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> already fairly trivial for a talented SWE

This level of subjective qualification makes everything that comes after it essentially meaningless.



Only if you're incapable of making basic inferences and uncomfortable with thinking about distributions and error bars instead of forcing everything into artificial certainty.

If, like many people, you need things shoved into an imaginary concrete, low-dimensional, binary box: "the type of person maintaining an OSS project can trivially make >$30/hr[1] on 10 hrs of contract work a week". If you still think this is too subjective to infer anything from, enjoy your onanistic "nobody can ever really know anything maaaan" perspective, but it's not really relevant to this conversation.

[1] See another comment of mine in this thread for back-of-the-envelope math


Insults and snark don't change the essential uselessness of your previous comment, though I can see how they might be a welcome distraction from it.


Yes, I'm sure that's very comforting for you to believe




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