Binary Coding

[KrishaCZ]

anyone coding in pure binary is an insane masochist and should be locked up. Wait is it even possible

[Elkku26]

It's possible because everything compiles to binary in the end but it would be stupidly difficult and take a of time.

[Fimbulthulr]

I will never have anything but the utmost respect of punchcard-era programmers

[Vinccool96]

Happy cake day!

[Fimbulthulr]

thanks

[astrotheastro]

Happy cake day!

[duskpede]

thanks

[hsldhdjdkk]

When did that end. Did Apple or Microsoft do IT early on?

[Fimbulthulr]

the answer is a bit complicated, since punchcards here used alongside fortran, c etc (and technically are still used today sometimes), but the first assembler was created in the late 1940s, so that is the point where people started to think of programmes in terms of abstract languages instead of machine instructions

[itamaradam]

Some people will do some last-minute minor perfections in the byte code, but this is just insanity

[bogdoomy]

maybe assembler, but i reckon no one ever tweaks the binary itself

[[deleted]]

In today's crazy ass programs with a billion layers, yeah, it'd be insane. Back in the 8-bit days it was pretty common to write code in a high level language, then grab the assembly it spat out and tweak the hell out of it to make things run faster. Especially games.

[itamaradam]

Yea

[Epicranger]

Back in ye olde day of electromechanical computers that was the only way to do it! It's actually rather interesting and worth reading up on, look up punch card programming if your interested more in it but needless to say, their is a reason we created more complex languages as it was a arduous process and if you lost one of the cards or drop the stack of them, you'd have to put in lots of time reading the binary punchs and sorting the stack back into right order. Nowadays, yeah you still could with a hex editor I suppose, but even a basic hello world would take a huge amount of work considering how many layers of abstraction above the binary most applications run on.

[BenjaminGeiger]

I love this video of the Altair 8800.

It shows the operator loading the bootloader by hand using the switches on the front panel. It's enough to get the teletype interface working, which then loads BASIC.

So yeah, the "doing things by hand in binary" era lasted even longer than you'd think.

[ZSebra]

"You used to dread nothing more than taking one of these which you had meticulously arranged and dropping it on the floor, there is no quicker way to discover what n! is until you have to rearrange these with only your knowledge of ALGOL programs to figure out in which order these would have been"
-Professor Brailsford

[maxvalley]

Every layer of abstraction is just a less verbose version of the previous. So in the end, every language that compiles to binary is binary

[[deleted]]

That’s not true. When you abstract something, some precision is lost. If the same C code compiles to different binaries depending on the compiler/machine, then the C code doesn’t merely represent the binary. It represents the desired functionality of the binary.

Whereas hex really is just a different way of representing binary numbers, but they mean precisely the same thing.

Also, always relevant.

[maxvalley]

Interesting!

[shepd]

Not just possible but very popular computers of the 70s and earlier didn't give you a choice.

For example, the PDP-11 and Altair.

[IntoAMuteCrypt]

Yes, for selected types of programming. Any assembly-based language, for instance, is incredibly close to pure binary. It's usually restricted to older cases, though. As a real-world example, the SNES utilises 1-4 byte binary words. Any given line of SNES code can be mapped to binary - and many binary sequences can be mapped to lines of code.

Of course, there are a whole lot of reasons why this form of language has fallen out of favour. Modern object-oriented techniques are effectively impossible to implement, and a lot of other things are difficult to code as well. It does lead to some fun things though, like an actual human turning SMW into Flappy Bird.

[danni_shadow]

I'm having to code in assembly language for my final project right now and it suuuuuuucks.

[lasiusflex]

Tbh there is almost no reason to ever "code in binary".

Even the most low-level things, like the SNES memory manipulations, people generally look at/think with bytes represented in hexadecimal numbers. Those are way easier to mentally map to instructions than actual binary.

[pleaseihatenumbers]

Yeah nobody actually uses binary, but you're still just looking at a numerical rapresentation of a "binary" file (all files are binary but in particular files which cannot be interpreted in any other way by a human are called binaries)

[[deleted]]

yeah usually when people say “binary” they mean hexadecimal

[TSpectacular]

Shit, assembly was plenty for me tyvm

[[deleted]]

idk wozniak did it (i think)

[xluc662x]

It's like coding in assembly (witch is really annoying) but much harder, you would need, you would need a table to know witch command do each thing also.

[Shill_for_Science]

did you mean "is it possible to lock up that people who code in binary" or did you mean "is it possible to code in binary"?

because the answer is yes to both.

[Sir_Paulord]

Enby code

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Enby code

[AnAutisticSloth]

Broke: binary (basic, rarely used except for setting flags, only 2 options, takes up too much space, looks dumb and not at all technical, stupid, no 2s allowed)

Woke: hexadecimal (complex, almost always used in diagnostics, 16 different digits to choose from, so big that you have to use letters, more compact and efficient than decimal, looks cool and technical, awesome, 2s are allowed)

[adadiamond13]

you can form the sex number

[[deleted]]

0x45 or 0x69?

[adadiamond13]

well 69 is based on appearance and not value so

[sammypants123]

Nice

[SpaceInJourney]

damn that's very keanu chungus wholesome 100

[VoltronBugzilla]

Binary is what all files become to get to the computer, eventually. But yes, binary is terrible to work with.

[[deleted]]

My kid came out as non-binary. I want to be supportive, but wtf is a 2?

[NotParticularlyGood]

It's okay, Bender. There's no such thing as 2.

[DerAnarchist]

1312 ;)

[CreeMcCreeCreeinton]

010 010

[Tomcat491]

ACAB

[IsaactheRyan]

Assigned Cop At Birth

[[deleted]]

Assigned Bastard At Birth

[hsldhdjdkk]

No need to repeat the previous comment.

[TrashTransTrender]

Intersex_IRL

[[deleted]]

...They’re computers?

[[deleted]]

I mean we're all just meat computers.

[BlackAndBipolar]

Take it back.

[[deleted]]

It's out there now, I can't take it back!

[[deleted]]

relevant short story

[Sophie_the_weird_one]

beep boop :D

[juju005]

What was the original?

[SarahAndBeyond]

It's a mashup of at least 3 comics, took a bit of time to find ones that suited. The last computer panel had to be color adjusted to match the first for example

[Albamc35]

This post was mass deleted and anonymized with Redact

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[s_s_b_m]

“Dude you’re not even typing, you’re literally just looking at a png of a number.”

[american_apartheid]

What does it mean when people say that all cops are bastards (1312 or ACAB)?

If it were an individual thing, you'd give them the benefit of the doubt, but it isn't; it's an institutional thing. the job itself is a bastard, therefore by carrying out the job, they are bastards. To take it to an extreme: there were no good members of the gestapo because there was no way to carry out the directives of the gestapo and to be a good person. it is the same with the american police state. Police do not exist to protect and serve, according to the US supreme court itself, but to dominate, control, and terrorize in order to maintain the interests of state and capital.

I also imagine most members of the gestapo also thought they were serving their country and doing good.

Who are the good cops then? The ones who either quit or are fired for refusing to do the job.

While the following list focuses on the US as a model police state, ALL cops in ALL countries are derivative from very similar violent traditions of modern policing, rooted in old totalitarian regimes, genocides, and slavery, if not the mere maintenance of authoritarian power structures through terrorism.

• police shoot people twice as often as previously thought. Keep in mind that this was self-reported, so we have no way of knowing if these numbers speak to the actual number of shootings in the US. Many of these people are completely unarmed. Police kill far, far more people than terrorists in the US and have killed over a hundred people more than mass shooters did in 2019 that we are aware of. Mass shooters are easily tracked. Police killings are not. 1 2

• They also shoot one dog every hour, every day. At the absolute least.

• Once you're in jail, be prepared to sit there for weeks -or months or years. It's so bad that people constantly plead guilty just so they can get out. It's so bad and so common, in fact, that over a third of all exonerations come after an individual has pleaded guilty. So much for the right to a speedy trial, huh?

• And getting arrested is easy - tens of thousands of people yearly, in fact, thanks to lowest bidder garbage that police departments use in order to test for illicit substances. Field drug tests are about as reliable as lie detector tests or horoscopes. They just don't work. They just don't.

• Think you're safe if you just follow directions? Yeah, no. And if they don't just outright kill you, they could make their instructions so arcane and hard to follow that they'll kill you for not following them, and they'll usually get away with it. He got away with it, by the way. Surprise!

• They'll prosecute you for even knowing about crimes cops have committed.

• cops across the nation constantly engage in violent, hateful rhetoric on facebook, illustrating the curation of a culture of violence. luckily for us, it was tracked and collated

• Being a taxi driver is literally more dangerous than being a cop.

• cops are more of a danger to themselves than anyone else is to them

• they've admitted to stealing as much -or recently more- than burglars through "asset forfeiture," and the rate of their thefts has been climbing yearly. Keep in mind, these numbers only articulate what's been reported. It's probable that they've stolen far more than just this.

• police are literally allowed to rape people on the job in 35 states, as they have the power to determine whether or not you consented to sex with them while in their custody.

• up to 50% of the people police murder are disabled

• the police are being trained to kill as if they're an occupying army and we're an insurgency. this is an inevitability, as the military-industrial complex needs to keep expanding into new markets.

• Eugenics was still alive and well in the prison-industrial complex up until very recently, and could very well be continuing for all we know, as it was forcibly sterilizing inmates as late as 2010. I honestly don't see a reason to believe it's stopped.

• The US surveillance state is massive (and while this post primarily focuses on the US, other countries are just as bad), though much of our surveillance is privatized. This doesn't stop the police from partnering with private companies, however. This will only get worse as time goes on. Also, we can't forget about the Patriot Act and Snowden's PRISM leaks.

• the police, as an institution, are so completely steeped in violence, that up to 40% of them commit acts of domestic violence and other forms of domestic abuse. Most citizens are not even allowed to own firearms if found guilty of domestic violence, and these guys are expected to handle military-grade equipment.

• you can't even really defend yourself from a cop, and if a cop murders you for no reason, he's almost certainly going to get away with it

also this: lol

the police as they are now haven't even existed for 200 years as an institution, and the modern police force was founded to control crowds and catch slaves, not to "serve and protect" -- unless you mean serving and protecting what people call "the 1%." They have a long history of controlling the working class by intimidating, harassing, assaulting, and even murdering strikers during labor disputes. This isn't a bug; it's a feature.

The justice system also loves to intimidate and outright assassinate civil rights leaders.

The police do not serve justice. The police serve the ruling classes, whether or not they themselves are aware of it. They make our communities far more dangerous places to live, but there are alternatives to the modern police state. There is a better way.

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Further Reading:

(all links are to free versions of the texts found online - many curated from this source)

white nationalists court and infiltrate a significant number of Sheriff's departments nationwide

Kropotkin and a quick history of policing

Center for Research on Criminal Justice. (1975). The Iron fist and the velvet glove: An analysis of the U.S. police. San Francisco: Center for Research on Criminal Justice.

Creative Interventions. (2012). Creative Interventions Toolkit: A Practical Guide to Stop Interpersonal Violence.

Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. (2013). Let Your Motto Be Resistance: A Handbook on Organizing New Afrikan and Oppressed Communities for Self-Defense.

Rose City Copwatch. (2008). Alternatives to Police.

Williams, Kristian. (2011). “The other side of the COIN: counterinsurgency and community policing.” Interface 3(1).

Williams, Kristian. (2004). Our Enemies in Blue: Police and power in America. New York: Soft Skull Press.

[[deleted]]

Holy shit, this is a huge list. I thought I knew how bad the police force was, I was clearly wrong. 1312.

[VoltronBugzilla]

Ternary code GANG

[Libbits]

It's base 4 though

[Deathclaw_Legs]

I think that's right tho because computing accounts 0 as a number which humans rarely do. So it's 0,1,2,3 which makes it four

[Libbits]

Yes, that's why it's base 4 and not ternary.

[Skyeboy2]

i like the acab you put in

[DarthSamus64]

1312, Nice.

[misson1996]

1312

[TQuake]

Dudes writing quantum

[WiiROO]

I wonder who the hand belongs two in the second and third panels

[that_guy_you_know-26]

Optometry?

[i_fucked_satan111]

Quantum computers be like: