Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

[lee]

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes:

> On 27/12/2016 01:02, lee wrote:
>> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes:
>>
>>> On 26/12/2016 21:42, lee wrote:
>>>> Well, I guess you haven't realised yet that reality doesn't exist.
>>>> Bubbles are a self-imposed limit for those who believe in reality.
>>>> You probably hit that wall and now try hard to remain confined.
>>>>
>>>> Unfortunately, this won't make sense to you until you come to realise.
>>>
>>>
>>> I *strongly* recommend you cease insulting people's intelligence on this
>>> list.
>>
>> It was not my intention to do that, and if I did, I apologize.
>>
>> Different people realise different things.  There are many things I will
>> never realise and others I have.  There are things I won't understand
>> before I have realised what is necessary to realise to understand them.
>> Finding that someone won't understand something before they have
>> realised something doesn't insult anyones intelligence.
>
>
> OK.
>
> I think you need to step back a little and apply the above to this
> situation. By that I mean how you are interacting with others, not the
> various questions about systemd, how many NICs a board has in general
> and so on.
>
> The results you are getting are far from optimum - you may eventually
> get an answer that satisfies you but in general it is involving long
> winding threads that frustrate others.
>
> So I suggest you apply reason and investigation to determine why that
> might be so.
>
> One highly workable method is when you find yourself taking a contrary
> position and about to explain why you think what you think, then reverse
> it. Instead, state that you disagree, that you think something else and
> invite the other to explain why they are saying what they are saying.
> This method has high success in revealing to you what it is you have to
> realise first, as you mention above)
>
>
>>
>>
>>> This list (gentoo-user) contains the brightest minds, widest range of
>>> experience (both CS-related and just generally in life), most articulate
>>> and surprisingly, most tolerant, bunch of people I have ever come across
>>> online; and I've been here for 10 years and doing online for 20+ years
>>> and the above is not meant idly.
>>>
>>> I can't watch you type and I can't get in your headspace but based just
>>> on what I read from you, your communications say something that is
>>> frankly, very insulting to those individuals. There is no need to
>>> disparage someone else just because their frame of reference differs
>>> from yours.
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>
>>> p.s. You have a very long way to go still before you begin to match
>>> Dale's contributions here.
>>
>> So this is supposed to be a competition?
>
> No, it's about people and how people communicate concepts and ideas.
> It's about how Dale is a long term contributor and people generally
> think well of him and how statistically he is right more often than he
> is wrong. He's worth paying attention to.

I see what you mean.  Dale must be pretty annoyed by me.

Sorry, Dale.