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"
We're low on candles, great idea!
I hit the big 101000 recently. Time sure does fly by.
I did this once, but just had holes instead of unlit candles. I only had like 3 or 4 of them, and nobody's got time to go buy candles when everyone's about to sing happy birthday.
No liches allowed
Very optimistic to have an 8th candle
That's the sign bit. The cake is in two's complement
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.
Maybe this is a signed cake, so one can celebrate negative birthdays of people who aren't born yet. 🤔
Old man's last words on his 256th birthday: "Unhandled IntegerU8OverflowException, terminating application."
I only buy ipv6 cakes, so I'm good.
You probably know, but someone is going to point out an ipv4 address is four bytes.
I'd actually quite like an overflowing cake thank you very much
thinking of getting older than 255?
How about 4294967295?
with 8 bit? true, with 32 bit you might have a chance to see the sun die, but.... there are just 8 candles
64 bits and you get to watch heat death slowly set in. (Or, y'know, cosmological catastrophe depending on the full physics)
33 was a special year for me because it's the same forwards and backwards both in decimal and binary
1 is asswell :3
If 1 is asswell, then 2 is assgood, and 3 is the beginning of an orgy.
00100001
Am I being dumb? How ist that the same forward and backwards?
If you drop leading zeros as you would in decimal
Damn. I AM dumb.
Heh I've been making my wife do this since my 32nd birthday.
She still doesn't understand binary and thinks I'm a nerd when I try to explain it to her.
Maybe this year, when it's 1+8+32, things will click.
Because of the Hayflick limit, 7 candles should be enough... but only for now, hopefully.
That's because humanity dates back to the teletype era, before bytes. It was decided that saving candles was more important than having the extra century of lifespan.
Now, by convention, the leftmost candle being unlit indicates it's a standard human and not a member of another species-alphabet, possibly requiring multiple cakes.
(On a serious note, aging is not necessarily thought to be as simple as just the Hayflick limit)
I will grow older than 255 because then it will overflow and I become 0 years old.
I read 136 🤣
Look, an OpenRISC user.
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.
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