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> Learn the basics and it's amazing the mileage you get.

This could also be described as the Dunning-Kruger effect

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

There is a massive difference between “learning the basics” and understanding it to a competent level that we can reproduce it.

I know the basics of how rockets work but that doesn’t mean I could build a rocket and successfully launch it. Yet your comment suggests I’m already qualified to single-handedly deploy the next Starlink.




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