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[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Me: I could spend a month getting deep into trigonometry… OR, I could spend a month looking for a library that contains someone else’s trigonometry.

[-] ChowJeeBai@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

We learn theory not to understand the derivation of the details, but to understand how the theory fits in with everything else. Using a library without understanding the theory just means you know that sin(angle) is just a number, but not how the number helps you work out the length of steel beam as it changes due to changes in angle.

They are simply not the same.

Source: working with juniors that can't do anything outside of what the libraries do for them.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed, but almost everyone here can relate to trying to find efficiencies that end up costing you just as much time.

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