Failing to provide the typical social signals seems correlated either with extreme competence - they don't need to use polite language or other signals to boost

Failing to provide the typical social signals seems correlated either with extreme competence - they don't need to use polite language or other signals to boost employability - or with complete incompetence. There's a skill floor that cuts off the latter from this dataset when they can't configure an SSL certificate for their git client; their curses at "unable to get local issuer certificate" or "fatal: repository not found" are not uploaded to the Internet.