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Re:A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor by nkzd on Thursday August 11, 2022 @03:59PM (#32430997)
Today, my friend and I cynically talked over a beer about this. We ranted to each other about how we wasted the best years of our life and how we didn't have the resources or education other people have right now. This is a defeatist attitude and your post has inspired me to be better.

Thank you for writing this.

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Re:A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor by philosopher1234 on Thursday August 11, 2022 @06:33PM (#32432636)
How important is it to have accomplishments?
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Re:A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor by fragmede on Thursday August 11, 2022 @09:00PM (#32433691)
That are important to yourself, or to others?
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Re:A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor by s0rce on Thursday August 11, 2022 @09:20PM (#32433797)
This is the key, most people don't care about my "accomplishments".
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Re:A 17-year-old designed a novel synchronous reluctance motor by 6510 on Thursday August 11, 2022 @11:58PM (#32434574)
For me its all simple, if you've accomplished nothing in a field your opinion is not worth noticing, if your brain has calcified around dogma your opinion is pure comedy.

If you are both accomplished and have an open mind your opinion can be valuable if constructive but in the end there is only one opinion that counts.

Also, it is entirely fine to try to do something that will take a million attempts like yours to maybe perhaps get it done poorly.

Hero's engine is just fine. We didn't need more from him. It was enough. It took a while for anyone to truly get it and their steam engine and many after it were useless pieces of crap - which was good enough. We didn't need more from them.

x86 is a piece of crap too!

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