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by jqpabc123 208 days ago
To some, the computer is more than just a tool. It is an all consuming virtual environment that comes to define their existence.

These folks don't want to avoid the details and minutia and eccentricities of applications, they want to wallow in them.

Their appetite for this sort of "knowledge" borders on addiction. They program the computer but the computer has also programmed them.