• Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    This implies that they are actually “speaking” in text, because over actual speech 10 said in base 10 would be “ten” and 10 said in base 2 would be “one zero”, i.e. not ambiguous at all.

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        5 days ago

        thank you for giving me a great torture idea for all my IT adjacent friends, from now on i’ll be pronouncing all binary as if it were one number (up until i can’t be bothered anymore)

        • marduk@lemmy.sdf.org
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          “My subnet mask is set to eleven million, one hundred eleven thousand, one hundred eleven dot eleven million, one hundred eleven thousand, one hundred eleven dot eleven million, one hundred eleven thousand, one hundred eleven dot zero”