For anyone who doesn't want to do the conversion, that's 17 days.
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2024
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Or -15 days
Ominous
Mmm yes. 5 bit two's complement.
I shouldn't make fun of it we've definitly made some ISA that weird.
what's the general rule for translating negatives from binary? did you just do like 17 - 2 • (-1) or something?
I used what known as 2's compliment. Take the complement (flip all the bits - here that would give you 01110 which is 14) then add 1.
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It also has a max of 31 days possible. Which has... implications.
Among many other duties I manage the safety and claims database for an outsourced industrial cleaning company and let me tell you, some of the plants my company works struggle to make it a week without an accident, meanwhile some will go years without an accident. We also have one plant which had its last accident during the Bush Administration. Its absolutely wild how much safety can vary from one industrial facility to another
🤔 .... What implications? ಠ_ಠ
They must sacrifice an undergrad on the 32nd day
This is actually how chromatography works. The mobile phase is 0.1% formic acid and 0.3% blood of the innocent.
blood of the innocent
Well, We work with what we have.
Unless it's a signed integer, then it's -1 and they're expecting something...
A 5 bit long signed integer? What kind of weird system you using ? :p
Two's complement
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Only if you're using a sign bit rather than two's compliment (a sign bit allows for two representations of 0)
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It's even worse considering that they only have five boards. They expect at least one accident every month
I work in the LTL freight industry, if we go 30 days without an accident or an injury we get a free BBQ day with unlimited food for everyone. We're talking burgers, hotdogs, chilli, chowder, chips, drinks, etc. Sometimes they even do catering. Our last one they did Hawaiian Food for 2 days (they got too much) which definitely made everyone happy.
I've been there for almost 10 years, we average about 2 per year.
Edit to clarify: 2 BBQs per year. We're really good as getting hurt.
I wonder if that's still cheaper, because it makes people value safety of others but also because it raises the burden to report smaller accidents and workmans comp fraud because of peer pressure.
The cost is in the lost productivity from having someone off work with injuries. A barbecue every 6 months seems like a bargain.
It really is, the average time loss injury in our company is usually upwards of 30k down the drain. And just an accident can be catastrophic in terms of cost as well.
A BBQ compared to that is nothing.
What does LTL stand for ?
Less than Truck Load
Basically if a company want to ship pallets of crap but they don't have enough to justify using their own truck
Think TForce, YRC, Oak Harbor, FedEx Freight, etc.
Right. I'm not American though, so I don't recognise any of those companies except for FedEx.
Ah gotcha
It’s a great way to save on number boards
Not so much on board space
You can save if your lab is unsafe enough!
Perverse incentives
It bothers me it's not in 4 bit "bytes" even though I know it's just a convention for computers
The four bit sections of eight bit bytes are called nibbles, you know because nibbles are small bites
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You can do all of math in binary, it isn't just for computers. In fact, the proof for "Russian Peasant Multiplication" was written in binary.
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A byte is eight bits.
That's a matter of convention, not technical definition. A byte can be any number of bits, depending on hardware. For a while 6 bit bytes were common. RFC 791 refers to an 8 bit byte as an octet
RFC 791 refers to an 8 bit byte as an octet
French-speaking people do too it seems. On second hand websites in Switzerland you always see that some disks are listed for e.g. 250 Go and others for 250 GB, depending on the first language of the seller.
4 bits is a nybble
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I love the leak in the other room. Get ready to reset the counter folks!
And the fumes being vented inside that room.
It's telling that their counter only goes up to a month
-1 days? (or 17, without the overflow)
Twos complement (invert the bits then add one), so its -15 days.
Otherwise 00000 and 10000 would paradoxically both equal 0 and make bitwise equality checks very difficult.
Good point!
The author of this comic has a number of excellent coffee table compilations: https://www.tomgauld.com/comic-books-v2 (unaffiliated -- I just like them :))
i like their style, very pleasant and original
They've never gone more than a month without an accident? Find a new work place immediately!
With a large enough workplace in the wrong industries it's really easy to have something that could count against it.
I work in the LTL freight industry, we get quite a few.
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