I remember one time, back in the 80s, having to explain to a programmer newly learning C that you probably shouldn't statically allocate a 4 Mb array variable for a program meant to run on a 1 Mb machine with no paging, and that might explain why the program wasn't working.
Tired: "CS PhDs don't live in the real world of sweat, deadlines and hardware." Still really fuckin tired: "CS PhDs don't live in the real world of sweat, deadlines and hardware."
Like Bruh do you know how much computer science is in cache and storage studies and how many PhDs that alone has minted
Typo in alt text: Mike ACTON
I usually don't like these takes but I had a weird "are you messing with me?" convo with one of my CS profs were I had to convince him that in the real world API vendors change the interface on you sometimes. I was already full-time and he knew that, so at least he listened but it was weird.
When I moved to santa cruz someone I knew declared that UCSC's CS program was better than CSUN's because it taught *science* not *trade*. This same someone said it was impossible to have a C compiler that did bounds checking.