02.06.2025 22:50:17 Paul Lalonde <[email protected]>: > Stanley writes: > > but how do we transmit deep knowledge of strange computing concepts that > experience teaches are rarely happily received (new users always know better, > and/or demand their favorite tools) without inducing the candidate to read? > > I posit that it is easier for many users to engage with the documentation, > position papers, and other materials from a position in which they have a > working system in front of them on which to try out the concepts that are > being described in the papers. > Read a bit, install a system, try a bit, read a bit more, try a bit more, dig > into some code, which magically is there and findable with the 'src' command, > which they just read about.
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