Comment by Elfener
1 year ago
"It's about knowing what happens when you type "google.com" and press Enter" is possibly the best short explanation of hacker culture ever.
1 year ago
"It's about knowing what happens when you type "google.com" and press Enter" is possibly the best short explanation of hacker culture ever.
Yep, I still remember the feeling when I first developed at least some mental model for all the steps along the way from "enter" to seeing the results, and realized that it was even more shockingly complex than I imagined it to be when it was just magic, and that despite that complexity, it all actually works many billions of times every moment of every day.
Then what happened is that pretty much every year (maybe closer to every day) since then I have learned about some piece of the puzzle where my mental model was actually nowhere near the truth, and that each individual puzzle piece is even more complex than I thought! Truly wild stuff.
It literally goes on to say "But being a hacker is so much more than these things." after that, so it's not just about things like those :)
We used to know what would happen. Now with AI, it might recommend putting glue on pizza or making bioweapons for a potluck.