On 1/24/2022 10:22 AM, Imperatorn wrote:
> On Monday, 24 January 2022 at 14:22:21 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
>> Some of you may be aware that Walter recently added a disassembler to DMD. He writes about it in his latest post for the D blog.
>>
>> The blog:
>> https://dlang.org/blog/2022/01/24/the-binary-language-of-moisture-vaporators/
>>
>> Reddit:
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/sbn7n6/the_binary_language_of_moisture_vaporators/ 
>>
> 
> Nice 👍

It's also on

https://news.ycombinator.com/news

currently at number 76

On 1/24/22 13:57, Moth wrote:

>> Reddit:
>> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/sbn7n6/the_binary_language_of_moisture_vaporators/ 


> first: how exactly does assembly output relate to moisture vaporators?

Someone answered that question on the ycombinator thread. They included this video link:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUH2_n8jE70&t=0m30s

> second: what on earth is an ""alpha programmer""? i do hope walter has
> not subscribed to the pseudoscientific views of mysogynists.

I am not aware of any association between "alpha" and "man" because I hear both "alpha male" and "alpha female" in e.g. nature documentaries.

Ali

Aside: There was a thread on these forums where somebody was unhappy with the word "female" in "female programmers". I think they thought it was not a word suitable for humans. Well, I live in California and I can report that "female" is what these people use everywhere to mean "woman". Of course we can still argue whether it's suitable but it's in at least Californian English as of today.

On Monday, 24 January 2022 at 22:45:14 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
> I am not aware of any association between "alpha" and "man" because I hear both "alpha male" and "alpha female" in e.g. nature documentaries.

It isn't really accurate in nature either and when used with people it tends to be exaggerated to the point of being totally absurd.

On 1/24/2022 1:57 PM, Moth wrote:
> first: how exactly does assembly output relate to moisture vaporators?

Vaporators run on compiled code, so do understand the binary code of vaporators, you'll need a disassembler.

I wanted to make looking at the binary code easy and fun.

> second: what on earth is an ""alpha programmer""?

The top tier of programmers. In my career, I've noticed a very strong correlation between the top tier of programmers, and programmers who had a solid understanding of assembler code and what their compiler was doing.

> i do hope walter has not subscribed to the pseudoscientific views of mysogynists.

Gender never occurred to me when speaking about alpha programmers.

On Monday, 24 January 2022 at 22:59:18 UTC, Adam Ruppe wrote:
> On Monday, 24 January 2022 at 22:45:14 UTC, Ali Çehreli wrote:
>> I am not aware of any association between "alpha" and "man" because I hear both "alpha male" and "alpha female" in e.g. nature documentaries.
>
> It isn't really accurate in nature either and when used with people it tends to be exaggerated to the point of being totally absurd.

https://davemech.org/wolf-news-and-information/