeded to deliver a lecture at the level of what my child might learn in their grade school IT class. I'm not claiming to be brilliant, but I don't get why people like you do that. I think that's a place you could provide a more interesting insight than about anything technical. (And to answer your question: I wrote a question and not an essay; an extreme example is often just a concise way of phrasing something like this)

acdha 3y ago
> You have an uncle with skin cancer. You bump into an oncologist at a party. You ask some technical questions. Annoying lady cuts in and starts talking about essential oils. You know, you could have written that without the casual sexism. I also find it interesting how you feel this intense need to simultaneously claim that you already knew about all of the same details I mentioned but also dismiss them as irrelevant: if they’re grade school level, what does that say about your original question not indicating awareness of them? If they’re “essential oils”-level quackery, which is hard to reconcile with them being in grade school curriculum, why are you so concerned about saying you knew everything already?