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Cyrus Lopez published an essay last week, ‘The Last People Who Know How It Works’, and it’s the best thing I’ve read about computing this year. It mourns an intimacy with machines that he thinks is ending: the boot disk built for one game, the IRQ jumper set with a fingernail, the modem handshake you could diagnose by ear before the line dropped. His case is that competence is safe, because the…
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