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This union was not meant to be.
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I was thinking maybe it has to do with 0-63 being 64 numbers which could be a small convenient bit storage. But that's 6 fucking bits which as far as I know nothing really stores in values lower than a byte. Maybe there is some chip somewhere and 6 bits are used for volume and the other bits are getting used for other things. It's still a very weird value to have
Even a fucking boolean is stored in a byte.
Right? A 6bit number makes so little sense. Where'd the other bits go, what did they do with them, why can't we have a full byte??