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Thread: xkcd
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2022-01-30, 03:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-01-30, 03:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: xkcd
Looks like the details got revealed ahead of time.
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2022-01-31, 11:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-01-31, 02:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Looks like there's a new What If? on the horizon.
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2022-02-01, 05:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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I really enjoyed the first book, and it looks like this will have a good bit of content that hasn't been published online, so I went ahead and preordered. Looking forward to it!
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2022-02-03, 07:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Just found out about this. Glad more What if is coming, but we couldn't have gotten a sampler? Really miss when the blog was updated semi-regularly.
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2022-03-05, 11:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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I like this one, there are far too many plug/PSU combos that want to stop you using to socket next to them.
The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2022-03-05, 05:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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Typically having one on a powerstrip isn't too bad. However, I agree that it is too hard to use some. I like that lots of things in the US use the 3 prong male to 3 (slightly different) prong female cords like computers. I was really annoyed at work when a monitor used DC power and we couldn't find the supply.
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2022-03-06, 07:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Here's a real-life Cursed Connector. If you don't understand why it's cursed, when you have something plugged into the socket, and one of the plugs in a wall outlet, but the other one dangling, the bare metal of the dangling plug is live at 120V AC.
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2022-03-06, 09:44 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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2022-03-07, 12:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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Normal function isn't just when it's sitting plugged in. The process of plugging and unplugging is a part also part of normal function. This thing becomes unsafe for a period during plugging or unplugging, unless a specific order is followed. And people aren't going to do that.
Also, it won't work if you plug it into an outlet protected by GFI or GFCI. Current electrical code in the US requires that on all outdoor outlets. And this thing is marketed for use with RVs, which you would typically expect to plug into an outdoor outlet. That means you're limited to old outlets, or you have to run extension chords out a window.
I'm actually of the opinion that our electrical outlets here in the US aren't well designed, because there's a point between full plugged in and fully unplugged where it's possible to touch bare metal carrying 120V. This thing takes that issue and turns it up to 11.
I'm also of the opinion that GFCI should be required on all breakers. Based on how the code keeps getting updated to require it more places, I think my wish will come true one of these days.My Perpetually-Unfinished Homebrew: Tier-3 Class Suite, Homestuck Races for Pathfinder, Homestuck Races for 5e, Psionic Class Redux
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2022-03-22, 11:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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https://xkcd.com/2596/
There are way too many galaxies.The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2022-04-04, 06:40 AM (ISO 8601)
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New april-special xkcd 'Instructions'
Spoiler: about turtles and coding in LOGOas a very long audio-recording.
The instructions also paint a nice picture
See also explainxkcd and github .
Last edited by hajo; 2022-04-05 at 07:49 AM. Reason: +github-link
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2022-04-05, 01:19 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-05-02, 02:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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Today's strip makes me wonder if anyone's set up a webpage where you can create weird, non-standard maps by rotating the world relative to the projection. It'd be pretty easy to do, with the possible exception of an interrupted Goode homolosine projection. Though if they can get that working, I'd like to try creating one with the interruptions going through the continents to better preserve the shapes of the oceans.
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2022-05-02, 05:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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Now I kind of want to see and animation made from various map projections, where the center of perspective is rotated over time. Could be equally trippy as a lava lamp.
edit: I found this little website. Does not have all that many projections available and only the sane ones, but it is still quite fun to play around with.Last edited by Radar; 2022-05-02 at 06:21 AM.
In a war it doesn't matter who's right, only who's left.
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2022-05-02, 07:29 AM (ISO 8601)
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I'm pretty much the opposite of concise. If I fail to get to the point, please ask me and I'm happy to (attempt to) clarify.
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2022-05-02, 08:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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I hadn't noticed the comic was clickable. That's pretty cool, and you can simulate rotation with a combination of vertical and horizontal shifts.
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2022-05-02, 09:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-05-08, 06:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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Only found out because I clicked on the wrong bookmark, but he's posted the first What If? in almost exactly four years.
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2022-05-10, 06:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-06-02, 10:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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I'm a few updates late, but I want to go to whatever university has enough topologists to get us our own department.
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2022-06-23, 09:14 AM (ISO 8601)
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https://xkcd.com/2636/
Aren't some of these just wrong?
July 8th's for example?
pi ^ e would be something between pi ^ 2 and pi ^ 3, which isn't a huge number.The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2022-06-23, 09:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-06-23, 11:10 AM (ISO 8601)
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How does that work?
pi is not a big number, and nor is e.
2 is also not a big number.
2 ^ 2 is 4, 2 ^ 4 is 16, 2 ^ 16 is 65,536 (after some faffing), 2 ^ 24 = 16,777,216, 2 ^ 32 = 4,294,967,296. Okay, that looks as if it might work, but I stlll think he's taking the michael.The end of what Son? The story? There is no end. There's just the point where the storytellers stop talking.
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2022-06-23, 11:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-06-23, 11:35 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-06-23, 11:38 AM (ISO 8601)
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Numbers can surprise you like that. This case here (stacked exponentiation) has even a specific notation and further extension. Some other cases are far less obvious and a bit tricky to see, why the numbers suddenly get larger than we can reasonably write down. For example Ackermann's function does not look so bad, but in actuality it reproduces the up-arrow notation linked earlier in this post. Of course there are plenty of procedures to get even more crazy numbers.
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2022-07-01, 06:35 PM (ISO 8601)
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Arguably, much of the universe is made of chemicals, so chemists should have a pretty big slice of that pie chart.
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