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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
lukasa@hachyderm.io ("Cory Benfield") wrote:
@jacob @glyph What I have loved about this is the discovery that absolutely everyone feels this way about the networking layer right below them. The kernel networking folks are like "look, I hand it off to the NIC driver and then some magic happens, I dunno”. The NIC driver folks are all “there's just some bitbanging and then I flip an MSR and then this whole other computer in the computer does a thing". The NIC folks all go "look the IC has a data sheet, I just prod it and hope”.