Re:A preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM
by ThrowawayR2 on Friday December 11, 2020 @11:49AM
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> "a lying huckster"
Rather rude, don't you think?
Re:A preview of x64 emulation on Windows for ARM
by finnthehuman on Friday December 11, 2020 @01:06PM
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I did make the context quite narrow and add the caveat for people who are simply deluding themselves, but yeah, it's rude. I've spent enough of my professional life listening to people try to tell me what sales numbers "mean" to have any higher of an opinion.
Obviously other considerations.
Where there is only a small handful of options within a class of product, any statement about "what the market wants" should be limited to very broad strokes. The consumer doesn't select from the entire possibility space, they buy from the available options.
Any "correlation is causation" statement about minor details when there are dozens of other larger distinguishing feature are the words of a lying huckster. Giving them the benefit of the doubt isn't that they're not-lying, the benefit of the doubt is that they're lying to themselves too. That's how wrong it is to make those inferences.