[waltherg]

I usually have at least some broad, high level understanding of what tech outside my narrow scope looks like.

Reading the comments here I have zero clue what you're talking about.

Is this what my less technically inclined colleagues feel like when people talk about e.g. machine learning and Python?

[coldtea]

The comments thus far seem pretty tame. What are you talking about?

Haven't seen any heavy Haskell-type monadology talk in this comment section for example...

At worst, you might not know the name of specific SML compilers/implementations mentioned.

But I don't see anything here that a Python guy with a general grasp of PL wouldn't know...