Damus
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I’m becoming deeply concerned by the explosion of growth in high level software, with a slow abandonment of low level engineering.

I’ve been in tech for as long as I can remember, and I don’t remember having the issues I have now, nor in this number. Every sentence is beginning to end with “if it works.”
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nobody · 140w
More fuel for the fire: Several high level engineers at my company just told me they didn't trust open source software.
The Beave · 140w
My observation, though I'm highly ignorant, is that the sheer speed of hardware allows for exceptionally sloppy coding to run so fast as to not really have an effect on nearly everything that people do. I know a bit more about assembly than most, because I dabbled in it for a while in my younger yea...
Oftening · 140w
Human development depends on the fine balance between abstraction and rigor. Humanity detached from rigor in the 20th century with the introduction of fiat money. That's why you can coexist with high level software but it suffers the nightmare of bugginess, because it isn't rooted on high rigor. Bi...