Things to say when you're losing a technical argument (2001)

Re:Things to say when you're losing a technical argument (2001) by adwn on Friday November 05, 2021 @02:28PM (#29123038)

I don't get it. Some items on that list can be legitimate, non-technical objections, like 3, 5, 7, 30, 31, 33, 56, 58. Others can be legitimate, technical objections, like 1, 6, 19, 46.

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Re:Things to say when you're losing a technical argument (2001) by csours on Friday November 05, 2021 @02:34PM (#29123108)

Anything can be a legitimate objection. At some point you have to just try something.

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Re:Things to say when you're losing a technical argument (2001) by adwn on Friday November 05, 2021 @02:45PM (#29123255)

That's terrible advice if the objection is of legal nature, for example, or when human safety is at stake. Also, you typically don't have unlimited resources, so "you just have to try something" isn't a good justification if there valid objections against its feasibility.

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Re:Things to say when you're losing a technical argument (2001) by csours on Friday November 05, 2021 @03:49PM (#29123989)

Yes, advice without context is terrible. Any objection can be a good or bad objection based on context.

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Re:Things to say when you're losing a technical argument (2001) by drawqrtz on Saturday November 06, 2021 @05:11AM (#29128649)

Eh it worked well enough for the whole history of humanity so far

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Re:Things to say when you're losing a technical argument (2001) by marcosdumay on Friday November 05, 2021 @06:57PM (#29125624)

All of them can be legitimate. It's just that they almost never are.

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