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

  • NiHaDuncan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    2 years 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.

  • Spike@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    518·
    2 years 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.mlEnglish
      14·
      2 years ago

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

      • Spike@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        17·
        2 years ago

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

        And yet he does.

    • solidsnail@programming.devEnglish
      7·
      2 years 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.worldEnglish
      2·
      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.

    • snaggen@programming.devOPEnglish
      221·
      2 years ago

      To be fair, he merged the original version and not his own… at least not yet until it have been properly tested.

        • gnus_migrate@programming.devEnglish
          31·
          2 years ago

          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.

            • blurr11@programming.devEnglish
              23·
              2 years ago

              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.

            • avonarret1@programming.devEnglish
              13·
              2 years ago

              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?