I have a similar reaction when somebody rediscovers something that specialists all know by default
However, the older I get the more I appreciate these folks because they are excited about the problem usually way more than people who know the systems rote
In some cases you get a charlatan trying to recycle something, not open to feedback that they aren’t Kepler or whatever, but in my experience most of these folks are trying to figure the world out and are excited when something seems to fit
Now, I try (not always successful) to “yes and” them into trying to figure out how their method compares to existing methods, with the idea that - hey maybe they figured out an edge case by accident that we can all learn from
That said, this is geohot and he definitely isn’t new to BC/IL
However, the older I get the more I appreciate these folks because they are excited about the problem usually way more than people who know the systems rote
In some cases you get a charlatan trying to recycle something, not open to feedback that they aren’t Kepler or whatever, but in my experience most of these folks are trying to figure the world out and are excited when something seems to fit
Now, I try (not always successful) to “yes and” them into trying to figure out how their method compares to existing methods, with the idea that - hey maybe they figured out an edge case by accident that we can all learn from
That said, this is geohot and he definitely isn’t new to BC/IL