What are some things you don't understand, but somehow feel you're supposed to? (Based on your education, background, what people assume of you, etc.)
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Same. I majored in engineering and economics, work as a software engineer, and have absolutely no idea how computers or economies work.
What about computers don't you understand? (If specificity is possible....)
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My domain is roughly pipeline management and distributed compute. However, my understanding of the underlying hardware, assembly, C, even Java (!) on which the tools I use daily are built on is minimal. It’s a problem of specialization and abstraction.
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However, it’d be impossible for me to understand the whole stack, and that’s something I’ve come to terms with. I love this quote by Alfred North Whitehead: “Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them."
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