• teslasaur@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Average person?

    In talking computer literacy, he is easily within the 1 percent of the 1 percent.

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      6 hours ago

      The difference is Linus is not an average person but for these Linux challenges tries to pretend to be (people who work in tech are generally very bad at pretending to be average users) meanwhile Luke wasn’t pretending to be someone he’s not

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        3 hours ago

        Oh does he do it like chess engines where it seems like playing at a low level is still playing with an almost prefect engine, only it adds random “inaccuracies” that are mistakes no human would ever make, like suddenly hanging their queen with no actual intent behind the move other then being a random mistake?

        Like “oh, a average user would have made a mistake by now, so let’s remove an important directory to simulate that”?