Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery

Re:Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery by DarkmSparks on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @03:44AM (#25207174)

>You seem to be insinuating that, used to, people were "more literate" and are becoming more ignorant.

No, I'm saying the goalposts moved - a lot. The same way widespread reading and writing moved the goalposts back in the day.

>How does not understanding how computers work limit people?

It puts them in the class that considers computers to be magic, like not knowing how to read and write put people in a class that considered industrial machinery and accounting to be magic.

In a world where computers do all the high paid jobs..... thats as low a class as being generally illiterate.

To put it really simply "computer illiterate" Is now a thing.

Actual written definition being: not able to use computers well, or not understanding basic things about computers

Didn't used to be. Wonder when it was added https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/computer...

edit:March 2008 https://public.oed.com/updates/new-words-list-march-2008/

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Re:Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery by rootlocus on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @07:37AM (#25208559)

Most people can use computers just fine which, by definition, is enough for them to be computer literate. Where's the problem?

How much do you need to know about how your car works to benefit from driving it?

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Re:Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery by kovek on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @07:20PM (#25215764)

Similarly to how literal literacy enables access to information, Computer Programming literacy could enable people to derive more value from open software, for example. It could enable people to automate some tasks, or make some tasks easier (eg. gathering + summarizing information, which can enable someone to make better predictions/decisions).

If I want to know what happened today, I can read the newspaper. If I want to know what happened on Nov 25, every year, I could write a quick script fetching this information from some source and look at that list showing Nov 25 (although yes, Wikipedia provides some of that info).

Computer Literacy provides tools to interact with information.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery by DarkmSparks on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @09:05AM (#25209304)

If this was 1990 I would agree with you. Its not 1990, and computers do a lot more than edit documents, watch netflix and browse the web, if thats where someones knowledge of computing ends they dont have an understanding of the basics and are by definition computer illiterate, modern day equivalent of signing their name with a palm print.

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