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  • kromem@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    No, Reddit 10 years ago was the kind of place where people who knew things would correct people who didn’t.

    Pretty much all social media today, including Lemmy, are now places where people who don’t know things correct people who do.

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      7 months ago

      Are you sure it isn’t just a case of you having seen it a thousand time now and can spot bullshitters and couldn’t do it a decade ago?

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          7 months ago

          It still works in highly technical areas.

          Or if you’re a machinist someone will tell you the right way to do something as soon as they see you have the material. By the time you have it in the machine 6 other guys will have told you the right way to do it in six wildly different ways. Someone will suggest Vaseline instead of coolant. Someone will start bitching about Haas. Someone will insist that it’s only possible with thru spindle coolant, regardless of depth. None of which matters because your code won’t post to the 40 year old 3 axis mill you’re using and the engineer gave you a print with impossible geometry anyway. GEE I DON’T KNOW TERRY DO YOU THINK THIS HUNK OF STEEL LOOKS LIKE YOUR PART YET

          Anyway my point is sometimes there’s more than one right answer, even if everyone says they have the one right answer.

          Sometimes technical specifications limit you to a specific set of right answers, but the right answers you get are for different set ups entirely.

          and sometimes, the circumstances surrounding your failure were given to you by the engineer in a state that was destined to fail, whether they knew it or not.