How hard should I push myself?

Re:How hard should I push myself? by terse_malvolio on Saturday January 23, 2021 @02:07AM (#25880331)

Eh. Idk. Being lazy has it's advantages like inventing a machine that can do the plowing for you. There are definitely limits and tendencies but I'm not big into this kind of overgeneralization.

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Re:How hard should I push myself? by edgyquant on Saturday January 23, 2021 @07:51AM (#25881844)

Actual laziness wouldn’t have led to such inventions. It is still work to create things. The programming community uses this kind of example a lot, but that’s a different kind of laziness more akin to hating repetition.

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Re:How hard should I push myself? by bagacrap on Saturday January 23, 2021 @12:59PM (#25884562)

Yeah you see programmers do this sort of humble brag all the time, like "I was lazy so I wrote strong AI to do the work for me."

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Re:How hard should I push myself? by flitzofolov on Saturday January 23, 2021 @07:09AM (#25881671)

I don't think the plow was invented from laziness, but rather from a necessity to feed more people.

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