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Re: Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

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Post by larodi »

TomNomNom wrote: post #236
larodi wrote: post #235

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(not trying to pick a fight, but...) what difference it makes if an agent spent 100$ to understand and came to the same result, given it is those who use it that will benefit of it, and thus the craze here. note: i'm not saying author did not improve his skills overall, but also last '6 years' perhaps also means - fair amount of digging the web with search engines, which are... like AI 0.1

The difference is that despite the fact that I will never use this, I am nonetheless here to celebrate the effort. What difference does it make if someone runs a marathon or takes an uber given they may arrive at the same location?

Running marathon is not the same as getting to a predestined destination. Try running Rome-Paris next time instead of taking the train, I guess is the same. But still not the marathon goal.

Re: Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

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Post by cestith »

bmn__ wrote: post #260
cestith wrote: post #256

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Do you understand the difference between a toolkit API and a graphical widget? I’m not trying to fool anyone. I'm not affiliated with the project. I’m just aware of it and have used it a few times. You, on the other hand, have called me a liar and a fraud because I repeated exactly what the project docs state and which your two links do nothing to contradict. In fact, you linked to yourself being corrected by the act…

> Do you understand the difference between a toolkit API and a graphical widget? I think I do. I have taken a few minutes on the Web to compare that what I had in mind is correct. What was the point of asking this question? Was it to trap me in a gotcha, or paint me as clueless, or what? > have called me a liar and a fraud because I repeated exactly what the project docs state Good, you realise you are taking on the…

I don’t really care what you “allow” me to do, and I don’t owe you my time for a deep rebuttal of your claims.

I accept that you’ve had a bad experience with the project and that you are speaking in good faith about that experience. I do not accept that I’m a liar or a shill because my experience does not match yours, and you will not convince me to accept that.

Whatever has gone on in other places between you and some third party has nothing to do with me. I didn’t see any credible threat to your safety in the links you shared, but I’m willing to guess that’s not the complete story between the two of you. I really can’t and won’t be dragged into the middle of that, because I don’t know either of you.

Re: Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

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Post by bmn__ »

cestith wrote: post #262
bmn__ wrote: post #260

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Do you understand the difference between a toolkit API and a graphical widget? I think I do. I have taken a few minutes on the Web to compare that what I had in mind is correct. What was the point of asking this question? Was it to trap me in a gotcha, or paint me as clueless, or what? > have called me a liar and a fraud because I repeated exactly what the project docs state Good, you realise you are taking on the…

I don’t really care what you “allow” me to do, and I don’t owe you my time for a deep rebuttal of your claims. I accept that you’ve had a bad experience with the project and that you are speaking in good faith about that experience. I do not accept that I’m a liar or a shill because my experience does not match yours, and you will not convince me to accept that. Whatever has gone on in other places between you and so…

I notice you did not address the central point. This is, of course, because you are unable to. You have no argument to attack the evidence I have shown, you cannot answer any of the questions I have posed, the sidetrack about the other HN user was fruitless, you rationally know you are holding on to an indefensible position. And yet… the fragile ego cannot allow admission of being wrong, or even merely entertain the thought. So "muh experience is different" emotional cope comes out instead of dealing with objective reality, like installing a Wx software or looking at a screenshot. Stop digging, man, we already feel embarrassed on your behalf.

Re: Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

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Post by windward »

Paracompact wrote: post #175
pwdisswordfishs wrote: post #170

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"Trivial" doesn't exclusively mean "easy", though it is often used as a euphemism like that. In a literal sense, it very well may have been trivial, even if neither you nor the professor would have been able to easily show it.

What's your definition of trivial? The one I've always flown with is, trivial means (1) a special case of a more general theory (2) which flattens many of the extra frills and considerations of the general theory and (3) is intuitively clear ("easy") to appreciate and compute. From this perspective, everything is trivial from the relative perspective of a god. I know of no absolute definition of trivial.

It originally hails from the trivium: the grammar, logic and rhetoric taught to beginner students.

Re: Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux

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Post by cestith »

bmn__ wrote: post #263
cestith wrote: post #262

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t really care what you “allow” me to do, and I don’t owe you my time for a deep rebuttal of your claims. I accept that you’ve had a bad experience with the project and that you are speaking in good faith about that experience. I do not accept that I’m a liar or a shill because my experience does not match yours, and you will not convince me to accept that. Whatever has gone on in other places between you and so…

I notice you did not address the central point. This is, of course, because you are unable to. You have no argument to attack the evidence I have shown, you cannot answer any of the questions I have posed, the sidetrack about the other HN user was fruitless, you rationally know you are holding on to an indefensible position. And yet… the fragile ego cannot allow admission of being wrong, or even merely entertain the…

If you can read someone’s thoughts so thoroughly you should be making a living playing poker. All you have cited as evidence is your own other posts. You just have to have the last word, though, and that word has to be an insult to a stranger.
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