Me too! To add to that, whenever I see good visuals of global energy markets, and traders in a room full of screens, I get excited in a way I use to get excited seeing a terminal being used before I knew anything about coding.
I still randomly will encounter people who asked what I do and then happened to see terminal on the screen and are like oh wow you're a really technical person. One time it was a stewardess and a court reporter who saw me tailing logs on an application I was debugging. And they're like how can you even tell what's going on when all I was doing was looking for the obvious patterns of java stack traces.
Another was a guy sitting at a bar next to me who turned out to be a NFL sports reporter. And same deal I opened up the terminal and he's like oh shit your real smart. As I'm literally just listing a directory and then doing a git status.
What's even more fun is when you have actual experts doing things with the very computer you're fixing; using tools and datasets way beyond my comprehension, get amazed by opening a terminal or CMD and fixing something.
There is a scene in Orwells Homage to Catalonia that reminds me about this:
A young italian peasant militia man, stands with open mouth, astonished off his genious officers, who were reading a simple map. So, this is an old trope.
Education is important it seems and while I don't think that everyone needs to get along with a terminal, everyone should at least understand what it is. For most people computers are essentially dark magic. And I think this us not doing good to society that has become so dependant on Computers.
For me, it was sitting in the back of a lecture hall, with a law prof, showing how AOL instant messenger danced across on the school's wifi unencrypted. I miss those days of easy ethereal magic.
grogenaut|2 years ago
Another was a guy sitting at a bar next to me who turned out to be a NFL sports reporter. And same deal I opened up the terminal and he's like oh shit your real smart. As I'm literally just listing a directory and then doing a git status.
bombcar|2 years ago
hutzlibu|2 years ago
A young italian peasant militia man, stands with open mouth, astonished off his genious officers, who were reading a simple map. So, this is an old trope.
Education is important it seems and while I don't think that everyone needs to get along with a terminal, everyone should at least understand what it is. For most people computers are essentially dark magic. And I think this us not doing good to society that has become so dependant on Computers.
sandworm101|2 years ago