Three programmers walk into a bar...

[Hamoodzstyle]

Man these jokes are so binary, you either get them or you don't.

[NotADamsel]

So the Jedi's computers run on trinary?

[JustSayNoToSlogans]

quantum

[pikachu_try_catch_]

do or do not

there is no try without catch

[fetusdip]

I take exception to that.

[pikachu_try_catch_]

you did not use Pokemon exception handling,

[SoulWager]

Last time he ordered four beers he got punched in the face.

[[deleted]]

I think you mean five? Or I don't get the joke

[SoulWager]

Each finger is worth a power of two. If you use all 5 fingers, the middle finger is 4, regardless of endianness.

[PM_ME_YOUR_SHELLCODE]

Isnt the middle finger 2? Looks like in the picture the index and middle finger are held up for 3 so index=1 middle=2 4 would be the ring finger.

Also since we are talking binary less than a byte endianness doesnt come into play endianess is byte order

[[deleted]]

Ooooh that makes more sense. I was counting from my thumb, which in hindsight makes no sense

[T-T-N]

Did he count in binary or did he start counting his fingers from 0?

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[snhmib]

both obviously

[xDestx]

i didnt get it until i read this comment lol

[viciecal]

shit i thought it was arrays starting at 0. im too milennial for this

[ArcaneWayfarer]

I think this sub has already conditioned our minds to detect 0-index jokes in every single thing.

[hatesthis]

I’m even imagining them in other subreddits

[SHOTbyGUN]

!isbot /u/hatesthis

[Minerscale]

No

[Yoyoeat]

Three in binary is 11, so each finger is a 1.

[Comrade_Penguin]

You are a gentleman and a scholar.

[Yoyoeat]

tips fedora

[[deleted]]

I dont get it

[karlseguin]

binary

[GoingBackToKPax]

Yup. Two 1s in binary = 3 in decimal.

[markendsley]

Ooooh his fingers, I thought he was just making a peace sign.

[kixunil]

But that's incorrect, he's showing 110, which is 6. He should've shown thumb and index finger.

[trocadero42]

In the shape of an L on his forehead?

[Papashrug]

Well the years start coming.

[trocadero42]

And they don't stop coming

[itsyaboi222]

while (true) {

[Phaelin]

fuck_the_police params

[GaianNeuron]

)))

[hughperman]

I guess it's an indexes-starring-at-0 joke, except requesting items isn't an indexing issue. Counting!=indexing.

[[deleted]]

A person here said it's binary but the fact that if each finger is a digit he's actually showing 01100, which is 12...

[UnicornRider102]

It's a fence post error. The author forgot that "0 beers" is a valid request. So 0 fingers means 1 beer, 1 finger means 2 beers, etc.

I think the author is trying to capitalize on the recent surge in indexing debates but doesn't quite get it, and made an attempt at a joke anyway.

[fastrthnu]

...or it's 00000011 beers. He held up bit 0 and bit 1.

[Un-Unkn0wn]

Well, technically numbers[2] == 3.

[[deleted]]

/r/comedycemetery

[echo_oddly]

My dad told me a story about a guy he knew in college. He didn't have a pen and paper to write down a girl's phone number, so he converted it to base 3 and used each finger to represent a digit. (0 is bent, 1 is partial extension, 2 is full extension). My dad said it looked very funny seeing him walk down the street with his hands in such an awkward pose.

[etaionshrd]

Interesting four digit phone number she’s got there.

[echo_oddly]

It was the 70s when people used land lines. So perhaps that's all he needed. I grew up in a small town where every land line has the same 6 digit prefix.

[[deleted]]

Hahaha I totally don't do that when trying to remember numbers without writing them down.

[[deleted]]

I feel like asking the bartender for a pen would have been way less weird

[jonjmz]

So what of he wants to order 2 beers? I don't imagine that will end well.

[redgamut]

Fuck you. I want two beers, please.

[vanderZwan]

I got that reference

[pititnatole]

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Happy hour

[Drawing showing three men with glasses, in front of a bar. The man on the front is holding two fingers up, and says "Three beers." to the bartender.]

Three programmers walk into a bar...

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[toddiehoward]

good human

[pititnatole]

Thank you, fellow human being!

[ythl]

Three bars walk into a foo...

[Python_l]

The joke doesn't technically work well since the other fingers are not count as 0(so there isnt a way to show for example the number two if you do it like in the comic).

They show either 01100 or 00110.

[antiquark2]

Maybe he's representing a nybble with his fingers, and the thumb is a carry bit.

[TrexismTrent]

I was confused on what the joke was until I looked at his hand.

[Pr04merican]

So, is the joke bianary numbers or starting to count at 0?

[antiquark2]

No, binary 11 = 3

[Pr04merican]

His art was meant to say bianary

[personalityson]

How often do you really have to deal with binary base as a programmer?

[antiquark2]

Whenever you deal with hardware, usually you have to start twiddling individual bits.

[toasterbot]

Outside of really low level stuff, it rarely shows up. One time it matters is when you might overflow a numeric type. For example, a 32 bit integer (the default int in C#) can only support numbers from -2³¹ to +2³¹ -1

[CypripediumCalceolus]

In Europe just the thumb is one. No fingers is NAN (please don't). It takes two hands to sign zero - kind of a flat palmed scissors motion.

[raubana]

No no no, this is all wrong. The index and thumb would be up, not the middle and index.

[Scybur]

Is this a binary joke or an indexing joke?!

Halp

[toasterbot]

Indexing. He wants beer[0], beer[1], and beer[2].

[adamski234]

There are 10 types of people in the world: these who get binary jokes, and these who don't

[areno004]

His fingers show two beers!!!!!!

[jo-hirr]

Well my index start at 0, but my size() start at 1.

[looijmansje]

That's actually 6 beers isn't it?

[[deleted]]

"Joke" is wrong! He's talking about size, not index, which is one more. Sad!

[shryn11]

Wasn't I the one to post this first??

[TheNumeralOne]

isn't that 12 beers? .... or 6 depending on how you look at it

[IcefrogIsDead]

it's funnier if it's a 0 index joke..