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[–] 73 points 1 year ago (8 children)

You know you're a tech nerd when 256 sounds more even than 250 or 300. 😅

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Or when it's bothering you that it's 256 and not 255... aren't we counting 0 anymore? :/

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    Or when it's bothering you that people forget the difference between counting and indexing.

    You can index to 255 in an 8 bit number, but your count is still 256 when you get there.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero:_The_Biography_of_a_Dangerous_Idea

    One of the most annoying books I ever read. Every page made me feel stupider and more uneducated.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Superficially, this book looks like one that I would enjoy (if not for your anti-recommendation causing me to steer clear). Because of this, I would wager that you would have an interesting answer to "if someone was considering the above book, what's a book you would recommend they read instead?".

    In the spirit of "take a book, leave a book", one of my favourite non-fiction books for a general audience is "Power, Sex, Suicide: Mitochondria and the Meaning of Life". This recommendation is beyond the topic of the current thread, but in terms of enjoyable books that made me feel smarter, I love this one; I read it as a biochemistry undergraduate, and I was surprised at how much I learned from it.

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