It's not as complicated as it seems. Sometimes raw bytes are transformed into alphabetic characters to make them easy to communicate, possibly with a small checking value included to prevent typos. But some texts are more convenient to work with on screen, and others to write down.
Then there are the many flavors of transformation.
I follow you. And I am tangentially aware of what your talking about. My joke was more about the ease and expertise with which you are both conversing about it. And how it sounds to an outsider. a gift I have that many lack is knowing what I don't know but grasping the fringes of a topic. The gift I often lack is the perseverance to learn more haha. Nothing a little adderall won't fix.
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