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I'm missing the joke... would anyone be so kind to help me understand?
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https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2501:_Average_Familiarity
That's a great website that I didn't know existed, thanks for sharing!
The people in the picture are so used to working with assembly language, that even though they know the average person doesn’t know much about assembly, they assume the average person knows a little, which is already way more than the average person actually knows.
I speak fluent x86, I've been writing
xor eax, eax
beforerax
was a thing and you had to wonder whether you shouldn't be usingxor rax, rax
(you shouldn't), I figured out how to write linux binaries in pure assembly before arch was a thing, just don't throw sse or something arcane likeaaa
at me. But damned if I know a single opcode.Reverse engineers are a whole different kind of breed. And apparently they hate rust.