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288 points Twirrim | 1 comments | 17 Oct 24 22:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.207s | source

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AlienRobot ◴[17 Oct 24 23:34 UTC] No.41874896[source]▶

I wish I knew what a 9 bit byte means.

One fun fact I found the other day: ASCII is 7 bits, but when it was used with punch cards there was an 8th bit to make sure you didn't punch the wrong number of holes. https://rabbit.eng.miami.edu/info/ascii.html

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1. BoringTimesGang ◴[18 Oct 24 09:49 UTC] No.41877788[source]▶

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Ah, I hope nobody ever uses that additional bit for additional encoding. That could cause all kinds of incompatibilities...

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