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Comment by sokoloff

7 days ago

Most people on this site are also familiar with the “XKCD 10000”.

But not all, so: https://xkcd.com/1053/

(Amusingly, it even uses “30 years” as the timeframe.)

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jere  7 days ago

Classic of course. The point being: don't make fun of people for not knowing something. In this thread we're making fun of learned helplessness.

  • ruszki  7 days ago

    You are making fun of people who are saying that this article is shit, without addressing that part at all.

    • PunchyHamster  7 days ago

      consider 2 conversations

      "hey what X means?" "X means it"

      vs

      "I dont know what CTF stands for so I dont know if I am interested in this article or learning anything about it. Maybe I am.

      Are you really arguing for not just typing out whatever 3 words this stands for once in the name of clarity?"

      The commenter could just say the first instead of deciding his learned helplessness is everyone's else problem

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