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   q66 (q66@blahaj.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 02:51:17 JST q66

   big endian is the tabs indentation of byte orders

   or uh, something

   nevermind me

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 02:51:43 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @q66 So I guess should use bug-endian then.
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     q66 (q66@blahaj.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 02:54:20 JST q66

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @lanodan users of both are often very convinced of being the correct ones and they are also wrong

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 02:56:54 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @q66 So more like vi vs. emacs, or "You're driving on the wrong side of the road!"
     
     At least the various forms of middle-endian (like PDP had) are horrible and I think everyone would agree.
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     q66 (q66@blahaj.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 02:58:10 JST q66

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @lanodan it's not the same because vi vs emacs feels more or less even while in case of big endian and tabs they clearly lost a long time ago :p

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     q66 (q66@blahaj.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 02:59:18 JST q66

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     • famfo

     @famfo coincidentally every big endian enjoyer i know is also a tabs enjoyer

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     famfo (famfo@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 02:59:20 JST famfo

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     @q66 do I get a price or something for double unpopular opinion /lh

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     Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell: (lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 03:00:48 JST Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

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     @q66 Ah yeah, which is quite why I wouldn't want to use big endian much, it's really starting to be like a computer with one's complement.
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     q66 (q66@blahaj.social)'s status on Wednesday, 04-Dec-2024 03:08:32 JST q66

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     • Haelwenn /элвэн/ :triskell:

     @lanodan i make fun of it but i still fix people's byte order issues more than usual

     i still feel like it actually causes accidental misbehavior more often than it exposes legitimate bugs though

     in vast majority of cases integer truncation during serialization would be completely harmless but on BE it breaks

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