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shevy-javatoday at 1:09 PM0 repliesview on HN

> The god or gods made us all hackers

What god?

People's inner motivation largely made them what they want to be; to some extent circumstance and happenstance, as well as the options they had available. In some cases also idols or people they may look up to or learn from. Just as Alan Kay once stated: one stands on shoulders of giants (before, e. g. people who helped built up the world, shape it, add to knowledge and so forth).

The world wide web, which Google and others currently try to kill off, also using AI slop (AI skynet slop), has been an enabling technology for the most part (if we ignore e. g. ads, but even ads, which I always block such as via ublock origin, helped shape some things or enabled others, through flow of money - sad that Google siphons off everything nowadays).

I remember some years ago having read a story of some poor guy in Pakistan, who is a hacker thanks to ... a cheap smartphone. I was impressed, because personally I hate USING smartphones; desktop computer systems is where I am much more comfortable with. That story was enlightening though. People write code even on devices that seem hugely unsuited for that task.

I don't really understand your analysis here though. For instance: "that is glory. That is divine. This is virtue" - what does any of this mean? It seems decoupled from reality. Are you by chance using TempleOS?