On 2021-09-29 at 09:21:34 +1000, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 9:10 AM <2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com> wrote: > > > > On 2021-09-29 at 11:38:22 +1300, > > dn via Python-list <python-list@python.org> wrote: > > > > > For those of us who remember/can compute in binary, octal, hex, or > > > decimal as-needed: > > > Why do programmers confuse All Hallows'/Halloween for Christmas Day? > > > > That one is also very old. (Yes, I know the answer. No, I will not > > spoil it for those who might not.) What do I have to do to gain the > > insight necessary to have discovered that question and answer on my own? > > You'd have to be highly familiar with numbers in different notations, > to the extent that you automatically read 65 and 0x41 as the same > number ... I do that. And I have done that, with numbers that size, since the late 1970s (maybe the mid 1970s, for narrow definitions of "different"). There's at least one more [sideways, twisted] leap to the point that you even think of translating the names of those holidays into an arithmetic riddle. > ... Or, even better, to be able to read off a hex dump and see E8 03 > and instantly read it as "1,000 little-endian". 59535 big endian. Warningm flamebait ahead: Who thinks in little endian? (I was raised on 6502s and 680XX CPUs; 8080s and Z80s always did things backwards.) -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
