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Great point man. There's a case for both types of peeps. Although AI will definitely move the needle in regard to how much arcane knowledge is needed. To his point however, typically (and I'm generalizing) most of the super hardcore devs have serious social issues. Not that crappy devs don't too. But, what if the hardcore dev makes the wrong thing or doesn't think outside the box to see if it's even needed? Arcane or not it's just wasting time. Or what if he/she isn't a team player?
So, while knowing what you're doing is super, duper important. I guess I'm just replying for the heck of it to say soft skills be important too.
Jeremy Falcon
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Both are... but specialized knowledge will become much, much less important as machines just do it themselves and companies look to save money. Most coders don't really learn squat anyway, so it's not like much will change in that regard.
This is just the short-term mind you. Pretty sure in 300 years from now AI will be so advanced no human will ever be able to figure it out anymore.
Jeremy Falcon
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What's the gist of the talk?
Jeremy Falcon
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How a single "obscure" line of code can lead to a rabbit's hole of a discussion
It goes from the (char)0 = 0; to a modern C++ representation and how it can be executed on a near physical CPU
Thrue memory mapping from Virtual Space to Physical Space and page tables walking.
In the end, it's more like an interview question and see how a potential candidate can talk about this.
And as the speaker says, it's more a question for people that will work really low level (compilers, hardware ... )
CI/CD = Continuous Impediment/Continuous Despair
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Maximilien wrote: Thrue memory mapping from Virtual Space to Physical Space and page tables walking. Crap, now I have to watch the video because I'm not connecting the dots of how (char)0 = 0 turns into talking about protected memory, etc. Unless the title is trying to sound fancy and has nothing to do with that?
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Writing through a pointer whose address is out of bounds to your process, like a null pointer, results in a trap because of memory protection. SIGSEGV on *nix systems and 0xC0000005 on Windows.
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That makes sense sure, just never seen anyone write to a null pointer. Then again, anything can happen I guess.
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In the video, he mentions that maybe someone wanted to do it on purpose! And indeed, I have code that does it (actually using an invalid pointer, not a null one) to test the ability to recover, instead of aborting, when it happens.
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Lack of small period (8)
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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Shortage
Small: short
period: age
In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. - Hunter S Thompson - RIP
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tag, you're it tomorrow.
// TODO: Insert something here Top ten reasons why I'm lazy
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What makes a celebrity cool?
Lots of fans!
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
modified 17-Oct-23 17:28pm.
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BJOD...not the definition that came to mind, but I wasn't really expecting it to be...
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