I like the little detail, that the alien has 10 fingers.
The alien in the weird suit has 22 fingers
What do you mean? They have 11
Are you using a 10th base, that does not exist in the comic?
Every number system is base 10.
Binary is base 1+1.
Ternary is base 2+1.
Octal is base 7+1.
Decimal is base 9+1.
Duodecimal is base B+1.
Hexadecimal is base F+1.We use base 22
Ah, you ssh into a Unix like system and use
(( ))or maybebc?I mean from their perspective, they would call the ‘base’ we use ‘22’. Unless I’m missing the joke in there about a calculator?
22 is the default port for connecting to some kinds of remote computers via ssh. The two utilities I mentioned are tools for performing arithmetic and are usually (but not always) available on the kinds of systems that would be likely to be running ssh.
I knew it wasn’t what you meant, I was just making my own Unix joke - I tend to do that and, since it’s Lemmy, tend to get mixed results!
Awesome, totally sidestepped any processing i had to catch the meaning, but always appreciate a multi layer Linux reference :)