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I assume we have to start with the physical action of typing in a url and everything involved in that? Then how the physical keyboard works? Then how the OS han
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I assume we have to start with the physical action of typing in a url and everything involved in that? Then how the physical keyboard works? Then how the OS handles the input from the keyboard? Then…
- notarealllama 2y agoThat's the beauty... Sometimes too much detail can be distracting, so knowing what to mention/omit is part of it too. As CTO for multiple companies and hiring across multiple competencies for 10 years... This is the question that keeps on giving!
- notarealllama 2y agoConsider, do you type or paste the url? With or wothout http/s? Or www? Does it matter? What if you typo wwww.domain.com? And what do you mean physical keyboard, the virtual one on my phone works fine ;) (also preconceived notions)
- rovr138 2y agoWhich branch, physical or virtual. How does the virtual one work?
- mburns 2y agoFor a relatively in-depth take on this question: https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when
- jiveturkey 2y agotoo outdated. even at the time of last commit (3y ago), lots is missing.
- buzer 2y agoI mean yeah, it doesn't even touch what is happening inside your body in order to actually press those buttons. Or what forces are being converted and how they affect the surroundings.
- genewitch 2y agoAnd entropy when your browser garbage collects and free()
- jamiek88 2y agoOr the decision to do it, the neurons involved, free will or otherwise. Basically to load a web page you must first invent the universe.
- user432678 2y agoWent for an interview, ended up with the existential dread.
- LoganDark 2y agoI think it's funny to imagine the existential dread as a single unique instance of emotion that everything else feeds back into. Like - no, I'm not "having existential dread again", it's the same existential dread I've been having since the beginning...
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