Brewster Rockit by Tim Rickard for December 12, 2020

They are just a bit different.

There are 10 kinds of people in the world, those who know binary and those who don’t.

He 001’nd when he should have 010’nd

She 011’nd when she could have 110’d

They can never be compatible!

Ah, but the digit in that position indicates positive or negative.

It’s where he put his bit that was the problem.

Where you have blood

We have circuits

Where you have memories

We have 01101111

Where you have blood

We have circuits

And the dawning of the robot age has come

-Wolfbait

Salted her hash!

One of the great problems of Artificial Intelligence is to get computers to understand the concept of “almost.”

She’s even parity, he’s odd… a tale as old as time

shouldn’t have it been 01 different?

Generation gap.

Ah, but as the French so wisely put it, Vive la différence! If you were exactly alike you’d be dating yourself. (And while there are a few narcissists willing to do that most of us aren’t.)

That bytes.

One said “Hello” and the other said “Hellp”

Today’s strip was just a bit baud-y

This does not compute.

She one-upped him.

Good thing neither of them is a quantum computer, or it would’ve been a million times worse.

Good thing they found out they were incompatible on the first date.

One of them is a bit-buckethead… ㋡

So I guess there’ll be no hand shake tonight.

They are not too different they are only 1 different. Too different would have been "011 and “001”. “011” and “010” are only one different.

Too bad they’re not magnets, cause you know, opposites attract.

It’s error correcting code. He’s in error, and she corrects him. Could have been worse. He could have been out with one of those double precision wenches.

It may be less that they’re incompatible with each other and the fact that the contents of the reference memory address (i.e., the binary output) is corrupted in both units. The number of digits displayed seems off (should be groups of 8), but we could assume the lead grouping is assumed to be 0 padded.

With both outputs, I tried ASCII, ASCII/UTF-8, UTF-16 little endian, UTF-16 big endian, and plain UNICODE conversions for text output. I even assumed these might be transmitted data packets, so “reversed” the digit order. All of these resulted in corrupted gibberish!

Which honestly may be appropriate for anything dealing with Oldbot!

If they were two different, it would’ve been 10 versus 00.

With 11 versus 10, they’re only one different.

if they are “2” different… Shouldn’t the last 4 digits be 1001?

He tried to have a word with her, but she bytes.

Would have been messy at the wedding: “Do you, the parity of the first part, take her, the parity of the second part …”

1 !!!!!!!!

(Please excuse my language)

And, it’s the least significant bit.

You say 100, and I say 101!

You say 110, and I say 111!

100! 101! 110! 111!

Let’s call the whole thing off!

Mac. PC. Linux.

They are a bit different

They argue ,but in Binary

Man, Tim, talk about telegraphing the joke!