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Murdered by Words

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Responses that completely destroy the original argument in a way that leaves little to no room for reply - a targeted, well-placed response to another person, organization, or group of people.

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[–] JillSteinsPuckeredAnus@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Unless the programmer specifcally coded the person count with an option base 0, the actual limit would likely be 255. A uint8 ranges from 0 to 255. When "one" person in the group chat, the programmer would likely count naturally, and set the variable's value to 1, not 0.

[–] crandall@lemmy.today 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Perhaps there's no need to represent zero, since any chat would have at least one person in it? Maybe not true, I don't know how WhatsApp works.

i donr know either, but I'd guess a chat needs at least two people.