Software is useless without hardware that can properly execute it. In another world - she'd explain, when allowed to really get on a roll - hardware is Someone Else's Job, unless you make it yours, and when you make it yours you trade your trust for time. Hacking is thought of as a solitary, introspective pursuit, and that's not wrong, but hacking is also full of dependencies. As a hobby, profession, and culture, it's built on negotiating dependencies, deciding whose work to trust and whose work to eschew, usually exchanging faith in corporate product for faith in personal connections.
(Managing those personal connections, in Erika's sphere, is also Someone Else's Job.)
Under the current circumstances, though? You make do. To be a hacker is to use resources to solve a problem. Not applying yourself is just not a respectable way to go about things. If the hard way is the only way, then you're doing things the hard way.]
Mm. It raises some awkward questions for me about the motives involved...like if it's a case of being sent away, or released. [She shakes her head, though. That's kind of secondary and she doesn't want to give it too much thought right now.] I guess it's moot if we can't control or prevent it either way, but it's the way people react to it as a belief that I've been thinking about. If we rest our sense of security on thinking there's already a way out, we do better in the short term. But what happens if we get evidence that contradicts that? Maybe it's better to temper our expectations.
[She slides the sheet of dissected pieces to him to look over.]
Also, not everyone takes it the same way. It's alienating to have your needs run counter to everyone else's. Now that so many people talk about "going home" like it's a reward, or the primary goal...
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Software is useless without hardware that can properly execute it. In another world - she'd explain, when allowed to really get on a roll - hardware is Someone Else's Job, unless you make it yours, and when you make it yours you trade your trust for time. Hacking is thought of as a solitary, introspective pursuit, and that's not wrong, but hacking is also full of dependencies. As a hobby, profession, and culture, it's built on negotiating dependencies, deciding whose work to trust and whose work to eschew, usually exchanging faith in corporate product for faith in personal connections.
(Managing those personal connections, in Erika's sphere, is also Someone Else's Job.)
Under the current circumstances, though? You make do. To be a hacker is to use resources to solve a problem. Not applying yourself is just not a respectable way to go about things. If the hard way is the only way, then you're doing things the hard way.]
Mm. It raises some awkward questions for me about the motives involved...like if it's a case of being sent away, or released. [She shakes her head, though. That's kind of secondary and she doesn't want to give it too much thought right now.] I guess it's moot if we can't control or prevent it either way, but it's the way people react to it as a belief that I've been thinking about. If we rest our sense of security on thinking there's already a way out, we do better in the short term. But what happens if we get evidence that contradicts that? Maybe it's better to temper our expectations.
[She slides the sheet of dissected pieces to him to look over.]
Also, not everyone takes it the same way. It's alienating to have your needs run counter to everyone else's. Now that so many people talk about "going home" like it's a reward, or the primary goal...