Your username is con artist lol

conartist6 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yes, Hi! I'm Conrad.

I'm not sure if your aware, but in American English, "con artist" is another term for a scammer. Someone who does "cons", short for "confidence tricks" (or "confidence schemes") where you gain someone's confidence in order to take advantage of them in some way, usually financial fraud.

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conartist6 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Yes I'm aware, I grew up in a college town in rural Pennsylvania. I chose the name when I signed up for Neopets uhhhh 20 years ago now.

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fragmede 5 hours ago | parent [-]

The best time to have chosen a new name was 20 years ago. The second best time to choose one is now.

	▲	conartist6 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		¯\_(ツ)_/¯ I'm me. 's not likely to change is it? I could color inside the lines and hope it buys me a nice life, but if I was that kind of person I would never have tackled this insane of a project

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_-_-__-_-_- 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

and also a con artist?

	▲	conartist6 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I'd say a code artist, more commonly called a hacker. https://paulgraham.com/hp.html To be clear for the past five years I've done nothing but write OSS code (https://github.com/conartist6) while sharing pretty much all my engineering thoughts on a public Discord server (https://discord.gg/NfMNyYN6cX), so I'm not very worried at all that a person determined to find out would be unable to tell if I'm legit. You just can't fake 20,000 hours worth of public toil.

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swader999 7 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe he likes a challenge?

	▲	conartist6 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I guess I happily invite people to disrespect me for superficial reasons. Baseless disrespect keeps me motivated. Sorting out people who are only kicking tires also helps protect my time. The ones who show real curiosity, those are the people I'll give my full attention to any day of the week.