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Some people are interested in how things are built and work, not just the black box that does stuff for them.
by kQq9oHeAz6wLLS 3y ago
Some people are interested in how things are built and work, not just the black box that does stuff for them.
- hnbad 3y agoThis reminds me of when I first realized some people would genuinely get upset if I tried to understand how magic tricks were performed. It was completely unfathomable to me that some people would prefer not to understand it and genuinely enjoyed a trick less if someone had "ruined the magic" for them. On the other hand I very much enjoyed shows like Penn & Teller's Fool Us, which were based around the idea that there are known ways to perform the various tricks but the real art was in doing it in such a way you genuinely couldn't tell even when you knew (or in order to win the show: finding a new way to do it and then performing it in such a way that experienced magicians still couldn't tell).
- martyvis 3y agoI very much fall in to that category having been a "Texas Tank Watcher" (the self-appropriated nickname given to those keeping a close eye on the SpaceX development in Boca Chica) for the past 4 years or so.