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ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

but that feels backwards! with addition, multiplication, xor, etc, we can entertain the fantasy that the computer knows and cares about our notation, that it's as if we're writing out "rax + rbx" and it does the arithmetic and stores it into the second one

with subtraction, that assumption breaks