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I guess it's an age thing, but I thought this was really basic CS knowledge. But I can see why this may be much less relevant nowadays.
by muyuu 8mo ago
I guess it's an age thing, but I thought this was really basic CS knowledge. But I can see why this may be much less relevant nowadays.
- Cthulhu_ 8mo agoI've been in IT for decades but never knew that ctrl was (as easy as) masking some bits.
- muyuu 8mo agoYou can go back maybe 2 decades without this being very relevant, but not 3 given the low level scope that was expected in CS and EE back then.
- kazinator 8mo agoI learned about from 6502 machine language programming, from some example that did a simple bit manipulation to switch lower case to upper case. From that it became obvious that ASCII is divided into four banks of 32.
- aa-jv 8mo agoBeen an ASCII-naut since the 80's, so .. its always amusing to see people type 'man ascii' for the first time, gaze upon its beauty, and wonder at its relevance, even still today ...
- teddyh 8mo agoIt’s on the list: <https://web.archive.org/web/20251103035213/https://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/things-every-hacker-once-knew/#_ascii https://web.archive.org/web/20251103035213/https://www.catb....>
- muyuu 8mo agothanks for that, it's brilliant and very true