@whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧ "putting bits and bytes onto the wire in the correct order" is an incredibly difficult problem, apparently
in the early 2000s, our father discovered that some big vendor fucked it up (somewhere deep within an "ethernet over legacy telco bullshit" stack), but because they shipped first their version became the actual version everyone else had to implement
@whitequark✧✦Catherine✦✧ the debugging process involved "the senior architect (aka himself) identified the most likely areas where bit/byte reversals could've happened, the team prepared all possible permutations, and they tried them all at the next plugfest"
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