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Ben Friedl

@ben.enterprises

I write software occasionally | Former Minecraft modder | CS @ UW-Madison | https://ben.enterprises/

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Adding a gambling mechanic to reading (footnotes) was the greatest innovation in writing since the period

02.09.2025 00:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This microservice could have been a HashMap.

09.08.2025 03:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
4.4.13 disk number start: (2 bytes)

       The number of the disk on which this file begins.  If an 
       archive is in ZIP64 format and the value in this field is 
       0xFFFF, the size will be in the corresponding 4 byte zip64 
       extended information extra field.

4.4.13 disk number start: (2 bytes) The number of the disk on which this file begins. If an archive is in ZIP64 format and the value in this field is 0xFFFF, the size will be in the corresponding 4 byte zip64 extended information extra field.

I love how the designers of the ZIP file format thought a ZIP archive spanning 65,536 disks might not be enough, so they bumped the maximum number of disks to 4,294,967,295 in ZIP64 for good measure

09.01.2025 07:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"To be, or not to be" -Shakespeare, Explaining the law of excluded middle

03.12.2024 02:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The hardest part of a hackathon is writing the LinkedIn post afterwards

27.11.2024 02:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 7 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ‘‹

27.11.2024 02:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0