lwhjp

lwhjp , 3 months ago to programmerhumor in KB, MB, GB, and TB are all part of the metric system. What empirical measurements should we Free™️ Americans use for computer memory?

Most people would use “word”, “half-word”, “quarter-word” etc, but the Anglophiles insist on “tuppit”, “ternary piece”, “span” and “chunk” (that’s 5 bits, or 12 old bits).

lwhjp , 8 months ago to programmerhumor in Find yourself

TDD

<span style="color:#323232;">const max12 = (x, y) => {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    if (x === 1 &amp;&amp; y === 2) {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        return 2;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    } else if (x === 7 &amp;&amp; y === 4) {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        return 7;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    } else {
</span><span style="color:#323232;">        return x;
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    }
</span><span style="color:#323232;">};
</span>

lwhjp , 1 year ago to programmerhumor in Literally 1970

*Um, actually…*A signed 32-bit counter would loop back to December 1901, so the calendar is presumably 31-bit unsigned. (Sorry)