I have a new mission in life: Banning you assholes who are trying to comment in binary (“010101010”). Is this a “thing”? Did you learn about it on Facebook or are you just taking Comp Sci 101 for the first time?
There’s enough work monitoring the diarrhea that leaks through the Spam filter without a new form of scheiss clogging it up.
GregB
101!
Yoda Dog
wut?
cleek
41 74 74 65 6e 74 69 6f 6e 20 61 6c 6c 20 70 6c 61 6e 65 74 73 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 20 53 6f 6c 61 72 20 46 65 64 65 72 61 74 69 6f 6e 3a 20 57 65 20 68 61 76 65 20 61 73 73 75 6d 65 64 20 63 6f 6e 74 72 6f 6c 2e
Bender B Rodriguez
I “tried” it twice on a lark. On an open thread. Calm down.
eldorado
900973
Lee
@cleek:
Dammit you beat me to it. I was just about to paste in my smartass comment in hex.
Botsplainer
Only thing I remember (blacked out the Fortran I learned at USAFA), was the Basic from high school they taught on the student computer, a Commodore PET ( we could afford two).
My knowledge consisted of this:
You would then walk away from the “computer lab” (aka former janitorial closet, with mop sink)
Big Picture Pathologist
@Botsplainer: I think you’re missing a PRINT and some quotes.
/BASICsnob
Big Picture Pathologist
@Botsplainer: I think you’re missing a PRINT and some quotes.
/BASICsnob
Soonergrunt
There’s actually a binary to text converter because of course there is. http://www.convertbinary.com/
But it isn’t worth my time.
Felonius Monk
WTF. Benghazi probably made them do it.
Morzer
ASTFGL!
Amir Khalid
Um, 42?
Schlemizel
I have to assume you are joking, nobody would actually do that would they? OTOH, it might not be a bad idea to replace certain FYWP words That way if we wanted to talk about a particular economic theory that had letters like a certain bohner pill we could say 73 6f 63 69 61 6c 69 6d or if we wanted to comment on the(fixed) game of chance-like nature of Wall Street we could call it a 63 61 73 69 6e 6f
This would pass the filter and eventually everyone would recognize the pattern
cleek
@Soonergrunt:
check out this one!
http://www.asciitohex.com/
Jerzy Russian
69!!!
Warren Terra
I can explain this, but only in hexadecimal.
Alex S.
Posting binary? LOLOLOLOLOL
Viva BrisVegas
You’re all ASCII snobs.
What about equal time for EBCDIC?
grape_crush
There are 10 kinds of people; those who understand binary and those who do not.
Belafon
@Schlemizel: It happened in one of the two previous threads; I saw it, but didn’t bother trying to figure it out.
shelley
And speaking about time wasting….Looks like that Operation American Spring rally down in DC (30 million patriots!) isn’t going so well.
2liberal
are you OK with posting in Hex code? 416c6c20796f7572206261736573206172652062656c6f6e6720746f20757321
FeudalismNow!
Far to slow to ask if you would prefer hex… Thank you Master Cleek!
From the thread about gun nuts, maybe binary is the new ‘code’ to show you are a member of the BJ geekarazzi. Sort of the magazines vs. clips code or tea party members speaking in genuine frontier gibberish.
dmsilev
Pah. I’m going to post everything in qubits.
Morzer
@shelley:
That really ought to be one of the BJ rotating tags.
Soonergrunt
@cleek: Oh, that’s awesome. I’m going to start answering emails from one of my coworkers this way. He’s always going on about what an IT God he is and how his natural talents are wasted here. But curiously he never applies for other jobs.
Belafon
@grape_crush: And then there are those of us who would rather write the 7 lines of python (i’m sure it could be shorter) to translate cleek’s comment back rather than go hunt for the tool to do it.
ETA: 4 if you don’t put it in a file first.
Schlemizel
@Belafon:
Ah yes, I saw that now – thanks. Could it be a new ploy by those who will not be named to be more annoying? Never saw that nym before
Ben Cisco
This thread is making me laugh so hard right now.
And yeah Mix, you probably should have seen this coming…
Tractarian
Other than spewing snarky venom, what else is on the agenda this evening?
cat
@Belafon: I’m sure you could do this in 1 line of clojure. :-0
evolved beyond the fist mistermix
@Ben Cisco: I knew it was coming, I posted this to have a little fun.
gogol's wife
You guys are hilarious.
Richard Mayhew
@Tractarian: Is there ever anything else on the agenda here.
Librarian
867-5309
JimL
There are 10 kinds of programmers; those who understand binary and those who don’t.
Belafon
@cat: I think I could get it down to one line of python now. My first attempt was what came off the top of my head as i was typing in the console, and it would be a really long line. I am including declaring a variable to hold the text as a line.
Among all of the things I like about python, the console has to actually be my favorite.
Belafon
@gogol’s wife: Who was it the other day that wanted people to ask them questions on twitter? Those types of things always amuse me.
Gin & Tonic
@Belafon: I want to see you do it in brainfuck.
cat
@Belafon: The rediscovery of the REPL in modern languages has to be one of the nicer things to happen to Software Engineering/Computer Science IMO.
The code/compile/debug/repeat is such a time and creativity waster IMO.
Roger Moore
@Viva BrisVegas:
UTF-8 rules, EBCDIC drools! Seriously, any encoding where the Latin letters in a single case are encoded non-consecutively has some serious issues.
Roger Moore
@cat:
Time for a Perl golf tournament.
Roger Moore
@Gin & Tonic:
INTERCAL or GTFO.
Eric U.
@Gin & Tonic: My son got interested in implementing a computer in minecraft. I tried to talk him into implementing brainfuck, but he was too shocked by the name. I’m doing something wrong here.
cat
@Roger Moore:
There is one in every crowd. :-p
celticdragonchick
01001001 00100000 01100110 01110101 01100011 01101011 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01100100 01100001 01110010 01100101 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110100 01101111 00100000 01100010 01100001 01101110 00100000 01101101 01100101 00101100 00100000 01101010 01100001 01100011 01101011 01100001 01110011 01110011 00100001
(translates to: I fucking dare you to ban me, jackass!)
http://oddrob.com/binaryconvert.asp
wasabi gasp
Learn wasting time on assholes.
burnspbesq
Oh, poor you.
Wish I could take credit for this, but I had nothing to do with it.
Avi
It’s doable in one line of Ruby.
cleek
@cat:
the code/compile/debug/repeat cycle has a nice spot in there for blogging.
Ben Cisco
@evolved beyond the fist mistermix: In that case, well done good sir.
cat
@cleek:
Shhh, don’t tell my boss. :-)
xkcd.com/303/
Karen in GA
@dmsilev:
Oh yeah? Well, I’m posting everything in Qbert. #&%!
Villago Delenda Est
@shelley:
OK, it really is a mistake to allow just anyone to post to the Internet. This right here is proof.
Pogonip
@cleek: Right. What you said.
Snarki, child of Loki
A HEX on all you anti-bit bigots!
Now, to maintain blog purity, all posts will have to be recoded in trinary-ASCII.
Punchy
Uh, what?
TooManyJens
Maybe those binary comments are messages from @MayorEmanuel! Maybe he survived the time dragons after all!
Gin & Tonic
@Roger Moore: You know INTERCAL used the EBCDIC character set, right?
TooManyJens
@shelley:
DougJ, was that you?
kindness
My computer schooling was back in the 80’s. I remember having to take tests having to convert binary to alpha-numeric. Horribly dull then I can’t see wanting to do it now.
Shana
@Punchy: According to Wikipedia, there’s this stupid conspiracy theory that some longer lasting chemtrails from planes contain nefarious substances sprayed by the evil government.
Quicksand
begin 644 comment.txt
H5VAA=”!T:&4@:&5L;”!I<R!T:&4@;6%T=&5R('=I=&@@<&5O<&QE+@“
`
end
Quicksand
LOL FYWP mangled my uuencoding by trying to pretty-up the quote marks, I think.
Let’s try again:
begin 644 comment.txt
H5VAA="!T:&4@:&5L;"!I<R!T:&4@;6%T=&5R('=I=&@@<&5O<&QE+@``
`
end
Billgerat
They deny that factories spewing millions of tons of waste emissions can cause man-made climate change, but vapor from one jet exhaust can mind-control millions of people. Go figure.
Ruckus
@Billgerat:
I understand that conspiracy nut jobs are well known for their outstanding analytical skills. Isn’t that how they figure out that the conspiracy must be real?
Trollhattan
@Morzer:
That truly is one for the ages.
Reminds me of the time my BIL whineplained: “Nancy Pelosi is gonna take my big-screen.”
Trollhattan
Also, too, you nerds are scaring me.
Villago Delenda Est
Bonus points to mistermix for using German in the post.
Fort Geek
@cleek: Applause for the Rush reference.
Amir Khalid
Oh, by the way — the proper spelling is Scheiße. (I ought to insert a grumble about people who can’t be bothered to spell loan words correctly, but I just can’t be bothered.)
Morzer
@Amir Khalid:
Mind you, after the Rechtschreibreform fiasco of 1996 and the updated fiasco of 2006, some Germans are probably unsure of the correct spelling of their so charming language.
Trollhattan
@Amir Khalid:
My HS German teacher had been in the allied occupation forces in Germany. One day on patrol, a woman rushed out of her house, pointing a gun at the soldiers, and one of his buddies yelled, “Nicht sheißen, nicht sheißen!” which evidently put everybody in stitches for a long while. Luckily, there was neither scheißen nor schoßen from her.
We, of course, were thrilled to learn a naughty word.
Southern Goth
@Belafon:
print(“”.join([chr(int(c, 16)) for c in “41 74 74 65 6e 74 69 6f 6e 20 61 6c 6c 20 70 6c 61 6e 65 74 73 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 20 53 6f 6c 61 72 20 46 65 64 65 72 61 74 69 6f 6e 3a 20 57 65 20 68 61 76 65 20 61 73 73 75 6d 65 64 20 63 6f 6e 74 72 6f 6c 2e”.split()]))
Because I’m bored.
Amir Khalid
@Trollhattan:
I knew it! I knew this must have happened at some point in the war.
Thor Heyerdahl
24601
cleek
@Avi:
or, you could copy it, then paste it in the website that i linked to a little bit later (http://www.asciitohex.com/)
Morzer
On the topic of Germans, Nigel Farage had a disastrous interview today – and the journalist was absolutely superb:
http://www.newstatesman.com/staggers/2014/05/what-racism-nigel-farage-s-disastrous-interview-lbc
If you decide to watch the interview, start at 2:13 because before that it’s advertisements.
Morzer
And, since this seems to be my day for posting links involving fascists or wannabe fascists, here’s the excellent Pankaj Mishra reflecting on what the BJP’s victory in the Indian elections might mean:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/may/16/what-next-india-pankaj-mishra
LanceThruster
“There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don’t.”
LanceThruster
“There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don’t.”
JGabriel
dmsilev:
Maybe I have a response, but the probability is uncertain. I can’t tell whether it’s false or true, it’s all entangled up in blue.
JGabriel
@Trollhattan:
Oh, man, I don’t know German (maybe a few sentences and a couple dozen words), but even I get that one – and I can’t stop laughing either.
JGabriel
@LanceThruster: You don’t have to say everything 10 times. We heard you the first.
Avi
@cleek:
Now where’s the fun in that?
@Southern Goth:
Here’s the Ruby equivalent:
print "41 74 74 65 6e 74 69 6f 6e 20 61 6c 6c 20 70 6c 61 6e 65 74 73 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 20 53 6f 6c 61 72 20 46 65 64 65 72 61 74 69 6f 6e 3a 20 57 65 20 68 61 76 65 20 61 73 73 75 6d 65 64 20 63 6f 6e 74 72 6f 6c 2e".split(' ').map{|a| a.hex.chr}.join
And because I’m really bored today, PHP:
echo implode('', array_map(function ($c) { return chr(hexdec($c)); }, explode(' ', '41 74 74 65 6e 74 69 6f 6e 20 61 6c 6c 20 70 6c 61 6e 65 74 73 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 20 53 6f 6c 61 72 20 46 65 64 65 72 61 74 69 6f 6e 3a 20 57 65 20 68 61 76 65 20 61 73 73 75 6d 65 64 20 63 6f 6e 74 72 6f 6c 2e')));
TooManyJens
@Trollhattan: That’s one way to defuse a tense situation.
Patricia Kayden
Y’all are too funny (and should be banned for writing in satanic codes).
mclaren
What?
The?
Fuck?
And we can always count on Mr. Asshole, Cleek, the author of that epistemic closure app that lets ignorant fools avoid ever having to hear anything that isn’t ignorant folly, acting like his typical creepy sociopathic self.
I bet you were that kid who followed around crippled old men in wheelchairs and kicked their wheels constantly just for fun, weren’t you, Cleek?
Amir Khalid
@mclaren:
Who pissed in your cornflakes today? Sheesh.
different-church-lady
Q: Why do programmers get Halloween and Christmas mixed up?
A: Because OCT 31 = DEC 25
different-church-lady
@Amir Khalid: I’m not sure what you’re talking about — for mclaren that sounded downright cheerful.
andrewsomething
@Southern Goth:
Still working too hard:
hex_as_string = "41 74 74 65 6e 74 69 6f 6e 20 61 6c 6c 20 70 6c 61 6e 65 74 73 20 6f 66 20 74 68 65 20 53 6f 6c 61 72 20 46 65 64 65 72 61 74 69 6f 6e 3a 20 57 65 20 68 61 76 65 20 61 73 73 75 6d 65 64 20 63 6f 6e 74 72 6f 6c 2e"
hex_as_string.replace(" ", "").decode("hex")