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(/theory-building-without-a-mentor/) you can learn these things too . everyone has their own area of specialization if you don't want to spend a bunch of time learning about how computers work, you don't have to! not knowing about gory computer internals does not make you dumb or computer illiterate or anything. everyone has their own specialty and mine is compilers and build systems. i don't know jack shit about economics or medicine! having a different specialty than me doesn't mean you're dumb. i really hate that computing and STEM have this mystique in our society. to the extent that engineering demonstrates intelligence, it's by repeatedly forcing you to confront the results of your own mistakes , in such a way that errors can't be ignored. there are lots of ways to do that which don't involve programming or college-level math! performance art and carpentry and running your own business or household all force you to confront your own mistakes in this way and deserve no less respect than STEM. if i can't feminize my compiler, what's the point? by and large, when i learn new things about computers, it's because i'm fucking around. the fucking around is the point. if all the writing helps people learn and come up with cool new ideas, that's neat too. half the time the fucking around is just to make people say \"jyn NO\". half the time it's because i want to make art with my code. i really, sincerely, believe that art is one of the most important uses for a computer. i'm not doing this for the money. i happened to get very lucky that my passion pays very well, but i got into this industry before realizing how much programmers actually make, and now that i work for a european company i don't make US tech salaries anyway. i do it for the love of the game. some extracts from the jyn computer experience: (https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/118756) (screenshot of a rust-lang PR titled 'use bold magenta instead of bold white for highlighting'. the first sentence in the description is 'according to a poll of gay people in my phone, purple is the most popular color to use for highlighting') (a series of quotes such as \"jyn yeah you're fucking insane\" and \"what the actual fuck. but also i love it\") (https://bsky.app/profile/jyn.dev/post/3klso625ibr26) (screenshot of a bluesky post by jyn that says \"She is humming. 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