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by jukea 902 days ago
I’m curious : how would knowing more about electronics improve code ? To me, the basic properties of electricity are hidden behind the higher level hardware components code can interact with
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Probably the same way exposure to different paradigms of writing software helps one become a better programmer - more abstract tools in your toolkit, more ways to think about how to solve a problem.
If you're ever dipping down into firmware level stuffs, it makes reasoning about things much easier. I can intuit whole systems, where my software only friends really struggle. Some firmware bugs are immediately debugged with a o-scope.