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by alias1 2951 days ago
Definitely agree here. I tend to like to get the gist of things/cliffnotes from people that have already broken it down, and then deep dive into the spec if I need to know some explicit detail.

Most of the time when I want to hack on something, a super high level abstraction is more than sufficient for my needs (eg. don't need to understand the inner workings of a CPU if all I need is an API). But then there are those times when the spec, in all it's verbose rawness, is the perfect tool for the job.