Post #3051259
2026-06-02 15:28 UTC
Replies (3)
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@PurpleJillybeans@kind.social 2026-06-02 17:05
@b0rk@social.jvns.ca I see Puffy 🐡 🧡 #OpenBSD
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@rhempel@cosocial.ca 2026-06-03 03:34
@b0rk@social.jvns.ca I am always happy to read anything that you write - it's done with simple words and includes some notes on why it's relevant for you. The classic Byte Order Fallacy by @robpike@hachyderm.io is something I send to every programmer that doesn't believe me when I gently tell them they are making things more complicated than they need to be. Your work (and Rob's) are what the Internet was supposed to be, so thank you! https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2012/04/byte-order-fallacy.html?m=1
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@PhilSalkie@mindly.social 2026-06-03 11:46
@b0rk@social.jvns.ca This is so, so needed. Was called to a customer site - 3 hour drive away - because a controls engineer couldn't get a communications module working in an industrial controller. When I got there, he told me the communications wasn't showing any failure errors, but the numbers that came through were garbled - the only value that displayed properly was zero. I looked at what we was doing for about ten milliseconds, them told him he was reading in a float and interpreting it as an integer. "What's an integer?" was the reply. I proceeded to learn that this "controls engineer" did not understand the concept of a bit, byte, int, unsigned, long, float, or double - although he did realize there was a difference between the counting numbers and the real numbers. It. Was. A. Long. Day.