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Cyanide and Happiness

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Hello fellow Cyanide and Happiness fans!

Cyanide & Happiness (C&H) is a webcomic created by Rob DenBleyker, Kris Wilson, Dave McElfatrick and Matt Melvin. The comic has been running since 2005 and is published on the website explosm.net along with animated shorts in the same style. Matt Melvin left C&H in 2014, and several other people have contributed to the comic and to the animated shorts

Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanide_%26_Happiness

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History

@[email protected] started this community and wrote:

About this community and how I post the comics… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. Of course these days you can read your favorite comics online instead of a newspaper, but I love the nostalgia of reading the daily comics. Anyway, one of my favorite current comics is Cyanide and Happiness and I will be posting the daily release from their website (https://explosm.net/) and a an extra or two randoms.

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All comics posted are freely available online. In no way is the poster claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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

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

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

The joke is binary 10 is 2. Vs base 10 of 10

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

No worries. I have a networking background so I'll never forget binary.

0 = 000
1 = 001
2 = 010
3 = 011 4 = 100

So 100 / 25 = 100 (4 in binary)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I like that one or 1012=ERROR

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I think they're saying that on a binary 1 to 10 scale, the range is only (decimal) 2, so a 10/10 for binary is a 2/2 in decimal (where you can only be a 1/2 or 2/2), which is still the highest value.

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

Considering the artist I think the joke was 2/10 vs 10/10.
This isn't XKCD. Still to each their own.

I forwarded this to some network engineer friends and they got a kick out of it.

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

Oh, definitely. The intended joke is out of 10 in decimal.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

That's clear. I thought this joke didn't quite work because of the same reason, too.