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> It also frustrates me to no end that people are so deeply incurious. This seems to only happen in tech, I mean software engineering and computer science from
by jrochkind1 2y ago
> It also frustrates me to no end that people are so deeply incurious. This seems to only happen in tech,
I mean software engineering and computer science from the start is built on abstraction, it makes sense that it attracts people who find taking the abstraction as reality and ignoring the underlying "real" layers to be attractive.
(Also it's not "real" until you get down to... voltages? Electrons? I don't know... the whole thing about our whole endeavor being built of abstraction is there are so many layers. Nobody thinks everyone has to routinely go ALL THE WAY down, but I get your point that being more curious than many tend to be about a couple layers down is helpful, with how far down a couple layers is depending on the nature of your work. I'm not saying it's not helpful, I'm suggesting possibly why -- because we select for people who swim happily in abstractions, who love em even. And the success of all of CS and software engineering is based on the ability for it to often work. nobody really has to be curious about voltages when writing a python script to read and write from storage)
- brewtide 2y agoIt is interesting that at the lowest levels everything in fact is analog, only turning 'digital' on subjective decisions defining as such.