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xkcd #3314: Vulnerability

Title text:

Other numbers are largely unaffected, but anyone using '4' for their certificate key is urged to upgrade to '5'.

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Source: https://xkcd.com/3314/

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[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (3 children)

*Puts on glasses* Akchually, that's only if you're counting 10's, since we count 1's as decimal and 10's in pairs of snes/snaes (20), hence fifty is half three snes or 3*20-0.5*20 = (3-0.5)*20 = 50.

Or if you're talking 1's, aka. decimal, you'd just remove the snes part, since common math is in decimal anyway, so half 3 decimal would be 3*1-0.5*1 = 3*0.5 = 2.5.

EDIT: Fun fact: 100, aka. "en hundrede/one hundred", can therefore also be called "fems" or "fem snes/five snaes". And then there's the ones who actually say "in twenty" instead of "snes", so it'd be "fem i tyvende".

[–] techt@lemmy.world 1 points 13 minutes ago* (last edited 13 minutes ago)

puts on novelty slinky eye glasses

Fascinating.

Also, small thing:

3*1 - 0.5*1 = 3 - 0.5 = 2.5 ----------------^

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

But you never said which game on the SNES these cheat codes actually for.

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 hour ago

Oh no, no game, that's how you enable the dev tools in retro-future mode. :p

[–] cooltrainer_frank@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Det ved jeg godt :)

But it's fun to show that meme off. Danish numbers are wild. My bad danish gets me mistaken numbers all the time

[–] ekky@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Tænkte det nok x)

It's just fun to blow some non-Danes' minds every now and again. <3

[–] NochMehrG@feddit.org 2 points 57 minutes ago

So that’s why Duolingo hides numbers from us! (And probably also why Danish people switch to English or German no matter if you start in Danish or not..)