alt Hacker NewsMoving up abstraction layers really only succeeds with a solid working knowledge of the lower layers. Otherwise, you're just flying blind, operating on faith. A common source of bugs is precisely a result of developers failing to understand the limits of the abstractions they are using.
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AbstractH24 • last Sunday at 4:11 PM
So we can all only succeed if we know how CPUs handle individual instructions?
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We only need to do that when it’s practical for the task at hand. Some tasks are life-and-death, but many have much lower stakes.