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Marco Arment

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Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

good moments, but not great luck.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

But for the Senate and stuff, it was freaking amazing.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

And so I don't even know what I think about it right now, leaving aside the ethics, leaving aside the environmental impacts just as like a tool.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

I definitely like it, but I'm not sure I can't figure out how much of this is overblown and how much isn't.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

So I've said a lot, and I apologize.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

Marco, please interrupt me.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

Start talking so I don't keep talking for the next two hours.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

Let me jump in.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

Let me jump in right there.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

You're exactly right.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

But just in case you're not familiar, I forget that not everyone that listens to this program is a developer.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

So assembly language is, and John will correct my piss poor analogy here, but my definition here, but assembly language is basically a hop, skip and a jump from ones and zeros.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

Like it is as close as you can get to actually telling the CPU, the processor, I would like you to add these two numbers and put the result in this piece of memory right here.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

Like it's,

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

very low level and you have to think about a bunch of junk that the three of us don't generally have to think about and so that's what makes it like you have to be the right kind of weirdo to enjoy assembly development it's difficult to do complicated things because you're thinking about so much stuff and every time you can remove things that you have to worry about

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

100%.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

I wanted to call back very quickly to something that Marco said a minute ago, which I think is important and I don't think I was explicit about, and I would like to plus one what Marco said.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

That N8N thing that I was talking about, I could have done that.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

There is no freaking chance I would have wasted the time to do it.

Accidental Tech Podcast
678: Mentoring a Box of Numbers

Even though it would have made me happy, even though it would have been useful, even though I'm more than capable of achieving it,