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vernrVingingIt

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    Comment #46319123

    Sure. The hang up here is SWEs belief those abstractions must be stored as some syntax they know; C, Python, RoR, Linux, Elixir... whatever. There is zero obligation to capture the…

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    Comment #46318860

    You don't see the connection because you weren't invited to participate in numerous discussions where these connections are made explicitly via detailed analysis. I have more to do…

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    Comment #46318763

    I meant they aren't sticking with obligation to software history. Of course they have not dumped their own methods.

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    Comment #46317695

    Easy; endlessly big little numbers. "Endless" until the machine runs out of real memory addresses anyway. You all really think engineers at Samsung, nVidia, etc whose job it is to …

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    Comment #46317456

    You all really believe PhDs and principle hardware engineers at Samsung, nVidia, etc have not worked around any abstract problem you all can come up with? We need a layer of abstra…

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    Comment #46316083

    Well starting over from first principles is exactly what the chip design and manufacture industry is doing. We also cannot afford, in non-finance terms, to burn all the resources o…

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    Comment #46315215

    Try almost 30 years in electrical engineering. I know exactly what those layers of abstraction are used for. Why so many? Jobs making layers of abstraction. But all of them are dev…

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    Comment #46315088

    Bachelors in electrical engineering, masters in math; elastic structures applied to modeling electrical systems. Started career in late 90s designing boards for telecom companies n…

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    Comment #46314801

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