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Amazing how much of learning any hobby or diy skill in the US is about learning what to buy and googling and reading forum posts. And how far you can get with zero conceptual understanding of what you’re doing, based purely in such shopping/forum knowledge and trial-and-error.
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I now know a ton about the prices and form factors available for blue painter’s tape and kapton tape, and tips for getting them on/off surfaces. But I know nothing yet about polyamide chemistry or how kapton tape actually works, or about the chemistry/physics of adhesion.
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I’ve spent more time around working engineers at jobs than around hobbyists, and they generally have much deeper conceptual knowledge, and the last time I went deep on hobbies I was a teenager in India with a very different hobbyist culture.
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Sure, and quantum physicists run into their limits eventually too. It’s the balance of conceptual vs practical vs tacit knowledge that I’m talking about not absolutes.