How do you get people to teach you things without assuming you're an idiot... At the local hackerspace there are people with a lot of experience relevant to my interests but when I ask they proceed to go over the absolute basics like I didn't do an entire degree in this stuff.
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It's just hard to establish this. Talk jargon back in a calm way. People tend to just correct for your level.
Yes, that's precisely what I do.
"Did you mean something like [insert appropriate technical terms here]".
Although it's important to use a tone that suggests you're just trying to learn & are genuinely interested rather than one that suggests you're trying to assert authority.
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I may have derailed it when he started out by asking if I knew about [technical terms] and I was not entirely positively convincing because I was a bit rusty on exactly how they worked and what he was referring to.
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