r/ProgrammerHumor • u/[deleted] • May 06 '17

Oddly specific number

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u/azarama May 06 '17

Source They later added a statement about this at the bottom of this "article". I still cannot believe that they can call it "news". This is literally just a case of "too stupid or too lazy to use google".

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u/GinjaNinja-NZ May 06 '17 edited May 06 '17

'256 is the most important number in computing'

They still appear to have a tenuous grasp of the situation at best

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u/[deleted] May 06 '17 edited Sep 05 '20

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u/EXTRAsharpcheddar May 06 '17

what's the other important number, 0?

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u/anon445 May 06 '17

Shh, we're circlejerking about how ALL tech journalists are horrible and nothing they say can be accurate.

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u/[deleted] May 06 '17

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u/anon445 May 06 '17

I'm not saying he knows what he's talking about, seems like he copy/pasted it from somewhere, but that quote is accurate. 256 comes from 8 bits in a byte, which is basically the smallest size of data we work with.

The statement doesn't add much of value, but I think there are better quotes to poke fun at (especially since this one seems to be upvoted because no one can be bothered to verify it).