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Re:Experts vs. Imitators by noobermin on Sunday June 16, 2024 @03:47PM (#40699562)
> Consider a person who says, "I heard rust was better than python because its safe" -- where would one even begin? Suppose now you're dealing with a person who knows enough to make the claim, but isnt patient enough to have memory safety, garbage collection, interpreters, etc. explained

This means that the asker is impatient, not the expert. An expert can explain everything from 0, and might even enjoy it.

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Re:Experts vs. Imitators by kaba0 on Sunday June 16, 2024 @06:05PM (#40700508)
Let the expert be a native Indonesian person who speaks no English, and I don’t speak a word of his native tongue.

Can he explain anything to me, given such a language boundary? Even though he knows stuff from 0, that doesn’t translate over to ability to explain.

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