A terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad

Re:A terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad by mrheosuper on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @09:13PM (#45522383)

My point is, you should care what you work with, and it's perfectly fine to not know the lower detail.

Different people will care different layers.

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Re:A terminal command that tells you if your USB-C cable is bad by self_awareness on Thursday October 09, 2025 @04:27AM (#45525006)

I don't agree to this, but even if we assume I do, then all abstractions are still leaky, so in practice it's often simply impossible to not care about lower details.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leaky_abstraction

Not caring about lower details in the expert domain is simply carelessness. We also need to consider how the abstraction layers are merged and what is the outcome. Abstraction layers are a tool, they are not the immutable environment we are operating in.

Clients can have the luxury of not knowing what is in the details, but not programmers.

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