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1 posted on 12/03/2021 9:06:27 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
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I read the title twice...and became suspicious...But I admit it...the Bee almost stung me.


2 posted on 12/03/2021 9:09:44 PM PST by Sacajaweau ( )
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LOL I get the Bee’s daily emails and I damn near posted this one earlier. So I’m glad you did, thanks!


3 posted on 12/03/2021 9:17:50 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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I have a co-worker who is very much woke, nice guy otherwise, great engineer, but we love messing with him. We were starting a conference call some months ago and all going around introducing ourselves, and he said, "Hi everybody, I'm Joe Baggadonuts, he/him,..." and you could hear the muffled snickers.

In another context I triggered him a little by introducing myself as "Dayglored, His Majesty/Exalted Leader", but he's a good sport and laughed.

4 posted on 12/03/2021 9:25:00 PM PST by dayglored ("Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.")
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Learn assembler code.


5 posted on 12/03/2021 9:28:22 PM PST by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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The Bee is Gold.


6 posted on 12/03/2021 9:38:33 PM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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very funny but code isn’t binary just the bits at the bottom.


7 posted on 12/03/2021 9:45:18 PM PST by kvanbrunt2
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Hexadecimal was way too kinky for me.


9 posted on 12/03/2021 9:57:15 PM PST by Billthedrill
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He has a problem with binary, wait until he sees hexadecimal.   LOL
10 posted on 12/03/2021 11:37:30 PM PST by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken)
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Sometimes they are too close. Got me this morning.


11 posted on 12/04/2021 4:48:20 AM PST by M_Continuum
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I signed up for Babylon Bee emails and they are hilarious.

The good thing is that with a few lines, they can brighten your day.

The scary part is satire is so close to the actual daily craziness we witness constantly.

When you can't tell fact from satire the world is spinning out of control.

12 posted on 12/04/2021 5:16:21 AM PST by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
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The Babylon Bee deserves awards, many awards.
15 posted on 12/04/2021 6:02:44 AM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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Code is not inherently binary. Our modern computer systems use binary-mode calculations almost exclusively. This was not always the case. For example, there have been computers that use decimal calculations. The IBM System/360 et al had decimal operations as part of its instruction set. The IBM 1620 went further: the computer nicknamed "The CADET -- Can't Add, Doesn't Even Try" didn't calculate, it exclusively used table lookup for its operations, which means that mathematicians could do calculations in a variety of base notations -- I knew one PhD who explored calculations in base seven.

Further, the underlying electronics did not have to be two-state, or "binary". Some research computer were built that used trinary, or three-state, circuits: 0, 1, and 2; or in the basic theory -1, 0, 1. Not very useful, as it turns out.

Calculating machines (pre-electronics) in wide use even today do their calculations in base 10. You see this in handle-powered adding machines even today, although these tend to be hard to find in any store.

16 posted on 12/04/2021 7:26:03 AM PST by asinclair (Political hot air is a renewable energy resource)
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There are 10 kinds of people.


17 posted on 12/04/2021 7:29:50 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Microsoft Patents Ones, Zeroes

https://www.theonion.com/microsoft-patents-ones-zeroes-1819564663


18 posted on 12/04/2021 7:31:13 AM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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There are 10 kinds of people. 1 that knows binary, and 1 that doesn’t.


19 posted on 12/04/2021 8:50:45 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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