Bit fields are a necessity in low level networking too.

They’re incredibly useful, I wish more people made use of them.

I remember I interned at a startup programming microcontrollers once and created a few bitfields to deal with something. Then the lead engineer went ahead and changed them to masked ints. Because. The most aggravating thing is that an int size isn’t consistent across platforms, so if they were ever to change platforms to a different word length, they’d be fucked as their code was full of platform specific shenanigans like that.

/rant

Talking heads - once in a lifetime

And you may ask yourself: where is my beautiful house? Where is my beautiful wife?

In the industrial automation world and most of the IT industry, data is aligned to the nearest word. Depending on architecture, that’s usually either 16, 32, or 64 bits. And that’s the space a single Boolean takes.

I would like some navel assistance.

Nah, I’ll stop right here to create tension.

Wool is the superior fiber. ducks

We need a new home.

It’s a club, and it’s exclusive. Ish.

Excellent question.

I thought the joke was that Lwaxana was a hippie free spirit that operated in an alternate society, while Picard was a prude, obsessed with appearances. They were, in a way, perfect complements for each other. This makes me feel glad I don’t follow behind the scenes for any art I consume.

Bible?

Who is she/are they? They feel familiar.

I’m sorry to interject, but what you refer to as GNU/Linux is… Uh… Never mind, carry on.

Paisley. I finally can stop calling it “that paramecium design”.

700 mg would be 28 pills. Good heavens!

And they were roommates!

All of the aristocracy sucks, the people are fucked no matter who’s in power. Yes, I’m still talking about Dune, why?

Thanks!

All I can picture is Worf saying flavor with the same intonation he uses for sensor.