Since 2008.
I’ve worked as a build engineer, application developer, web developer, product support, DevOps, etc.
I only ever had to worry about the limits, but never how it works in the background.
Comment on IEEE 754
okwhateverdude@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoHow long has this career been? What languages? And in what industries? Knowing how floats are represented at the bit level is important for all sorts of things including serialization and math (that isn’t accounting).
cyborganism@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
leisesprecher@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
More than a surface level understanding is not necessary. The level of detail in the meme is sufficient for 99,9% of jobs.
No, that’s not all just accounting, it’s pretty much everyone who isn’t working on very low level libraries.
What in turn is important for all sorts of things is knowing how irrelevant most things are for most cases. Bit level is not important, if you’re operating 20 layers above it, just as business logic details are not important if you’re optimizing a general math library.