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    2 months ago

    ITT: People who have never done low level networking.

    Edit: Without some absolutely crazy hacks, the smallest amount of data you can really transfer or compute on is one byte. 256 requires one byte, 257 requires you to DOUBLE the data used to 2 bytes. Multiply this by whatever data they send and the problem remains the same.

    This is the kind of thing that comes up a lot designing custom protocols.