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[–] [email protected] 123 points 3 days ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 41 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

There are 10 kinds of people in the world: those who get that joke and those who don't.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

And those who weren't expecting a ternary joke.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hm I may be getting wooshed, but this is still binary? 4 in ternary would be 11.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

(all numbers in ternary) There are 10 types of people in this world:

1: Those who know binary

2: Those who don't

10: Those who weren't expecting a ternary joke

Hope that explains it!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Ah gotcha I thought you were going off the original post. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 46 points 3 days ago

Ha, I missed that part. Subtle.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Is that 4 in binary, then? I'm not in the know

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Yes. We normally count in 'base 10', which means each digit can go from 0 to 9 as we count up, then the digit to its left increases by one. The rightmost position is the units, the next the tens (because we use base 10), the next hundreds (or 10 times 10), and so on, with each position worth 10 times the one to its right. So the number 12 means you have 2 units plus 1 ten. 123 means 3 units, 2 tens, and 1 hundred.

Binary is 'base 2', so as we count up each digit can only go from 0 to 1 before incrementing the position to its left, and each position is worth 2 times the one to its right. So 1 still means one, but 10 is 0 units plus 1 two, and 100 is 0 units, 0 tens and 1 four, totalling 4.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Yep, and it's easily memorable because if you learn to count in binary on your fingers 4 is 🖕.

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[–] [email protected] 68 points 2 days ago (8 children)

I used Vim once. I still do, mostly because I don't know how to quit it.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Asking someone that doesn't know how, to close vim is my favorite password generator.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

It’s my band name but all the members quit when I told them.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

"What's this machine do?"

"It is a dedicated word processor."

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

I know you are not joking because it was only a week ago really good tech journalism site The Register did a walk through on making a dedicated Word 5.0 bootable USB

https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/26/dos_distraction_free_writing/

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

"Ah sweet that's some sick retro tech!"

"Haha yea...retro..."

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You can always close vim but you can never quit >:3

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

The joke is long dead, long live vim

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Jokes aside, is Mastodon still tech nerd dominated in 2025? This was from 2022.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (4 children)

I mean, yeah, there’s loads of tech nerds, but it’s the internet so there’s always going to be.

But honestly, the vast majority of the people I follow are just regular folks who like to chat about regular stuff. Like how they use Arch, btw.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Like Lemmy?

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 days ago (11 children)

"Theres also a emacs plugin"

Truly heresy against the lord Linus Torvalds, Vim is the only correct option all else is unholy.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Linus uses emacs. Not GNU emacs, but still emacs.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Well obviously neovim is also a correct option, does that really even need to be said?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Surely you must love VS Codium even more.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

This is my favorite thing this morning. FreeBSD ftw.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

The concerns on using Mastodon and the likes is probably propaganda to dissuade people from using open source and defederated social media.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I have to be honest I thought OP was being 100% serious until the last line.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

That last line is why I shared it with others who have no idea what half the things it's referencing are.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Hey! I know some of those words!

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 3 days ago

This is true because NetBSD runs on the actual Mastodon.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

It's a type of sausage that's famous in the Netherlands

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

It's the online handle of some Linus fellow, some would argue he's internet famous for whatever reason

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My lack of knowledge about whatever an emacs plugin is proves #4 wrong.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is most likely a joke akin to xkcd 2501

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Linux community in a nutshell and also way too many developers

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