unary
Original: unary on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Older man (with glasses, balding): Sometimes I like to imagine what would be the scariest thing for a manager to say to a programmer.
Panel 2:
Younger man (alarmed): Wait a minute. All numbers can be specified using a unary numeral system. But we're using only zeroes and ones on all of our computers?!
Votey:
A speech balloon coming from off-panel: Who's got one and one thumbs and just saved us fifty percent? THIS GUY!
(Below the balloon is a simple cartoon face with no arms visible reaching up — just a head and two thumbs-up hands pointing toward the speaker.)
Older man (with glasses, balding): Sometimes I like to imagine what would be the scariest thing for a manager to say to a programmer.
Panel 2:
Younger man (alarmed): Wait a minute. All numbers can be specified using a unary numeral system. But we're using only zeroes and ones on all of our computers?!
Votey:
A speech balloon coming from off-panel: Who's got one and one thumbs and just saved us fifty percent? THIS GUY!
(Below the balloon is a simple cartoon face with no arms visible reaching up — just a head and two thumbs-up hands pointing toward the speaker.)
Alt text
A two-panel comic. Panel 1: an older balding man with glasses says, "Sometimes I like to imagine what would be the scariest thing for a manager to say to a programmer." Panel 2: a younger man looks alarmed and says, "Wait a minute. All numbers can be specified using a unary numeral system. But we're using only zeroes and ones on all of our computers?!" — the joke being a clueless manager suggesting they cut from two symbols (binary) down to one (unary) to "save" resources. Votey: an off-panel voice declares, "Who's got one and one thumbs and just saved us fifty percent? THIS GUY!" beside a crude doodle of a smiling face flanked by two raised thumbs, mocking the manager's pride in the nonsensical cost-cutting idea.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.