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We call ourselves geeks? We should be ashamed!

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  • H HobbyProggy

    That basically is 7DFx16 which basically means seventh dark Friday which basically means that the end is near which basically means that HL 3 is confirmed which basically means that ELVIS LIVES which basically means that we are geeks

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    W Balboos GHB
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    You're the only one here that made any sense of this.

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    • N Nagy Vilmos

      Not one mention, that I can find, of 2015 is the palindromic binary of 11111011111.

      veni bibi saltavi

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      Rob Philpott
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      Excellent, excellent! Good observation, I shall be pointing it out to people this afternoon. I like numbers.

      Regards, Rob Philpott.

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        Excellent, excellent! Good observation, I shall be pointing it out to people this afternoon. I like numbers.

        Regards, Rob Philpott.

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        chriselst
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        As I was driving home last night I was following a car with a number plate along the lines of AB11CDE. I realised that I was reading the plate as AB2CDE. It did occur to me that given the job I do I should have read it as AB3CDE.

        Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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        • H HobbyProggy

          That basically is 7DFx16 which basically means seventh dark Friday which basically means that the end is near which basically means that HL 3 is confirmed which basically means that ELVIS LIVES which basically means that we are geeks

          if(this.signature != "") { MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature); } else { MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found"); }

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          RUs123
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          So HL3 is confirmed that means Tool release a new album. It's going to be an awesome year.

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          • C chriselst

            As I was driving home last night I was following a car with a number plate along the lines of AB11CDE. I realised that I was reading the plate as AB2CDE. It did occur to me that given the job I do I should have read it as AB3CDE.

            Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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            PIEBALDconsult
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            Last week I was shocked to see the plate ASK4007 on a Lexus. :omg:

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            • P PIEBALDconsult

              Last week I was shocked to see the plate ASK4007 on a Lexus. :omg:

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              PhilLenoir
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              Did it have a bumper sticker "My other car's an Aston Martin" perchance?

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              • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                Not in Hex, it isn't: 0010 0000 0001 0101

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                James Curran
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                That's not hex. That's Binary Coded Decimal.

                Truth, James

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                • N Nagy Vilmos

                  Not one mention, that I can find, of 2015 is the palindromic binary of 11111011111.

                  veni bibi saltavi

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                  Chris Quinn
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                  Mental Floss had an article about it yesterday[^]

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                  • N Nagy Vilmos

                    Not one mention, that I can find, of 2015 is the palindromic binary of 11111011111.

                    veni bibi saltavi

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                    Given that there are only two symbols available in binary it inevitably has the highest proportion of palindromes to numbers of any system. I imagine the lack of fanfare reflects this simple fact that it really is no big deal especially given the entirely arbitrary numbering of years in the first place. Now if it also coded a Turing machine that gives the date of the Second Coming or encoded "See, I do exist!" then there might be a reason for us to be ashamed to have missed it!

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                    • C chriselst

                      As I was driving home last night I was following a car with a number plate along the lines of AB11CDE. I realised that I was reading the plate as AB2CDE. It did occur to me that given the job I do I should have read it as AB3CDE.

                      Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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                      Oscar0
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                      Actually AB11CDE hex is 179,379,422 decimal, which is awfully long for a license plate number (so its good they used hex).

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                      • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                        Not in Hex, it isn't: 0010 0000 0001 0101

                        Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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                        jibalt
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                        That is so stupid in so many ways ... and yet it got an upvote? That's not hex, it's BCD, which is totally different. And of course if the decimal isn't a palindrome then neither is the BCD. The hex, 7df, isn't a palindrome either, but that's completely irrelevant ... much like, if I say that your mother's name means "whore" in Turkish, you counter that it doesn't mean "whore" in Chinese. Shame is an understatement for what you should be feeling for this idiocy.

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                        • H HobbyProggy

                          That basically is 7DFx16 which basically means seventh dark Friday which basically means that the end is near which basically means that HL 3 is confirmed which basically means that ELVIS LIVES which basically means that we are geeks

                          if(this.signature != "") { MessageBox.Show("This is my signature: " + Environment.NewLine + signature); } else { MessageBox.Show("404-Signature not found"); }

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                          jibalt
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                          You would sound slightly less like an idiot if you removed the word "basically" from your vocabulary.

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                          • C chriselst

                            As I was driving home last night I was following a car with a number plate along the lines of AB11CDE. I realised that I was reading the plate as AB2CDE. It did occur to me that given the job I do I should have read it as AB3CDE.

                            Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

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                            jibalt
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                            No you should have read it as AB11CDE. Anything else is moronic.

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                              That is so stupid in so many ways ... and yet it got an upvote? That's not hex, it's BCD, which is totally different. And of course if the decimal isn't a palindrome then neither is the BCD. The hex, 7df, isn't a palindrome either, but that's completely irrelevant ... much like, if I say that your mother's name means "whore" in Turkish, you counter that it doesn't mean "whore" in Chinese. Shame is an understatement for what you should be feeling for this idiocy.

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                              OriginalGriff
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                              0x2015 is as much hex as 0xFD3E Just because a number doesn't contain A-F doesn't stop it being a hexadecimal number.

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                                Given that there are only two symbols available in binary it inevitably has the highest proportion of palindromes to numbers of any system. I imagine the lack of fanfare reflects this simple fact that it really is no big deal especially given the entirely arbitrary numbering of years in the first place. Now if it also coded a Turing machine that gives the date of the Second Coming or encoded "See, I do exist!" then there might be a reason for us to be ashamed to have missed it!

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                                jibalt
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                                "a Turing machine that gives the date of the Second Coming" And we would know that's what it encoded how, exactly? FWIW, according the Bible (a work of allegorical fiction, not history), Jesus told his followers that he would return in their lifetimes. People scoff at crackpots like Harold Camping, but all of religion is like that.

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                                • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                  0x2015 is as much hex as 0xFD3E Just because a number doesn't contain A-F doesn't stop it being a hexadecimal number.

                                  Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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                                  giuchici
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                                  If you meant hexadecimal why didn't you prefix it with 0x like you did in the last one. Anyway, you should stop trying to "fix it". It was disappointing initially but now is becoming sad.

                                  giuchici

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                                  • J jibalt

                                    You would sound slightly less like an idiot if you removed the word "basically" from your vocabulary.

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                                    giuchici
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                                    Man you are a bitter person. :D

                                    giuchici

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                                    • OriginalGriffO OriginalGriff

                                      0x2015 is as much hex as 0xFD3E Just because a number doesn't contain A-F doesn't stop it being a hexadecimal number.

                                      Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...

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                                      StatementTerminator
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                                      OriginalGriff wrote:

                                      Just because a number doesn't contain A-F doesn't stop it being a hexadecimal number.

                                      Um...what? Who said anything about letters? Your example wasn't hex because it was a sequence of decimal digits in binary form, having nothing whatsoever to do with hex. On the plus side, it is confirmed that we are truly geeks after all, since we're getting militantly pedantic over a bit of silliness. Silliness must make sense, damn it.

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                                        If you meant hexadecimal why didn't you prefix it with 0x like you did in the last one. Anyway, you should stop trying to "fix it". It was disappointing initially but now is becoming sad.

                                        giuchici

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                                        OriginalGriff
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                                        Because that would have the "joke", such as it was.

                                        giuchici wrote:

                                        It was disappointing initially but now is becoming sad.

                                        Welcome to the lounge! :laugh:

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                                        • J jibalt

                                          You would sound slightly less like an idiot if you removed the word "basically" from your vocabulary.

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                                          TNCaver
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                                          jibalt wrote:

                                          You would sound slightly less like an idiot if ...

                                          Dayum, some of y'all are vicious.

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