[jprjr_]

I stopped reading Daniel Lemire a while back.

He had a blog post that seemed just weird and out of left field. Like it was clearly a response to something but what? What was the motivation for it?

When asked he said y'know. He just thinks about stuff and writes and that's what he does.

Turns out the blog post was a post he also made on social media. And said post was a response to something. And I guess he thought it was pretty good writing and should go on his blog, too.

Nothing wrong with that on it's own but I feel like most people would preface a post like that with "I saw this thing." And when directly asked like... He just straight up lied?

That whole thing just rubbed me the wrong way.

For full context https://lemire.me/blog/2025/10/17/research-results-are-cultu...

In the comments I turned into kind of a dick. I was pretty upset about being lied to.

Anyways between that and articles like this that are honestly useless and kinda misleading - I'm not really the biggest fan.

[skrebbel]

I don't know man, he doesn't owe you anything.

[Dylan16807]

He doesn't owe OP an answer, but he also shouldn't lie if he chooses to answer OP.

And looking at those comments, it's possible he misunderstood the question, but the way he doubled down when OP found and linked the twitter version comes across pretty badly. Even if OP was being rude.

The most generous interpretation I can make is that he missed the "Is this in response to something?" sentence when he first replied, and then when OP came back later with the twitter link he spent zero seconds double checking the context before fighting rude with more rude.

I don't think it's worth holding a grudge over, and OP should drop it, but it does look like he was overall in the wrong there.

[jprjr_]

Looking back I'm still perplexed about why he never just linked to the original thing he was responding to.

I mean listen I understand - I'm not owed anything. If he wants to take posts from elsewhere and share them to his blog with all context and background removed that's his business. And he doesn't have to respond to any comments he doesn't want to.

But if he gets a question he doesn't want to answer... He could just not answer it. Just leave my comment hanging. Hell - he could delete it even. I'd be perplexed but would probably shrug it off.

The whole lying thing is what bothers me. I'd rather somebody just not respond than try to feed me bullshit.

[bawolff]

Sheesh wtf did i just read?

This seems less like you were being lied to and more like you are kind of being delusional.