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1. Tyler (tyler@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 08:00:39 JST Tyler
   x86 opcodes and instructions are absolutely horrific, I understand why people want to use RISC-V and ARM.
   
   For real, the Intel® 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer’s Manual Volume 2 is 2522 pages long.
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   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 08:01:15 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @tyler what's the point of having a manual everything you need to code is online just copy a few pages of whatever you might need and assemble them with other blocks of github code until something works

   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 08:06:54 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @tyler wasted effort, I've been assured by the smartest people on reddit and the techcrunch comment section that AI will learn how to produce flawless code in no time at all

     and we know this is true because AI learned how to code by copying every single comment on Reddit and the techcrunch comment session

   • Tyler (tyler@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 08:06:55 JST Tyler

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     • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks
     I'm trying to fix a bug in a version of a program I don't have the source code for (but I have the source code for a later C fork)
     
     I literally just need to set a variable to zero in a certain condition. I am learning assembly 'for fun' :^)
   • Tyler (tyler@nicecrew.digital)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 08:40:41 JST Tyler

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     • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks
     Oh it's probably a wasted effort, you're right. The guy that has the source code is still alive and it might be possible to get it from him and recompile it with the fixes.
     
     HOWEVER, this is something I've always wanted to learn, and now I have an oppurtunity.
     
     If I do fix it, then what is really cool, is that it's possible to distribute this fix to a lot of people, advancing my goals :blob_devilish:
   • Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks (washedoutgundampilot@poa.st)'s status on Friday, 05-Jul-2024 08:40:41 JST Woggy's Zeonic Frolicks

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     @tyler I'm kidding, it's time well spent. Compared to the other hobby time things we waste our lifespan on it's gold. if you have a true working knowledge of these systems, good enough to build them like a 1st generation user, you'll end up with solid job security.

     Sometimes high-value, critical systems need to be debugged by someone who actually knows the system well, and no AI will really have that. AI is being trained on millennial's online footprint, so all the infrastructural knowledge we really need it to have will perish in boomer's brain tissue, never to be added to the grand compendium of knowledge.