For anyone who doesn’t want to do the conversion, that’s 17 days.
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cobysev@lemmy.world 1 day ago
chuckleslord@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It also has a max of 31 days possible. Which has… implications.
Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 1 day ago
Among many other duties I manage the safety and claims database for an outsourced industrial cleaning company and let me tell you, some of the plants my company works struggle to make it a week without an accident, meanwhile some will go years without an accident. We also have one plant which had its last accident during the Bush Administration. Its absolutely wild how much safety can vary from one industrial facility to another
yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Or -15 days
Dabundis@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Ominous
swag_money@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
what’s the general rule for translating negatives from binary? did you just do like 17 - 2 • (-1) or something?
carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works 23 hours ago
Mmm yes. 5 bit two’s complement.
I shouldn’t make fun of it we’ve definitly made some ISA that weird.
phoenixz@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
Unless it’s a signed integer, then it’s -1 and they’re expecting something…
DacoTaco@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
A 5 bit long signed integer? What kind of weird system you using ? :p
humblebun@sh.itjust.works 21 hours ago
I did and I regret it
Hjalamanger@feddit.nu 1 day ago
It’s even worse considering that they only have five boards. They expect at least one accident every month
Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
I work in the LTL industry, if we go 30 days without an accident or an injury we get a free BBQ day with unlimited food for everyone. We’re talking burgers, hotdogs, chilli, chowder, chips, drinks, etc. Sometimes they even do catering. Our last one they did Hawaiian Food for 2 days (they got too much) which definitely made everyone happy.
I’ve been there for almost 10 years, we average about 2 per year.
kraftpudding@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
I wonder if that’s still cheaper, because it makes people value safety of others but also because it raises the burden to report smaller accidents and workmans comp fraud because of peer pressure.
xenoclast@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It bothers me it’s not in 4 bit “bytes” even though I know it’s just a convention for computers
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 9 hours ago
The four bit sections of eight bit bytes are called nibbles, you know because nibbles are small bites
xenoclast@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Ugh jeez… right. I literally always mess that up
satans_methpipe@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
A byte is eight bits.
Revan343@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
That’s a matter of convention, not technical definition. A byte can be any number of bits, depending on hardware. For a while 6 bit bytes were common. RFC 791 refers to an 8 bit byte as an octet
smeenz@lemmy.nz 9 hours ago
4 bits is a nybble
xenoclast@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Yes. I am dumb.
finitebanjo@lemmy.world 9 hours ago
You can do all of math in binary, it isn’t just for computers. In fact, the proof for “Russian Peasant Multiplication” was written in binary.
ziggurat@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
So you can do all mathematical operations in binary, but you can’t represent all numbers in binary like 0.3, which is a repeating number, and had the same issues as a number like 1/3 in decimal where you can’t avoid rounding errors
wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
It’s a great way to save on number boards
celia@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Not so much on board space
spankmonkey@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You can save if your lab is unsafe enough!
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 1 day ago
It’s telling that their counter only goes up to a month
TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I love the leak in the other room. Get ready to reset the counter folks!
Sparhawk87@lemmynsfw.com 1 day ago
And the fumes being vented inside that room.
troyunrau@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
The author of this comic has a number of excellent coffee table compilations: www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2 (unaffiliated – I just like them :))
pyre@lemmy.world 1 day ago
i like their style, very pleasant and original
MehBlah@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I totally got that without the text bubble.
madjo@feddit.nl 7 hours ago
-1 days? (or 17, without the overflow)
tetris11@lemmy.ml 7 hours ago
Twos complement, so its -15 days.
(Invert the bits then add one)