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How would figure out how it really got there though?

That you can, for the most part, peel back layers and trace steps back to an origin is one of my favorite things about code.

But for a heterogeneous system of opaque supply chains in the physical world?

For any given random stuff, I don’t know that I could make reliable progress in that endeavor.




Sending someone at <wherever> an email saying "I'm working on a school project. Can you tell me about X, please?" probably has a higher success-rate than you'd think.


> For any given random stuff, I don’t know that I could make reliable progress in that endeavor.

I bet you'd get better at it after doing it for a while, and that in itself is a valuable skill.




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