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Murdered by Words
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Responses that completely destroy the original argument in a way that leaves little to no room for reply - a targeted, well-placed response to another person, organization, or group of people.
The following things are not grounds for murder:
- Personal appearance ("You're fat", "You're ugly")
- Posts with little-to-no context
- Posts based on a grammar/spelling error
- Dick jokes, "Yo mama", "No, you" type responses and other low effort insults
- "Your values are bad" without any logcal or factual ways of showing that they are wrong ("I believe in capitalism" - "Well, then you must be evil" or "Fuck you you ignorant asshole")
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- Be civil and remember the human. No name calling or insults. Swearing in general is fine, but not to insult someone else.
- Discussion is encouraged but arguments are not. Don’t be aggressive and don’t argue for arguments sake.
- No bigotry of any kind.
- Censor the person info of anyone not in the public eye.
- If you break the rules you’ll get one warning before you’re banned.
- Enjoy the community in the light hearted way it’s intended.
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Dev here. Just because CPUs don't directly use 8 bit numbers anymore doesn't magically mean 257 wouldn't overflow. If you're storing the 8 bits in part of something else that's 32 or 64 bits (or whatever), like maybe the ID of the chat, then you only have 8 bits. A lot of time this comes down to making compact data representations of things to make uploads/downloads quicker. JSON is the most popular data format to transfer data in (probably), but other more compact binary formats like Avro, Protobuf, and even application specific custom formats exist.