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Jarkko Sakkinen

Edited 8 hours ago
Here's what I've recommended to a some 20 something people who are beginning of their career, as understandably don't have like similar privileges as I might have to pick AI, or scrape it. Most likely ur ass-raped by the chatbots on a daily basis.

I've told them to learn assembly of some retro computer and write stuff for that hardware platform (e.g. 6502, Z80, m68k, x86 based from 80s/90s era), perhaps buy something like DE-10 Nano FPGA and start experimenting.

I just thought that figuring things out in that type of microversum would be the best antidote for the poison in question :-) For me it was at least good therapy to write amode and mxmplay2 (and more MS-DOS stuff to come in future), as the world felt too weird...

I myself learned most of my programming skills first with Turbo Pascal and later on with Turbo Assembler. That's why I still have hard time dealing with the kernel's horrible AT&T syntax :-) I
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Sorry for harsh expression but I tried to capture the feeling, or what it must feel to be in that situation.
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