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• cobysev@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  For anyone who doesn’t want to do the conversion, that’s 17 days.

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  • yardy_sardley@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Or -15 days

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    • Dabundis@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Ominous

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    • carpelbridgesyndrome@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Mmm yes. 5 bit two’s complement.

      I shouldn’t make fun of it we’ve definitly made some ISA that weird.

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    • swag_money@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      what’s the general rule for translating negatives from binary? did you just do like 17 - 2 • (-1) or something?

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  • chuckleslord@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    It also has a max of 31 days possible. Which has… implications.

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    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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

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    • Slovene@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      🤔 … What implications? ಠ⁠_⁠ಠ

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Unless it’s a signed integer, then it’s -1 and they’re expecting something…

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    • DacoTaco@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      A 5 bit long signed integer? What kind of weird system you using ? :p

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    • computergeek125@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Only if you’re using a sign bit rather than two’s compliment (a sign bit allows for two representations of 0)

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  • Entropywins@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Or 11 in hexadecimal

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    • scholar@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      B is 11 in hex though?

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  • humblebun@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    I did and I regret it

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• Hjalamanger@feddit.nu ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  It’s even worse considering that they only have five boards. They expect at least one accident every month

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  • Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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    • kraftpudding@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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    • smeenz@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      What does LTL stand for ?

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• wise_pancake@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  It’s a great way to save on number boards

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  • celia@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Not so much on board space

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    • spankmonkey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      You can save if your lab is unsafe enough!

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• xenoclast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  It bothers me it’s not in 4 bit “bytes” even though I know it’s just a convention for computers

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  • Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    The four bit sections of eight bit bytes are called nibbles, you know because nibbles are small bites

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    • xenoclast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Ugh jeez… right. I literally always mess that up

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  • satans_methpipe@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    A byte is eight bits.

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    • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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

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    • smeenz@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      4 bits is a nybble

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    • xenoclast@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Yes. I am dumb.

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  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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.

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    • ziggurat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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

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• Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  It’s telling that their counter only goes up to a month

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• TragicNotCute@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I love the leak in the other room. Get ready to reset the counter folks!

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  • Sparhawk87@lemmynsfw.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    And the fumes being vented inside that room.

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• madjo@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  -1 days? (or 17, without the overflow)

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  • tetris11@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Twos complement, so its -15 days.
    (Invert the bits then add one)

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    • madjo@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Good point!

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• troyunrau@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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 :))

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    i like their style, very pleasant and original

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• MehBlah@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I totally got that without the text bubble.

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