The Decline of Hardware Knowledge in the Era of Cloud Native Compute

Re:The Decline of Hardware Knowledge in the Era of Cloud Nat... by bayindirh on Saturday February 03, 2024 @02:32PM (#39243900)

There are many terms about computers in English which have been borrowed from similar acts in real life. Compiling, interpreting, context switching, branching, etc. Similarly, rendering is reserved for the last step, converting whatever you have to something which can be shown.

You render videos, text, etc. The thing is, they are not modified further, they are shown.

When you "render" to HTML, you "render it again" for display. So it's not rendering in "Computer Science Sense", hence making the usage wrong.

Otherwise, JIT and interpreted would mean the same thing, but they're not. Because JIT allows tons of other things from a techincal point of view.

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Re:The Decline of Hardware Knowledge in the Era of Cloud Nat... by hamandcheese on Saturday February 03, 2024 @02:39PM (#39243965)

Your screen buffer certainly undergoes additional transformations and modifications on the way to your monitor.

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Re:The Decline of Hardware Knowledge in the Era of Cloud Nat... by bayindirh on Saturday February 03, 2024 @04:29PM (#39244938)

In the sense that the signal that’s generated by the photons hitting your eyes are transformed by your brain. They don’t change the essence.

However, going from text to pixels is a bigger and more profound change. You’re still in the same domain from framebuffer to the brain, with an optoisolator in the middle.

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