Yes. This comes up even in the highest level and most trivial work. And not just “should be able to look it up”, but should know it in their sleep. Should als

Yes. This comes up even in the highest level and most trivial work. And not just “should be able to look it up”, but should know it in their sleep. Should also know other esoterica like e.g how a string could be zero terminated in one case but length prefixed in others, Joe they could be one, two, four, or variable numbers of bytes per character/glyph in a string and so on. Not because one needs this every day but a) because doing work adjacent to it means you eventually shoot yourself in the foot and b) doing any amount of work will expose you to this and not having picked up on it means you aren’t picking up things.