Brianna Wu / John Walker Flynt - "Biggest Victim of Gamergate," Failed Game Developer, Failed Congressional Candidate

Von Clausewitz said:
Assembler? You mean a Turing Machine, you nitwit. At least try to listen and comprehend, when Frank gets out the fucking sock puppets again and tries to explain to you how DNA works.
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Frank gave up on the puppet shows after six fruitless weeks trying to teach John how to use the vacuum cleaner.
 
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"Biotech is the tech industry on hard mode."

Not to downplay biotech or whatever, but it's so fucking irksome the way John and his ilk think games and social media and consumer products are the definition of "tech." This bitch thinks application of exciton-polariton technology to semiconductor fabrication is "easy mode?"

Incidentally, SEMIcon West was held in SF last week. Not a single gussied-up booth babe. Very disappointing.
 
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Peace and Harmony said:
Temper temper!

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You've never had any problem posting entire tweet chains to self-fellate yourself, John. You're just salty that people see through the Wu myth.
 
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Peace and Harmony said:
Hey John, aren't you going to post any pics of you working on a construction site over the weekend?

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No, the top paid specialists get work done rather than working in assembly. They realise that re-inventing the wheel isn't beneficial, so they integrate and utilize other people's work with an understanding of how it works themselves.

This is the most rookie of fucking observations in starting programming. "It must be harder therefore it must pay more". That's not how it goes.

Look at bill gates and Steve jobs, where did they start? They ripped off other systems because they're not going to fuck around doing that that's already been done.

Yet again Wu pretends to know what the fuck he is going on about, only to display just how much of a rookie he is.
 
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captn_kettle said:
No, the top paid specialists get work done rather than working in assembly. They realise that re-inventing the wheel isn't beneficial, so they integrate and utilize other people's work with an understanding of how it works themselves.
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There's basically almost no excuse ever to work in assembly language these days. Compilers even have function attributes to generate interrupt service routines, which are the most demanding in terms of register state before and after they're called because the calling convention is specified by the processor architecture, not the compiler's author. You write routines in assembly, you have to micro document everything about how the routine should be called. Register allocation is something algorithms are great at, but is a pain in the arse for any long segment of code written by hand. You can, and probably should, write an entire operating system with about 2 lines of assembly to load the address of a program's stack in to the stack register.

The only valid reasons I can think of these days to write assembly is if either you have an incredibly restrictive size budget, like 2KBs or something, or you have serious hard realtime requirements, like people are going to die if your software ever misses a signal window.
 
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Norvic said:
The only valid reasons I can think of these days to write assembly is if either you have an incredibly restrictive size budget, like 2KBs or something, or you have serious hard realtime requirements, like people are going to die if your software ever misses a signal window.
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You might want to use it for something like a PRNG that generates lots of numbers and has to do a LOT of them very, very rapidly. Then you might want to optimize for whatever hardware you're running it on. Although people who need billions of random numbers fast probably use ASICs and just flat out design a chip to do specifically that thing (think large gambling sites who are pretty cagey about their actual practices).
 
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AnOminous said:
You might want to use it for something like a PRNG that generates lots of numbers and has to do a LOT of them very, very rapidly. Then you might want to optimize for whatever hardware you're running it on. Although people who need billions of random numbers fast probably use ASICs and just flat out design a chip to do specifically that thing (think large gambling sites who are pretty cagey about their actual practices).
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Another very popular use is if you have this weird fetish for 9 foot tall women in one-piece latex catsuits and you've been fantasizing about them having sexy fun space adventures for two decades so you decide to make a shitty iPhone game about it.
 
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Norvic said:
The only valid reasons I can think of these days to write assembly is if either you have an incredibly restrictive size budget, like 2KBs or something, or you have serious hard realtime requirements, like people are going to die if your software ever misses a signal window.
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Or if you're on a really restrictive architecture like the old 6502 (Commodore 64, NES, etc) where there are practically no registers and the stack architecture doesn't really match up with what you need to implement C. (Some compilers apparently exist but I have no idea if they were used for pro-quality work back in the day)

But really, the "biological assembly language" is the more absurd half of Wu's spiel. What we've learned over the past few decades (and what Frank was trying to explain) is that "DNA in, protein out" is barely scratching the surface of what goes on in an organism, and the idea of just sticking in a new "program" is sheer fantasy for any biological system more complicated than a bacterium.
 
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Yellow Yam Scam said:
Another very popular use is if you have this weird fetish for 9 foot tall women in one-piece latex catsuits and you've been fantasizing about them having sexy fun space adventures for two decades so you decide to make a shitty iPhone game about it.
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Nobody who has a fetish for that can design ASICs or write assembly code.

Anyone who can do either of those things has fetishes so bizarre and complex that normal people can't even understand them.
 
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Wu's Twitter has been 99% boring and predictable hot takes and dumb comments depicting her lack of actual knowledge as a software engineer.

Is she already tired of keeping up the charade that is her scampaign?

She's not fundraising. She's not meeting with voters. She's not updating her website to include an actual platform.

She's just lazily playing video games and trying to get Twitter RTs.

It's been boring as fuck.
 
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