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minus-squareblame [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·15 hours 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-up2·12 hours agoWord size was architecture dependent
minus-squareNewDark [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·12 hours agoFound javascript’s burner account.
minus-squareblame [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 hours 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.
Found javascript’s burner account.
nah im talking about stdint finally giving us
int8_t
,int16_t
,int32_t
andint64_t