hypercracker@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 18 days agoUndergrad CS education is going placeshexbear.netimagemessage-square97fedilinkarrow-up1166arrow-down10
arrow-up1166arrow-down1imageUndergrad CS education is going placeshexbear.nethypercracker@hexbear.net to technology@hexbear.netEnglish · 18 days agomessage-square97fedilink
minus-squareblame [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·18 days 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-squarefootfaults [none/use name]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·17 days agoWord size was architecture dependent
minus-squareMardoniush [she/her]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·16 days agoPeople took the math “they have played us for absolute fools” meme seriously.
minus-squareNewDark [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·17 days agoFound javascript’s burner account.
minus-squareblame [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·17 days 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
Word size was architecture dependent
still is.
People took the math “they have played us for absolute fools” meme seriously.
Found javascript’s burner account.
nah im talking about stdint finally giving us
int8_t,int16_t,int32_tandint64_t