Hexadecimal Memes

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.

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.