I gave a talk this week and it went really well and the main thing I want to share with you from it is that I referred to an int as “just 64 booleans in a trench coat” and I’m proud of that one.
(The actual main thing I want to share with you from the talk is this slide)
*golf clap*
@inthehands kinda remarkable that trenchcoats are generally free in computing
@NeoNacho
Only free when you have statically typed structs. In OO, the trench coat will cost you a malloc and a vtable pointer and god knows what.
@inthehands @NeoNacho a cache miss is when you left your cache in the pocket of your other trenchcoat
@inthehands @NeoNacho rust: fearless concurrency and zero cost trenchcoats
@inthehands tagged pointer something …
@inthehands @Catfish_Man “what order are they in?”
“depends whether they’re going by Lenny or Benny”
@jrose @Catfish_Man
“A Lennyian int architecture”
@inthehands that's a bit wise.
@hugo
uh…thanks [shifts uncomfortably]
@inthehands I'm just overflowing with compliments.
Although it took me a bit to register that one.
@hugo
I’d make another pun, but you know what they say: two’s a complement, three’s a crowd
@inthehands @hugo
Those integers really complement your twos!
#TwosComplement #TwosCompliment
@inthehands @hugo look at you two carrying on
@inthehands oh that’s lovely!
@inthehands and of course a boolean is just a lousy two-bit integer.
@tastapod Heh. One-bit, technically, now trying to figure out how to work “two bit” into a pun…
@inthehands d’oh of course, that’s annoying!
A pair of booleans walk into a two-bit saloon…
@inthehands I’mma steal that :D
@inthehands were you looking over my shoulder tonight? I literally wrote a little `FixedWidthInteger.bits: [Bool]` after dinner to make some binary shenanigans a bit more readable
@inthehands old age is when you read this and feel vaguely unnerved by the choice of 64 booleans instead of the proper and traditional 8.
@inthehands Recon that depends on where you are, pal. In my day they only had 32 booleans in there; hell, down some more primitive parts they’d just put in 16 or even 8, though we’ve done come a bit farther now.
We heard some tales of locales where they’d have more but us, we had to accomplish that sort of thing in shifts.
@donw
Back in my day, we only had sport coats for stacking booleans
@inthehands or a few flip flops.
@inthehands Oh wow, I love this...
@inthehands Sadly, being curious and tinkering sounds like a zero interest rate phenomenon :(
@benpickering The whole point of the talk was in fact that it pays enormous dividends
@lilith Ha! That’s definitely me. Who’s the friend?
@inthehands Chip Johnson!
@lilith I almost guessed Chip! Tell him hi!
@lily About the talk, the bits, or the trench coat?