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Yes, who haven't had a glass of red wine, relaxing music and some inline assembly....

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[-] lowleveldata@programming.dev 33 points 1 year ago

I relax by listening to my HDD spinning. Which technically is a lower level than assembly.

[-] catch22@programming.dev 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

8 Hours of defrag | hard disk defragmentation ASMR | Hard Disk Sound Effect | HDD sounds

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KR3TbL3Tl6M

😁

[-] razza856@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

that sound arouses me tbh

[-] sethboy66@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

He says this because he kind of ignorantly (his own wordage) wrote in machine code for quite some time before realizing assembly was a thing. So for Linus inline assembly is to machine code as python is to c for a lot of us.

[-] jormaig@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

What does he mean by machine code? Like assembly files or literally 1s and 0s?

[-] solidsnail@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

He was probably working with bytes and not individual bits, but yeah. He basically wrote executables directly (to my understanding).

[-] Hexarei@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

He didn't realize assembly was a thing, so he was actually writing machine code instructions

[-] mrkite@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

One of my oldest programming books is all about using machine language to program.

https://vintageapple.org/apple_ii/pdf/Apple_Machine_Language_1981_(raw-bw).pdf

At the time, even assemblers cost money. I remember saving up for Merlin which is an assembler for the Apple II.

[-] spike@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

As usual his code might be a great thing, but his pretentious attitude is still shit.

"Ah yes look at me I have written, oh my dare I say, some ASSEMBLY honhonhonhonhonhon"

That this is a big thing seems wild to me.

Assembly isn't such a big thing, some devs use it daily (Hello to my embedded devs out there) so why is this worthy a news article?

[-] Deathcrow@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

the dude wrote a kernel, I very much doubt he needs to brag about his ability to write assembly.

[-] spike@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

I know. He's a legend. And I respect his work. He doesn't need to brag.

And yet he does.

[-] solidsnail@programming.dev 6 points 1 year ago

That's not being pretentious, that's being blunt. I personally as a dev, appreciate that.

If you think the code can be improved you should say that, and exactly why that's the case. When you're mistaken you should be able to take the criticism.

Your mission as a dev is to write the ideal code, and being overly polite can stand in the way of that.

[-] platypus_plumba@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes, he's a genius but I kept thinking "damn, the ego on this guy" while reading that.

I love Linux, and thus, I love Linus... But he has a very large ego, there's nothing wrong in pointing out reality. That's just who he is. At least his ego matches his skill, which is something rare. He deserves to be cocky, he earned it.

You'll get downvoted here because most programmers have elevated egos and think this is normal behavior.

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