There's no practical way to avail yourself to all the latest advancements that find their way into your work in computers. Even as someone who tries to activel

There's no practical way to avail yourself to all the latest advancements that find their way into your work in computers. Even as someone who tries to actively question assumptions that may no longer hold I still find myself constantly flat-footed. I can't pretend like I know all the various advancements in processor architecture of the past 5 years (since 2018) or how modern compilers exploit them and also the latest techniques in GPU computing. Heck even old rules of thumb like the speed of platter drives are being challenged - mechanical drives with 500M/s throughput are hitting the shelves this year. I just upgraded a platter RAID where I'm getting ~1000M/s. The SSD delta has changed (that's of course assuming SSD hasn't moved which I'm sure is also false). I'm sure there's new advancement in material science and manufacturing that I'm also not privy too which has made this possible. Storage alone is another vast world. I don't know all the features of ext4, xfs, zfs, hammer, and btrfs or how to competently compare and tune them for various workloads or how that analysis has changed in say the past 24 months. This is something I became intimately aware of when upgrading the array. I didn't know any of the modern tools or approaches. All knowledge in this space eventually becomes vestigial and outdated and it's physically impossible to keep up. I haven't even kept up with the latest C features. Then there's Go, Rust, Typescript and countless other languages that each require at minimum, a hundred hours a year each to competently follow. The best we can do is have humility and continually approach things as a student because we never know what table leg has been knocked out underneath us without our noticing.