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[–] audaxdreik@pawb.social 97 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

There are 10 kinds of people in this world.

  • Those that know binary.
  • Those that don't.
  • And those that didn't expect this joke to be in base 3.

EDIT:

A statistician, a biologist, and a mathematician are sitting in a cafe watching the building across the street. 2 people enter the building. Some time later, 3 people come back out.

  • The statistician says, "Our initial count must've been off."
  • The biologist replies, "I think they probably reproduced."
  • The mathematician observes, "Now if exactly one person enters the building it will be empty."
[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 63 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My favourite is: There are two kinds of people, those that can extrapolate from incomplete data.

[–] 418_im_a_teapot@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I suppose we could combine them.

There are 10 kinds of people...

  • Those that know binary
  • Those that don't
  • Those who didn't expect this joke to be in base 5
  • Those that can extrapolate from incomplete data sets
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[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Or the two hardest things in IT:

  • Cache invalidation

  • Naming things

  • Off-by-one errors

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[–] deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 86 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Three logicians walk into a bar. The barman asks if they all want a beer.

The first says "I don't know", the second says "I don't know", the third says "yes".


Also, pretty much all of Futurama.

[–] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That one took me a second, but it's a good one

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[–] Akasazh@lemmy.world 86 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Heisenberg and Schrodinger are in a car. They get pulled over.

Heisenberg is driving, and the cop asks him, “Do you know how fast you were going?”

“No, but I know exactly where I am,” Heisenberg replies.

The cop says, “You were going 140 km/h, were only 120 is allowed”

Heisenberg throws up his hands and shouts, “Great! Now I’m lost!”

The cop thinks this is suspicious and orders him to pop open the trunk. He checks it out and says, “Do you know you have a dead cat back here?”

“We do now, you bastard!” shouts Schrodinger.

[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I heard that one as Heisenberg, Schrodinger, and Ohm, and continuing from your joke, the police officer arrests all of them. Ohm resists.

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[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 77 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why do programmers confuse Halloween and Christmas? Because OCT 31 == DEC 25.

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[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 69 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

An infinite number of mathematitians walk into a bar. The first orders a beer, the second orders half a beer, the third orders a quarter beer, the fourth an eighth beer...

The bartender cuts them off, puts 2 beers on the counter and says "Know your limits!"

[–] brian@programming.dev 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first mathematician orders a beer

The second orders half a beer

"I don't serve half-beers" the bartender replies

"Excuse me?" Asks mathematician #2

"What kind of bar serves half-beers?" The bartender remarks. "That's ridiculous."

"Oh c'mon" says mathematician #1 "do you know how hard it is to collect an infinite number of us? Just play along"

"There are very strict laws on how I can serve drinks. I couldn't serve you half a beer even if I wanted to."

"But that's not a problem" mathematician #3 chimes in "at the end of the joke you serve us a whole number of beers. You see, when you take the sum of a continuously halving function-"

"I know how limits work" interjects the bartender

"Oh, alright then. I didn't want to assume a bartender would be familiar with such advanced mathematics"

"Are you kidding me?" The bartender replies, "you learn limits in like, 9th grade! What kind of mathematician thinks limits are advanced mathematics?"

"HE'S ON TO US" mathematician #1 screeches

Simultaneously, every mathematician opens their mouth and out pours a cloud of multicolored mosquitoes. Each mathematician is bellowing insects of a different shade.

The mosquitoes form into a singular, polychromatic swarm. "FOOLS" it booms in unison, "I WILL INFECT EVERY BEING ON THIS PATHETIC PLANET WITH MALARIA"

The bartender stands fearless against the technicolor hoard. "But wait" he inturrupts, thinking fast, "if you do that, politicians will use the catastrophe as an excuse to implement free healthcare. Think of how much that will hurt the taxpayers!"

The mosquitoes fall silent for a brief moment. "My God, you're right. We didn't think about the economy! Very well, we will not attack this dimension. FOR THE TAXPAYERS!" and with that, they vanish.

A nearby barfly stumbles over to the bartender. "How did you know that that would work?"

"It's simple really" the bartender says. "I saw that the vectors formed a gradient, and therefore must be conservative."

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[–] earlier_riser@lemmy.world 68 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Would you like to hear a TCP joke?

I would like to hear a TCP joke.

Here is your TCP joke.

I have received your TCP joke. *laughter*.

—-

I’d tell you a UDP joke but I’m afraid you wouldn’t get it.

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[–] TabbsTheBat@pawb.social 66 points 1 week ago

Does "how do you tell the difference between a plumber and a chemist? Ask them to pronounce unionized" count? It doesn't exactly require advanced scientific knowledge or anything :p

There are two hard problems in computing:

  • naming things
  • cache invalidation
  • off-by-one errors
[–] jet@hackertalks.com 50 points 1 week ago

What's the difference between a mechanical engineer and a civil engineer?

answerA Mechanical engineer builds weapons, a civil engineer builds targets.

[–] cnnrduncan@lemmy.cnnrduncan.com 42 points 1 week ago

What do you get if you combine a jellyfish and an elephant?

A stern rebuke from the Ethics Committee.

[–] OfCourseNot@fedia.io 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A biologist, a physicist, and a mathematician are traveling in a train through Scotland when they see a sheep on a field. "Look! Scottish Sheep are black!" Says the biologist. "Well, at least some Scottish sheep are black" Says the physicist. The mathematician clears their throat and says "We know that there's at least one sheep in Scotland, and that at least half of it is black"

[–] ReCursing@feddit.uk 12 points 1 week ago

The programmer goes "Oh no, a special case!"

[–] AccoSpoot1@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Three engineers are in a bar discussing which school of engineering god belongs to, the mechanical engineer goes first;

"God's a mechanical engineer, look at the bones and muscles and how they interact and move." The electrical engineer is shaking his head;

"God's an electrical engineer, look at the nervous system and how the brain is wired, that's electrical engineering." At this stage the civil engineer has a wide grin on his face;

"God's a civil engineer, who else would run a waste pipe through a recreational centre?"

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I would tell you a UDP joke, but you might not get it.

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[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago

Bartender: “We don’t serve faster-than-light particles here!”

A tachyon walks into the bar.

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Two chemists walk into a bar.

The first one says, "I'll have some H2O."

The second one says, "I'll have some H2O, too."

They drink their drinks.

The second chemist dies.

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[–] DjangoFett@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Johnny was a chemist

Johnny is no more

What Johnny thought was H2O

Was H2SO4

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[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I haven't got a joke, how about a tongue twister?

"When a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, there's a packet pocket socket racket error to report."

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[–] smiletolerantly@awful.systems 27 points 1 week ago

How many math professors does it take to change a lightbulb?

The answer is trivial and the proof is left as an exercise to the reader.

[–] Octavio@piefed.social 26 points 1 week ago

My friend asked how my C programming class was going. "I'm really struggling," I replied, "I could sure use some pointers." He said, "int* x, int* y, int* z."

[–] solrize@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Leonard Susskind, on seeing yet another one of Einstein's predictions confirmed in an astronomy experiment: "They didn't call him Einstein for nothing!".

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[–] Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 25 points 1 week ago

How many programmers does it need to change a light bulb?

....

...

..

.

Impossible, because that's a hardware problem.

[–] Infrapink@thebrainbin.org 21 points 1 week ago

::: What do you get if you cross a mosquito with a mountain climber.

Nothing. You can't cross a vector with a scaler. :::

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 21 points 1 week ago

How can you tell the difference between a plumber and a chemist?

The way they pronounce unionized.

[–] med@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What does a mathematician do when he's constipated?

He works it out with a pencil!

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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 17 points 1 week ago

There are two hard problems in computer programming:

  1. Cache invalidation
  2. Naming things
  3. Off-by-one errors
[–] ProfessorScience@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Three perfect logicians walk into a bar.
The bartender says "Y'all want something to drink?"
The first logician thinks about it and says "I don't know."
The second logician thinks about it and also says "I don't know."
The third logician says "Yes."

Edit: aw, dang, I see deadbeef beat me to this one... by 4 hours.

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[–] frankenswine@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Three logicians walk into a bar. The bartender asks: "3 beers?"

The first one responds: "I don't know"

The second one responds: "I don't know"

The last one responds: "Yes, please!"

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[–] Rooskie91@discuss.online 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first says, “I’ll have a beer,” the second says “I’ll have half a beer,” the third says “I’ll have a quarter of a beer,” and, before the fourth mathematician can speak, the bartender says, “I see what’s going on here,” then pours two beers.

[–] Eric@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I heard this one ending with "You guys need to know your limits" before pouring the beers

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[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago

Is Psychiatry still a science?

  • How many Freudians does it take to change a lightbulb?
    1. One to change the bulb and the other to hold my mother...I mean the LADDER!
[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

A Linux Mint User, an Arch Linux User, and a Gentoo Linux User walk into a bar. The bartender asks them what they'd like. The Linux Mint User asks for an IPA, the Arch Linux User asks for hops, barley, water, and some instructions. The Gentoo Linux User asks for a manual on how to first make the universe.

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[–] impairedimperator@lemmy.zip 15 points 1 week ago

Hey, does the name 'Pavlov' ring a bell?

[–] Jonnyprophet@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

So this atom returns to the pub begging the bartender and the patrons "Oh, good golly! I've lost one of my here electrons! Has anyone seen it?!"

The owner says. "No one has reported anything. Are you sure you've lost it?"

To which the atom replied, "Yes! I'm positive!"

.....

The next day...

Having a pint, the bartender sees the atom from yesterday and calls the ion up to the bar and says "Just yesterday, you say you lost an electron. Well we found it and here it is." Rolling it across the bar. The atom, now very happy says "Yeah! That's the one! Amazing! Thank you! What can I do to repay you?!"

The bartender, with a sly wink, says "No charge."

[–] LordCrom@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (5 children)

There are 10 types of people.

Those that understand binary and those that dont.

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[–] BeardededSquidward@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There are 10 types of people. Those who get binary and those who don't.

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[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

A physicist, an engineer, and a mathematician are staying in neighboring rooms at a hotel for a conference.

In the middle of the night, a faulty outlet sparks a fire in the hallway. The physicist wakes up, sees the fire, fills the ice bucket up with water and uses it to extinguish the fire. He goes back to bed satisfied.

A bit later, another fire breaks out. This time, the engineer wakes up, sees the fire, does a quick calculation and fills his ice bucket 3/4 full. He just barely extinguishes the fire, and goes back to bed satisfied.

Later yet, the fire starts again. This time the mathematician wakes up, sees the fire, sees the ice bucket, announces "A solution exists!" and goes back to bed satisfied.

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (13 children)

There are 10 types of people in this world.

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Those who understand binary, and those who don't.

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[–] EdibleSource@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 week ago

How do you tell the difference between male chromosomes and female chromosomes?

Pull down their genes

[–] Sir_Premiumhengst@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

There are two kinds of people. Those who can extrapolate from incomplete

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Let Epsilon be so small that Epsilon half is already negative.

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[–] atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

this video

I dont care that its technically not a joke

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