Gregory's ServerLife would be so much happier if more people had the humility to recognize that expertise isn't a single hierarchy of intellect but rather a random walk in a hyperdimensional space that makes fractals look simple in contrast.
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Gaming on Linux discourse be like "It's Linux's fault. Do better, FOSS!" Gaming on Linux in practice be like:
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 @soatok I mean, if people really wanna play a game that forces the installation of a rootkit to play it, thennnnnn 🤷🏼♂️  @soatok I'm spectacularly bad at self-promotion, so here's some things I wrote over the years that: a) People tell me they found useful b) Come up surprisingly often in technical forums c) Friends and colleagues don't realize I already wrote about (hence the bad at self-promotion part). Database cryptography. This covers a lot of ground, but mostly culminates in guidance for application-layer client-side encryption when working with databases, encrypted search, etc. https://soatok.blog/2023/03/01/database-cryptography-fur-the-rest-of-us/ |
@soatok yeah, said like a true R(ϑ):=Φ−1(e2πiϑ(1, ∞)) on the mandelbrot of expertise 🙄 /s
I see this at multiple levels, simultaneously.
"You're all idiots and a waste of my time" from tech bros being an all too common example.
But it's also the outsiders and newcomers to a field treating its incumbents as some sort of archmage of intellect. (I promise you I'm just as clueless and confused as the rest of us.)
@soatok One of my personal education theory tenets is that learning is inductive before it can be deductive. As you said, we are Roombas bouncing around multidimensional domains of knowledge. Over time, much is discovered, but there's not guarantee of complete coverage, and it certainly doesn't follow, like, the chapters in a textbook.