“Tech journalist” in major newspaper about to have his mind blown as he learns about binary numbers. #journalismhttps://twitter.com/billynomates/status/696301974627749888 …
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“Wow, 256, so strange and mystical…” Yeah, pal, meanwhile their parent company is in the process of gathering dirt on the world population.
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Dear tech journalists, Your job isn’t to write up press releases & stare in awe at the magical flashing lights; it’s to report critically.
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Or, y’know, to practice *journalism* not awenalism.
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@aral Wait, you mean that shit's divisible by 8 *for a good reason?!* :O -
@kr0_0gs Madness!
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@aral because it is oddly specific. What significance does a power of two have here? None. Why not 300 or two hundred? I bet it's null termd -
@Swift_Studies That’s a different issue—it’s clear they exposed an implementation detail (some sort of word-boundary optimisation?) -
@aral Firstly, probably not given text is likely UTF8. Secondly who cares? It's an oddly specific number.
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