Hexadecimal Memes

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Base Ten: The Sacred Numbering System

Programming Algorithms Math

4 days ago 133.5K views 0 shares

Base Ten: The Sacred Numbering System

The rage-filled face screaming about base 10 is the perfect representation of that senior engineer who loses it when someone suggests using a different numbering system. Binary? Hexadecimal? Octal? Absolute heresy. The decimal system isn't just a preference—it's a religion to some. Meanwhile, the rest of us are just trying to convert 0xFF to decimal without getting yelled at.

Hexadecimal Dedication From Hell

Programming Security Algorithms

7 days ago 130.4K views 0 shares

Hexadecimal Dedication From Hell

The ultimate friendship test: converting "To my good friend, I will kill you in your sleep" into hexadecimal and writing it in a book about self-pleasure. Nothing says "I understand you on a binary level" quite like a hidden death threat in a book that's already raising eyebrows. The true power move isn't buying them a programming book—it's making them decode your message while they're holding... whatever this is. If they're still your friend after this, congratulations, you've found your debugging partner for life.

Every Programmer's Captcha Nightmare

Debugging Javascript Programming Frontend

8 days ago 128.3K views 0 shares

Every Programmer's Captcha Nightmare

THE EXISTENTIAL CRISIS OF BEING A PROGRAMMER! This captcha is pure psychological warfare! It asks you to select squares with bugs, then shows you actual code with obfuscated variable names and hexadecimal gibberish that's DEFINITELY hiding 17 different bugs. But wait—are they talking about ACTUAL bugs or CODE bugs?! THE AUDACITY! Do I click on the insect or that suspicious function that's clearly leaking memory like my coffee mug leaks on my keyboard? THIS is why developers have trust issues! Either way, I'm failing this captcha and questioning my entire career choice simultaneously.

Have You Been Exposed To An IPv6 Address At Work?

Networking Security Devops Linux

11 days ago 146.2K views 0 shares

Have You Been Exposed To An IPv6 Address At Work?

OH MY GOD, the TRAUMA is REAL! 💀 This legal-style ad parodies those mesothelioma commercials but for the ABSOLUTE HORROR of having to deal with IPv6 addresses! For the uninitiated: IPv6 is the successor to IPv4, with addresses that are CRIMINALLY long and look like someone had a seizure on a hexadecimal keyboard (3fff:d7a:cafe:77:9952:dc4d:da41:e1d7/64 — I mean, SERIOUSLY?!). The symptoms are TOO REAL: HEX rage, DNS avoidance, and don't even get me started on the dotted decimal ranting! If you've ever had to manually type one of these monstrosities, you deserve more than compensation — you deserve a THERAPY SESSION! Call 1-888-STOP-HEX now before you develop full-blown NAT44 cravings!

The Based Bell Curve Of Numerical Enlightenment

Math Algorithms Programming

11 days ago 149.4K views 0 shares

The Based Bell Curve Of Numerical Enlightenment

The numerical system bell curve perfectly captures the three stages of programmer enlightenment: On the left, we have the blissfully ignorant novice who thinks "there is only base 10" because that's all they've ever known. Sweet summer child. In the middle, the "well actually" phase where developers discover binary, octal, and hexadecimal, and feel compelled to lecture everyone about how "there are infinitely many bases" while listing them off like rare Pokémon cards. And finally, on the right, the enlightened programmer who comes full circle: "there is only base 10" – but with the cosmic understanding that every base system calls itself "base 10" in its own representation. Binary is "base 10" in binary (1010), hexadecimal is "base 10" in hex (0x10). It's the programming equivalent of "I studied philosophy to impress people at parties, only to realize nobody invites philosophers to parties."

We Don't Talk About IPv5

Networking Linux

1 month ago 108.6K views 0 shares

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

Programming C++ Algorithms

3 months ago 116.6K views 0 shares

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

Programming Algorithms

4 months ago 106.4K views 0 shares

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.