CyberTailor@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agoYour explanation of federation that it "works like email" will be misunderstoodtransfem.socialexternal-linkmessage-square92fedilinkarrow-up1209file-text
arrow-up1209external-linkYour explanation of federation that it "works like email" will be misunderstoodtransfem.socialCyberTailor@lemmy.world to Fediverse@lemmy.worldEnglish · 12 days agomessage-square92fedilinkfile-text
The linked post shows how most non-tech people’s understanding of email is very very different from most of the people here.
minus-squareuis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·12 days ago Don’t explain anything, there’s literally no point. Why are nerds so insistent that people understand technology? All people understand Ohm’s law now. It took only 150 years of explaining.
minus-squareDroechai@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·12 days agoI promise you that if you collect 10 random people and ask them what Ohms law is, at most you get 5 that knows it’s something about electricity. You are lucky if you have one that knows it.
minus-squareArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·12 days agoYeah I know it has to do with resistance but I couldn’t quote it to you rn, I’d have to look it up. And I’m vaping rn at .4ohms lol.
minus-squareuis@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 days agoIt’s taught in every school… At least in Europe.
minus-squareBlackmist@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 days agoGreat. So is history, trigonometry and literature. It doesn’t mean adults know it. Most of what you learn in school will be forgotten unless you have a reason to keep using it.
All people understand Ohm’s law now. It took only 150 years of explaining.
I promise you that if you collect 10 random people and ask them what Ohms law is, at most you get 5 that knows it’s something about electricity. You are lucky if you have one that knows it.
Yeah I know it has to do with resistance but I couldn’t quote it to you rn, I’d have to look it up. And I’m vaping rn at .4ohms lol.
It’s taught in every school… At least in Europe.
Great. So is history, trigonometry and literature.
It doesn’t mean adults know it. Most of what you learn in school will be forgotten unless you have a reason to keep using it.