Comments by "Luredreier" (@Luredreier) on "Why do CPUs Need Caches? - Computerphile" video.

Ayush Dhar Hum, it's not flawless of course... But I've had conversations with people in Russian, Spanish, Portugese, German and French without speaking any of those languages thanks to google translate. It's not easy, and we need to be willing to be open to other possible meanings and stuff, but it does work surprisingly well.
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matsv201 By the same logic you could say that everyone use a german keyboard or a chinese one. The fundamental ones and zeroes don't actually hold any meaning by them selves as such. All the keyboard really does is say that now the user pressed this button, and now he pressed that one. What the button represents is left to the software to define as far as I can understand.
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matsv201 And how do you think the Ascii standard is implemented on the computer in the first place? With software. Bios, Operating system, the programs running on it, it's all software. The only thing holding any true value as far as the computer is concerned is the x86-64 instruction set and some numbers. (Although strictly speaking even the x86-64 instruction set is implimented in part through the software of the assemblers) My point is that there's no inherent value to any combination of ones and zeros by it self if they're not defined through software. That's kind of the point of general purpouse computers, they're not programmed through hardware alone. Now you might be right about them being defined to the english language first in the software running on most computers and then redefined at a higher abstraction level. But that doesn't mean that the signals from the letters on the keyboard actually have a fixed meaning. If I'm not much mistaken you could write a operating system in assembly language (something similar to KolibriOS perhaps) where non of those buttons held any meaning releated to the english language at all.
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matsv201 I'm still convinced that I'm not the one who's wrong in this case.
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