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But... what sort of storage device does not allow your computers to use all 256 byte values? Why is random access data stored on teletype?

[creationix]

> what sort of storage device does not allow your computers to use all 256 byte values

- clipboards

- logs

- terminal output

- alerts

- yaml configs

- JSON configs

- hacker news comments

- markdown documentation

- etc...

I assure you, this is not a solution looking for a problem. I started out with binary encodings first, but then realized it limits so many workflows.