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Not pain, but if I do anything less than strictly sensible I often feel I have an obligation not to correct it, because I should learn not to do whatever the thing was in the future. Trouble is, I never remember the thing itself. All I teach myself is it’s not ok to try to do things better than I did last time. That’s unhelpful. I know why I do it but my psychologist terminated service because she didn’t feel she could help me anymore so I don’t know how I would stop.
That’s a fallacy. Individuals don’t evolve, and neither do whole species; it’s populations that evolve, which for humans means tribes. Behaviours that help the tribe’s survival mean the whole tribe is favoured, even if the individuals exhibiting those behaviours never reproduce themselves. Why do you think latent genes are a thing? How do you think humans developed things like altruism?
It might seem harmless, but the purpose of a joke is to draw a distinction between those who get it and those who don’t, fostering a sense of community. In this “joke”, the in-group is people who don’t know something; the community ideal fostered there is that knowledge is undesirable, that anything that seems unintuitive to the uninformed mind is inherently ridiculous. The “joke” has no effect if it doesn’t do this. Entertaining the idea without challenge is dangerous.
Ok, I think I see the problem. To me, MSb (Most Significant bit) isn’t an ordering at all, just a label that one particular bit has. To specify an ordering, you’d also need to say whether that bit comes first or last. This concept doesn’t exist in computer memory because, as previously mentioned, bits in a byte aren’t ordered in memory. I was thinking of the individual digits in a field (each Y in YYYY) as separate bytes in a word, so endianness order makes sense to think about; separate fields in this analogy were contiguous like struct fields. I think my mental model is sensible, since ISO 8601 is fundamentally a sequence of characters, which are all in an absolute order.
