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Cake day: June 29th, 2024

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  • Straya.
    To be fair I haven’t gone around asking people if they dislike peanut butter, it’s just sort of assumed that everyone likes it (and other spreads like nutella), and I’d be surprised to hear somebody saying they didn’t like it.
    We have many local brands. I don’t think I’ve tried one from the USA yet, but we probably have a few imported ones at costco.










  • Probably because it’s only four bytes of data, and counting/extracting bits takes more cpu time than one AND operation.
    Most CPU’s are optimised to work with whole integers (32/64 bit) rather than individual bits.

    If memory was a serious concern you could compress it down to one byte as a ‘number of 1s’ counter at the cost of additional cpu operations, but because 3 extra bytes is such a small amount of data, this memory/time trade off isn’t worth it in most systems.

    It’d be useful if you wanted to compress some data logs or something with many subnet masks though.