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🚀 Ah, the riveting world of #SBCL #assembly code, where 5 whole bytes are shaved off for a more *efficient* space-wasting experience. Paul Khuong and friends #debate byte-lengths like they're splitting atoms, because clearly, optimizing a few machine instructions is the apex of #programming 🧠✨.
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SBCL: the ultimate assembly code breadboard - Paul Khuong: some Lisp

Paul Khuong's personal blog. Some Lisp, some optimisation, mathematical or computer.

Meanwhile, almost 50 years ago. Byte, May 1978. When Apple was still Apple.
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Bit / Byte / Staffelrückblick

Heute ist die Folge der ersten Staffel. Dann mache ich sechs Wochen Pause. Aber vorher kümmern wir uns noch darum, was Bits und Bytes eigentlich sind. Zum Schluss erzähle ich euch noch ein paar Kleinigkeiten über die erste Staffel. Ich hoffe ihr hattet beim Hören genauso viel Spaß wie ich beim Vorbereiten und Aufnehmen. Viel Spaß beim hören und bis in sechs Wochen.

https://21-sekunden.de/2026/05/01/bit-byte-staffelrueckblick/

Bytemology of Retronym, OCTADE. Yinzer phonics. Butterfly Perfume.

OCTADE or OCTAD is a retro word that means either an octal digit of three bits, or an octal octet or an eight-bit byte. Thus an octade, depending on its historical use, is either 3 bits or 8 bits.

OCTADE was used to specify eight bits, as opposed to BYTE which is not necessarily eight bits as the word BYTE could signify any of several numbers of bits.

This yields the retro 1337 numbers of 38 and 83. The number 38 is one more than 37 so a bit more elite a bit cooler. Thus it owns cardinally shorter byterz.

83 mod 38 equals 7, the highest octal digit. 838 mod 383 equals 72 or 9 times 8 which is 8 squared plus 8.

8338 mod 3883 equals 572 which is 72 times 8 minus 4 or 71.5 times 8.

8383 mod 3838 equals 707 which is 88 times 8 plus 3.

I prefer the old word OCTADE to the word BYTE. OCTADE sports a Euro-peon dignity and gravitas like an Internet serf ready to surf the worknet like pwnd peons. This is very true when pronouncing OCTADE with a thick Pennsyltucky Dutch or Yinzer accent. The Bostonian pronunciation sounds like bad beginner German or muffled mumbling of 'lactate.'

OCTADE or OCTAD was also used to describe a poem of eight stanzas.

OCTADE was also used to describe a period of eight years, or two leap years.

OCTADECANAL is a pheromone found in butterflies. It is butterfly perfume. I would not wear butterfly cologne. But I would sell it. Who would buy and wear my snobby smell? With wordplay we can call it OCTADE CHANNEL No. 8 . All rights reserved, ye French odor snooties.

Historical references for use of 'octade' or 'octad':

Burroughs B5500 Information Processing Systems REFERENCE MANUAL
https://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/burroughs/LargeSystems/B5000_5500_5700/1021326_B5500_RefMan_196705.pdf

Philips Data Systems Product Range - April 1971
https://www.vintage-calculators.nl/Philips%20productoverzicht%201971.pdf

Is there another name for octet that means 8 bits?
https://www.quora.com/Is-there-another-name-for-octet-that-means-8-bits

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This week, what if you didn't have to be a mechanic to get a robot companion? What about a holographic one?

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