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by AlecSchueler 113 days ago
> Ask a twenty-two-year-old to connect to a remote server via SSH. Ask them to explain what DNS is at a conceptual level.

I feel like when I was twenty two I would have been very surprised if more than a couple of my peers knew this stuff.
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neogodless 113 days ago
Used computers for about 35 years before the first time I first tried to "connect to a remote server via SSH". Go figure.

DNS is a phone book, I think!

But yeah, maybe "bad examples" by the author.

The one that really confuses me is this, though:

> You’ve built a generation that can’t extract a zip file without a dedicated app and calls it innovation.

Sorry, what are you saying? Software exists to unzip files. It used to be a "dedicated app" like WinZip, 7zip, WinRAR, etc. Now it's built into Windows. Or you use the 'unzip' command in Linux.

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