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Re:What if you knew how computers work? (2015) by AmericanChopper on Saturday October 10, 2020 @12:46AM (#24736750)
> I tend to think that if more people understood how to program at this level, the weight of software and websites would be a lot less.

I’ve done assembler work, I’m perfectly competent at it. I would never try to build a website in anything low level like that. It’s optimizing for completely the wrong set of problems. The world has lots of network bandwidth, cpu cycles and volatile memory. You won’t find many situations where having a better performing website is worth sacrificing the savings in human labor you get from high level abstractions.

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Re:What if you knew how computers work? (2015) by tcgv on Saturday October 10, 2020 @12:57AM (#24736778)
I have a degree in electronic systems engineering. At college I learned about both digital and analog circuit design and fabrication. Had my fair share of FPGA and Assembly programming. Built some microcontrolled printed circuit boards. In summary, I believe I have a reasonable understanding of how computers work underneath, and I'm not interested in using anything other than a high level programming language for consumer application development as well ;)
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