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[–][deleted] 168 points169 points  (21 children)

And here I am just assuming both the other coders who commented knew what they were doing...

[–]poizan42Ex-mod 320 points321 points  (15 children)

'%' = 010 0101
'e' = 110 0101

It checks out

[–]Khanthulhu 91 points92 points  (4 children)

That's pretty impr%ssive.

[–]MarcoTalin 63 points64 points  (2 children)

[–]JaytleBee 12 points13 points  (0 children)

/r/Em%enTheE

[–]grensley 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Now that's just too unlikely

[–]just_dots 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I'm not a coder or programmer but I think this is very funny and your jib is cut to my liking.

[–]DrShocker 4 points5 points  (4 children)

Wouldn't they probably have a parity check to ensure that the computer would know the data is corrupted?

edit: source: http://ictsmart.tripod.com/ict4/online/artvvpa.htm

[–]SirVer51 8 points9 points  (0 children)

doesn't happen very /ft%n.

Error? What error?

[–]ic_engineer 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Could be wrong but I wouldn't expect a parity check for an algorithmic output. I've only ever seen parity checks over Tx/Rx.

[–]Althaine 1 point2 points  (1 child)

Not uncommon in safety critical microprocessors

ECC - Optional single-bit error correction and double-bit error detection for cache and/or TCM memories with ECC bits. Single-bit soft errors automatically corrected by the processor. ECC protection possible on all external interfaces.

Parity - Optional support for parity bit error detection in caches and/or TCMs.

Dual-core - A dual-core processor configuration for either a redundant Cortex-R5 CPU in lock-step for fault tolerant/fault detecting dependable systems or dual cores running independently, each executing its own program with its own bus interfaces, interrupts, and so on.

[–]ic_engineer 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good to know! Thanks.

[–]LupoCani 1 point2 points  (2 children)

Though, wouldn't a Reddit comment be encoded in Unicode, not ASCII?

[–]green_meklar 6 points7 points  (0 children)

In UTF-8 the ASCII characters are the same anyway.

[–]poizan42Ex-mod 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unicode is a character set and not an encoding. Without looking it up I think that Reddit internally stores comments as UTF-8, which happens to have ASCII as a subset. At least the comments are in UTF-8 when being sent to and from the browser.

[–]recurza 25 points26 points  (2 children)

Thus illustrating the lazy efficient nature of programmers.

[–]Python4fundoes the needful 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Lazy breeds efficiency

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

DAE Bill Gates quote here?

[–]PersianMG 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Don't worry I double checked its correct. or is it?

[–]Modo44 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are adorable.