What's the probability that any one human on the planet understands a computer from the level of lithography to JavaScript and literally everything in between
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A friend of mine began life designing hardware, wrote the first hypervisor in the mainframe days, at one well known company wrote two OSes, designed their multimedia coprocessor, […]
@mjg59 how deep of an understanding we talking?
because for very very basic of both, i'd say its very likely
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Jeri Ellsworth gets pretty close :)
@mjg59 Back in the '80s, quite high: Sophie Wilson being the obvious example. Now? Not a chance.
One of my younger colleagues (early 20s) asked me how I learned all this stuff, as there's […]
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Understands at the level of "I can do this work to the standard of the average professional? Absolutely zero.
@mjg59 Pretty high.
@mjg59 Just missing the details of how modern day wafers are formed and cut, and whatever exotic thing is used to emit single digit nanometers, but otherwise have the rest. I know a few others […]
@mjg59 what’s a good book on lithography? I am solid on javascript down to assembly but my understanding of the pesky physical reality layers is a bit baby.
@mjg59 Define “understand”. As software developer for a major litho equipment manufacturer I have some knowledge about the whole stack, but I’m very very far removed from the “can reproduce […]
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I don't know about lithography, but I'm pretty sure nobody even knows everything about JavaScript.
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