If you ever had occasion to have an employer and/or project where this was called for, you could probably "be this smart"; it just comes down to interest and ne

If you ever had occasion to have an employer and/or project where this was called for, you could probably "be this smart"; it just comes down to interest and necessity. I dip in and out of these waters (performance optimization, more systems bare metal engineering), but basically on personal projects. I wish I had jobs where it was more called for, but it's not what most industry work needs.