bleistift2 comments on muskrat's data eng expert's hard drive overheats while processing 60k rows

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz -5 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I never said that it was impossible for a farmer to learn things outside their immediate field. Just like computer programmers often have knowledge of hardware and the general technology stack.

My point, to make it explicit to a few of the illiterates who’ve replied to my comment so far, is that it is not necessary to teach a web developer how a goddamn CPU works. They can gain nothing from that knowledge because there are at least 3 levels of abstraction between JavaScript and assembly.

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[–] KnitWit@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

And my point is that the example you used does not make the point you are trying to make, but rather the opposite. I get what you’re saying, it just doesn’t apply to farmers and mechanics.

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[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 9 points 2 years ago

Yeah. Every farmer I've met was also a solid mechanic.

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[–] bane_killgrind@slrpnk.net 12 points 2 years ago

Operating your tools and being able to maintain and repair your tools are the unequivocally essential skills for everyone in every single industry.

If you can't, you are not a professional.

The concepts of machine logic, registers/lookups/etc are essential for every programmer. If you don't have a clear idea about how the simplest CPU functions, you don't have any basis of understanding the abstractions in front of you, scripting in JS. Not a professional.

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[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 years ago*

no but a web dev should have some knowledge basis on what the ever living fuck their AIDs code fuelled by nothing but the cheapest source of caffeine and brain damage they have even does.

This is the entire reason why half of the internet is just broken, stupid developers who don't know how anything works, but know how to code, making dogshit implementations of anything and everything they can get their hands on.

It doesn't matter that the learning is segmented, you should STILL be learning about computer hardware and it's architectural choices, it's literally the reason why programming languages work the way that they do.

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