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Current Events => General Discussion => Topic started by: SVPete on December 03, 2021, 11:26:38 AM
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Laid-Off Journalist Trying To Learn To Code Horrified To Discover The Code Is Binary
Babylon Bee
https://babylonbee.com/news/laid-off-journalist-trying-to-learn-to-code-horrified-to-discover-the-code-is-binary (https://babylonbee.com/news/laid-off-journalist-trying-to-learn-to-code-horrified-to-discover-the-code-is-binary)
NEW YORK, NY—When Huffington Post writer Brutto Chalet discovered he was being let go earlier this year, he decided he was going to do what all Americans do when they lose their job: learn to code.
There's just one problem: he suddenly realized the code he was working in was binary.
"Excuse me, professor?" he said to his programming teacher. "Yeah, hi. Brutto Chalet, he/him. Did I hear you correctly? Are we only allowed to work in binary code? Are there non-binary options for us to work with?"
The teacher said that they would just be learning to program atop binary code systems in this particular class, as virtually all computer systems are written in binary.
"Wow -- that's really problematic, chief," Chalet said. ...
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Laid-off journalists also horrified to discover that they are a bunch of zeroes. :-)