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by anonzzzies 936 days ago
That's the only answer; SICP and TAOCP are totally useless in an average modern setting. People just copilot glue drivel all day long. You have to be interested in fundamentals and basically write low level stuff (OS/DB/PLD) to really benefit from these things and most, by a large margin, will never touch that stuff.

Edit: for instance, there is now a SIMD article on HN #1; how many people actually are really interested in that? Those should overlap the people who would enjoy these books.