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Every day you can expect 10000 people learning a thing you thought everyone knew: https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/ To quote the alt text: "Saying
by troupo 1y ago
Every day you can expect 10000 people learning a thing you thought everyone knew: https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
To quote the alt text: "Saying 'what kind of an idiot doesn't know about the Yellowstone supervolcano' is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time."
- allknowingfrog 1y agoXKCD 1053 is a way of life. I think about it all the time, and it has made me a better human being.
- Skeime 1y agoAnd here I was, thinking everybody already knew XKCD 1053 ...
- janwillemb 1y agoThanks! I didn't know that one. I had a teacher who became angry when a question was asked about a subject he felt students should already be knowledgeable about. "YOU ARE IN xTH GRADE AND STILL DON'T KNOW THIS?!" (intentional shouting uppercase). The fact that you learned it yesterday doesn't mean all humans in the world also learned it yesterday. Ask questions, always. Explain, always.
- spc476 1y agoSuch questions can be jarring though. I remember my "Unix Systems Programming" class in college. It's a third year course. The instructor was describing the layout of a process in memory, "here's the text segment, the data segment, etc." when a student asked, "Where do the comments go?"
- janwillemb 1y ago:) true. I'm a teacher myself. I never dismiss questions, but I do get discouraged sometimes.