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1. Julia Evans (b0rk@social.jvns.ca)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jan-2023 02:21:47 JST Julia Evans

   trying to categorize what kinds of data exist in your computer's memory / on its hard drive. so far I have:

   * numbers (floats, ints)
   * strings (various encodings)
   * machine code
   * C arrays/structs

   is there something else I'm missing? I'm looking for very basic fundamental things (like "strings"), not like images/video. Data structures like hashmaps seem tricky because there are so many different implementations

   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jan-2023 02:37:38 JST Adrian Cochrane

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     @b0rk I'd add booleans, pointers, and maybe mention enums.

     Then there's collection types, but I'd say those deserve at least one seperate cartoon.

   • Adrian Cochrane (alcinnz@floss.social)'s status on Saturday, 21-Jan-2023 04:21:54 JST Adrian Cochrane

     in reply to

     @b0rk Oh, maybe you could include some comments on raw images & audio? As long as you're not discussing compression, those are basically multidimensional numeric arrays...