• Azzu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 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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        2 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)