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"
this post was submitted on 25 Feb 2026
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Very optimistic to have an 8th candle
The candles are only available in packs of 8. It's the smallest addressable unit of wax in many cake architectures
Maybe this is a signed cake, so one can celebrate negative birthdays of people who aren't born yet. 🤔
Light all the candles as an announcement that you're gonna start having kids and hope she'll get pregnant in exactly three months. Not in 2, not in 4, but in 3 precisely.
Last birthday party I was at I just wanted a nibble of cake but they told me I had to take one or more bites.
I usually just gather a nibble by picking up a couple crumbs... I'll see myself out.
I'd have a few words with them, kick them right up their rear endian
Although a processor might be nominally capable of accessing a bus of a certain width, it does not mean that all address or data lines need be connected.