> Today I did something terrible. I like to believe it was out of wisdom rather than ignorance. I needed to do some nuanced bit manipulations, and so I built up

> Today I did something terrible. I like to believe it was out of wisdom rather than ignorance. I needed to do some nuanced bit manipulations, and so I built up a string of ascii 0's and 1's, sliced the string, and then converted back to integers. Similar, in awk: https://gist.github.com/jaysoffian/e41ca479d70e60efe59fded93528ab1b https://gist.github.com/jaysoffian/e41ca479d70e60efe59fded93...