When you go down a tvtropes or fandom wiki site bunnytrail, there is an endless amount of detail to master, but it is also endlessly interesting AND not entirely surprising (like looking up the details of a minor and obscure superhero's superpowers is never truly surprising).
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Another way to think about it: being reality oriented means both being patient, and letting illusions of agency (which are strong at the level of words) drop away so you realize how little control you actually have over reality once you get down to literal nuts and bolts.
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Reality doesn't care whether a missing comma means millions in lost revenue because a website is down, or no-big-deal because it's an obscure site nobody visits. Reality doesn't care whether a bug manifests to you as a mystery taking 10 hours, or obvious 2 second fix.
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All it cares about is: you eventually get to adding that missing comma whether you get there in 2 seconds via luckily happening to notice it, or in 10 hours after spending hours and thousands of dollars exploring the wrong troubleshooting branch. It doesn't care if you're 8 or 80
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And this isn't even the hardest case since debugging in programming still means working within the minds of other humans who wrote the compilers and operating systems. It is possible to get weirdly efficient at debugging code. Not so much reality as in atoms stuff.
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Unlike code, nuts-and-bolts stuff has properties, features, and behaviors that weren't explicitly designed in by someone. So troubleshooting it is basically science. Leave your efficiency/productivity expectations based on delusions behind.
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Note... not always true. There have been cases of weird software bugs in history that arise from strange hardware/software coupling effects. Especially at scale, when for eg. you're dealing with hundreds of hard-disks.
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