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This union was not meant to be. (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I was thinking maybe it has to do with 0-63 being 64 numbers which could be a small convenient bit storage. But that's 6 fucking bits which as far as I know nothing really stores in values lower than a byte. Maybe there is some chip somewhere and 6 bits are used for volume and the other bits are getting used for other things. It's still a very weird value to have

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Even a fucking boolean is stored in a byte.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Right? A 6bit number makes so little sense. Where'd the other bits go, what did they do with them, why can't we have a full byte??