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[โ€“] visnae@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

3GPP has an interesting way of serialising bools on the wire with ASN.1

NULL OPTIONAL

meaning only the type would be stored if true, otherwise it won't be set at all

[โ€“] anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 6 days ago

That requires some form of self describing format and will probably look like a sparse matrix in the end.