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▲Everything Is a Leaky Abstraction (elijahpotter.dev)
swiftcoder 5 days ago [-]
> There are some things that are sealed ab­strac­tions (that is, they are not leaky)... Some ex­am­ples in­clude: Lossless com­pres­sion al­go­rithms, TCP/IP, TLS PostgreSQL

Man oh man do I disagree about every one of those being a "non-leaky" abstraction. If I had a dime for every time I've had to dig under the hood in one of those... I'd have about 20 dimes

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