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MacNCheese23today at 7:10 PM1 replyview on HN

As an engineer i would never think that complicated - morse code?

Couldn't it be just binary

long-long-short-short-short

11000

Which is - to everyones surprise - 24 as in hours.


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xp84today at 9:52 PM

To anyone other than a computer engineer, I would bet Morse code would be preferred at least 10 to 1. Most people who aren’t computer science majors could barely decode binary “10” correctly, whereas writing down the dots and dashes and googling “Morse code chart” is something I’d bet over 50% of non-engineers could do accurately.

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