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Being a smartass, aren't we? Is there a difference between knowing what pressing a gas pedal in a car does and how it does that? Surely there's none.
by huhtenberg 13y ago
Being a smartass, aren't we?
Is there a difference between knowing what pressing a gas pedal in a car does and how it does that? Surely there's none.
- user24 13y agoBut you can test what the gas pedal does pretty easily. I think parent's point was that without peer review source code audit, we just have to take it on trust.
- Touche 13y agoThe analogy doesn't hold because gas pedal's tend to do only one thing. A binary blob can do anything. A better analogy would be what some random wire in your car does... but even then if you know where the wire is located you can reason what it probably does. In this case a binary blob can't as easily be inferred.