109 karma · joined June 3, 2022
You can be a central and large contributor on a project and know it. If you lord over other people with that knowledge and position and flex to stroke your ego, that's pride and arrogance.
That is the point. The governments of the world hate any privacy you have. They're just turning the screws until they can get rid of cash.
I've had a career ranging from telecom and supercomputer chips to mobile, desktop, and web dev. I do not think my lack of exposure to the internet at a young age has limited me.
Kids don't need computers. The internet is a cesspool filled with dysentary. They'll have to learn to navigate the cesspool someday, just like they need to learn to avoid heroin, but you don't need to teach your 4 year old not to seek out good fruit of the opium poppy. Some lessons can and should be delayed.
As Jeff Atwood wrote, "Performance is a Feature" https://blog.codinghorror.com/performance-is-a-feature/
So, if your answer to the question, "Do you want speed, trivially?" is "No, I do not." Ok.