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| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 19-08-25, 21:58
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Custom title here
 Post: #656 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 14 hours |
Posted by sureanemSo you're a little-endian system on a big-endian network? --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| Duck Penis |
Posted on 19-08-25, 22:27
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #611 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1763 days Last view: 1761 days |
Is this some kind of euphemism? There's no symbolism to it, I just thought `tr -dc a-z < /dev/urandom | head -c 10` was a bit rude and 'username' a bit dull. Usually I just post as Guest or Anonymous or make a throwaway account, but hardly any sites allow that anymore because it's not "best practice" or whatever. It's a shame, really. If they wanted identities, there already exists such a thing as salted IP address hashes, which work fine for all practical purposes. (The dedicated shills and schizos can afford proxies and Indians, so they are not deterred by any of these measures, but require expensive moderation, which is why hardly any news websites allow comments except possibly through Facebook) There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| Kawaoneechan |
Posted on 19-08-25, 22:43
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Just a horrid little beast
 Post: #362 of 599 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 196 days Last view: 9 hours |
It's not a euphemism. It's basically just describing how to get from "username" to "sureanem" with different technical terms. Big endian: 0x1234 is stored as the bytes 0x12 and 0x34, in that order. This is what a Mac used to do. Little endian: 0x1234 is stored as the bytes 0x34 and 0x12, in that order. This is what a PC does. To put it in a third way, your username boils down to an N64 ROM dumping joke. |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 19-08-25, 23:56
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Custom title here
Post: #657 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 14 hours |
Posted by KawaAlso TCP/IP is big-endian, unless I'm misinformed. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
| Kawaoneechan |
Posted on 19-08-26, 01:17
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The Snarkmeister
Post: #363 of 599 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 196 days Last view: 9 hours |
What'd really cook your noodle is how bit groups have an endianness! |
| Duck Penis |
Posted on 19-08-26, 21:30
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #612 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1763 days Last view: 1761 days |
Do they though? At the end of the day, there's no inspecting how 0x12345678 gets stored in the hardware. For all we know, Intel could secretly be putting the MSB in the fourth bit and we'd be none the wiser. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| Kawaoneechan |
Posted on 19-08-26, 21:36
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Universally genre savvy
Post: #369 of 599 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 196 days Last view: 9 hours |
I reckon data sheets would have that sort of information. Did you know the ARM processor used in the GBA has a switch to toggle byte order? The GBA's ARM is fixed into little endian, but that exact same CPU can be switched to big endian if you're a systems designer who is also insane. |
| Duck Penis |
Posted on 19-08-26, 22:15
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Stirrer of Shit
Post: #613 of 717 Since: 01-26-19 Last post: 1763 days Last view: 1761 days |
Sure, but how do you know they're telling you the truth? They could convert it from little-endian to [redacted], do their operations, and then convert it back into [redacted] when writing it out again. There was a certain photograph about which you had a hallucination. You believed that you had actually held it in your hands. It was a photograph something like this. |
| Kawaoneechan |
Posted on 19-08-26, 23:10
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A punch comes free with most major felinies
Post: #370 of 599 Since: 10-29-18 Last post: 196 days Last view: 9 hours |
Because that'd falsify the datasheet. If the datasheet is wrong, first assume it's an honest mistake. |
| funkyass |
Posted on 19-08-27, 00:45
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Since: 11-01-18 Last post: 660 days Last view: 16 days |
but what about cosmic rays flipping bits? |
| CaptainJistuce |
Posted on 19-08-27, 00:51
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Custom title here
Post: #658 of 1164 Since: 10-30-18 Last post: 63 days Last view: 14 hours |
Posted by sureanemWe'd figure it out as soon as we added some memory-mapped peripherals and they started showing really weird behavior. Bit/byte/word order matters a lot. --- In UTF-16, where available. --- |
