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[–] blame@hexbear.net 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 3 points 4 weeks ago

People took the math "they have played us for absolute fools" meme seriously.

[–] footfaults@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Word size was architecture dependent

[–] blame@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago
[–] NewDark@hexbear.net 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Found javascript's burner account.

[–] blame@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

nah im talking about stdint finally giving us int8_t, int16_t, int32_t and int64_t