On 2021-06-01 4:54 a.m., Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Lu, 31 mai 21, 13:41:43, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: >> >> On 2021-05-31 5:14 a.m., to...@tuxteam.de wrote: >>> On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 04:47:13AM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> What is foolish is not to even check in the specifications of one's >>>> computer if it does support USB 3.0 at the hardware level. >>> >>> Now be easy on others, will you? >>> >>> Sometimes I send out a help request to immediately slap my forehead: >>> the answer was written on the package ;-) >>> >> Well maybe you forgot a basic rule of life, not only computing. >> You are responsible for your own success. Before asking for help, do >> something to find a solution yourself. >> >> Oh, no, too complicated to look on packages.debian.org so I'll ask on >> the mailing list what's the latest version of package xyz and if it's >> available in backports. >> >> Oh, no, too complicated to do a man dd to know what are the command line >> options. I'll just ask on the mailing list... >> >> If you don't bother making little effort then people won't make them >> either. So when you ask question, it will just be "Oh this guy always >> ask dumb question, now he asked a good question but if he ask so simple >> question most of the time, this mean I'll have to explain everything to >> him. If a he doesn't know what this word mean then I'll need to explain >> it too, because he won't even take the time to check what it means. He's >> just gonna ask me back what's a "canarie" or what's the "stack" when we >> are talking about buffer overflow. >> >> Do I really want to get into all this ? No... >> So I won't answer and you loose your chance to get real help when it's >> for something that you won't find easily the answer... > > While I mostly agree with your point, I believe it can be done better, > nicer, and ultimately more helpful. > > Since you've been pointing people to ESR's writings, allow me to suggest > you (re)read the section entitled "How to Answer Questions in a Helpful
> Way", from his famous "How To Ask Questions The Smart Way" essay[1]. > > http://www.catb.org/esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#idm667 > > [1] which I believe is at least slightly outdated in regards to > communication style in general. > > Kind regards, > Andrei > I've said what I think is the closest to the truth. Now if someone don't like the hint I gave him, he can simply ignore what I write, the same way I'll ignore most questions that seem much like RTFM. It seems to be this type of thinking that sound like "Why read a book when I can ask question". Exactly.... Why be smart and understand how things work (so I don't have to ask questions) when I can simply learn how to repeat like a parrot. -- Polyna-Maude R.-Summerside -Be smart, Be wise, Support opensource development
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