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Very true, though unlike a towering software stack, the chances that your hardware was going to suddenly start doing something surprising were lower (not nil, o
by blacksmith_tb 5y ago
Very true, though unlike a towering software stack, the chances that your hardware was going to suddenly start doing something surprising were lower (not nil, obviously, or we wouldn't have started virtualizing hw, but now any one of several package managers could take your app down).
- teddyh 5y ago> chances that your hardware was going to suddenly start doing something surprising were lower Spoken like someone who has never had to debug (for instance) why a serial port is not connecting properly. All abstractions are leaky¹. 1. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...