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Re:SQLite briefing for Linux kernel hackers (2019) by hakre on Saturday November 21, 2020 @10:15AM (#25170140)
Which metric? Leaky abstractions is a "Law", not a metric.

Are you looking for experience?

[ see Wikipedia for contextual meaning of law here, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_(principle) ]

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Re:SQLite briefing for Linux kernel hackers (2019) by mishac on Saturday November 21, 2020 @10:31AM (#25170207)
I think by "metric" he means your definition of a good abstraction, not the fact that all abstractions leak.
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