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Sorry to be that guy, but a weird machine is a defined computer science term. I got the wrong impression from the title, as I'm guessing, did others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_machine

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The title makes no sense if you interpret it that way, also, it seems to be a very niche term (most of the top google results are not computer related at all). I think 99% of people who saw the headline understood it the correct way.

> The title makes no sense if you interpret it that way

The lesson of weird machines is that weird machines can lurk anywhere; that's why they're 'weird'. Something to do with CPP or bit endianness, perhaps, or exploiting undefined behavior is what I thought clicking on it.

Ditto for the endianness. Or one of those embedded boards with really weird 24-bit stuff or something similar.

When you get into DSP 24bit isn't too weird. But then you also expect that going in.

I also interpreted it the 'wrong' way.

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