OT: AttributeError

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On 2021-09-29 03:03, 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE at potatochowder.com wrote:
> On 2021-09-29 at 09:21:34 +1000,
> Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 9:10 AM <2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE at potatochowder.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > On 2021-09-29 at 11:38:22 +1300,
>> > dn via Python-list <python-list at python.org> wrote:
>> >
>> > > For those of us who remember/can compute in binary, octal, hex, or
>> > > decimal as-needed:
>> > > Why do programmers confuse All Hallows'/Halloween for Christmas Day?
>> >
>> > That one is also very old.  (Yes, I know the answer.  No, I will not
>> > spoil it for those who might not.)  What do I have to do to gain the
>> > insight necessary to have discovered that question and answer on my own?
>> 
>> You'd have to be highly familiar with numbers in different notations,
>> to the extent that you automatically read 65 and 0x41 as the same
>> number ...
> 
> I do that.  And I have done that, with numbers that size, since the late
> 1970s (maybe the mid 1970s, for narrow definitions of "different").
> 
> There's at least one more [sideways, twisted] leap to the point that you
> even think of translating the names of those holidays into an arithmetic
> riddle.
> 
>> ... Or, even better, to be able to read off a hex dump and see E8 03
>> and instantly read it as "1,000 little-endian".
> 
> 59535 big endian.  Warningm flamebait ahead:  Who thinks in little
> endian?  (I was raised on 6502s and 680XX CPUs; 8080s and Z80s always
> did things backwards.)
> 
6502 is little-endian.