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Pedantry like this is what scared OP away to begin with. Sometimes you have to resist the urge to correct or convey technical details for someone who will not u
by ythn 9y ago
Pedantry like this is what scared OP away to begin with. Sometimes you have to resist the urge to correct or convey technical details for someone who will not understand the technical details anyway.
For example, when explaining bitcoin to people I use the analogy of a stack of receipts. That's not technically how a blockchain works, but my mom doesn't care how a blockchain works.
- ghaff 9y agoI tend to agree in general but I'm not sure in this case. The fact that containers are/were a form of operating system virtualization--which is how they were once referred to--is probably one of the least interesting aspects of how they're used today. If I were explaining them to someone less technical I'd say something like they're a way to package programs with the other stuff programs need to run so that they can be reliably and quickly started up and moved from place to place.