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minus-squareblame [they/them]linkfedilinkEnglish9•7 months 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]linkfedilinkEnglish3•7 months agoWord size was architecture dependent
minus-squareblame [they/them]linkfedilinkEnglish3•7 months agonah im talking about stdint finally giving us int8_t, int16_t, int32_t and int64_t
minus-squareMardoniush [she/her]linkfedilinkEnglish3•7 months agoPeople took the math “they have played us for absolute fools” meme seriously.
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.
Found javascript’s burner account.
nah im talking about stdint finally giving us
int8_t,int16_t,int32_tandint64_tPeople took the math “they have played us for absolute fools” meme seriously.