Decimal vs binary Memes

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.

Sure, normal people count to 10 on their fingers. But us nerds? We're out here counting in binary where each finger is a bit. Two hands = 10 bits = 2^10 = 1024 values. It's the same reason we think 512MB is a nice round number while marketing folks insist on calling it "half a gig." We didn't spend years optimizing algorithms just to use decimal like some kind of animal. The irony? Most of us still use our fingers to count how many bugs we've introduced while fixing the original one.

Who needs decimal when you've got binary? With 10 fingers, normal folks count to a measly 10, but programmers? We're out here representing each finger as a binary digit (0 or 1), squeezing a full 2^10 = 1024 values from the same hardware. It's the ultimate flex when someone asks you to count on your fingers and you casually hit four digits. The look on their face is worth the years of carpal tunnel from typing.