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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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Well that sometimes keeps the conversation clean though. Most computer people seem to be a little more intelligent than the average person.
Maybe they might be slightly above the norm in the past, regarding intelligence, but that bell curve flattened out in the early 2000's. Shit, you rarely need to manage memory anymore.
Shit, I forgot no one's writing raw assembly anymore
We delved too greedily and too deep.
You don't even need to make sure your IRQ ports don't clash.
Dont worry, they make up for it with awful social skills.
"they"
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Whereas I just assumed it was suggesting that the parent comment also was in the awful social skills group.
Lack of diversity can create stagnation problems and biases that go unchallenged, which is why you see communities with barriers of entry always seem to have very specific kinds of cultures or attitudes.
For better or worse.
Intelligence isnt a linear scale. There are so many skills out there, so many things to learn. You might consider tech people more intelligent because the skills they have are the ones you recognise as intelligent.