NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]

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Cake day: August 14th, 2020

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  • Compilation is a very “lossy” process, all the information in the source code that exists purely for the benefit of humans (like variable names and intuitive instructions like “do this X times”) simply does not exist anymore in the machine code. It’s all replaced by a huge list of numbers and single-file instructions for the benefit of the computer, we have to rediscover their purpose from lots of experimentation and context clues, give them intuitive names and structure, etc.