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> which made me automatically jump to conclusion that binaries are basically 1s and 0s[1] and clearly it is not that simple. It essentially _is_ that simple, i
by Tijdreiziger 4y ago
> which made me automatically jump to conclusion that binaries are basically 1s and 0s[1] and clearly it is not that simple.
It essentially _is_ that simple, it’s just how you interpret those 1s and 0s. Say you try to interpret a PNG file as text: you get some representation of the 1s and 0s in that file, just not the right one.