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this post was submitted on 24 May 2026
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Mildly Interesting
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This is for strictly mildly interesting material. If it's too interesting, it doesn't belong. If it's not interesting, it doesn't belong.
This is obviously an objective criteria, so the mods are always right. Or maybe mildly right? Ahh.. what do we know?
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The guy is a proper hacker in the original meaning of the word of somebody who grabs something and changes it to make it do something else it was never meant to do.
And as any proper hacker knows (and his obviously in the interview he too feels), actually succeeding and ending up with this crazy actually working thing that you invented yourself and nobody else has is immensely pleasurable.
He looks so happy, and with a well deserved and earned smug grinn.
Fell like everyone here who use this as a platform to criticize "things Americans will do instead of [cycling/public transportation/...]" have completely missed the point and are just jealous.