People Are Unfamiliar With Memory Efficient Coding

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People Are Unfamiliar With Memory Efficient Coding

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Journalists discovering that 256 is an "oddly specific number" while every developer is facepalming so hard they've left a permanent mark. For the uninitiated: 2^8 = 256, which is a power of 2 that makes perfect sense when you're allocating memory or designing data structures. It's like watching someone be confused why pizza comes in 8 slices instead of a "nice round 10." Next headline: "Developer uses 65,536 as maximum file size - sources say he 'just made it up'."

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