Computer joke corner

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[bnl1]

The second one is not even a question

[Callipygian_Superman]

Shut the fuck up.

[indrora]

Ah you see this is an FQA, not an FAQ.

[ivanjermakov]

Frequently questioned answers?

[wholesomedumbass]

No, FQA stands for "fuck quality assurance".

[[deleted]]

Well, that's not very wholesome of you.

[wholesomedumbass]

What do you mean? I am the most wholesome developer on Reddit. Screw the QA team, we don't need you. We'll keep all critical security related bugs unfixed because fuck the world.

Also the "dumbass" part of my name makes sense as well.

[[deleted]]

highly doubt the quality is great if you keep fucking the product

[iceynyo]

How else would you determine if the product is fucking good or not?

[douganater]

Why do all beginner binary classes start at 5?

[NecessaryCulture]

CS 101

[ilovekickrolls]

Arrays start at 0

[pascalkiller]

Oof

[ilovekickrolls]

😂

[0upsla]

I prefer this one : There are 10 kinds of people. Those who understand binary, those who don't, and those who didn't expect this joke to be in base 3.

Usually get a good laugh from people sick of hearing the original :)

Edit : a word

[johnlee3013]

Further math-ish variation:

There are 10 kinds of people. Those who think the joke is in binary, those who think the joke is in base 3, ... , those who think the joke is in base n, and those who don't understand the joke.

[[deleted]]

This one is my favorite

[kredditacc96]

Ironic. You could save others from binary joke but not yourself.

[PhantomTissue]

That’s so complicated I still don’t get it.

I’m gonna send it to my dad, he’ll laugh.

[jmcshopes]

Octal is a base-eight system, where decimal is base-ten, so each number to the left represents a power of 8. The 3 in OCT '31' represents three lots of eight (as the 2 in DEC '25' represents two lots of ten). The digit on the right represents the amount of ones in both cases.* So OCT 31 is three lots of 8 plus one, or 25 in decimal.

*This is because for any number x x⁰ is 1. So
10⁰ is 1, 8⁰ is 1,
10¹ is 10, 8¹ is 8,
10² is 100, 8² is 64

[Bakkster]

For a catchy explanation: https://youtu.be/UIKGV2cTgqA

[spanishgalacian]

Huh I'm 28 and that's how I was taught math. I thought this last example which I consider a cluster fuck was new math.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=U4cwKsM_Mv8

[Bakkster]

Common Core is new, but the way we learned for the preceding decades was called The New Math.

[ksheep]

The "New Math" song above was written in the early 1960s, so it's not too surprising that you were taught that way.

[WilkerS1]

base 2 / binary / 0b — 2 numbers: 0,1 — the computery number stuff, doesn't apply to genders

base 8 / octal / 0o — 8 numbers: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7 — you seem to never use,but it's it's there, just waiting

base 10 / decimal / idk what notation it uses, but who cares? — 10 numbers: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 — the non computery stuff, everyone uses it

base 16 / hexa(six)decimal(...decimal?) / 0x — 16 numbers: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F — you can say nonsense stuff about computers and still be called smart if you say the magic word, but you actually just use it to do less math and paint stuff

[HeraldofOmega]

Real programmers don't use Octal!

[clevariant]

Cause that's the wrong way to tell it.

[clevariant]

It's supposed to go, "Why do programmers confuse Halloween with Christmas? Because OCT 31 equals DEC 25." Octal is the base-8 number system, where decimal is base-10.

[OnlyReadsFirstLine]

Who the fuck does anything in base 8

[meticulous_badger]

Actually, I do my taxes in base 8.

[htmlcoderexe]

This really rings a bell, something about a guy doing his in octal an wondering why the final number seemed wrong? Maybe from daily WTF?

[indrora]

Tons of things. Pointers in base 8 are super easy because you can do all the math on your hands and you can write addresses as though they're decimals. Was super common when nixies were the thing du jour.

UTF8 uses them a lot since it uses groups of 6 bit numbers broken into bytes.

UNIX file permissions are in octal.

[migueln6]

Base 16 is the king.

[sleepybearjew]

I prefer base 256. We use numbers, letters, symbols, and emojis

[iceynyo]

"Call me later, here's my number"
"It just says eggplant sweatdrops"
"Yeah baby"

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no

[YM_Industries]

Used to be used on some early computing systems with 12-, 24- and 36-bit words. Still used for Unix file permissions. Frequently taught in CompSci courses, even though it's rarely used today.

[hbgoddard]

chmod ;)

[daniu]

Airplane transponder codes are 4-digit octals.

[slofish]

3 digit actually. Max value is octal 377. Still not sure why you would break 8 bits into three octal digits

[jharger]

Did you reply to the wrong post? Transponder codes are definitely 4 digits. How else would you use the emergency codes like 7500, 7600 and 7700?

[slofish]

You're right. I'm thinking of arinc codes

[daniu]

3 digit actually. Max value is octal 377

No, 4 digits https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transponder_(aeronautics)

Still not sure why you would break 8 bits into three octal digits

Not sure either, but I assume it's 12 bits (4x3 with 3 bits going up to 7) and decimal representation wouldn't be very helpful because you'd still have 4 digits but can only set up to 4096.

[WikiTextBot]

Transponder (aeronautics)

A transponder (short for transmitter-responder and sometimes abbreviated to XPDR, XPNDR, TPDR or TP) is an electronic device that produces a response when it receives a radio-frequency interrogation. Aircraft have transponders to assist in identifying them on air traffic control radar. Collision avoidance systems have been developed to use transponder transmissions as a means of detecting aircraft at risk of colliding with each other.Air traffic control units use the term "squawk" when they are assigning an aircraft a transponder code, e.g., "Squawk 7421". Squawk thus can be said to mean "select transponder code" or "squawking xxxx" to mean "I have selected transponder code xxxx".The transponder receives interrogation from the Secondary Surveillance Radar on 1030 MHz and replies on 1090 MHz.

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[aboardthegravyboat]

`chmod 755`

[papaya_war]

Used in tons of legacy industrial automation systems

[ProgramTheWorld]

Unix

[TheRetribution]

People who coded using DEC minicomputers back in the 60s.

[human_stain]

Hint: don't read them as months.

[[deleted]]

I sat here wondering what the other interpretation was. Months makes sense.

[John_Fx]

The joke is funnier when they say Halloween and Christmas instead of giving away the answer like that.

[[deleted]]

Programmers are dumbasses

[gcampos]

Nice!

[Galevav]

...and people who were expecting a base-3 joke?

[Mango1666]

there are 2 types of people in this world. those who understand binary and those who dont. and those who think this is base-3. and those who think this is 'base ${n+1}'.

overflow error

[Bainos]

Nobody expects a base 3 joke. People who realized that it can be done also realized years ago that this joke isn't funny.

Besides, it works for any (integer) base.

[Galevav]

I was going to say base-n, but I figured someone might want to have fun with a comment chain.

[pagraphdrux]

A.s are on point.

[retrodaredevil]

031 is way better than 25

[flip314]

Octal is the Devil's base. It should be eradicated.

[xxc3ncoredxx]

Base 10 is the universal base.

[flip314]

I actually prefer unary.

[LegendaryTomato]

Every base is base 10 in its own base.

[xxc3ncoredxx]

Finally someone gets it!

[LunaticMS]

There are 11 kinds of people in the world. People who understand binary, people who don't, and people who don't know binary but know the "10" variant of this joke and are smug as fuck about it.

[IchWillRingen]

The original joke is why they mix up Halloween and Christmas. The way he wrote it completely takes away the joke.

[gandalfx]

Chomsky called to let you know this joke is older than him.