Exactly. That was captured in one of Clippy’s most famous lines.
“I see you’re trying to write a letter. Can I help?”
“I see you’re trying to write a résumé. Can I help?”
This of course got parodied a million times:
“I see you’re trying to write a radical manifesto. Can I help?”
“I see you’re trying to write a suicide note. Can I help?”
So they’ll just go build it in Chandler with all the others instead, I guess?
There are different levels of understanding.
I’m trained in physical sciences. I studied at university and then worked ~8 years for a research department and at one point learned 2D NMR and how to run molecular simulations on a supercomputer. I’m well aware of the challenges of winning grants against colleagues and getting papers published and surviving peer review and then hoping your work gets noticed outside your weird little niche.
My buddy is a schoolteacher. He can run circles around me with arithmetic and explain the scientific method in rap format. Kids eat it up! But he’s probably never done a gradient integral (not that I remember how either) or contributed to a collegiate press release.
We’re both ostensibly working with the same core principles but the reality ends up quite different. Context matters.
C’mon, we all end up at /dev/null eventually. Just don’t gaze long into it or it might gaze into you.
Everything you can buy is also available for free.
Iffff you’re willing to spend many many hours grinding against artificial RNG and pretending your time has zero value.
But yeah enough patience and persistence can technically get you almost everything (I stopped after 50 warframes).
Right? It’s especially worth at least a second or even third glance in places that have a historical predilection to metastatic fascism.