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Does "byte" mean "8 bits", or does it mean "an addressable memory cell"? (explanation within) https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=574s&v=1n9KMqssn54 63 comments 10/1/2025 askprogramming

The Bits and Bytes of JavaScript and Dart https://medium.com/@impromp02/the-bits-and-bytes-of-javascript-and-dart-19b60a26dbbd 3 comments 17/12/2023 learnjavascript

How can I make my assembler output binary files instead of hexadecimal files? The problem is that, in the processor architecture that the assembler is targetting (PicoBlaze), the instructions are 18-bit, and the smallest memory unit JavaScript (that my assembler is written in) can address is a byte. None 2 comments 13/11/2023 asm

Some possible reasons for 8-bit bytes https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/03/06/possible-reasons-8-bit-bytes/ 15 comments 7/3/2023 programming

Mysql Config: GB, MB Bytes, Bits original unit https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/innodb-parameters.html#sysvar_innodb_log_file_size 2 comments 31/1/2022 mysql

Terminal bits, bytes and address calculator bcal v2.3 released! https://github.com/jarun/bcal/releases/tag/v2.3 3 comments 15/10/2021 commandline

Terminal bits, bytes and address calculator bcal v2.3 released! https://github.com/jarun/bcal/releases/tag/v2.3 2 comments 15/10/2021 linux

bcal - a tool for devs who use bits, bytes and addresses regularly https://github.com/jarun/bcal 24 comments 21/8/2021 programming

I've made a dino Bootsector game (512 bytes) using 16-bit x86 assembly! https://github.com/franeklubi/dino/ 8 comments 7/5/2020 asm

std::byte me! - Bit Handling in a Future Standard Library https://thephd.github.io/std-byte-me-gsoc-2019 9 comments 27/6/2019 cpp

Demonstration of End-to-End Automation of DNA Data Storage. A 5-byte message 'HELLO' (01001000 01000101 01001100 01001100 01001111 in bits) was encoded, stored, and then decoded in 21 hours. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-41228-8 12 comments 28/3/2019 science

C# help: getting individual bits from a byte https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/74y4uh/c_help_getting_individual_bits_from_a_byte/ 7 comments 7/10/2017 learnprogramming

Bits And Bytes - Computer Languages (1983) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmhMQfFQu20 5 comments 9/1/2017 programming

RunAsRadio: Fighting Dark IT - Not monitoring only bits and bytes, but everything, including business processes. http://runasradio.com/Shows/Show/497 8 comments 7/1/2017 sysadmin

Wavetree - Minimalist alternative to byte arrays with log time for substring, concat, count 0/1 bits in subrange, and index of Nth 0/1 bit, or more generally an API for such immutable (or TODO option for some parts mutable) data wrappers. https://github.com/benrayfield/wavetree/blob/master/humanaicore/wavetree/bit/Bits.java 11 comments 26/12/2015 compsci

Byte - how quickly can you translate 8-bit binary in 30 seconds? (game) http://ghostsnstuff.github.io/byte/ 33 comments 20/10/2015 compsci

“He has long said every bit and byte is equal in his fight for net neutrality and now he is taking that fight to Washington and saying every vote should matter and be equal.” http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/27/larry-lessig-democratic-presidential-candidate-campaign-finance-reform 11 comments 29/9/2015 politics

Brainfuck interpreter in 100 bytes (16-bit x86 asm) https://github.com/peterferrie/brainfuck 3 comments 17/6/2015 brainfuck

Bits and Bytes: Life as a Woman in Open Source http://blogs.s-osg.org/bits-and-bytes-life-as-a-woman-in-open-source/ 18 comments 10/6/2015 opensource

Bits and Bytes of Python from the Internet https://github.com/kirang89/pycrumbs/blob/master/pycrumbs.md 4 comments 23/9/2013 programming

TIL that, in SATA, 1 byte = 10 bits (not 8!)...thus SATA III = 6Gbps = 600MB/s http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sata#SATA_revision_1.0_-_1.5_Gbit.2Fs_-_150_MB.2Fs 80 comments 12/8/2013 hardware

What are the ternary equivalents of bit and byte? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_numeral_system 13 comments 24/5/2013 learnprogramming

Dishonesty: ISPs advertise download speeds in BITS per sec. Downloads are always gauged in BYTES p/s. 8 megabits is 1 megabyte. Verizon's in-house speed test measures in bytes to delude customers of other ISPs into thinking they will d/l 8x as fast if they switch to Verizon. http://my.verizon.com/micro/speedtest/broadband/ 5 comments 8/2/2013 technology

UTF-8: Bits, Bytes, and Benefits http://research.swtch.com/utf8 23 comments 2/1/2013 programming

Bits and Bytes http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/kilobyte.png 3 comments 5/10/2011 reddit.com

UTF-8: Bits, Bytes, and Benefits http://research.swtch.com/2010/03/utf-8-bits-bytes-and-benefits.html 111 comments 5/1/2011 programming

Pseudorandomness is for chumps. Build a Whirlygig and get 7.999999 bits of entropy out of every byte! http://hackaday.com/2010/02/06/hardware-based-randomness-for-linux/ 88 comments 7/2/2010 programming

RSS widget for Bits and Bytes technology blog from the Ottawa Citizen http://www.springwidgets.com/widgets/view/23 37 comments 29/1/2008 reddit.com

8 bools in 1 byte, the 1 bit boolean. https://james-william-fletcher.medium.com/8-bools-in-1-byte-the-1-bit-boolean-cf6754b93230 12 comments 23/4/2022 c_programming

Building multi-architecture shellcode with shellcodecs. (32-bit / 64-bit 94 byte suid execve example) http://www.chokepoint.net/2013/08/building-multi-architecture-shellcode.html 6 comments 29/8/2013 netsec

Scientists have built the world's smallest magnetic data storage unit. It uses just twelve atoms per bit, the basic unit of information, and squeezes a whole byte (8 bit) into as few as 96 atoms. http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-world-smallest-magnetic-storage.html 50 comments 12/1/2012 science