I think if you have the prerequisite level of delusion, seeing how the sausage is made sincerely makes no difference

It’s a fucking games conference. Gamify it.

"We think you’d hit it off with these 10 people.

Your quest, should you chose to accept, is to find them"

No obligation. No schedule.

Even that is just a delay.

It would have to expand your abdomen slightly, assuming you don’t have access to a fourth dimension.

“My dad was right” - Richard Cockburn

If he doesn’t solve problems with chmod 777 then he’s already more competent than the ops teams at my fortune 500 company

Yes

I have completely agreed to the terms of 500 INTERNAL SERVER ERROR.

Can confirm, I’m instinctively drawn to servers in my geographic proximity despite that being a completely opaque property of the internet like a moth to a flame

Of you don’t know anyone you could be both

I see it ALL the time, across MANY domains.

Language, music, golf, programming, driving, competitive gaming, etc etc.

It’s not necessarily a bad thing; it’s WAY more effort to push for improvement. Once you’ve gotten to the point where your skills are serving your needs, is that what you want to invest your finite energy into? Maybe not. God knows I’m not actively trying to improve on every skill I have. Very few. Most of my things (music, games, sport) are just to have fun. If you’re having fun you’re probably not really improving, and that’s ok.

But when people lament that they’ve hit a wall on a skill, in my experience it’s this effect, MUCH more than any other.

I think if OP reflected on their already MASSIVE achievement of becoming functional in another language, they’d likely conclude that their skills rapidly increased up until the point that they had a functional level of the skill, and then hit a plateau once they subconsciously began expending less active effort on improvement.

I think when people are learning some new skill, eventually they reach a proficiency where they stop actively working on improving. Instead, they’ll transition from “improving the skill” to “applying the skill”.

Practice does not make “perfect”. Practice makes permanent.

Gonna pull out my hair splitting razors for a moment…

OP didn’t say more intelligent, they said smarter.

Can one get smarter? Does “smart” conceptually include the quanity of acquired information? Does the quality of thought impact the ability to acquire new information? Does smart include the concept applying knowledge appropriately? Is the ability to do that informed by the quality of thought?

We might have different definitions for a lot of these words, but I think I gotta say “yes” to all of them.

I’m not this guy so I can only guess their experience, but the more time they’re able to spend in a mental state that maximizes the quality of their thought processes, I would expect it would help them learn new things and more effectively apply that knowledge. I’m contented to say that counts as smart.

So ya: More think good make more smarter that guy.

Based on this I can only imagine they must have full throated support of the green line which would reduce intra-city traffic to allow for greater available capacity for provincial traffic.

What’s so hard to understand about that?

It’s just a case of art imitating life imitating art imitating life imitating art imitating life. What’s so hard to understand about that?

Cakes predate the Earl of Sandwich so really a sandwich is a subset of cake

At work whenever we need to build little command line tools, my team is always vexxed by my guideline to have the meat+potatoes in a script that reads well-formatted data off stdin , and outputs well formatted-data to stout. They always wanna have some stupid interactive prompts and saving to files baked right in.

This is exactly why. You wanna save to a file?? > file

You want to read from a file? cat |

You want to save to a file but swap commas for colons? Sed.

You get so much FOR FREE w/ the GNU toolkit, even for what you build yourself, by thinking in streams.

GOOD FOLLOW UP!!

I was about to shit a brick that you went from “go to the official trusted source” to “just trust me: curl [x] | sudo bash”

https://youtu.be/dT7X2IxBDjc