The ability to abstract a problem into a meaningfully simpler problem is what separates script kiddies from real engineers.
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Stephen Funk
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In Andrew Kelley’s talk “Getting Cancelled,” he says, “a CPU core is a primitive that…”
In this sentence, “primitive” means “a basic building block upon which or with which a (mental) model is constructed”
How does that compare with our typical understanding of “primitive” in…
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