People Are Unfamiliar With Memory Efficient Coding

computer science binary data structures Memory allocation 256 Power of 2 Whatsapp Tech journalism Byte

Programming Algorithms Math

4 months ago 129,149 views 0 shares

People Are Unfamiliar With Memory Efficient Coding

256-memes, power-of-2-memes, computer-science-memes, binary-memes, whatsapp-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

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'."

More Like This

Think you have what it takes?

Programming

2 years ago 23.9K views 0 shares

Think you have what it takes? | tech-memes, iphone-memes, IT-memes, twitter-memes, startup-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

Content TECH techicornstartup tychycorn Everybody wanna work in tech. Nobody wanna put in the 20 hoursweek for 200Kyear 6:26 AM 71222 Twitter for iPhone

Every Single Freaking Time

Programming

1 year ago 26.2K views 0 shares

everySingleFreakingTime | ProgrammerHumor.io

Content RUNNING AN IMPORTANT COMMAND PRESSING CTRIC TO COPY A LINE OF OUTPUT ingfip.com IT'S TAKING A REALLY LONG TIME TO EXECUTE PRESSING CTRIC TO COPY A LINE OF OUTPUT

Why Is There ; On Line 24?

Programming Python Backend

3 years ago 42.2K views 0 shares

Why Is There ; On Line 24? | code-memes, python-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

Content Dev Discussing Python Code With Pythons

The Explosive Evolution Of Computer Memory

Programming Hardware

2 months ago 160.4K views 1 shares

The Explosive Evolution Of Computer Memory

From tiny clown car to rocket-powered death machine in just two generations. The evolution of RAM is basically hardware's version of "how it started vs how it's going." Computer memory went from "barely fits a browser tab" to "could probably simulate the entire universe if you asked nicely." At this rate, DDR6 will just be a black hole that sucks your wallet into another dimension while promising 0.002 nanoseconds faster load times for Chrome. And yet somehow, no matter how fast memory gets, Windows update will still find a way to bring your system to a crawl. It's the law of computing conservation: for every advancement in hardware, software will expand to waste it completely.

That's Not How You Do It

Programming Rust Python

5 months ago 144.4K views 0 shares

That's Not How You Do It

Learning a new programming language is like driving this backwards SUV. You think you're moving forward, but everything is just... wrong. The syntax looks vaguely familiar, yet somehow completely backwards from what you're used to. First week with Rust after 10 years of Python and suddenly I'm fighting with the borrow checker like I'm trying to parallel park this monstrosity. "But this worked in my previous language!" Yeah, and cars are supposed to have their engines in the front, yet here we are.

Im More Cooked Than The Rice Iate Yesterday

Programming

7 months ago 40.7K views 0 shares

imMoreCookedThanTheRiceIAteYesterday | variables-memes | ProgrammerHumor.io

Content ME RENAMING VARIABLES AN HOUR BEFORE THE DEMO WITH A PROTOTYPE THAT DOESN'T COMPILE