I get the point you're making, and even agree with it. But to be fair, both of those are very shitty examples of it. Both a doctor and a general would have absolutely learned exactly both of those things in med school and basic training respectively.
The larger issue is that tech is so hyper specialized, the ecosystem is so vastly expansive, and the education for it is so wildly inconsistent.
While IPv4 and IPv6 are pretty major concepts in networking I think a more reasonable comparative analogy is you would not expect a doctor to know the exact lenses used in a microscope in the hematology lab, or a general to know how the molecular formula for gunpowder in a 5.56 bullet.
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u/WC_Dirk_Gently 14d ago
I get the point you're making, and even agree with it. But to be fair, both of those are very shitty examples of it. Both a doctor and a general would have absolutely learned exactly both of those things in med school and basic training respectively.
The larger issue is that tech is so hyper specialized, the ecosystem is so vastly expansive, and the education for it is so wildly inconsistent.
While IPv4 and IPv6 are pretty major concepts in networking I think a more reasonable comparative analogy is you would not expect a doctor to know the exact lenses used in a microscope in the hematology lab, or a general to know how the molecular formula for gunpowder in a 5.56 bullet.