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Break before make, abstractions, and sleazy ISPs (2019)
- dang 3y agoDiscussed at the time: Break before make, abstractions, and sleazy ISPs - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21169945 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21169945 - Oct 2019 (30 comments)
- buildbot 3y agoThe tower of abstractions we’ve built is indeed the stuff of nightmare fuel - we are just starting to see the results of what we’ve wrought! The articles example is great, another good one is all of the spectre and meltdown CPU arch bugs - these chips now how so many layered components working together, so complex that potential issues are hard to test or weird machines can be built were people least expect.