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Thread: xkcd
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2018-05-26, 01:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-05-26, 02:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-06-15, 03:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd
http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/inde...Attention_Span
I don't know, I think I spent 6 hours between the ring theory and the "jar jar is a force user" theory pages about Star Wars.
I agree with both of them.Not "fire at". I never used the word "at"
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2018-07-16, 03:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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Please tell me Randall is aware of the importance of the poorly received practice of publishing null results.. I mean, I know he's making fun of everything but sometimes I'm not sure.
Because nothig is more fun than meeting the five other people who did the same experiment as you, got no result, and therefore told nobody about it.
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2018-07-16, 05:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-07-17, 06:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-08-02, 07:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd
https://xkcd.com/2027/
*Massive* LOL.Not "fire at". I never used the word "at"
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2018-08-03, 01:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-08-03, 03:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-08-03, 09:55 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-08-04, 02:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd
I was laughing really, really hard after reading that one.
Not "fire at". I never used the word "at"
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2018-08-04, 11:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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I just noticed that the famed xkcd.com/now strip is an hour off.
Last edited by jwhouk; 2018-08-05 at 11:32 AM.
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2018-08-04, 11:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-08-04, 11:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-08-05, 11:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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I noticed it. AST should be equal to the time in LA and PDT right now.
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2018-08-06, 10:32 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-08-06, 11:03 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-08-06, 02:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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I kept waiting for him to get to the time-skips from Julian to Gregorian calendars. As a note, I used to have a genealogical program that included a "what day of the week was such-and-such date" that included a warning not to use it before about 1750.
Also, different countries made the switch at different times. Russia made the switch about in the early 1900s and skipped even more time than the British did.
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2018-08-06, 02:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-08-08, 01:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-08-08, 02:00 AM (ISO 8601)
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See, we know when these things happened. But just because we know that doesn't mean that people who lived through them kept good records. George Washington's birthday go moved because of that day skip, but if you have a record that some blacksmith in 1762 got married and it says he was 20 years old, born on the 15th of January, you have no idea if he applied the time skip to his birthday or not.
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2018-08-10, 11:21 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd
I love the non-Euclidean pie chart.
Now, more than "how to shade it", I want to know, how can I write curved text on the curved surface?Not "fire at". I never used the word "at"
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2018-08-28, 01:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Does anyone here know the international warning symbol for "will not go to space today?"
I use braces (also known as "curly brackets") to indicate sarcasm. If there are none present, I probably believe what I am saying; should it turn out to be inaccurate trivia, please tell me rather than trying to play along with an apparent joke I don't know I'm making.
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2018-08-28, 01:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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I have an extended signature now. God knows why.
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2018-08-28, 02:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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“Evil is evil. Lesser, greater, middling, it's all the same. Proportions are negotiated, boundaries blurred. I'm not a pious hermit, I haven't done only good in my life. But if I'm to choose between one evil and another, then I prefer not to choose at all.”
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2018-08-28, 07:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-08-28, 08:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd
It sounds like you can now really relate to the comic.
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Still, congratulations?
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2018-08-29, 05:53 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd
For reference, my driving test in Texas consisted of a 10-question quiz, which was multiple choice and included such choice questions as:
There are pedestrians crossing at a crosswalk. What do you do?
A) Wait patiently for all pedestrians to finish crossing, then drive on carefully.
B) Drive through, you have right of way.
C) Honk at the pedestrians to get them to clear the road.
D) Drive through carefully, weaving between the pedestrians.
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Then about 5 minutes of inspecting the car to make sure it's roadworthy for the test, then about a 10 minute drive which was basically driving to the nearest neighborhood and going round it for a few minutes, then heading back to the DMV.
Unsurprisingly, when I moved to the UK this year I had to take a real driving test. I wound up taking lessons despite nearly 20 years driving experience, because I didn't know how to do maneuvers like parallel parking and reversing into a parking spot - both maneuvers I never had to do where I lived, so I never practiced them. Heck, I don't think we even practiced those when I had my US lessons.
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2018-08-29, 12:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-08-29, 12:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, I had to parallel park, forward and reverse into parking, 3-point turn, drive around through some blocks to go through stoplights/signs/etc., and execute a hill-stop. Probably varies pretty drastically from place to place. And possibly from instructor to instructor; the guy who was administering my test was a state trooper and I don't know if that's standard everywhere or a peculiarity of my experience.
Last edited by Lapak; 2018-08-29 at 12:51 PM.