When I grew up online in the 90s, on IRC, AOL/AIM, ICQ and web forums, it was extremely common. Most of the people I know from then still do it, and I still do it with them and in many other places, although for whatever reason I don't do it here. Although it's 50/50 when on their phones now that phones auto-capitalize by default now.

> I think the optimizer recognizes modulo 2 and converts it to bitwise AND.

You don't have to guess, you could turn or O3 or look at the disassembly.

Interestingly, not only do both versions emit the same assembly, but clang both autovectorizes and unrolls the loop:

https://godbolt.org/z/qxsKWfz9s

gcc does it even when it's not optimizing

There's some solid disclaimers at the start; I don't think it's fair to say she assumes that this is universal advice since she explicitly states that it isn't.

lol - I actually have done guided meditations at 2x, when I was starting out.

"A Squash and a Squeeze" by Julia Donaldson must be a take on that

https://judaism.stackexchange.com/questions/50346/is-julia-d... says it's a take on an old Jewish Polish folk tale

> You say they’re worth less

They said they're (mostly) not worth more than $2.

They aren't worth less than $2 either. They are worth $2.

$2 bills are somewhat rare and are considered lucky. We could use math to prove that on average $2 dollar bill is worth more than $2. 1 - There exist collectable $2 dollar bills which are worth significantly more than $2. 2 - there are no $2 dollar bills which are worth less than $2 due to being legal tender. From 1 and 2 - average value of all $2 bills is above $2.

Counterpoint: there are places in the world where people will not accept a $2 bill due to unfamiliarity - it may as well be a $7 bill. Therefore, there exists a $2 that's worth nothing as legal tender.

All it takes is a cooperating bank teller, $200, and some patience and you can order a strap of $2's. Chances are large that 100 uncirculated $2 bills in sequential order will be ready for you to pick up in a few days.

I don't expect there's much more value than $200 in there, but if you disagree, you're welcome to figure out what your local bank's limit on currency ordering is :P

The San Diego zoo used to make a point of stocking all their cashiers with $2 bills, as a subtle "this is how much we bring to the local economy" indicator.

It's not a bad idea for a small business, either, until everyone starts doing it.

There's a strip club in Portland that only gives out $2 bills in change, as the minimum you should toss on stage at any one time.

What's really funny is, if you walk into any other bar in Portland and tip with them, there's a good chance the bartender will ask if you've just been to that stripclub.

Because you get to do promiscuous arithmetic with strangers.

They could be doing a lot better but it's a bit of a cursed problem.

Natural language as input doesn't give you any information about where the boundaries are or what's possible. Meanwhile natural language can express anything, most of which any current implementation won't be able to do.

So the user gets a blank canvas and all the associated problems with learning what to do, except it's worse because many things they think up will fail.

And the main tool we have to guide the user through this fraught path is LLM output. Oof.

I am hopeful that Apple will demonstrate their expertise in using some traditional UI to help alleviate some of these problems.

In my .cursorrules I have instructions that after every testable change it should ask me to test it, and if I say it's good it should commit.

So I ask for some feature, it implements, I test and either give feedback or simply say "good" or "that works" in which case it'll produce a commit command I can just press Run on. Makes it very easy to commit constantly.

Also I use Composer exclusively over Chat and have zero hesitation to hit those restore buttons if anything went down the wrong path.

I'm so sorry that happened to you. I hope you're okay.

;)