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I totally agree. I feel like this argument is the equivalent of saying "I'll never need to learn linear programming, I'll just plug it into lpSolve" "I'll never
by mjfl 10y ago
I totally agree. I feel like this argument is the equivalent of saying "I'll never need to learn linear programming, I'll just plug it into lpSolve" "I'll never need to learn cryptography, I'll just use the Unix libraries" "I'll never need to know thermodynamics, my car just works!" "Google just works!"
At some point somebody had to be the person that figured out all these things so the other 99% of people can use it and not think about it ever. And I'd much rather be the person solving the interesting problems than the person using the tools without truly understanding them to solve more mundane (but still probably useful and important) tasks, but that is just my personal taste.