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Re:Show HN: I'm an airline pilot – I built interactive graph... by gavmor on Friday June 27, 2025 @12:00PM (#44397830)
Your handle is "supportengineer". Presumably you outrank OP if you count assists, or a share of others' successes.

Do the developers of the libraries he used count this site as a personal accomplishment? Do the airplane mechanics? Do their support engineers?

We participate in a circulatory economy, but we haven't yet adopted a perspective of circulatory attribution. Maybe we never will. Maybe we never should.

Maybe you should recognize your piecemeal contributions as a sort of ikigai, or maybe you should see this as a wakeup call to carpe diem.

Thanks for the opportunity to pontificate!

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