A photo of a cake with 8 candles in a row. The first and fifth candle from the right are lit. The caption reads “Happy 17th Birthday”
Old man’s last words on his 256th birthday: “Unhandled IntegerU8OverflowException, terminating application.”
Why do I confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because Oct 31 is the same as Dec 25
Ha🤣, that’s great (once I was already thinking in binary/non-Dec numerals)
There is another joke there regarding the movie nightmare before Christmas but I’m not smart enough to figure it out.
I’d actually quite like an overflowing cake thank you very much
thinking of getting older than 255?
I will grow older than 255 because then it will overflow and I become 0 years old.
I only buy ipv6 cakes, so I’m good.
Happy 136th birthday
Little-endian for the win!
Even in little endian you don’t have trailing zeroes
I’m not seeing any trailing zeros if that is in little endian, you start little end first and it isn’t limited to a silly 8-bits, it can be used to represent numbers far larger than 255 if continued (though then it wouldn’t be representative of a byte and half the joke would be lost).
If you read from the right (as is implied by calling the result 17), there are 3 trailing zeroes:
These would usually be omitted when writing like this. The fact they are not makes this 136
I think you missed the point, that I was making, albeit poorly (little endian still requires leading zeros when not transmitting in a byte format, otherwise you don’t know if the first on signal is for 1, 256, 1024, etc.) it’s all good though
How would 3 leading zeros in a byte help coming to the conclusion that this is supposed to be 17?
I’m generally curious, sice theoretical informatics is already a good few years behind me :D
In a normal byte format it wouldn’t help, the byte standard breaks off bits into 8 bit chunks and calls them bytes (I’m not trying to explain basics, just putting it there for background), little-endian excels at using the least number of bits to express larger numbers in a stream. If you wanted to send any number from 0-255 you only need 1 byte, for 256-512 you need two bytes (or 16 bits), in little-endian it can be represented in just 9 bits, or up to 1024 in 10 bits, etc.
Doesn’t matter for much to many people, but when the number gets big enough you can save a lot of bandwidth.
I was just thinking about what you’d see from the other side of the table.
I read 136 🤣
Who counts from right to left?
Is this image mirrored?
You will be surprised to hear that this is how we read decimal numbers too
Even in decimal, the most-significant digit is to the left. Binary in text form is no exception to this.
Unless we are talking little-endian, which would start with the least-significant bit.
Anyone who opens their egg on the small end deserves to be removed from our society.
Now that you mention it it is pretty fucky, but in every textbook thats tried to teach me counting in binary its gone from right to left.
It’s not. Numbers are arranged (both binary and base 10) with the most significant digit on the left.
Whether you read the number from left to right or right to left is irrelevant and you can choose whichever one you want.
But it is completely consistent with base 10 (normal numbers).
Same here. University told me the lowest bit is on the right, the highest on the left. Never questioned it.
In kindergarten I was taught when reading the number 123, the lowest digit is on the right, and the highest on the left. Never questioned it either.
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Binary is always right to left? I’ve never seen it written left to right at least.
Binary exists in both
big-endianLSb orlittle-endianMSb. In other words, both directions can be valid.As explained below: Endianness is specifically the order of bytes. I was under the impression that it also implied a specific order of bits but anyways, the correct terms for this discussion is Least/Most Significant bit order.
Ya, but we pretty much always write it with most significant on the left. The endianness is more to do with the order transmitted when serialized. Or are there cases where people actually write it backwards?
The way I see it, if you want to be pedantic about it (it being a joke photo, so potentially unintentionally reversed by the camera, of a cake which is in 3d space and can be seen in both directions) you might as well do it properly and acknowledge that different orders exist for bits.
Indeed writing conventions are also a good point, however this is not writing. People actually working at bit level are probably more likely to see bits on a scope (so in both LSb or MSb order) than as 1 and 0s written on a piece of paper or a screen.
The people saying right to left is normal are either Australian or mirror universe folks.
At least I thought that until I looked up ascii conversations and then just random converters … How have I forgotten this? The pic is right…
Because of the Hayflick limit, 7 candles should be enough… but only for now, hopefully.
I hit the big 101000 recently. Time sure does fly by.
Oh, I like this. Nice.
Instructions unclear… Am vampire now.
Related: I once got onto my feed a post of a tale of someone who had a child on his 19th birthday, so for his 20th birthday, and the child’s 1st, they had two balloons celebrating their 20th birthdays.
I never saw if the next year they celebrated a 21st birthday.
The BTUs alone will cook you til your juices evaporate
Very optimistic to have an 8th candle
The candles are only available in packs of 8. It’s the smallest addressable unit of wax in many cake architectures
Last birthday party I was at I just wanted a nibble of cake but they told me I had to take one or more bites.
