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 (DIR) Post #Aqxpl7LVdFcYomUajw by wilkie@archived.software
       2025-02-09T04:03:38Z
       
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       My boss complaining about some professional development things: "It's like when you have to learn assembly to get a CS degree... we'll never use that."Me, a person that taught assembly courses and writes it regularly: W...wh... *scoff!*
       
 (DIR) Post #AqxplDvXAE0DEFORiy by wilkie@archived.software
       2025-02-09T04:20:35Z
       
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       For one, web assembly exists albeit a much higher-level automaton than a normal CPU.More importantly, it remains a very appropriate place to view computation where it is obvious how to use it to think about tradeoffs between abstraction and efficiency."here's a thing that adds numbers. do you add more complexity? or just make it add very very fast?" and then, bam, now consider parallelism.Learning about how to think about abstraction is good!