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This could only work if all people using computers are tech people, and willing to spend a couple of months learning latex or whatever.

None of the two conditions are reality, of course.

So yeah, that’s not happening.



no, instead they spend all their professional life not knowing what they work with, and waste much more time accumulated.


> no, instead they spend all their professional life not knowing what they work with, and waste much more time accumulated.

exactly, and that's great.

do you really think surgeons/nurses waste time getting intimate knowledge of all the machines they use?

Do you really think bus drivers have intimate knowledge of the engines of their buses, transmission lines etc?

come on, be reasonable.




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