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Re:“Alexa, what is my WiFi password?” by grepfru_it on Saturday April 01, 2023 @09:59AM (#35400358)
>and a lot of problems that were hard for you and me are no longer hard today.

I spent my teenage years learning and understanding sendmail milters. I got to a point where I could write them from scratch. Guess how useful this knowledge is today...

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Re:“Alexa, what is my WiFi password?” by uncanneyvalley on Saturday April 01, 2023 @05:06PM (#35404065)
> Guess how useful this knowledge is today...

But today, the useful bit is the process you learned to obtain that level of mastery.

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