Comment by virtualritz
4 hours ago
> mythos allowed mediocre people to get results by holding their hand through the process,
Yes, just like early cars allowed mediocre horse riders to get from A to B with dignity.
Or like my Japanese rice cooker allows a person like me, utterly shitty at preparing this, to eat some rice that is cooked to perfection.
Etc.
I mean, the calculator is my go to analogy I keep bringing up in this debate.
It lets someone with mediocre long division skills to just do the thing they need to do with fewer steps and less friction.
IDA itself is a tool that helps you decompile code without having to do a lot of things.
knowing long division does not help you make the calculator do division better.
Understanding math absolutely makes a calculator more useful to you though.
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Should mediocre people be preforming heart surgery?
I'm sure many 'mediocre' people perform heart surgery. Only 100 years ago, the idea of a person without a certain surname or race, would've been a ghastly preposition, no?
Do you... think heart surgery has become LESS dependent on surgical skill in the last 100 years? Cardiovascular surgeons spend MORE time in training now than they did 100 years ago.
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It depends. Mediocre doctor in a remote area with right tooling assistance as opposed to no one being available for someone who urgently needs one? Yeah this should be a thing. Should a software bro in NY perform it in dark alley despite having best doctors few blocks away? Maybe not…
Lots of mediocre people already are.
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