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Actually that's a pretty large misinterpretation of what I said. Conclusively: People should still do this, but stop turning it into a cultural movement in whi
by csmuk 13y ago
Actually that's a pretty large misinterpretation of what I said. Conclusively:
People should still do this, but stop turning it into a cultural movement in which everything unremarkable is remarkable and knowledge is abstracted away into insignificance. The knowledge is infinitely more important than the abstraction as the abstractions come and go.
For an extreme example: When playing around with electricity that knowledge and those fundamentals can and do make the difference between life and death. Some maker contraptions that I've seen that flash lights connected to the mains are so dangerous it's unreal.
- HeyLaughingBoy 13y agoThank you for making me feel less curmudgeonly! I've thought the same thing for the longest while. I love that people of all ages are starting to learn about electronics & firmware. At the same time, the desire to build something sophisticated has people skipping large steps and as a result, build insanely complicated systems that a little knowledge would let them do in a much simpler fashion. They're learning, but with enormous gaps in knowledge.