I’m amused by how many really good questions are prefaced with some variation of the words “This is a stupid question, but…”
I think my all-time favorite was when a non-techie asked me: “This is a stupid question, but what is a byte, anyway?”
(Short answer: a bit is a one or a zero represented in digital [...]
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