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

I've only seen one so far (twice) - My Neighbour Totoro, so it'll have to be that one for now.

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

Make sure your driving licence is valid for driving manual in Romania. Here in the UK if you pass your test on an automatic, you're only licenced to drive automatic, and if you drive manual then you are breaking the law and your insurance is invalid.

Maybe there's no issue but it's worth checking.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago

I hate getting stuck behind the "I won't move until there are no cars anywhere on the planet" drivers.

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

Here's another neat one: 1010 / 101 = 10

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'm not surprised. StackOverflow has moderated itself out of relevance. Ask a question and get flamed. DDG a question plus "stackoverflow" and get something that may well have been correct and useful in 2012 but tech moves on and it's now archaic trivia, somewhat akin to facts about punched cards. "Help me StackOverflow, you're my only hope" hasn't been true for quite some time now.

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

Thanks for the explanation! I've only been doing digital logic since 1976 so I'm still a bit confused by it.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

There are 10 types of people in the world: those that understand n-ary, those that confuse it with (n-1)-ary, those that confuse it with (n-2)-ary, ..., those that confuse it with ternary, those that confuse it with binary, and those that don't understand it at all.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

You're not overthinking it at all and have hit upon an important point. The problem with "ten" is that it's too easily confused with 1010_2 or 0x0A_16. One-zero base 2 is unambiguous. Also one, ten, eleven etc would get very unwieldy very quickly, and as it already gets unwieldy very quickly even when just quoting digits, that's why we have hex and octal.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Both work because the scale is 1-10. Binary just has fewer intermediate steps. Nobody is a binary 7.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

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

The one on the left is on the right, the one in the middle is on the left, the one on the right is in the middle and the one at the rear is a Methodist.

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