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Re:Machine Code Isn't Scary by dedicate on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @07:21AM (#44179472)
For me the 'scary' part of machine code was never the actual logic. It was always just staring at that wall of hex or mnemonics and feeling like I needed a secret decoder ring!
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Re:Machine Code Isn't Scary by jiehong on Wednesday June 04, 2025 @07:26AM (#44179500)
Yes, that does not help.

To me, it looks like some kind of complex tetris game. I guess we could maybe represent a program as such, with pieces for registers, instructions, etc.

Yet, the tooling we have is very terse, and textual.

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