I have got this notice from Google regarding use of cookies in my blog, and that people if any, from EU countries who read my blog must be notified about such cookies and that Google has kindly taken upon itself to do so.
I am totally technology challenged. So people from EU please note my blog has whatever cookies Google has used and has presumably notified you in a notice that is not visible to people elsewhere (link does not work).
I have over the years come to terms with the fact that I cannot understand the workings of most of the things I use. During my student days (long, long ago), I was using a couple of Fortran programs written by someone for various calculations. Though I understood what the program did and its outcome, I knew I could not have written all that code. I had made a few minor alterations to suit my work, but could never have written it myself. I tried to tell myself that just as I can understand and use a spectrum from a spectrophotometer without being able to build one, I should use the huge programs without needing to write it all myself, but I was only half convinced. That bothered me a lot and really undermined my confidence.
Now we use so much technology that I don't think anyone fully understands all that they use. Why should they? One doesn't reinvent the wheel every time one makes a bicycle or build a car in order to drive one.
I am totally technology challenged. So people from EU please note my blog has whatever cookies Google has used and has presumably notified you in a notice that is not visible to people elsewhere (link does not work).
I have over the years come to terms with the fact that I cannot understand the workings of most of the things I use. During my student days (long, long ago), I was using a couple of Fortran programs written by someone for various calculations. Though I understood what the program did and its outcome, I knew I could not have written all that code. I had made a few minor alterations to suit my work, but could never have written it myself. I tried to tell myself that just as I can understand and use a spectrum from a spectrophotometer without being able to build one, I should use the huge programs without needing to write it all myself, but I was only half convinced. That bothered me a lot and really undermined my confidence.
Now we use so much technology that I don't think anyone fully understands all that they use. Why should they? One doesn't reinvent the wheel every time one makes a bicycle or build a car in order to drive one.
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