- cross-posted to:
- programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- programmerhumor@lemmy.ml
Not only do I speak it, I can spell it.
In concept sure, in practice probably in speaking??? Why do you need to understand a base 16? Greetings good merchant, may I buy #1A Bananas?
I spent so long working with protocols over RS232 that hex and binary operators became like a second language.
I remember a grad student was doing some frontend work on it around 2015 and it blew his mind that we’d store 8 bools in a byte and call it a “status flag”.
It was really all about building super complicated pages with
<table><tr><td><img src="x"></td><td colspan=2><img src="y"></td></tr></table>
stuff before CSSThis is why my pirated copy of Dreamweaver was my most prized possession for nearly a decade.
Dreamweaver was the shit back then.
<blink>NO!</blink>
<marquee>YES!</marquee>
0xDEADBEEF
0xB00B5
please, put that behind an NSFW tag, its too naughty!!
I was on a train and everyone started furiously masterbating
<nsfw>0xB00B5</nsfw>
That’s a nice dark-ish shade of red