hypercracker@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 1 month agoUndergrad CS education is going placeshexbear.netimagemessage-square97fedilinkarrow-up1165arrow-down10
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minus-squareblame [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 month agoidk why boomers decided to call integers int/short/word/double word/long/long long you ever heard of numbers? you think maybe a number might be a little more descriptive than playing “guess how wide i am?” yet another thing boomers ruined
minus-squareMardoniush [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·30 days agoPeople took the math “they have played us for absolute fools” meme seriously.
minus-squarefootfaults [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agoWord size was architecture dependent
minus-squareNewDark [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 month agoFound javascript’s burner account.
minus-squareblame [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 month agonah im talking about stdint finally giving us int8_t, int16_t, int32_t and int64_t
idk why boomers decided to call integers int/short/word/double word/long/long long
you ever heard of numbers? you think maybe a number might be a little more descriptive than playing “guess how wide i am?”
yet another thing boomers ruined
People took the math “they have played us for absolute fools” meme seriously.
Word size was architecture dependent
still is.
Found javascript’s burner account.
nah im talking about stdint finally giving us
int8_t,int16_t,int32_tandint64_t