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mcherm

I encounter it occasionally. (Although I am certainly not the article's target demographic.)

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> What’s a bit?

> What’s a byte?

I'm not sure what the target demographic is.

> What’s a byte?

> A byte is a set of 8 bits.

Nitpicking, that's octet, not byte. I believe the distinction was lost and don't think byte has a proper definition anymore.

But for historical encodings that kind of matters. Because a byte was not always 8 bit we have to deal with utf-7 and had to ensure things where 8 bit clean. And utf-9.

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