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This union was not meant to be. (lemmy.world)
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[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I was thinking maybe it has to do with 0-63 being 64 numbers which could be a small convenient bit storage. But that's 6 fucking bits which as far as I know nothing really stores in values lower than a byte. Maybe there is some chip somewhere and 6 bits are used for volume and the other bits are getting used for other things. It's still a very weird value to have

[-] cows_are_underrated@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 10 months ago

Even a fucking boolean is stored in a byte.

[-] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago

Right? A 6bit number makes so little sense. Where'd the other bits go, what did they do with them, why can't we have a full byte??

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