OH: "ugh we [used three spaces for indentation] at my old employer specifically because we couldn't agree on 2 or 4, so the Powers That Were decided universal misery was superior to 50% misery"
I have heard Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) has a payload size of 48 bytes for a very similar reason. (Europeans wanted 32 bytes and Americans wanted 64 bytes.)
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I heard it was the telecom people wanting short 32 byte cells for voice, the data people wanting more efficient 64 byte cells, so they settled on 48. But then they added a 5 byte header and you actually got 53 bytes.
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The way I heard it was that French wanted 32 bytes, because that'd mean they didn't need echo cancellation equipment for calls within the country.
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yeah it had something to do with echo cancellation; and in the end the product was 53 fucking bytes
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