On Wednesday 30 July 2014 20:26:48 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 30/07/2014 20:02, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > This 'de-bloat' crap - who came up with that? People who use it all the > > times seldomly realize that the 'small and unbloated' software they use > > is in a lot of cases neither small, nor not bloated. > > Usually it comes from the same headspace that ricing comes from. Humans > are all about perception, very very very few of them can actually look > at things in an unbiased way. So it goes like this: > > User hates Gnome. [opinion] > User decides that because Gnome integrates so many things vertically > then Gnome must necessarily be bloated. [invalid conclusion not backed > up by facts] > User decides to try Razor|LXDE|Enlightenment|*box|whatever [valid activity] > User likes <whatever> [opinion] > User concludes that <whatever> is therefore "better" than Gnome > [erronously equate specific opinion with fact for the general case] > Therefore <whatever> is not bloated and Gnome is, to satisfy wrong > conclusion at #2 [I can't even begin to think what fallacy this is] > > > Not much opinion in any of that. > We humans are mostly hard-wired to react based on past experience and > data blindly accepted as fact in the past. 9 times out of 10 this helps > you leap out of the way of the tiger seeking to have you for lunch. You > got this ability from dad's genes and it must be raising the odds for > you and he otherwise he wouldn't have survived long enough to sire you. > If you stop to think about the tiger, he is for sure going to have a > nice lunch. So we humans that survived did so by jumping to conclusions > and having them work out OK on average. This new-fangled idea of > actually thinking about things all the way through is a very new idea, > and most of the species hasn't gotten the hang of it yet.
This does still seem to be a valid survival requirement for a large part of the worlds population though, including where you are. For people living in a "so-called" civilized world, tigers are only found inside places commonly called a "zoo" :) > So now you know why ricers swear blind that -pipe in CFLAGS "*doubles* > the running speed, dude!" It does! I enabled -pipe in my CFLAGS and all the software was running a lot faster on my new machine compared to my old one ;) -- Joost
