>>824Usually when there's a fear of asking stupid questions, it's incites posturing and sickness.
Some questions can be adequately searched, certainly.
Yet if you follow this rule explicitly, then you'll find dead discussions and, frankly, I mean, why even bother discussing?
Maybe a better marker would be the level of earnestness they have.
Someone who is earnest wouldn't continue to ask the same questions, forget things, show no original thought, etc
The intrinsic nebulous nature of language, I think, /requires/ someone to ask a 'dumb' question to get back to reality.
Otherwise you eventually start talking past each other.
Or talk about a whole lot of nothing while trying to sound as though you've everything in the bag. I don't know.
Maybe we're all at the point where it's pointless anyway.
I've dealt with my fair share of disinterested people just looking for a quick solution many times in my life.
It can be frustrating, you can dismiss them as idiots if you like - or maybe they're the smart ones, because they're more attentive toward reality than those buried deep in config files and wirespace nonsense.
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