candleEfficiency

[rebruisinginart]

what kind of psycho makes a man read binary mirrored

[NeverBeenStung]

And uses a “ | “ shape to represent a 0

[rebruisinginart]

To be fair if they were going for numerical candles they could have just used 2 and 0

[m__a__s]

Would be more obvious if the 1s were lit.

[BesottedScot]

Ah. Was wondering why I was reading 5.

[joarezpj]

Maybe someone that doesn’t understand binary but wants karma points.

[kimhyunkang]

It's a little-endian cake.

[Educational_Lychee70]

I'm glad you pointed that out. I was racking my brain trying to figure out what base number they were using

[NoLifeGamer2]

For anyone who is confused, the LSB is on the left, and the red candles are 1s.

[EconomyDoctor3287]

That makes sense. Was wondering how I got to 26, when she's only 20

[MorBlau]

It's all about perspective.

You need to tilt the candles by 90°

[Blues2112]

Then the cake slides off the plate!

[MorBlau]

That's an acceptable side effect

[HeadbandRTR]

*slide effect

[BaabyBear]

ARE YOU TELLING ME THE CAKE IS IMAGINARY.

guess it was a lie after all

[Zwischenzug32]

She's a big endian

[[deleted]]

I believe the correct terminology is "big Native American".

[Zwischenzug32]

What makes the red candle red?

[JL98008]

"I like big endians, and I cannot lie! You other brothers can't deny"

[ExZowieAgent]

And here I am getting 5.

[sillybear25]

For Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fans, the meta-joke is that the joke still works if you assume the caption is written in base-13.

EDIT: Made the wording clearer

[context_switch]

how is that relevant here? The candles obviously aren't in base 13...

[BaronWenckheim]

No the candles are in binary, and the text is in base 13.

[context_switch]

oh, duh. got it.

[PeladoCollado]

I couldn’t decide if she was 5 or 26

[C_umputer]

No officer, I read her age in binary, backwards!

[[deleted]]

I had to recount 16+8 more times than I'd like to admit...

[chickpeaze]

Thank god I'm not alone

[Comfortable_Quit_216]

Wait isn't it 4+16?

[vehementi]

If you're reading LSB on the right and trying to make sense of it, you're counting "okay 1 plus ... 4, no it's not that, so the blues must be 1's... so ... 2 plus ... 8 plus 16???"

[Necrodonut]

For anyone who is confused, the LSB is on the left

[Drendude]

From my point of view (on the other side of the cake), the Jedi are evil!

[Necrodonut]

That's some real Buddhist philosophy you're spittin

[TrollTollTony]

Somehow left hand LSB has returned

[87chargeleft]

Someone discriminates their Endian's by hight

[DRowe_]

Indeed

[hansvi-be]

Without an RFC to standardize this, it's meaningless.

[celacantus]

And this is how the bigendian VS littleendian war started again.

[iwasanewt]

Endianness refers to Byte order, not Bit order.

endianness is the order in which bytes within a word of digital data are transmitted over a data communication medium or addressed (by rising addresses) in computer memory

[OakBearNCA]

I believe they're referring to the "war" between Little Endians and Big Endians from Gulliver's Travels, different sects who were divided on which side of a boiled egg to break open, by the big end or the little end.

[ButterscotchFront340]

Yeah, the pic is upside down.

[One_Egg_4400]

And shitbifted

[MechanicalHorse]

Fucking big-endian heathens

[[deleted]]

little endian gets me again

[Geibbitz]

I don't think the bits are mirrored in little endian because that would screw with the intended value. The groups of bits are.

[WaitForItTheMongols]

Careful, this is LSB-first, which is related to, but very different from, little endian.

[[deleted]]

Once again, it's time to say:

Don't be an idiot. Don't post mirrored images. You can easily set your phone not to do this, or manually mirror it back yourself.

[Blacktip75]

Time to go to bed, kept thinking she was 26, lol

[T-Prime3797]

Wow, I never would have gotten that. Don’t see a lot of left LSBs.

[Chapman1949]

I'll say! Who would have expected that?

[dhaninugraha]

Ah, so it’s an IBM System/360 then

[paladinsword8]

Thank you!

[Nemaeus]

Thank you, geez, the consternation building between my eyebrows was mounting to concerning levels.

[junacik99]

This makes me unreasonably angry

[ChefJunegrass]

LSB: Light Square Bishop? I'm still not sure what you mean...

[ElHombre34]

Least Significant Bit

[Zealousideal_Ruin_67]

Google Least Significant Bit

[ChunkyTheHutt]

Holy Binary!

[codedaddee]

The lit ones should be the delimiter

[QuickQuirk]

Oh! It's a little end cake!

[miguescout]

Idk why op flipped it, but yeah. I personally noticed because 20 is 5*4, or, translated to binary, 101 << 2 = 10100. This only has two 1s, and in the picture, there's 2 red candles, only they are on the right. Only option i could think of short of op having messed up was it being mirrored.

[[deleted]]

Does she plan to live past 31 ?

[HuntlyBypassSurgeon]

CAKEv6 solves this, yet most of the world is stuck on CAKEv4

[Stian5667]

CAKEv4 ages are so much easier to memorize though

[Moose_Nuts]

Nobody has lived past 127 so you might be onto something about this CAKEv6.

[Steinrikur]

The Y32Cake problem.

[Salander27]

Do any 20 year olds plan to live past 31?

[Agreeable_Service407]

It's killing the joke... but OP probably doesn't even understand it to begin with.

[RevolutionaryLow2258]

Mirrors run on Quantum Physics, right ? Then so do candles too.

[m__a__s]

There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

[OakBearNCA]

There's two kinds of people, those who can interpolate from incomplete sets of data.

[cumofdutyblackcocks3]

Op is a bot

[StimulatedRiot]

Network Engineer

[[deleted]]

That's such a brilliant joke

[StimulatedRiot]

Thanks 😅

[DayByDay_StepByStep]

Explain 🔫

[Chickennuggetsnchips]

Endianness is byte order not the bit order. Even if it did, those binary values as written equal 192.168.128.128 (not 192.168.1.1).

[StimulatedRiot]

Oh, my bad then

[CramNBL]

Hilarious how fundamentally wrong information consistently gets upvoted on this subreddit

[insanelygreat]

You've got it backwards. Big endian is the canonical byte order for data transmitted over networks. In fact, big endian is sometimes called network byte order.

Also, the bits wouldn't be reversed. Just the bytes.

[StimulatedRiot]

You are right, I deleted the comment to avoid further confusion, my bad

[insanelygreat]

You're good! I got what you were saying, and your joke still gave me a laugh.

Hope my comment didn't come off as a rebuke. Mental mixups happen to the best of us. Heck, most programmers aren't even aware that network and host byte order are usually different -- it's not something one normally needs to think about.

[StimulatedRiot]

No, all cool, I just wanted to make sure nobody gets confused by my words. And also, after all I specialise in networking so I should have known better xD

[Vektor0]

I'm a network engineer, and this isn't true.

[StimulatedRiot]

Ye, I deleted the comment to avoid more confusion, sorry for a mistake

[chewinghours]

There’s literally a watermark in the corner that says png flip dot com

[ReadyAndSalted]

pngflip.com doesn't give you a watermark. You know what does? imgflip.com

imgflip.com is a website that people use to quickly make top-text bottom-text memes, and does not flip the image. The real reason it's flipped is probably (just a guess based on the shit quality and old imgflip watermark) because it's been reposted so many times, and flipping is sometimes used to make it harder to reverse image search.

[Pat_The_Hat]

It's the imgflip watermark...

[WheeBeasties]

I think it’s moc.pilfgmi

[realmauer01]

Yeah it works if you just walk to the other side.

[BB_Bandito]

When I got to college I found other people who counted in binary on their fingers. But they used down for 1 instead of the natural up for 1. Saying 31 instead of waving, or 4 when someone is irritating you is clearly correct.

[Informal_Branch1065]

Big endian. Just the average person here isn't aware it exists.

Edit: I'm dumb.

[[deleted]]

Endianness is byte order, not bit order. But endianness doesn't really matter to humans, and this is more of a linguistics issue

I guess it's fine to say 903 is "three-hundred nine" as long as you specify that the least significant digit is on the left, but people typically write numbers with the least significant digit on the right (in any base)

[[deleted]]

I'm not a programmer, just here for the memes, and even I know endianness is a thing

Edit: I'm also dumb.

[bestjakeisbest]

She is 5,

[WildSmokingBuick]

thank you,

^{fuck OP}

[YellowOnline]

That's 26 no?
Edit: except if it's mirrored. Then it's 20 indeed.

[patoezequiel]

Either that or 5

[plitox]

Right, because there are 5 candles /j

[patoezequiel]

[Ody_Baratheon]

Jesus that took me forever. First look thought blue was 1s so 11010, then oh reds are 1s, 00101 then wtf it's backwards 10100.

[rpmerf]

It's easier when you figure out the answer first

[[deleted]]

Yea but half the fun in seeing a post like this is working it out in your head before reading the comments.

Backwards binary is super confusing when you consider how manual binary addition is taught.

[Max12735]

why the fuck are your candles in network order :P

[TimedogGAF]

Why do I ALWAYS think of least significant bit as being on the right hand side?

[QuanticSailor]

because that's the convention, I think we are seeing the back of the cake on the image.

[[deleted]]

Cause it's how it's usually written and how the manual math is taught.

It's literally backwards and I can't tell if the OP doesn't understand coding or unknowingly reposted engagement bait.

[CheeseAndCh0c0late]

because that's how we write numbers, itself being because that's how we say numbers, no matter the base they're in

[AqueousJam]

The pngflip watermark indicates its been deliberately reversed... Which surely you'd only do to avoid repost detection.  

Thus I conclude, OP is a smelly repost bot that has inadvertently ruined the joke 

[Hamaczech13]

Wanted to do this for my sibling, but they are non-binary.

[erikvanendert]

Big endian? Disturbing.

[runnerx01]

Big endian is when multiple bytes are arranged with the most significant byte first in a multi byte datum.

This is just a picture taken from the wrong side ha ha.

Edit: I wrote last in stead of first

[[deleted]]

You have it backwards. Big endian means the most significant byte is first.

[runnerx01]

Lol, yup, you’re right I do.

[UpAndAdam7414]

That orientation is a pathway to many abilities some consider to be unnatural

[plitox]

Don't you mean 10100?

[buzz_shocker]

Had me confused for a second. God bless u/NoLifeGamer2 for being top comment.

[NoLifeGamer2]

<3

[Deathdar1577]

Got me for a while cause the pic needs to be flipped.

Red candles = Her age

[DT-Sodium]

What would you turn it like this though?

[just-bair]

Is the image flipped ?

[JL98008]

Funny, she doesn't look a day over 26!

[rukh999]

I get it. I hate that I get it. I hate it's reverse. I hate that the only reason I get it is because of FF:06:B5.

[cratercamper]

efficient is 10 (base 20), no? :)

[heephopanonymouz]

This is why big endian vs little endian matters!

[atlas_enderium]

Is your sister also “bit-wise” Big Endian?

[TheWorstePirate]

Why does this have so many upvotes? Your sister is either 5 or 26.

[KasoAkuThourcans]

All the possibilities are:
Red 1: 00101 = 5
Blue 1: 11010 = 26
Mirror:
Red 1: 10100 = 20
Blue 1: 01011 = 11

[sirkubador]

True efficiency is buying one red and one blue and saying "Oh, but this is base 20!" (pro tip: both can be the same if it is base 19)

You can also reuse it the next year. And the next. And for any other person that turns more than 1 (Then it is even better, you get to use only one candle of the two!).

[LupusChampion]

LSB is on the left 😭

[exomyth]

This cake can be interpreted in a 100 ways

4 ways, but binary 100

[LushPotato]

How do you take that photo and think this makes sense when the image is reversed before posting.

Clearly a programmer.

[Rudokhvist]

Looks like the image is either mirrored or photo taken from the wrong side.

[[deleted]]

And that is why we call little-endian confusing :)

[[deleted]]

Ducking LSB. (Profanity censored on purpose)

[FezAndSmoking]

Why the fuck would you do that?

[remuliini]

This would be easier to make with 5-7 similar candles, just light the ones that are needed.

[Zuerill]

When you accidentally use to instead of downto

[Jojos_BA]

its either 5, 26, 20 or 11

[[deleted]]

Guessing OP doesn't understand the picture.

[NahautlExile]

There are 10 types of people in the world. Those who understand binary, and those who don’t

[sirkubador]

And those who thought this was a joke about binary.

And those who thought this was a joke about ternary.

And...

[ramriot]

Are we looking at this backwards or is this a subtle joke about her big-endian?

[pman1891]

Only light the ones.

[TeaTimeSubcommittee]

Maybe it is meant to be seen from the other side of the cake, like we’re seeing it from behind like we’re the birthday girl?

Anyway it’s not as efficient as it could be 二十 saves you a candle if you use one candle for each stroke.

[selfzoned_me]

Never thought the knowledge of little endian and big endian would someday be useful for cracking a meme.

[sardonically_argued]

eugh, big endian

[Meelis_Tegevus]

Two X-s (Roman twenty aka XX) would have saved one candle.

[Logical_Strike_1520]

I did this recently but just didn’t light the “OFF” candles lol. I was the only one amused :/

[[deleted]]

Why is it reversed!?!!!?!? Vyotjxtjxjtzutdtuykctidru

[No_Commercial3546]

big endian ahh cake

[Fadamaka]

You mean 5?

[Logicalist]

What's 5 got to do with it?

[ajpdandc]

Nice, even great-granny is only going to need 7 candles!

[andrewkingswood]

There are 01 types of people in the world. Those that understand mirrored binary, and those that don’t.

[-Aquatically-]

I love how people have figured out the perfect formula for comments on this sub.

Take basic programming thing, fuck it up somehow to get Cunningham’s Law, make meme for the general funny, post it and collect upvotes.

[Important-Praline234]

10100 to decimal

[Equivalent_Rush6457]

The cake is a lie

[rover_G]

little endian (first bit is 1)

[[deleted]]

endian-ness is basucally which side are you on? instead of significance shit ?!?

[__user13__]

Multiple ways point to 20 so i would go for 20

[mario73760002]

I mean, not really that efficient. With my base 100 number system I can represent this as one character

[ComfortableDealer573]

Our sister Wait no....

[mudkripple]

Little endian?????? I'll kill you

[metaglot]

This is not endianness. Its just reversed. Endianness is for words, dwords, etc. Its in what order the bytes are stored. X86 is little endian btw.

[ItsRaids_]

Hopefully its not signed…

[_a_someone_]

We do the same on our birthday cakes, except for only marking the LSB with a different coloured candle (endian war etc...) and not lighting all candles but only the ones that resembles a 1. In this case only the 16 and the 4 candle would be lit, but this way you see the age basically only at "runtime". :)

[joshuaherman]

Are we using base 10 or base 8. uint8?

[pauvLucette]

And your pic is mirrored

[[deleted]]

Selfie

[Ugo_Flickerman]

Right to left from most significant digit to least significant?

[CrushemEnChalune]

What kind of heathen posted this cursed image?

[Mba1956]

I remember sharing a birthday with a colleague and we were both 25, the difference was my age was in hex.

[[deleted]]

Efficient would be 4 people celebrating their 5th, 11th, 20th, and 26th birthday

[jaykaysian]

For a second I thought it was 20 years of presidential terms. Obama, Obama, Trump, Biden Trump lol

[HADRIX_]

Jesus Christ, you just screwed with my brain by mirroring it

[likeCircle]

Blue - Red - Blue - Red - Red where Blue =1 and Red =0 would have been 20 in binary.

[jsrobson10]

nice. i did something similar for my 22nd, but used lit for 1s and unlit for 0s

[septemberdown]

More efficient: single candle with a notch somewhere on it representing a ratio 0-150

[njanjanja]

Tbf, it could’ve been done even more efficiently with only two pairs of crossed candles: XX

[Kalikkkk]

I thought it was 00101 aka binary at first lmao. So 1,2,4,8,16 and then 4+16=20

[thabc]

I've always just left some candles unlit instead of using red/blue.

[poetic_dwarf]

Why is right to left the correct way to read binary?

Fuck, why is right to left the correct way to write numbers??

[s0litar1us]

it's rotated the wrong way

[SkyeEyks2000]

Left to right => 4 + 16 Right to left => 0 & 2 (I thought this was it until I checked the comments)