I think the explanation was needed. Even if one knows about interrupts, it’s easy to misunderstand the meme. For example i thought it was a joke about a person writing assembly and being used to 32 bit code and thus mistyping %rax as %eax, and I’ve seen another comment here referencing “muscle memory”. (Obviously the interrupt interpretation makes way more sense and it’s funnier)
While I agree with you, I also need to point out that most people who think they understand computers, don’t know as much as they think they do; and thirty years at the terminal has taught me that I don’t really know shit.
Interrupts are basic technical computer understanding. Nobody felt a need to explain it.
I think the explanation was needed. Even if one knows about interrupts, it’s easy to misunderstand the meme. For example i thought it was a joke about a person writing assembly and being used to 32 bit code and thus mistyping %rax as %eax, and I’ve seen another comment here referencing “muscle memory”. (Obviously the interrupt interpretation makes way more sense and it’s funnier)
While I agree with you, I also need to point out that most people who think they understand computers, don’t know as much as they think they do; and thirty years at the terminal has taught me that I don’t really know shit.