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@GrantObi @badlogicgames I mean, if .net let's you do it as well, it can't be that obscure a thing too do 🤔

@badlogicgames Never cracked open a disassembly to optimize some loops? Not gonna make it I'm afraid.

i actually don't want this "but you don't review compiler output either" meme to die. it's the perfect signal for being immediately able to ignore someone in this space.

@impuremonad @badlogicgames That's easy, you just say that anyone who disagrees doesn't know what LLMs are, and that they really are deterministic too (honest!), and any clever person would agree. That seems to be the main argument 🫤

@badlogicgames It just tells the guy doesn’t know neither what compilers nor LLMs are. What really pisses me off is that they speak as if they had a saying on the matter. How can you write comparing a non-deterministic machine with a deterministic one and call that an article

@beaversteever @ATaylorFPGA In my experience they thought you could fix TVs, boilers and coffee machines. It must have changed a lot in the UK - when we graduated in electronic engineering we all worked in software because we wanted enough cash for crazy things, like mortgages 🤔

@ATaylorFPGA people think you wear a hardhat👷if you tell them you're an engineer in the UK

UK Corporate Salaries are terrible, but if you want the best chance to escape that and earn 100K plus and have freedom to create your own company. Electronics is your path forward, it does not hurt, either that it is second highest paid graduate salary. It is the top one if NHS jobs are not considered.

@lucasmeijer @badlogicgames I've just got back into C++ at work after a good few years. I'm actually working on optimizing it now 😮 And yes, you only have to look at it funny and it'll swap between optimizing everything and then nothing! Of course we read the assembly 🤔

@badlogicgames Eh, yeah I actually read the generated assembly code of my hotloops thank you very much. If you haven’t, I promise they are not great.

@qsdnl @owenbroadcast Many of the UK ones are a bit fuzzy, but pretty big. Very good wine to be had from them....

@owenbroadcast everyone loves a good gooseberry

women love the dr. seuss fruits. unclear why. they are not satisfied with the normal bounty of this earth. persimmon: what is that? men do not know. imagine going to your male friends house and he offers you a gooseberry. unfathomable.

@SwollocksInfo @SartorialThug I'm convinced that men invented online shopping. And that this sort of thing is why.

@SartorialThug Its things like this that stop me from going to places with people present.

I would have been out of there as soon as he opened that guitar case. Mixing with the public in a shopping centre is bad enough without all this nonsense. Racket

@SartorialThug I'd have left at the first sight of the multiple cameras & audio mixing equipment that were used for this "spontaneous" event. Let alone when that chap and all his chums rolled up. Going shopping is solely to ensure you don't die of starvation, looking like a scruff. That's all.

@digikey In the UK, all of them. Anyone can call themselves an engineer, regardless of training or qualifications. But that's alright, because nobody knows what an engineer is. Usually assumed to be somewhere between a builder or repairman...

What branch of engineering, in your opinion, doesn't get enough credit?

@EricRichards22 I prefer the traditional British way of marking the day - Jack in the Green, Hooden Horses, Morris dancing and general paganism 🤣 hastingsonlinetimes.co.uk/arts-culture/f…

I always laugh when I remember that it's May Day, the international day of commies and anarchists rioting in the streets and burning cars for no reason

@AlbionAncient @OldHollowTree Don't let it stop you. We didn't 🤣

We have two and are eager for more. 😘 ✌️

@ingelramdecoucy Luckily, there were reporters on the ground for the King's pilgrimage 😆 youtu.be/X8F_HAUdp7g?si…

There was no way that Henry could have known anybody would take him literally, he was a peaceful man

@taxspendlib I'm English and I live in Canada. I've never seen this in either 😮 If you want proper Canadian food, get yourself some California rolls, ginger beef, and wash it down with a Caesar!

Learning that the UK has invented something called "steak canadian" which is something no Canadian has ever eaten

@MKRiker2 @owenbroadcast My suggestions of Beowulf for either of our sons, and Boudicca for either daughter, were sadly rejected 🫤

@owenbroadcast Almost as bad as me wanting to name my son Goliath

british upper class loved naming their kids after tragic greek figures. why. reading, i find a woman named “pandora”. really. you’re going to name your baby girl pandora. messing around with some powerful forces there. almost like toying around with opening some … unclosable box

@frozenaesthetic University was where most of us not from London, first met many people from outside the UK. You often heard "So where are you from? How do you swear in your language?" University is for education after all 😁

White boy shocks Egyptian by telling him to fuck off in perfect Arabic

@avrldotdev Developers have been saying "RAM is cheap" and "CPU is cheap" for a few decades now. They were crappy developers, but still, sadly it's not new. It's much more popular now though.

Claude Code is the perfect example of how Un-optimised our software has become in 2026. Devs used to write code that squeezed the most out of each MB of RAM & CPU. Even 16GB RAM feels less as apps eat 10GB of it like an evening snack. And AI is already making it worse with Inefficient software flooding the market. The irony is that we're seeing the most inefficient software being developed during the Hardware shortage & price hikes

@Miss_Snuffy We were told off by a teacher 20+ years ago when my elder son started school, because he could already read & the school "couldn't put it down as added value" The others could also read when they started, so I'm assuming it was just the one teacher at the time 🤔

I used to wonder if there would come a time when they would say that parents cannot read to their kids because it gives them an advantage. It seems that time will soon be upon us. 😳

@FramFram235121 @Lost___London @VinnieSull1van @PubHistoryTours Church on the right looks like St Michael's, so that view is towards the south west. The building with two chimneys looks like it's in docklands? Unsure what it is though

@Lost___London @VinnieSull1van @PubHistoryTours Is it Battersea power station in the back?

Teviot Street, Poplar, London, 1950s.

@Lost___London @Britains___Pubs @PubHistoryTours Unsure, but one of my wife's great-uncles may have managed this pub during the war 🤔

Tramline electricification, Wandsworth, c1906. The Alma public house is on the left.

@denicmarko Here's mine. Working on new articles, but it's always hard to find time: softwarepragmatism.com

Share your websites.

@cthultists @SandyofCthulhu Lots of "rusk" in the sausages and very little seasoning. Bratwurst is spicy compared to British "bangers" 😮

@SandyofCthulhu Bangers and mash... It's been twenty years and I still crave bangers and mash. I dunno what they do differently, but 🤌 💋

The great tragedy of Britain is that in the 1800s it was renowned as the best cuisine in the world. Even snooty French chefs said so. Everyone loved English cooking. Then WW1 came along. The upper-class (and their servants) went to war, and it became a mark of patriotism to eat poorly. Post-war Britain didn’t really recover before the one-two punch of the Depression & WW2 struck. Britain stayed on rationing until the mid 1950s! And by that time the ancient great cuisine of England had largely been lost. Delights such as Beef Wellington, Russian Salad (British version was posh), Lobster Thermidor, Pheasant Pie. All are almost lost. There is Britain ‘s tragedy - From the best to the worst. France suffered pretty bad in the wars too, but their cuisine rebounded. Japan’s food was nightmarishly restricted in WW2, and they recovered. Go go Britain! I admit that British food today has slowly been climbing back from the brink, but much of it is still pretty worthy of mockery. Britain can and has done better. At least it’s not as vile as on my visits in the 80s & 90s.