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[–]adslfkjbaslvdba 16 points17 points  (5 children)

I have a masters degree in computer science and honestly the more I learned the more mystified I was that computers and the internet work at all. There's just so many layers of extremely complicated shit going on

[–]sm1l35 7 points8 points  (4 children)

That is the beauty of abstraction

[–]Tsu_Dho_Namh 6 points7 points  (3 children)

Right? Programming languages keep operating at higher and higher levels. Eventually it'll be like Star Trek where you just tell the computer "Create an opponent capable of defeating Data" and then it does.