Comment by selridge
1 day ago
Here is what I said:
“ This shift is an analogous to how we took having to do computer arithmetic out of the hands of programmers in the 80s. There used to be a substantial part of programming that was just a computer arithmetic. Now, almost nobody does that. Nobody in this thread could build a full adder if their life depended on it or produce an accurate sin function.”
It is truly not my fault that you proceeded to lecture me for multiple posts just to reach the conclusion that I SET OUT FOR YOU: standardization of computer arithmetic is good and makes it so that someone doing math on a computer doesn’t need to become an expert on how the computer does math.
As I said when you first insinuated yourself: I don’t need your help to be an engineer or a developer, thank you. You persisted anyway and embarrassed yourself.
Lol, you still don't get it.
Standardization means you only need to become an expert in the standard. You still need to know the standard.
And to your point in the quoted part: I absolutely could, as could any of the people who I studied with (in this century).
When you add abstraction laters you do still need to understand how the underlying layers work in order to manage upper layers.
Look, I accept that I've posted more than I should about this. But it's only because you keep saying "nuh-uh". And when you start arguing in bad faith about what I've said, that should be called out.
Saying you disagree is fine, but becoming so flustered you respond dishonestly is not.