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Why stop there? What about assembling the computer? In fact, he should be able to make the electronics if he truly knows about computers. Now that I think of it, given a mine, our superhero should be able to find ore needed, and given a field, he should be able to create electricity.

Then we have a true full stack developer. One that shouldn’t feel bad about himself.

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Actually yes, I know how to assemble a computer as well as to do sysadmin stuff (or at least enough to be able to search for the relevant docs).

Knowing about the abstraction layers under your javascript helps a lot with efficiency. If more people knew that maybe I wouldn't need 16 Gb of ram just for the browser tabs...

Edit: that doesn't mean you should write your own web server every time you do a new web site, but it would help if you do that once to get an idea of what's going on.

> One that shouldn’t feel bad about himself.

Nobody is suggesting that people who don't know all this stuff should feel bad about themselves, just that striving to understand it is admirable.

Also, the idea that you can continue in the same thought process all the way to mining is a little bit weird. Understanding your CPU, its ISA, your OS, etc. are arguably all potentially relevant for software developers. Knowing how to mine is not.

Certain Minecraft and Factorio players have done things like this often.

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