Hexadecimal Memes

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We Don't Talk About IPv5

We Don't Talk About IPv5
The great IPv6 conspiracy finally exposed! After decades of network engineers forcing us to memorize hexadecimal nightmares like 2001:500:2f::f , someone's finally calling out this madness. Remember when IP addresses were just four simple numbers? Then these networking folks decided "let's add letters and colons because clearly that's more user-friendly!" Meanwhile, NAT was sitting there the whole time, perfectly capable of solving our address shortage without making us type hieroglyphics. The diagrams at the bottom really sell it - complex network schematics that might as well be ancient runes to most of us. Twenty years of "IPv6 is the future" and we're all still running IPv4 with NAT because, surprise, it actually works. And yes, there's no IPv5. It was experimental, never deployed, and now exists only in networking folklore - like documentation that's actually helpful.

To Bit Or Not To Bit

To Bit Or Not To Bit
Ah, the classic programmer double entendre. What we're looking at is [2b | !2b] followed by "That is the expression." It's Shakespeare's famous "to be or not to be" dilemma rewritten as a bitwise OR operation. The "2b" is hexadecimal (base 16) for 43 in decimal, and the exclamation mark represents logical NOT. So you're literally performing a bitwise OR between "to be" and "not to be" in code. The punchline is the perfect deadpan delivery: "That is the expression." Because, well, it literally is an expression in programming terms. Whoever came up with this probably felt extremely clever while their coworkers groaned audibly.

Hex And The City

Hex And The City
The ultimate friendship test isn't sharing Netflix passwords—it's writing a book dedication in hexadecimal that translates to something wildly inappropriate. For the uninitiated, those innocent-looking hex numbers at the bottom actually decode to a message that's... let's just say not about the book's content. It's the digital equivalent of slipping a dirty note into someone's locker, except you need to be smart enough to decode it. This is friendship in the programmer era—where the best inside jokes require a hex converter and a complete absence of supervision from HR.