
Why did the programmer finally ask her boss for a raise?
She decided it was time to byte the bullet.
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"Byte" sounds like "bite" β so "byte the bullet" is a tech twist on the idiom "bite the bullet," meaning to face something difficult! In computing, a byte is the fundamental unit of digital information, made up of 8 bits. The term was coined by Werner Buchholz at IBM in 1956, and he deliberately chose the spelling "byte" instead of "bite" to avoid confusion with "bit."
