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piazz11/03/20251 replyview on HN

I can’t explain why but “He’s assigning 128 to a string called Q” made me absolutely lose it.


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arlyle11/03/2025

ksimple is eight bit. 128 is the unsigned middle or one plus signed max. usually using it for null or error signal. on sixty for bit k implementations it would be two to the sixty three.