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...until the computers shut down because of a simple power outage or an DDoS attack. Then the Luddists and their looms will definitely win. When you rely on tec
by tariqali34 11y ago
...until the computers shut down because of a simple power outage or an DDoS attack. Then the Luddists and their looms will definitely win. When you rely on technology, you rely on a single point of failure.
There's also the question of speed/efficiency as well. Memorizing a fact and utilizing muscle memory can be much quicker than Googling for Stack Overflow answers every day ("memory caching"). And the faster you solve one problem, the faster you can move onto the next problem.
- seanmcdirmid 11y agoAll we need to do is run out of energy and looms will be in vogue again, the industrial revolution is on the verge of collapse? If the computers shut down, I'm not going to be doing anything anyways. I find solving problems also improves my efficiency in solving similar problems even if I solved the first problem originally using stack overflow. The mind is incredibly efficient at generalizing from experience, and you really get none of that generalization poweress by reading the manual rather than just doing it. This feels kind of like the difference between western and eastern educational systems, the latter placing more emphasis in memorization and preparation, the former moving towards a more solve problems paradigm. Lots of practice solving problems is good enough as long as the details needed to solve problems are readily accessible.