On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 11:37:06AM +1100, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2019-02-26T21:26:16+0000, Bjarni Ingi Gislason wrote: > > People really need to check, examine their working habits > > (practices). > > That comment is a little opaque. > > Are you referring to the missing comma? > > > diff --git a/man2/stat.2 b/man2/stat.2 > > index a58cbfb06..638439eac 100644 > > --- a/man2/stat.2 > > +++ b/man2/stat.2 > > @@ -710,6 +710,7 @@ main(int argc, char *argv[]) > > .BR chmod (2), > > .BR chown (2), > > .BR readlink (2), > > +.BR statx (2) > > .BR utime (2), > > .BR capabilities (7), > > .BR inode (7), > I mean both, 1) that what caught my eye 2) my conclusion about that. Too many people have stopped growing their intelligence. Is it not enough that other people have done that to them? Too many people just correct their and others mistakes and do nothing to actually learn from it! One could say, that they are under a spell. ### There is a saying, Any fool can learn from his own experience; The wise man learns from the experience of others. Too many students show that the first line is not correct. But the second is very important, and is the basis of the setting up of an educational program. [1] #### The important part of research, which I describe to my students as "seeing the obvious", and as it has otherwise been put: "Scientific research consists in seeing what everyone else has seen, but thinking what no one else has thought" -A. Szent-Gyorgyi This ability can be encouraged or suppressed, but it cannot be taught, and a bright student in a group with those who cannot see is going to have too many problems with his groupmates to have the right type of environment. [1] [1] Herman Rubin in the Usenet "misc.education". -- Bjarni I. Gislason
