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		toast0 on Nov 27, 2016 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Learning to Read X86 Assembly Language I'm not sure everyone has to learn even that much. I've managed to avoid it until very recently and I'm more willing to dive into underlying code than most people I know (I've contributed to a FreeBSD kernel patch in TCP and an OpenSSL key exchange interoperability fix)

qwertyuiop924 on Nov 27, 2016 [–]

I haven't jumped into the kernel yet.

But I'm only 15. I still have time.

int_hdlr on Nov 27, 2016 | [–]

This is not a piss contest.

qwertyuiop924 on Nov 28, 2016 | | [–]

Never said it was.

Actually, it was more along the lines of that being a thing I should do at some point.

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