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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I spent so long working with protocols over RS232 that hex and binary operators became like a second language.

I remember a grad student was doing some frontend work on it around 2015 and it blew his mind that we'd store 8 bools in a byte and call it a "status flag".