this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2023
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This is worth so much more than knowledge any day.
As I recall, this is the essence of the classical hacker mindset:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Hacker_Manifesto
https://web.archive.org/web/20130827121341/http://cosman246.com/jargon.html#hacker
That's one quality that becomes more rare these days. And it's quite sad to see.