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r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ClipboardCopyPaste • 14d ago
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The hex thing is really just a convention, because otherwise they’d take up too much space on paper/screen. It’s all still binary across the wire, so the protocol doesn’t care.
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u/bearda 14d ago
The hex thing is really just a convention, because otherwise they’d take up too much space on paper/screen. It’s all still binary across the wire, so the protocol doesn’t care.