Ask HN: Should a professional software dev know how many bits go in a byte?

Would you say that if you program computers for a living you should always know there are (usually) 8 bits in a byte? Or is it perfectly fine not to know that / can it be considered specialized knowledge if you only program high level software, e.g. front-end web or CRUD business applications?
Story Published at: July 28, 2022 at 08:58AM