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@foone@digipres.clubThe Roman empire fell because their Roman numerals weren't a form of positional notation, so they couldn't figure out binary. Their computers were terrible.
So you think the ancient Romans ever called porn "thirty"?
@foone I thought they failed to configure Nero Burning ROM to create proper backups of their most important data 
Yeah, I found out the hard way that doing long division manually with Roman numerals is a nightmare.
@foone “One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs." – Robert Firth
@jtlg @foone Yes. Hence the invention of the "triumvirate," a method for deciding if a program succeeded by running it three times; if all three runs agreed on the output, the run could be considered successful.
This was incredibly inefficient and left Rome vulnerable to sacking by the Hypervisigoths in the 5th Century.
@happydisciple @foone @jtlg On the other hand, their successor to C had built in build&test automation.
(Oh dear, just drag me out back and put me out of my misery for this one, it’s soooo bad)
@foone if they had Lisp, they’d have been fine, as addition on Roman numerals is just a normalise, a merge and a denormalise. As long as they didn’t need negative numbers, that is.
@foone little-endian v. Big-endian societies is an interesting idea.
@foone I for one love Roman numeral puns
@foone yeah I mean imagine setting your monitor resolution to MXXIVxDCCLXVIII
@gsuberland @foone 1204x768? (EDIT: reeding iz harrd)
@apicultor @foone 1024. M=1000, XX=2x10=20, IV=5-1=4
@gsuberland @foone Oh yeah. Duh. And I got it right on the other side too. lol.
@gsuberland @foone cursed cursor positions
@foone that and lead piping.
@foone weirder yet that they called real time strategy games “forty”
@antifuchs @foone I mean that was basically the Roman Empire itself.
@antifuchs @foone they had a turn based strategy called "one hundred and four" *smh*
@antifuchs @foone I thought that was foreign exchange.
@foone I assume they'd call them by their stage name.
@foone oh yeah. LXIX. Nice.
@foone Isn’t this where “thirsty” comes from?
@foone Rule XXXIV
@flyingsaceur @foone also they couldn't understand why reciprocal oral would be called LXIX.
Wait, that almost makes sense
@flyingsaceur @foone see, this is why I shouldn't post after just waking up. Thanks, fixed 8-D
"So are these frescoes soft-core or wha-"
"No man, they're thirty. So thirty."
@foone Thirty for thirsty, romance for the romans
@foone They literally said "thirty", not the latin for 30. No-one could work out how to write it down, though.
@foone Rhymes with dirty!
@foone Charles Babbage didn't need no stinking binary!
@foone turns out the losers who killed Archimedes weren't particularly keen on maths
@foone
tfw you need 10X programmers and the recruiters only bring you C programmers
@foone @lowqualityfacts did you know this one?
@foone Maybe not; merchants using scales figured out early that a set of binary weights (base weight then each is double the previous) could be combined to any value up to 2x-1 where x was the largest weight. Now if some genius had figured out a way to combine this with an abacus...