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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 11:59:11 JST Paul Cantrell

   I have 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.

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     NeoNacho (neonacho@mastodon.social)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 13:04:00 JST NeoNacho

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     @inthehands kinda remarkable that trenchcoats are generally free in computing

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 13:04:00 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • NeoNacho

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     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.

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     aburka 🫣 (aburka@hachyderm.io)'s status on Saturday, 06-Apr-2024 15:29:15 JST aburka 🫣

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     • NeoNacho

     @inthehands @NeoNacho rust: fearless concurrency and zero cost trenchcoats

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 00:29:48 JST Paul Cantrell

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     (The actual main thing I want to share with you from the talk is this slide)

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     Daniel Terhorst-North (tastapod@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 00:31:57 JST Daniel Terhorst-North

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     @inthehands and of course a boolean is just a lousy two-bit integer.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 00:31:57 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Daniel Terhorst-North

     @tastapod Heh. One-bit, technically, now trying to figure out how to work “two bit” into a pun…

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 00:34:09 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Don Whiteside

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     Back in my day, we only had sport coats for stacking booleans

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     Don Whiteside (donw@mastodon.coffee)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 00:34:10 JST Don Whiteside

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     @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.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 06:25:41 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • earchibald

     @lilith Ha! That’s definitely me. Who’s the friend?

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     earchibald (lilith@sackheads.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 06:25:43 JST earchibald

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     @inthehands

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 06:29:55 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • earchibald

     @lilith I almost guessed Chip! Tell him hi!

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     earchibald (lilith@sackheads.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 06:29:56 JST earchibald

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     @inthehands Chip Johnson!

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 07:41:06 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Ben Pickering

     @benpickering The whole point of the talk was in fact that it pays enormous dividends

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     Ben Pickering (benpickering@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 07-Apr-2024 07:41:07 JST Ben Pickering

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     @inthehands Sadly, being curious and tinkering sounds like a zero interest rate phenomenon :(

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 11:15:07 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • 9579cfc2-3e7d-35c7-af3b-cddda26f71bd

     @lily About the talk, the bits, or the trench coat?

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     9579cfc2-3e7d-35c7-af3b-cddda26f71bd (lily@glaceon.social)'s status on Monday, 08-Jul-2024 11:15:08 JST 9579cfc2-3e7d-35c7-af3b-cddda26f71bd

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     @inthehands
     need details