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HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

HTTP 418: I'm a teapot

The server identifies as a teapot now and is on a tea break, brb

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Endian Justifies The Means

Programming Networking Hardware C++ Debugging
1 hour ago 8.1K views 0 shares
Endian Justifies The Means
Nobody in the history of programming has ever chosen an endianness based on performance. But choosing big endian because it "looks pretty" in a hex editor? That's the kind of arbitrary decision that haunts codebases for decades. Some dev probably made this call back in 2003 and now there's an entire team maintaining compatibility layers for it. For the uninitiated: endianness determines how bytes are ordered in memory. Little endian (0x01 0x02 0x03 0x04) reads as 0x04030201, while big endian reads naturally as 0x01020304. Absolutely nobody cares until you need to transfer data between systems, then suddenly everyone cares very much .

Just A Byte Of Contention

Programming
6 months ago 124.6K views 0 shares
Just A Byte Of Contention
Oh, the classic computer science wordplay! Left character complains "She bit me 8 times" while the right character retorts "Liar! It's just 1 byte." This is a nerdy pun exploiting the fact that 1 byte = 8 bits in computing. The accuser is technically correct about getting 8 individual bits, but the defender insists on measuring in bytes instead. It's like saying "I drank 16 ounces of water" and someone arguing "No, you just had 1 pint!" Technically correct is the best kind of correct in software engineering.

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