Gregory's Server@AlaskaWx @chu I d argue its magic to all of us.. Depending how close you look at it. Even if you study informatics/computer science, if you go in deep enough into the hardware side of things you won't understand all software in the "social media stack" in your lifetime and vice versa. If down to the bits and bites and electrical charges of chips or boardlayout or individual lines of code... Libraries. No chance.
@FrayJay @AlaskaWx @chu
There is a big difference between not knowing e.g. exactly how a black-box function works, but knowing all the variables you have to pass to it and what it returns, and just thinking the computer is "smart" and works by magically figuring things out.