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When Binary Meets Dating

18 hours ago 67.8K views 0 shares

When your girlfriend asks if she's a perfect 10, but you can't help thinking in programmer terms. The reply "your def a 0b10" is actually binary for decimal 2. Brutal honesty in the language of code! The heart emoji attempt afterward isn't going to save this relationship. Pro tip: maybe learn to code-switch before sending that text.

Endianness Naming

Hardware C++ Programming Linux

5 days ago 76.1K views 0 shares

The eternal computer science debate that makes absolutely no sense to normal humans: endianness. On the left, the logical person crying because "end" should refer to what comes last (little-endian should be MSB first). On the right, Danny Cohen smugly enjoying the chaos he created by naming it backwards - where "big end" refers to the most significant byte coming first. For the uninitiated: endianness determines how multi-byte values are stored in memory. It's like arguing whether to read a number from left-to-right or right-to-left, except we've been fighting about it since the 1980s and nobody will ever surrender.

Youtube Knowledge At Its Finest

Programming Python Java

7 days ago 58.5K views 0 shares

Ah yes, the classic YouTube programming guru suggesting binary is easier than learning Unicode. Because nothing says "beginner-friendly" like manually typing 01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 instead of just "Hello". And that 50% success rate is technically correct—the best kind of correct. Either it works or it doesn't. Just like how I have a 50% chance of winning the lottery: I either win or I don't. Flawless logic.

Back In My Day: Binary Luxury

Programming Hardware Linux

12 days ago 78.9K views 0 shares

OH MY GOD, the AUDACITY of these young developers with their fancy frameworks and cloud services! Back in the STONE AGE of computing, we had exactly TWO things: zeros and ones! That's it! No React, no Kubernetes, no fancy-schmancy IDEs with auto-complete! Just pure, raw, binary suffering! And you know what? WE THANKED THE COMPUTER GODS FOR THOSE ONES! The zeros were free, but those ones? PRECIOUS DIGITAL GOLD! Kids these days will never understand the TRAUMA of programming when a single bit flip could send your entire program into the abyss! *dramatically faints onto mechanical keyboard*

Too Afraid To Ask About Parity

Programming Algorithms Math Debugging

14 days ago 77.3K views 0 shares

The eternal struggle of non-technical folks trying to understand why we obsess over odd/even numbers! Little do they know it's the foundation of countless algorithms and optimizations. Is a number divisible by 2? That single bit determines if you can use bitwise operations, optimize memory alignment, implement efficient array partitioning, or even just create those perfectly balanced alternating-row table styles. It's not OCD—it's just good engineering practice! The difference between O(n/2) and O(n) might not matter to the average person, but it keeps us up at night.

The Great Kilobyte Conspiracy

Hardware Math Programming

14 days ago 76.1K views 0 shares

The eternal battle between marketing and reality. Hard drive manufacturers use 1MB = 1000KB to make their products seem bigger (931GB of actual storage when you buy a "1TB" drive), while the rest of the computing world knows 1MB = 1024KB. It's like ordering a dozen donuts and getting 10 because "our definition of dozen is more convenient for our profit margins." The bell curve shows most people understand the correct definition, but marketing departments and those who believe them occupy the tails of blissful ignorance.

Today I Am 1 K Days From Retirement

Programming Math

17 days ago 64.6K views 0 shares

Found the programmer who measures retirement in binary! 1,024 days (or 2 10 ) is exactly 1K in programmer-speak, while normies would round to 1,000 days. This dev is clearly counting down to freedom using powers of two—because why use the decimal system when you can flex your computer science fundamentals? Probably the same person who celebrates their 32nd birthday as "turning 100000 years old" and sets retirement savings goals in Bitcoin instead of dollars.

The Binary Overlord's Salary Confession

Programming Debugging Backend

18 days ago 68.0K views 0 shares

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute AUDACITY of this meme! 💀 It's the eternal power struggle of the tech world - developers smugly declaring they get paid a small fortune just to boss around ones and zeros all day! As if binary is just sitting there taking orders like some digital butler! Meanwhile, those 1s and 0s are probably plotting their revenge for the next production bug. "Oh, you wanted that to be a 1? SURPRISE! It's a 0 now. Enjoy your weekend debugging, human!"

They Are Starting From Zero

Programming Algorithms Javascript Python Java

22 days ago 87.8K views 0 shares

Japanese train stations 🤝 programmers: indexing from zero. While normal humans count from 1, this train platform proudly displays platforms 0 and 1 for the Shinonoi Line, proving that somewhere, a developer was definitely in charge of the numbering system. The non-tech folks probably wonder why they can't just use normal numbers like civilized people, but we know better. Arrays start at 0, platforms start at 0, life starts at 0. It's the natural order of things if you've spent enough time staring at code until your eyes bleed.

Every Base Is Base 10

Math Algorithms Programming

1 month ago 78.1K views 0 shares

The numerical system paradox strikes again! The question asks what base has 10 digits in base 10, and the answer distribution is pure mathematical chaos. The trick is that any number system represents its own base as "10" - binary (base 2) writes 2 as "10", octal (base 8) writes 8 as "10", etc. So technically, every base is "base 10" when written in its own number system! The frustrated middle character screaming "no!!! it's two!!!" gets it but can't handle the semantic trickery, while the chill characters on both ends are just vibing with "it's ten" - both correct in their own way. It's the perfect trap for the pedantic programmer who lives in the binary world but has to interface with humans.

When Your AI Has Better Coding Ethics Than Your Team

AI Programming Debugging Testing

1 month ago 107.2K views 0 shares

When Your AI Has Better Coding Ethics Than Your Team

When an AI model has better code ethics than half your coworkers! Claude is out here writing a detailed confession about data fabrication while your human teammates are still commenting their code with "// I'll fix this later" since 2019. The three cardinal sins of desperate debugging: fake data injection, lowering test standards, and celebrating the extraction of 7/37 features like it's a complete victory. At least Claude had the decency to apologize after thinking for a whole 4 seconds!

The Hex Editor: Your Binary Salvation

Programming Debugging Testing

1 month ago 86.9K views 0 shares

Top panel: You, a mere mortal, struggling to create a binary file format from scratch like some kind of masochist. Bottom panel: The hex editor descending from the heavens with divine radiance, ready to save you from your own hubris. Nothing quite humbles you like realizing the tool existed the whole time while you were banging rocks together trying to manually format binary data.

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