Re:Ask HN: What is the current driver of tech layoffs?
by graemep on Friday January 12, 2024 @09:29AM
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Not 10 or 15 years ago. Maybe that level of knowledge was common in the 70s or 80s.
It is not possible either now - there is just too much complexity for people to know all layers of a stack. Look at how much more complex just a CPU is. Transistor counts in CPUs have gone up by five or six orders of magnitude since the 8 bit era. We now have all kinds of complex optimisations like out of order execution.
It is not possible either now - there is just too much complexity for people to know all layers of a stack. Look at how much more complex just a CPU is. Transistor counts in CPUs have gone up by five or six orders of magnitude since the 8 bit era. We now have all kinds of complex optimisations like out of order execution.