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JP

@darius @cypnk Yeah, I think the default new user experience of computers now is being "trained" on a very narrow application (office work, point of sale, whatever) and being almost actively discouraged from playing around. It's so grim! And yeah I suspect lots of educational institutions go in assuming people have skills that they wouldn't be taught anywhere other than those institutions. It's one of the rare areas I think where new software could fill a huge gap.

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brennen

@jplebreton @darius @cypnk it's weird to think about this in contrast to how much of my adult life i've spent on things that are supposed to bootstrap people into being able to hack on stuff - and how much of that winds up just being a pipeline for creating technical professionals, while basic capacities are more and more just stolen from the vast majority of people by those same professionals.

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