MIT no longer teaches anyone to understand programming because software no longer makes any sense. http://www.posteriorscience.net/?p=206
@rbrockerhoff @mpweiher Starting around 20 years ago, fixing your own car became effectively impossible, so understanding is useless.
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@meaningness@mpweiher true that I haven’t fixed my car (at least the motor) for about 20 years, but I wouldn’t say that it’s “useless”. -
@meaningness@mpweiher same for electronics, tools, computers, whatnot. Multi-level understanding of how things work can never be useless. - 1 more reply
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