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.

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"k * ((z + (y + (x * x))) * w)"

Stack monkeys can't even visualize an expression without a purely sequential evaluation order.

k * (z + y + x * x) * w
*/ k (+/ z y (*/ x x)) w

Right away you can see that x * x and z + y could be evaluated in parallel.
Algebraic laws can give you even more parallelism. Pack that shit into the SIMD registers.