ManMachine

@manmachine@mastodon.world
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Professional software engineer.
Amateur photographer and musician.
Autistic.
homepagehttps://manmachine.me/
pixelfed@manmachine@metapixl.com
previously@manmachine
"look the computer can generate more code faster" the world absolutely does not need or want more code, nothing needs more code for the sake of code, we need utility, functionality and empathy, an encoded understanding of the problem being solved and the humans around it. Code is the price we pay for that encoded understanding. What you've created is an entropy spigot pointed at the proxy metric graph you’re stuck using because your management doesn't understand anything.
as a retrocomputerist, I really enjoy Firefox, as I'm often nostalgic for that late-90s era of using a memory-leaking browser on dial-up.
thank goodness we haven't backslid on the quality of our graphical user interfaces by making everything a fucking webpage.
@NanoRaptor The clock only chimes when it has something to say; with a tinkle of 100 tiny ornate bells of different sizes and a whirr of gears being released from tension, the bony automaton skeleton hand slowly taps out a message on the Apple II... "2019 was 2019 days ago"
I swear I'm so much more addicted to decaf, this is my twentieth today.
remembering the time i was sitting in a starbucks years ago when a guy loudly declared to the room "look at everyone on computers! what a terrible thing! using computers!" and i wordlessly took a 2nd laptop out of my bag and started using that too
@SwiftOnSecurity I always enjoyed the feeling of an original iPod in your hand as you hit play, a gyroscopic twist as the drive spun up.
Over 70% of the Mac’s history has been in the OSX (and after) era

METR: "We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers.

The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't."

Bluesky thread: https://bsky.app/profile/metr.org/post/3ltn3t3amms2x

METR (@metr.org)

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Bluesky Social

are there any bit tricks you can do to make sure no bytes within a 32-bit integer are zero?

edit: answer here https://graphics.stanford.edu/~seander/bithacks.html#ZeroInWord

Bit Twiddling Hacks

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