Hi, I’m Jamie Thingelstad, and this is the Weekly Thing! At some point, you decided to join me on this journey of learning around technology, culture, leadership, privacy, and many other topics.
Welcome to issue 2^8 or 256 if it is too early for math. 256 is one of those great numbers that all techies know.
2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048, 4096, 8192… that is super easy to recall from memory because they are all powers of 2. The magic of binary. That is also the number of “mega” in “giga” and “tera” on your hard drives. But oddly not your network bandwidth, which decided to stay base 10. 🤨