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by seanwilson 3219 days ago
> I have the feeling that knowledge about bits is lacking by a lot of younger coders. And I also think this is what causes bloatware.

I don't think this is true. I used to code in assembly and knowledge of bits is largely irrelevant the vast majority of the time now outside of graphics algorithms and low-level number crunching. Algorithmic growth and memory usage are always going to be important though.