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182 points Twirrim | 1 comments | 17 Oct 24 22:21 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

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favorited ◴[17 Oct 24 23:54 UTC] No.41875023[source]▶

Previously, in JF's "Can we acknowledge that every real computer works this way?" series: "Signed Integers are Two’s Complement" <https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p09...>

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jsheard ◴[18 Oct 24 00:25 UTC] No.41875200[source]▶

Maybe specifying that floats are always IEEE floats should be next? Though that would obsolete this Linux kernel classic so maybe not.

That line is actually from a famous Dilbert cartoon.

I found this snapshot of it, though it's not on the real Dilbert site: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/73in9/computer_holy_...

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1. Jerrrrrrry ◴[18 Oct 24 01:53 UTC] No.41875688[source]▶

This is the epitome, the climax, the crux, the ultimate, the holy grail, the crème de la crème of nerd sniping.

fuckin bravo

C++ proposal: There are exactly 8 bits in a byte