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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7796566" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>I hate analogies. I've discovered over the years that analogies have two big problems. First, they tend to lead only to arguing over the aptness of the analogy. And secondly, I've discovered that when I appeal to analogies that it usually has turned out to mean that I didn't understand the problem as well as I thought I did. It took me decades to learn that lesson, often painfully.</p><p></p><p>In your case, the problem with your analogy is that I'm not telling you to stay away from the big drops and stick to bike paths. The problem I'm having is that you are insisting you already know why you are having problems with the big drops and that proper answers to solve your problem have to be in the form you expect. You want to at the same time get help to address your problem with the big drops and also insist that you already know what you are doing and that there is nothing wrong with your applied technique.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7796566, member: 4937"] I hate analogies. I've discovered over the years that analogies have two big problems. First, they tend to lead only to arguing over the aptness of the analogy. And secondly, I've discovered that when I appeal to analogies that it usually has turned out to mean that I didn't understand the problem as well as I thought I did. It took me decades to learn that lesson, often painfully. In your case, the problem with your analogy is that I'm not telling you to stay away from the big drops and stick to bike paths. The problem I'm having is that you are insisting you already know why you are having problems with the big drops and that proper answers to solve your problem have to be in the form you expect. You want to at the same time get help to address your problem with the big drops and also insist that you already know what you are doing and that there is nothing wrong with your applied technique. [/QUOTE]
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