[612] Estimation

Title Text:They could say “the connection is probably lost,” but it’s more fun to do naive time-averaging to give you hope that if you wait around for 1,163 hours, it will finally finish. Origin:https://xkcd.com/612/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/612:_Estimation 時間估計 他們可以直接說「連線似乎已中斷」,但是直接把時間做平均會比較有趣,讓你滿懷希望的覺得你只要多等個 1163 小時他就會跑完。 https://xkcd.tw/612…

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[611] Disaster Voyeurism

Title Text:Hurricane forums are full of excited comments about central pressure and wind speed and comparisons to Camille and 1931 and 1938, with hastily-tacked-on notes about how it will be tragic if anyone dies and they hope it’s a dud.…

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[610] Sheeple

Title Text:Hey, what are the odds — five Ayn Rand fans on the same train! Must be going to a convention. Origin:https://xkcd.com/610/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/610:_Sheeple 这部漫画中的人们互相认为是绵羊,他们盲目地按照方向而不顾自己。标题中的“sheeple”一词之前在xkcd中用过“Wake up Sheeple!”。在这部漫画中,火车上的每个人都认为自己是唯一的个体思想,周围的每个人都是“羊”。具有讽刺意味的是,读者可以看到,虽然他们每个人都在思考他们是如何个体的,但他们都集中思考完全相同的事情,这意味着他们都是傻瓜。漫… Read more

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[609] Tab Explosion

Title Text:Cracked.com is another inexplicable browser narcotic. They could write a list of ’17 worst haircuts in the Ottoman Empire’ and I’d still read through to the end, then click on all the links at the end. Origin:https://xkcd.com/609/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/609:_Tab_Explosion 分頁爆炸…

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[608] Form

Title Text:’This space intentionally left blank’ is less immediately provocative but more Hofstadterially confusing. Origin:https://xkcd.com/608/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/608:_Form 申请表,试卷等有时会指示申请人避免在页面的封锁区域书写,因为这些区域用于行政,办公室或内部使用或处理。 尽管如此,一个人可能会在封锁的部分中写出一种反抗权威的冲动,就像漫画中的Cueball一样。藐视这些指令的后果通常是微不足道的(例如,可能无法正确处理表格)。然而,Cueball无视规则促使某些执法机构或私人… Read more

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[607] 2038

Title Text:If only we’d chosen 1944-12-02 08:45:52 as the Unix epoch, we could’ve combined two doomsday scenarios into one and added a really boring scene to that Roland Emmerich movie. Origin:https://xkcd.com/607/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/607:_2038 2038 https://www.douban.com/photos/photo/746535957/ 2038问题是32位基于Unix的操作系统的一个众所周知的问题。 Unix时间被存储为在这些系统上的32位… Read more

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[606] Cutting Edge

Title Text:I remember trying to log in to the original Command and Conquer servers a year or two back and feeling like I was knocking on the boarded-up gates of a ghost town. Origin:https://xkcd.com/606/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/606:_Cutting_Edge https://app-xkcd-cn.appspot.com/ “半条命2”是一款计算机游戏,特别是2004年发布的第一人称射击游戏。在上面的漫画中,Cueball在2009年玩游戏,因为较新的游戏通常需要更新的,功能更强大的计算机。然而,… Read more

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[605] Extrapolating

Title Text:By the third trimester, there will be hundreds of babies inside you. Origin:https://xkcd.com/605/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/605:_Extrapolating https://app-xkcd-cn.appspot.com/ 这部漫画是对线性外推错误应用的一个笑话。通过连接两个点而没有任何上下文,我们可以得出令人难以置信的有趣结果。在这里,连接配偶的数量昨天(零)和今天(一)可以导致每年数百名配偶的线性推断。 Cueball呈现了丈夫的积累,好像这是一种超出新娘控制能力的现象。使用类似的怀孕点(昨天:没有婴儿,今天:一个),我们可以在怀孕第7个月… Read more

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[604] Qwertial Aphasia

Title Text:If this were SMBC, the alt-text drawing thingy would be a giraffe hooker fluttering her eyelashes. Origin:https://xkcd.com/604/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/604:_Qwertial_Aphasia 兰德尔发明了“Qwertial Aphasia”这个术语来描述一个词的共同体验,从口头对话,偶然溢出到一个人正在打字的东西,通常是幽默的结果。 描述“Qwertial”指的是最常见的键盘排列中的顶行字母的位置,即QWERTY键盘布局,因为这只是在打字时折磨你的东西。失语症是一类影响语言生产和理解的疾病。 在这种情况下,Cueball正… Read more

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[603] Idiocracy

Title Text:People aren’t going to change, for better or for worse. Technology’s going to be so cool. All in all, the future will be okay! Except climate; we fucked that one up. Origin:https://xkcd.com/603/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/603:_Idiocracy 这部漫画的标题是对反乌托邦喜剧“民主”的提及。这部电影假定,在大约500年的时间里,社会将遭受智力潜力的大幅下降。这种发展归因于这样一个事实,即智商较低的人被认为更容易繁殖,因此更容易传递他们的基因。 Cueball宣… Read more

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