• @Siegfried@lemmy.world
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    510 hours ago

    Im pretty confortable saying that anyone that calls himself “the best THING currently alive” is an idiot

    • @Routhinator@startrek.website
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      19 hours ago

      When I got into computers the tech that trained me in my first coop placement in high school told me, on day one, “Anyone who ever tells you they know everything about computers is an idiot.”

      Still resonates with me today and I always tell juniors the same.

    • @brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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      210 hours ago

      Heh, well they are certainly unafraid of being perceived as self-centered!

      Better when others are the ones to hype someone up with a high superlative like this guy I found:

      In an informal poll at a 1990 cosmology conference, Witten received the largest number of mentions as “the smartest living physicist”.

      Edward Witten

      Oh Mr. Musk, why must you do the silly stuff… so many big, expensive distractions (to say the very least)…