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> No. A white box and black box sit at opposite ends of a spectrum which is just saying how much we understand something. So it's a subset, because "understand
by astrange 2y ago
> No. A white box and black box sit at opposite ends of a spectrum which is just saying how much we understand something.
So it's a subset, because "understanding something" is a refinement of the state of "not understanding something" - you can just pretend you don't know what's happening in that part of the system and it is now a black box.
- desumeku 2y agoSemantic word games aren't a crowd-winning form of argument.
- godelski 2y agoIt's worse when you play that semantic game to make your point stronger (changing your original meaning) and willfully misinterpreting the other person. Everyone loves being willfully misinterpreted
- astrange 2y agoI don't think the concept of encapsulation in programming is a semantic word game. Any part of a program can become a black box if you decide it is one (if you can figure out an interface anyway…), and that's good because it means you can swap it out.