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I am looking for a term - a good word for the feeling I got reading this article. It's a bit like the Iain Banks term "swim" - the lizard brain feeling for a human on a distant planet suddenly wondering how it got here

I am looking for a term describing the realisation that your toolset is ridiculously, hopelessly inadequate. I have happily taken hard disks apart and pulled at the heads and platters and thought "I have seen therefore I understand" - and it's articles like this that give me $TERM - the feeling that I have seen, I have had the Press Release explanation, but I am not even close to seeing or understanding




Ahh, thanks for reminding me of that term; I've desperately had it on the tip of my mind for a few days now!




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