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by melkiaur 3074 days ago
I understand perfectly well how my car works. I know I could change the oil if I wanted to, yet I also know that I have never and will never do so, because it's messy, time-consuming the first couple of times, and you still have to dispose of the old oil anyway.

That mindset, my mindset, is completely alien to people of my parents generation. I think it's the same thing for hobby programming in my generation.