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Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 21:15:14 UTC No. 16176111
>brother does 'Data Management'
>"i'm not really into the hardware side of things"
then how do you manage the data? what is it you tell the computer to do through the programs you write?
Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 21:20:46 UTC No. 16176119
>>16176111
>t. I only code in ASM
Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 21:23:28 UTC No. 16176126
>>16176111
Thanks to the low-level codemonkeys and pseudo-codemonkeys (aka digital circuit designers using HDL), they don't need to know such details. They are well abstracted from the hardware.
Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 21:33:06 UTC No. 16176140
>>16176126
but how are you supposed to make anything efficiently if you dont know the machine you are working with
Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 21:43:51 UTC No. 16176179
>>16176140
>But how can he hit the ball that far he knows literally nothing about woodworking
Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 21:48:12 UTC No. 16176194
>>16176140
Nothing digital has been made efficiently in at least 20 years.
Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 22:20:43 UTC No. 16176251
>>16176111
Software makes requests to an Operating system. The OS then controls the hardware. This allows software developers to have zero knowledge of how hardware works.
This is generally a good thing. A simple hello-world would be ten thousand lines of code if it had to talk directly to the graphics card and it would only be able to run on a computer with that specific card. Different programs would constantly be overwriting each others data if they were talking directly to the hard drive instead of going through the OS.
Anonymous at Tue, 14 May 2024 22:26:07 UTC No. 16176269
>>16176251
Knowing how the hardware, kernel / OS, and associated firmware and software work is important when optimizing the performance, stability, and extensibility of a codebase. That includes databases.
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 08:08:49 UTC No. 16176805
>>16176269
Not enough to matter evidently.
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 11:14:34 UTC No. 16176911
>>16176111
I was reading about software "engineers" who had never manually coded a for loop
They just tell an API to do everything
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 20:45:17 UTC No. 16177443
>>16176140
It has been the case for decades that it is far more cost effective to buy a monster machine than to make the software fast and efficient. Bloat? Just stuff in 128 GB RAM. Slow? Use a 64 core machine.
Anonymous at Wed, 15 May 2024 22:53:36 UTC No. 16177603
>>16176140
Computers are so fast these days, it's basically a waste of time to make software truly efficient.