ITGuyLevi

joined 2 years ago
[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 13 points 5 days ago

I'm nearing two years into using it as my daily driver and I would 100% not want to go back. Graphene does everything I need.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 1 points 1 week ago

I think my wife paid for that one, then I bought her the CD.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I haven't used it in the past few months, I'll definitely give it another try though.

Edit: Oh, yeah this is a bit different. I like the new prompt asking if it's extended or desktop. I will definitely have to play with it a bit more, I had tossed it to the back of my brain as a 'well it exists' feature.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It works okay, but not great for me. I toss my phone on one of my old laptops docking station at work, but some apps like to force a shit resolution. It is pretty neat having them in moveable windows though.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

In a normal byte format it wouldn't help, the byte standard breaks off bits into 8 bit chunks and calls them bytes (I'm not trying to explain basics, just putting it there for background), little-endian excels at using the least number of bits to express larger numbers in a stream. If you wanted to send any number from 0-255 you only need 1 byte, for 256-512 you need two bytes (or 16 bits), in little-endian it can be represented in just 9 bits, or up to 1024 in 10 bits, etc.

Doesn't matter for much to many people, but when the number gets big enough you can save a lot of bandwidth.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I think you missed the point, that I was making, albeit poorly (little endian still requires leading zeros when not transmitting in a byte format, otherwise you don't know if the first on signal is for 1, 256, 1024, etc.) it's all good though

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 1 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

I'm not seeing any trailing zeros if that is in little endian, you start little end first and it isn't limited to a silly 8-bits, it can be used to represent numbers far larger than 255 if continued (though then it wouldn't be representative of a byte and half the joke would be lost).

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 3 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

Little-endian for the win!

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 5 points 2 weeks ago

I usually just gather a nibble by picking up a couple crumbs... I'll see myself out.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 18 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Napping. Not everyone understands the fun that can be had.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 5 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

I'm sure a successor will come around when room forms for them, I don't know of a reason any of the core *arr stack should need one. If you know of one don't hesitate to share, I'm just not really aware of any, they are awesome to me.

[–] ITGuyLevi@programming.dev 1 points 3 weeks ago

Odd way to phrase it, but I totally agree.

I would have been a bit more specific, but it applies to all of them (they aren't the reason I don't trust Google either).

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