Burned by Eschewing Best Practices
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Here is a great example. There is an Olympic runner (he's immortal, bear with me) and he runs in every summer Olympics for a century. Over that time, he never, ever wins the gold. But he wins the silver every, single time. He was never the best, ever. Not once, but we would not call him bad for being the runner up consistently, right? If you wanted the fastest runner, he's never the best bet, he's always fast but never on top.
FreeNAS and RAID 5 (under the Winchester new array conditions) are like that. Sometimes they are second best for a scenario but never first. Because of good decision making, we rule out a known secondary player because we don't want to accidentally consider something we know isn't the right answer to make picking the right answer easier and to not waste time on something we know can't be right. But that doesn't mean that it is at the bottom of the heap or bad, only that it is not number one.
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@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
Because if you would never use it, it must be bad in comparison to the alternatives.
It must be worse compared to, not bad compared to. And it is, FreeNAS is worse compared to FreeBSD, but better compared to nearly everything else. But it only takes being worse than one to be "Never use."
Do you see how one could read this statement as FreeNAS is worse than FreeBSD but better than RHEL.
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@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
Because if you would never use it, it must be bad in comparison to the alternatives.
It must be worse compared to, not bad compared to. And it is, FreeNAS is worse compared to FreeBSD, but better compared to nearly everything else. But it only takes being worse than one to be "Never use."
Do you see how one could read this statement as FreeNAS is worse than FreeBSD but better than RHEL.
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Nope, and you can't. It simply doesn't say that. You have, again, come up with an implication not existing in the English and stated it as fact. Just because something is "better compared to nearly everything else" in no way guarantees that RHEL is in the "nearly" category.
This is a common problem I see people take, things like "RAID 5 will fail 51% of the time" turns into "it will die every time." But most and always are totally different things.
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Do you see how the words say nothing about RHEL whatsoever and in no way say that it is better than everything else? nor do they say always. Only often and most.
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@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
Because if you would never use it, it must be bad in comparison to the alternatives.
It must be worse compared to, not bad compared to. And it is, FreeNAS is worse compared to FreeBSD, but better compared to nearly everything else. But it only takes being worse than one to be "Never use."
Do you see how one could read this statement as FreeNAS is worse than FreeBSD but better than RHEL.
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Nope, and you can't. It simply doesn't say that. You have, again, come up with an implication not existing in the English and stated it as fact. Just because something is "better compared to nearly everything else" in no way guarantees that RHEL is in the "nearly" category.
This is a common problem I see people take, things like "RAID 5 will fail 51% of the time" turns into "it will die every time." But most and always are totally different things.
But you provide the ambiguity of the statement. You leave it for us to determine what "everything else" is.
This is purely your issue with how you explain a matter. Don't leave any room for interpretation and there wouldn't be issues such as this.
You left the meaning open ended, not I.
Do you believe I'm wrong in being allowed to interpret your statement?
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@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
But you provide the ambiguity of the statement. You leave it for us to determine what "everything else" is.
No, it's open for you to ask. Not the same thing.
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@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
This is purely your issue with how you explain a matter. Don't leave any room for interpretation and there wouldn't be issues such as this.
That's not how that works. At all. Period.
My car runs well, most of the time.
You can't just say "it doesn't run today" and make that fact. My statement is true regardless of if my car works today or does not. And your statement needs to be true on its own. Nothing in my statement gives you the ground to make up your own facts.
This is insanely basic English language stuff.
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@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
Do you believe I'm wrong in being allowed to interpret your statement?
In every possible way. To the point that I have no ability to understand how you could be so wrong. Literally. This is a degree of wrong I actually can't figure out how it could happen.
I want you think about any statement, like this, ever made in the history of the world. You are claiming that unless every possibility, that could ever exist, is explicitly stated that YOU as the unique world defining listener can then inject any statement you want that is not explicitly denied by someone else and claim it to not only be fact, but to be claimed by the speaker?
Example:
Your mother said "I am your mother."
You say "You are also my father and my uncle by the fact that you didn't state that you were not."
WTF
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@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
But you provide the ambiguity of the statement.
It is not actually ambiguous either. You have a misunderstanding of what ambiguity is. It was a very clear statement with a single meaning. It only seems ambiguous to you because you have predetermined that there is another meaning that you yourself created and if I say something that doesn't support what you want me to say, you assume that I am using double speak or word trickery. I am not. My statement is clear, concise and accurate. It doesn't leave any ambiguity or room for interpretation. You can claim that it is wrong, but you can't claim that it is not clear.
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@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
But you provide the ambiguity of the statement. You leave it for us to determine what "everything else" is.
No, it's open for you to ask. Not the same thing.
I'd disagree, its open for me to willfully determine what everything else is when you leave a statement open.
If you want people to ask what entails everything else, you need to state that, some how. And not believe that people will just ask for more information.
I respect you because I ask the question, you should also respect that, and understand how the rest of the world is likely looking at what is written down.
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In this situation being bad or great - does it really matter when it's always second place? Fine it's never the winner - can we just move on now?
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I think @DustinB3403 and @scottalanmiller 's willpower is impressive
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Let's have a quick English lesson:
Statement that is confusing @DustinB3403 : "... FreeNAS is worse compared to FreeBSD, but better compared to nearly everything else."
What this statement says is:
- FreeBSD is always better than FreeNAS.
- FreeNAS is always worse than FreeBSD.
- FreeNAS is better (in the context of storage which is the context of the statement) than most products.
- FreeBSD is better than most storage products by logical extension of being better than FreeNAS.
What this statement doesn't say is endless:
- The price of milk.
- The age of the universe.
- If God is a man or a woman.
- If FreeBSD is the best product ever, or always.
- Which products are not as good as FreeBSD or FreeNAS.
- When different products are better or worse.
- That FreeBSD or FreeNAS is bad.
- That cars should always be painted blue
and on and on...
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@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
I respect you because I ask the question, you should also respect that, and understand how the rest of the world is likely looking at what is written down.
If you are claiming that the world is illiterate, then that's their problem. This is absolutely clear, simple English and claiming that it says something that it does not is willful lying.
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@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
But you provide the ambiguity of the statement.
It is not actually ambiguous either. You have a misunderstanding of what ambiguity is. It was a very clear statement with a single meaning. It only seems ambiguous to you because you have predetermined that there is another meaning that you yourself created and if I say something that doesn't support what you want me to say, you assume that I am using double speak or word trickery. I am not. My statement is clear, concise and accurate. It doesn't leave any ambiguity or room for interpretation. You can claim that it is wrong, but you can't claim that it is not clear.
Clear it may be, FreeNAS is never as good a choice as FreeBSD. But by ending the statement with "better compared to nearly everything else" is completely open ended.
It very easily sounds like "FreeBSD is better than (literally everything else)
How is that unclear? Re-read your statement. Ask anyone if they disagree with my understanding of this statement.
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@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
I'd disagree, its open for me to willfully determine what everything else is when you leave a statement open.
It's not open for disagreement. There is no grey area here in the least. Not even slightly.
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@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
But you provide the ambiguity of the statement.
It is not actually ambiguous either. You have a misunderstanding of what ambiguity is. It was a very clear statement with a single meaning. It only seems ambiguous to you because you have predetermined that there is another meaning that you yourself created and if I say something that doesn't support what you want me to say, you assume that I am using double speak or word trickery. I am not. My statement is clear, concise and accurate. It doesn't leave any ambiguity or room for interpretation. You can claim that it is wrong, but you can't claim that it is not clear.
Clear it may be, FreeNAS is never as good a choice as FreeBSD. But by ending the statement with "better compared to nearly everything else" is completely open ended.
It very easily sounds like "FreeBSD is better than (literally everything else)
So you now see how 51% turning into 100% was a good example of how people misunderstand the most basic statements? Clearly there is zero ground for saying that "most" means "always". The word "most" exists in the language so that you would never have to be confused in this way by any statement like this.
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@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
How is that unclear? Re-read your statement. Ask anyone if they disagree with my understanding of this statement.
This is basic English literacy. You misunderstood the word most and think it means always. They are not the same word.
If you think "most" means "all" there is no way to have a discussion like this. I have no capacity to help you. But rest assured the issue is not on my end. The statement was completely accurate and your beliefs about it are completely incorrect, both technically and linguistically.
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@scottalanmiller said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
Let's have a quick English lesson:
Statement that is confusing @DustinB3403 : "... FreeNAS is worse compared to FreeBSD, but better compared to nearly everything else."
What this statement says is:
- FreeBSD is always better than FreeNAS.
- FreeNAS is always worse than FreeBSD.
- FreeNAS is better (in the context of storage which is the context of the statement) than most products.
- FreeBSD is better than most storage products by logical extension of being better than FreeNAS.
What this statement doesn't say is endless:
- The price of milk.
- The age of the universe.
- If God is a man or a woman.
- If FreeBSD is the best product ever, or always.
- Which products are not as good as FreeBSD or FreeNAS.
- When different products are better or worse.
- That FreeBSD or FreeNAS is bad.
- That cars should always be painted blue
and on and on...
The statement says nothing of this.
The exact wording YOU used was FreeNAS is never as good as FreeBSD, but is nearly always better than everything else.
FreeNAS is worse compared to FreeBSD, but better compared to nearly everything else.
Read that statement. You are literally saying that FreeNAS is better than everything except for FreeBSD!
And that if you can't use FreeBSD, that you should use FreeNAS before looking at ANY other options!
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@DustinB3403 said in Burned by Eschewing Best Practices:
The exact wording YOU used was FreeBSD is never as good as FreeNAS, but is nearly always better than everything else.
FreeNAS is worse compared to FreeBSD, but better compared to nearly everything else.
Read that statement. You are literally saying that FreeNAS is better than everything except for FreeBSD!
This sums up the issue. You state why I am right then state the opposite.
You can't truly believe that "nearly everything else" is "everything else."
So when people say that they are "nearly to your house", you think that they are literally already in your house? When someone says that they are nearly asleep you believe that they are literally asleep and telling you that in their sleep? When you nearly lose an eye, you believe that their eye is actually gone? When you nearly get fired, you believe that you were actually fired?
