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by hwers 1537 days ago
I don’t think of him as shining. I like that he’s a real person, flaws and all. Not someone to idolize. Many great hackers that I know and in general are total jerks (I suspect the trait helps wrangling a machine somehow but idk). I wouldn’t find it accurate to my experiences if we had some polished perfect optics guy as representative (not that that’s what he is)
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> I suspect the trait helps wrangling a machine somehow

Disruptiveness, for lack of a better term. These are people who are well-acquainted with finding the boundaries of systems and barreling through them.