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On Wednesday 30 July 2014 20:26:48 Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> On 30/07/2014 20:02, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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> > This 'de-bloat' crap - who came up with that? People who use it all the |
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> > times seldomly realize that the 'small and unbloated' software they use |
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> > is in a lot of cases neither small, nor not bloated. |
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> Usually it comes from the same headspace that ricing comes from. Humans |
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> are all about perception, very very very few of them can actually look |
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> at things in an unbiased way. So it goes like this: |
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> User hates Gnome. [opinion] |
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> User decides that because Gnome integrates so many things vertically |
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> then Gnome must necessarily be bloated. [invalid conclusion not backed |
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> up by facts] |
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> User decides to try Razor|LXDE|Enlightenment|*box|whatever [valid activity] |
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> User likes <whatever> [opinion] |
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> User concludes that <whatever> is therefore "better" than Gnome |
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> [erronously equate specific opinion with fact for the general case] |
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> Therefore <whatever> is not bloated and Gnome is, to satisfy wrong |
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> conclusion at #2 [I can't even begin to think what fallacy this is] |
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> Not much opinion in any of that. |
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> We humans are mostly hard-wired to react based on past experience and |
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> data blindly accepted as fact in the past. 9 times out of 10 this helps |
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> you leap out of the way of the tiger seeking to have you for lunch. You |
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> got this ability from dad's genes and it must be raising the odds for |
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> you and he otherwise he wouldn't have survived long enough to sire you. |
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> If you stop to think about the tiger, he is for sure going to have a |
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> nice lunch. So we humans that survived did so by jumping to conclusions |
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> and having them work out OK on average. This new-fangled idea of |
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> actually thinking about things all the way through is a very new idea, |
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> and most of the species hasn't gotten the hang of it yet. |
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This does still seem to be a valid survival requirement for a large part of |
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the worlds population though, including where you are. |
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For people living in a "so-called" civilized world, tigers are only found |
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inside places commonly called a "zoo" :) |
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> So now you know why ricers swear blind that -pipe in CFLAGS "*doubles* |
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> the running speed, dude!" |
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It does! |
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I enabled -pipe in my CFLAGS and all the software was running a lot faster on |
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my new machine compared to my old one ;) |
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Joost |
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