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   Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-May-2026 10:04:55 JST Paul Cantrell

   Good news: I got my email inbox down to a power of 2!

   (Not saying which one.)

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-May-2026 10:59:43 JST Paul Cantrell

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     A fun thing about cutting my programming teeth back in the Olden Days of the Apple ][ is that any time I see 256 or 1024 or 65536 or whatever in the wild, I get unreasonably excited. Kids these days don’t even have to memorize their powers of 2 to make a computer go

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     Blake Coverett (blakecoverett@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-May-2026 11:37:38 JST Blake Coverett

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     @inthehands I taught my youngest (now 30) that powers of two are round numbers, just like powers of 10 and it stuck. The older one didn't buy it in the slightest.

     I have fond memories of making my own little math library to multiply and divide with shifts and adds. Sure, there was one in the ROM, but what if I wanted to bank-switch that out to use the RAM under it.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-May-2026 11:54:09 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • John Maxwell

     @jmaxsfu of course

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     John Maxwell (jmaxsfu@hcommons.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-May-2026 11:54:10 JST John Maxwell

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     @inthehands Not a power of two, but I bet there's the same charge on that number

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     John Maxwell (jmaxsfu@hcommons.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-May-2026 11:54:11 JST John Maxwell

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     @inthehands Don't forget 6502.

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     Paul Cantrell (inthehands@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 14-May-2026 11:59:19 JST Paul Cantrell

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     • Hoarse e-Books

     @20002ist

     Of course. Certain others like 768 and 16384 and 49152 also ring bells

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     Hoarse e-Books (20002ist@thepit.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-May-2026 11:59:21 JST Hoarse e-Books

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     @inthehands I got so used to zero-based counting that it’s the decremented versions (such as 65535) that get me going.

     And whoever said “6502,” yeah, that. Just always remember to clear the fucking carry bit.