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This article reminds me that I am on the low end of intelligence for the average Hacker News reader.

• SmooL 9y ago
  I'd take with context. Everything in this article should be understood by a 3rd year electrical/computer engineer as standard knowledge. Because I'm a computer engineering graduate, I can understand it. However, give me an article with '3rd year standard knowledge' from any other engineer discipline and I'll have no idea what's happening
  • antognini 9y ago
    One of the lessons college taught me is that I can learn anything, but I can't learn everything.
    • tmuir 9y ago
      One of the lessons many engineers who pass the PE exam learn is, "not with that attitude you can't".
• dsacco 9y ago
  No you aren’t. (Well, you could be, but not because you can’t follow this). On any given article with a lot of technical content, it’s reasonably safe to assume that it’s on the front page of HN because a lot of people are enthusiastic about the subject or interested in it. Only a small number of people actually follow what’s going on for most of these topics.
• deleted 9y ago
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• carlmr 9y ago
  I can follow this because I have a signal processing & controls background. I feel the same as you when I see some crazy reverse engineering feats or security breaches explained. They might be simple if you have the background, but it sure looks difficult.