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Do you think any programmer really understands how their program works end-to-end? At some abstraction layer, we're all clueless. There are many layers between
by mohsen1 2mo ago
Do you think any programmer really understands how their program works end-to-end? At some abstraction layer, we're all clueless. There are many layers between what you type into the text editor and the actual CPU ticks that make your program work. I bet nobody fully understands the whole stack.
Now that that text editor accepts English, we're all calling each other names, etc.
- yjftsjthsd-h 2mo agoI didn't say that Real Hackers™ understood every single thing perfectly from editor to electrons. You've made up a strawman and then beaten it.
- phoghed 2mo agoI can’t believe the nerve of that guy to straw man your no true Scotsman like that
- yjftsjthsd-h 2mo agoThat is... also a strawman. There are less skilled bad actors. There are more skilled bad actors. The bottom rung is script kiddies, so named because they just run other people's scripts. They are not Scottish.
- JonTarg 2mo agoReddit tier garbage thread ngl.
- fragmede 2mo agoUsed to be, knowing a ret from a nop (90) meant something. If you can just load up a model and say "hack teh NSA.gov" while not actually knowing anything about even DNS, what are we even doing?
- inigyou 2mo agoLOIC (a DDoS tool) worked that way. Xbox voice chat kids would just agree to open up LOIC, type nsa.gov and all hit start at the same time.
- NorwegianDude 2mo agoWhile most don't, there are developers who actually do understand systems from end to end. Most developers are terrible developers, compared to the really good ones.
- baby_souffle 2mo ago> While most don't, there are developers who actually do understand systems from end to end The last time intel made a CPU where the entire thing could fit in one persons head was probably the 8086 or thereabounts. There is no one developer or engineer at apple that understands everything going on from key press to bits moving around to print the characters I see when I type in this text box.
- inigyou 2mo agoCorrect. There are people who understand more and less and none of it. The latter are called script kiddies.
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