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A photo of a cake with 8 candles in a row. The first and fifth candle from the right are lit. The caption reads "Happy 17th Birthday"

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[–] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 0 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ha🤣, that's great (once I was already thinking in binary/non-Dec numerals)

[–] vrek@programming.dev 4 points 5 days ago

There is another joke there regarding the movie nightmare before Christmas but I'm not smart enough to figure it out.