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by roughly 22 days ago
The trick to being a good hacker is acquiring a sufficient supply of useless information, such that when that information is suddenly not useless, you have it at hand.

Which is to say, it's your job to figure out what the cool applications are.

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Yeah fine, take notes. Why post them here?
By "here" do you mean "the internet"? Are you trying to discourage people from sharing their calculations and observations with one another if they don't personally interest you?

If so, what is wrong with you?

I didn't post my notes on HN; in fact, I didn't even post them on dernocua.github.io.

To share with a community of like-minded individuals, many of whom found it interesting enough to both upvote and comment?

You understand the rest of us do actually exist, right? That we’re, you know, real people with thoughts and opinions and feelings, right? This isn’t pinboard or something.