I was vaguely aware that some ancient architectures had weird byte widths, but I did not know about this. Pretty interesting.

This paper cannot succeed without mentioning the PDP-10 (though noting that PDP-11 has 8-bit bytes), and the fact that some DSPs have 24-bit or 32-bit words treated as “bytes.” These architectures made sense in their era, where word sizes varied and the notion of a byte wasn’t standardized. Today, nearly every general-purpose and embedded system adheres to the 8-bit byte model. The question isn’t whether there are still architectures where bytes aren’t 8-bits (there are!) but whether these care about modern C++… and whether modern C++ cares about them.

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I censored the url.

Yeah, I saw that one. Actually kind of a smart idea as many people will surely blindly press the keys as instructed.

It’s a fake website

Figured as much. So it’s ad spamming that they’re going for.

Hey that looks nice at a glance. Will check it out!

I’m fine with python, because it’s consistent. In C I get nervous every time I see it.

goto fail;

Hi, I’d just like to join the club.

Thankfully I also had an old usb dongle on hand. I don’t want to leave it like that because it ate 50% of my two available usb ports.