Yes, who haven’t had a glass of red wine, relaxing music and some inline assembly…
I relax by listening to my HDD spinning. Which technically is a lower level than assembly.
8 Hours of defrag | hard disk defragmentation ASMR | Hard Disk Sound Effect | HDD sounds
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KR3TbL3Tl6M
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that sound arouses me tbh
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.
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.
What does he mean by machine code? Like assembly files or literally 1s and 0s?
He didn’t realize assembly was a thing, so he was actually writing machine code instructions
He was probably working with bytes and not individual bits, but yeah. He basically wrote executables directly (to my understanding).
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?
the dude wrote a kernel, I very much doubt he needs to brag about his ability to write assembly.
I know. He’s a legend. And I respect his work. He doesn’t need to brag.
And yet he does.
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.
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.
Here’s my untested pile of shit. Have fun playing with my shit.
Distributing code to hundreds of millions of devices without formal proof should be banned by law, because they can’t see how stupid it is by themselves.
To be fair, he merged the original version and not his own… at least not yet until it have been properly tested.
It’s good that he says it’s not tested, but the point of sharing code that potentially doesn’t work, escapes me, other than as a hobby.
Proofs of concept are a very common thing everywhere. Sometimes it’s easier just to show code instead of explaining everything, which was the case here.
I think proof of concepts are a waste of time for everyone involved, unless the person actually completes the work. Otherwise, it’s just a matter of some guy whining to get help only to get the credits later for it being “his idea”.
I think any person who thinks writing such code manually is a good idea for many different devices lacks intelligence. Apparently, Torvalds thinks he has done something useful, which only signals to me how far out of touch he is with modern engineering.
It’s annoying that so many people are so stupid these days. An Internet on which not every moron could go, must have been paradise.
This is a crazy take.
So in your view nothing is worth sharing unless its complete and you “deserve” full credit? So the concept of idea sharing is alien to you?
The idea of proof of concept is not to claim a stake on a concept. The idea is to show the feasibility of something using some assumptions. It allows you to reason about the work and decide if you should commit to further exploring the concept, or it allows you to identify the key hurdles. It also allows you to even just record a thought or idea because it might be useful to others.
You clearly never worked in a corporate environment.
I think idea sharing is worthless, because I have never ever heard a new idea from someone else in the last two decades. Everyone thinks they are so creative, but they are all morons except perhaps a few hundred people globally. Torvalds would not be part of the few hundred people, I’d consider to be of interest. Torvalds is like the idiot that invented PHP, but just slightly more competent. Writing a kernel is so easy that his first version was literally based on a text book. FYI, by the time academics get to the point to write a text book on a topic, it’s ancient history. The guy that wrote the book even considered Linux a waste of time back then and Linux, besides being more popular now, still has nothing to offer from an academic perspective (other than as a tool for lack of having anything better).
The only thing you are sharing, is that since you do not experience life like that, that we are not on the same level intellectually.
Haha go back to your cave.
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I’m wondering who actually is out of touch here. You don’t seem to understand fundamental concepts and instead of thinking about what a “proof of concept” is, why they exist and what benefits they bring.
Nobody knows you and by that you didn’t contribute anything to the global community but seem to think that you are more accomplished than Linus Torvalds. Do you even know who that person is?
I understand everything and as such I consider almost everyone to be a waste of space, including you. You should imagine how the world looks like for someone that considers you have the intelligence of an ant in comparison.
I am certainly more accomplished than Linus Torvalds according to various metrics. I consider the Linux kernel to be the work that can be expected from an amateur (which is exactly what he was when it was released). There is nothing of interest in the Linux kernel other than it being gratis and it being available.
I do not give a fuck about Linus Torvalds or any of the “famous” people, because I discovered a long time ago I am vastly superior to all of those people. Humanity bores me, as do you. So, please, stop talking.
If Linus Torvalds knew what he was doing, the Linux kernel would have been done by now. If he knew what he was doing regarding organizing the work of thousands of people, he wouldn’t have to merge patches himself anymore, but he would have automated that, but guess what? He never was able to solve that problem, so clearly he is an idiot.
You might ask me how I would do it, but it would be pointless to explain.
In your next response, please assume you are talking to someone close to an omniscient being, because it’s getting old real fast for people to assume I am not vastly superior regarding knowledge level, education, and skill level.
Just to be perfectly clear: I consider everyone here to be really, really stupid, unless I say otherwise. I wish I could consider you to be worthy to talk to, but I don’t.
If you were as smart as you claim you wouldn’t make yourself look this dumb.
Hey brainiac if you’re so smart then why are you unhappy?
That’s quite a long text for someone to be bored by someone else. Very cool, very adolescent. Quite the guy, you are.🤙
