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TFW the real wizards are the ones working in the strata just below the one I understand... After nearly 30 years of persistent excavation, I'm finally at bedro
by anymouse123456 2y ago
TFW the real wizards are the ones working in the strata just below the one I understand...
After nearly 30 years of persistent excavation, I'm finally at bedrock with registers, some assembly and embedded C.
Lifting my head up to find the mess we've created for graphical application development is admittedly disheartening, but also thrilling as there are ways to make it better.
- noelwelsh 2y agoThere is at least one more layer, which lies behind the abstraction boundary the ISA presents. E.g. x86-64 specifies only 16 general purpose registers, but the Zen 4 has 224. Even as far back as Pentium II the CPU had more registers than the ISA.
- josh-sematic 2y agoYou’re not even close to hitting rock bottom on explanations of the layers below until you find yourself comparing proposed theories of quantum gravity :-)
- kevindamm 2y agoIt is around that point that you may be convinced that rocks are capable of conscious thought and the strange loop begins again at the top.
- hnfong 2y agoI am a conscious thinking rock. (kinda)
- Dylan16807 2y agoI don't think ignoring negligible effects means you're a significant distance from the bottom. You can semi-skim through quantum effects and still have enough detail to stretch your scale to the bottom.