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Computer sciences:

- pure maths: algorithms

- physics and chemistry: how to build physically from "scratch" a computer.

Namely, without a strong scientific background, you just are a script kiddy until you decide to go thru years of really tough learning. Why do you think high school kids can code assembly which gets the job done?

What we call "tech", is just "usage implementation", but there you get full frontal with the worst the human kind can deliver in falsehood, toxic excess, etc.

So when you come from the "clean and pure" (well, you have smart and evil people)... computer sciences field, hitting this toxic diarrhea, this "usage implementation", because you need to have the job done, ooooof!

My copium: stay as close to the bare metal as possible using a near-0 SDK and aim for the very long run, but you will have to fight complexity where it does not belong, like the javascripted web, many file file formats (for instance runtime ELF), and for that, better get your lawyer ready and start to enlighten your administration for regulations, because you will have to deal with the (big) tech mob.




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