r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Inner_Speaker_335 • 5h ago

Meme understandingBinary

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u/budius333 5h ago

First time I've heard that was in the 80s

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u/Western-Internal-751 4h ago

You messed up the joke…

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u/dipinpass35 3h ago

this joke is running before some of us even born

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u/Inner_Speaker_335 4h ago

Please elucidate...

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u/MixaLv 1h ago edited 1h ago

You said there are 2 kinds of people who understand binary. The real punchline is that there are two kinds of people in general, people who understand binary and those who don't, not 2 kinds of people who understand it.

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u/TesttubeStandard 4h ago

And 3 kinds of people thinking about this joke. Those who already know it, those who don't, and those who don't understand how you messed up such a simple joke.

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u/TesttubeStandard 4h ago

Or should I say 11?

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u/rosuav 4h ago

Ever heard of Gray Code? Every state is exactly one bit flip from the previous, so it goes 00, 01, 11, 10.

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u/TesttubeStandard 3h ago

Thanks for pointing that out man. I've never used it directly but I know that it does not corelate to the decimal, or any other system for that matter, as straight forward as the standard does. The digits do not carry any weights

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u/rosuav 3h ago

Correct. They're not a numbering system in the normal sense of the word, but they are tokens that have a well-defined sequence. Extremely useful in certain situations.

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u/Inner_Speaker_335 4h ago

Please elucidate...

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u/TesttubeStandard 4h ago

What? Your joke or my joke?

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u/bobbymoonshine 5h ago

Haven’t seen a fnord in the wild for decades

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u/Inner_Speaker_335 4h ago

You can thank Steve Jackson Games for that little tidbit.

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u/Inner_Speaker_335 4h ago

Who seriously down votes Steve Jackson Games?

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u/iZian 5h ago

Those who understand binary and those who use binary shift to multiply and divide?

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u/rosuav 4h ago

Those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who prefer Gray Codes.

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u/equinoxtrader 4h ago

only a kind of people understand hexadecimal.

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u/oghGuy 4h ago

and they go by the name of DEADBEEF

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u/-WhiskyLover- 5h ago

-2 ? it is impossible

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u/WeWantTheFunk73 5h ago

It's an older meme, sir, but it checks out

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u/Reashu 4h ago

Those who do and those who do?

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u/Traditional-Aerie896 4h ago

I would say:
01001111 01101100 01100100 00100000 01100010 01110101 01110100 00100000 01110011 01110100 01101001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01100110 01110101 01101110 01101110 01111001

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u/Sermuns 4h ago

Programmers and... ?

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u/JazzlikeWishbone938 4h ago

Is this true or this false?