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[โ€“] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 135 points 1 month ago (23 children)

I set all 8 bits to 1 because I want it to be really true.

[โ€“] p_consti@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

I was programming in assembly for ARM (some cortex chip) and I kid you not the C program we were integrating with required 255, with just 1 it read it as false

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