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Oppenheimer posted:Do people think that computers are pressed from a mold and irreducible? Yes. Kind of. Computers are sufficiently complex that to many people they are basically magic boxes, and if anything's wrong with them you could either take it to a wizard to have the magic put back in, or just get a new one from the magic box company. Because, I mean, gently caress it, you don't know anything about magic. With a car you basically get that the engine makes the wheels go and everything else is kind of helping with that. With a computer, even the operating system is so many layers of abstraction from what's going on at the most basic level that... yeah, it might as well be magic to most people. With a car, even if you have no clue what a crankshaft is, you know if it's broken you can get that fixed and it has nothing to do with your windshield wipers. With a computer, the hard drive, CPU, ram, monitor, keyboard, etc. are all regularly mistaken for "The Computer".
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