Fewer programmers interested in hardware?

I see far too many programmers these days who use macbooks and prebuilt desktops. They've never assembled a computer or installed a different OS. Why is this? I thought programmers were interested in tinkering with things. I feel more and more like I'm out of place when I talk about how I assemble and overclock computers and install GNU/Linux distros.

>>32
Modern C and C++ compilers will attempt to infer whether loops can be vectorized and emit SIMD code where they can. This is not, however, a very reliable optimization since it relies on many heuristics that are easily defeated. For best results the programmer needs to be aware of how the optimizer works on all compilers they are targeting.

>>40
"It is programmed from the host computer using a C++ language class library which abstracts the parallel processor in terms of fast arithmetic operators for vectors of variable precision integers. "

read the paper, before talking shit.