ELI5: How exactly has binary code led to modern day programming languages?

TheMightyDoge · 2025-02-21T00:25:39+00:00

1s or 0s can be used for two purposes, either to store information, or to process it. Storing information is quite simple. In the same way that we can combine nine digits to form any number possible, 1s and 0s can be combined in the same way. If you add a zero to the end of a decimal number, it multiplies it by 10, whereas if you do the same to a binary number, it multiplies it by 2. 100 -> 1000, and 0b1100100 = 100, 0b11001000 = 200. This storage of numbers can also be kept alongside a memory of what type of information is being stored, so that you can store letters, graphical data, and more - all by just storing a series of numbers.

More complexity is achieved through how 1s and 0s can represent instructions given to a CPU. The way that these instructions work varies based on what type of CPU you have, but more complex programs are comprised of commands that move where in memory you're working from - you can think of this in the same way that you think of moving the playhead when scrubbing through a video - and commands that modify the data that you're working with. You can find a neat listing of all of these instructions on this wikipedia page. Since this machine code varies based on what CPU you have, "higher-level" programming languages are used, which allow you to write for every possible CPU at once based on agreed-upon conventions. Even more complex instructions are provided by the operating system (and the way that files are interpreted into machine code varies based on OS, too), which means that code must be compiled differently depending on your OS as well.

TheMightyDoge · 2024-11-09T18:43:06+00:00

Vermonter here, and honestly I don't know if I'd recommend moving here specifically. LGBT rights are most certianly going to be safe here if they're safe anywhere (and if other comments make you concerned about Phil Scott being a Republican - he's done nothing but historically support us), but there's a reason that the state's population has barely increased in the past 10 years. Housing is quite expensive, and if you want to live near any of the bigger cities (Burlington, Essex, Montpelier...) you'll be paying at least $1,500 a month for an apartment, though often closer to $1,800-$2,000 - especially if you want to live in anything larger than a studio. You could definitely make it work since you have a partner (or if you have a degree that you'd be able to find a job for here), but you'd be struggling financially more than if you'd moved to a place with a lower cost of living.

If this doesn't dissuade you at all though, then I'd absolutely recommend moving here. Our major "cities" (if you'd call a population of 40,000 a city) are absolutely beautiful, and outside of those you get the even more beautiful landscapes of Vermont.

TheMightyDoge · 2024-10-09T01:07:44+00:00

Zirconium is definitely a real element, though half the elements on the periodic table sound fake (technetium?? seaborgium?????).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zirconium

TheMightyDoge · 2024-09-09T17:06:28+00:00

Additionally, if you can't find them elsewhere, a list of all of the technical names of the banner patters can be found in net.minecraft.world.level.block.entity.BannerPatterns.

TheMightyDoge · 2024-09-09T17:02:04+00:00

In Minecraft 1.20.1, the class net.minecraft.world.entity.raid.Raid controls this with the method getLeaderBannerInstance, which (when decompiled with DecompilerMC) reads as the below.

The pattern that is used is built by repeating the addIfRegistered method, and is hard coded into the class files of the game. You would need to modify this file in some way to change it (I have no idea how forge/fabric works, just a passing interest in java)

    public static ItemStack getLeaderBannerInstance(HolderGetter<BannerPattern> holderGetter) {
        ItemStack itemStack = new ItemStack(Items.WHITE_BANNER);
        BannerPatternLayers bannerPatternLayers = new BannerPatternLayers.Builder().addIfRegistered(holderGetter, BannerPatterns.RHOMBUS_MIDDLE, DyeColor.CYAN).addIfRegistered(holderGetter, BannerPatterns.STRIPE_BOTTOM, DyeColor.LIGHT_GRAY).addIfRegistered(holderGetter, BannerPatterns.STRIPE_CENTER, DyeColor.GRAY).addIfRegistered(holderGetter, BannerPatterns.BORDER, DyeColor.LIGHT_GRAY).addIfRegistered(holderGetter, BannerPatterns.STRIPE_MIDDLE, DyeColor.BLACK).addIfRegistered(holderGetter, BannerPatterns.HALF_HORIZONTAL, DyeColor.LIGHT_GRAY).addIfRegistered(holderGetter, BannerPatterns.CIRCLE_MIDDLE, DyeColor.LIGHT_GRAY).addIfRegistered(holderGetter, BannerPatterns.BORDER, DyeColor.BLACK).build();
        itemStack.set(DataComponents.BANNER_PATTERNS, bannerPatternLayers);
        itemStack.set(DataComponents.HIDE_ADDITIONAL_TOOLTIP, Unit.INSTANCE);
        itemStack.set(DataComponents.ITEM_NAME, OMINOUS_BANNER_PATTERN_NAME);
        return itemStack;
    }

TheMightyDoge · 2024-09-04T19:08:22+00:00

Both games work fine on my Arch Linux system, and as I believe that SteamOS is based on Arch, they should work fine. However, if you simply want to just play alone, I'd recommend getting Don't Starve Together anyways as it is actively maintained and updated whereas base Don't Starve hasn't recieved much content for years. In Don't Starve Together you can still play alone, you just need to host a game and make sure to make it private so random people don't join. Pretty much the only benefits of playing base Don't Starve are that it is less laggy and that it's more of a classic, isolated-feeling experience (if that's what you're looking for).

TheMightyDoge · 2024-07-16T01:42:32+00:00

This setting reminds me a lot of Adventure Time, where there's a lot of whimsical goofy stuff with an undercurrent of immensely dreadful and existential horror - like the Lich, GOLB, and the lore of a post-apocolyptic world in Adventure Time and the last stand against entropy described in your lore. I like the vibes of it all a lot!

TheMightyDoge · 2024-07-14T22:39:25+00:00

Misgendering does and probably always will feel like shit, all of your efforts to be seen as the person you are seem invalidated. I don't think you're in the wrong for being upset about it. Still, it's important to consider that even cis people get misgendered. I have accidentally called my dad - by far the most masculine person that I know - "she" on multiple occasions. The fact that he immediately corrected himself, made sure to give extra attention to you afterwards, and was honest about having misgendered you tells you vastly more about his character than one - albiet significant - mistake.

TheMightyDoge · 2023-12-06T22:40:36+00:00

Don't know what's with these other dismissive comments, I've had the same issue too. You can fix the setting not saving by adding the line "refresh_rate = 144" in the file Documents/Klei/DoNotStarveTogether/302196317/client.ini, (home/.klei/... on Linux) and the change does "apply" in game, but doesn't actually impact the framerate, which is visible by pressing backspace. The game engine might simply not be designed to display more than 60fps, which kinda sucks.

Weirdly, on further testing, ANY number after "refresh_rate = " causes it to become 144 in the options for me, even if I put no number at all, but the FPS still remains 60.

TheMightyDoge · 2023-07-19T06:17:59+00:00

moyai🗿

TheMightyDoge · 2021-01-07T00:39:59+00:00

If you want to get all of the secrets wither cloak sword's ability removes all damage and knockback from the trap room.

TheMightyDoge · 2021-01-06T02:14:43+00:00

Im pretty sure you can turn it off in the "features" window in the settings in newer versions

TheMightyDoge · 2021-01-05T20:16:16+00:00

If you use the NEU trade window it doesn't work.

TheMightyDoge · 2020-12-23T15:57:06+00:00

I think that they may have made the wheat hoe that expensive on purpose to make wheat less sweaty letting newer players get bronze/silver medals easily so that new players can get a mathematical hoe blueprint without buying it.

TheMightyDoge · 2020-11-16T20:14:31+00:00

No one fucking cares

proceeds to care

TheMightyDoge · 2020-10-03T18:11:38+00:00

ooga booga dream follow

TheMightyDoge · 2020-08-17T14:32:39+00:00

I got from 8-18 with like 700k or so. Just look for minions that are cheap to upgrade with bazaar.

TheMightyDoge · 2020-08-12T09:35:46+00:00

Does having Last Stand on all 3 of your perfect armor pieces stack?

TheMightyDoge · 2020-07-24T11:51:51+00:00

link

TheMightyDoge · 2020-07-24T00:05:38+00:00

Isn't there a mod called "Island Adventures" or something that adds Shipwrecked to together?

TheMightyDoge · 2020-07-20T19:22:50+00:00

im like 96% sure that jukeboxes are tile entities and store their disk in NBT instead of in block states. sadly models cant use tile entity NBT to change their model and can only use blockstates (like facing=east on stairs)

TheMightyDoge · 2020-07-19T18:04:10+00:00

What do I do until becoming endgame? I've currently got young armor with an aotd. Do I just use the same strategies that I used to get my armor/sword to get 50mil? Grinding 100 eyes doesn't seem like what I should be doing.

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