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Just grokking K had that effect on me ... I can't even estimate how much farther that will go if I had a chance to work with Arthur.

And I keep thinking "ignorance is bliss" might have been right in this respect - perhaps I would have been better off had I not lost my appreciation for the (now obviously sad) state of software construction. (Engineering it is clearly not, by and large).

But I wouldn't go back. Would you?

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No, I wouldn't go back. That said, it has made it rather difficult to fit comfortably in standard settings. I've been successful so far but taking Arthur's lessons and applying from various domains, to software, and into cluster/system/soc arch in my case, has been viewed as rather unorthodox.

I find that especially in the valley, adherence to buzzwords and fashion of the day is a little too common for my taste now.

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