[987] Potential

Title Text:The bunch of disadvantaged kids I was tutoring became too good at writing, and their essays were forcing me to confront painful existential questions, so I started trying to turn them on to drugs and crime instead. Origin:https://xkcd.com/987/ 我去訪問過的弱勢兒童變得太過擅長寫作,他們的隨筆文章強迫我面對痛苦的存在危機問題,所以我轉為嘗試把他們變成藥頭與罪犯。…

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[986] Drinking Fountains

Title Text:I’ve always wondered whether you could drink slowly enough, and eliminate fast enough, that you just sort of peed continuously. But I’m afraid to try because I worry someone might call while I’m doing it and ask what I’m…

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[985] Percentage Points

Title Text:Grayton also proposed making college scholarships available exclusively to sexually active teens, amnesty for illegal immigrants who create room for themselves by killing a citizen, and a graduated income tax based on penis size. He has been endorsed by…

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[984] Space Launch System

Title Text:The SLS head engineer plans to invite Shania Twain to stand under the completed prototype, then tell her, ‘I don’t expect you to date me just because I’m a rocket scientist, but you’ve gotta admit–this is pretty fucking impressive.’…

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[983] Privacy

Title Text:Eventual headline: ‘University Researchers Create Life in Lab! Darkness, Faulty Condoms Blamed.’ Origin:https://xkcd.com/983/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/983:_Privacy 这部漫画是关于Cueball和Megan试图找到一些隐私来“挂钩”,这是一种从事性活动的俚语。 他们从宿舍开始,这将提供一些隐私[需要引证]。不幸的是,门被锁上了。他们去到另一个宿舍,但它是由一个人玩MMORPG占据,是“在突袭”,这意味着玩家的联手与他人“突袭”的东西,可能是一个敌人,掠夺他们的物品。这也引发了一些事实… Read more

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[982] Set Theory

Title Text:Proof of Zermelo’s well-ordering theorem given the Axiom of Choice: 1: Take S to be any set. 2: When I reach step three, if S hasn’t managed to find a well-ordering relation for itself, I’ll feed it into this…

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[981] Porn Folder

Title Text:Eww, gross, you modified link()? How could you enjoy abusing a filesystem like that? Origin:https://xkcd.com/981/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/981:_Porn_Folder Cueball似乎找到了一个色情文件夹。但是,它包含一个目录循环,由一个人在屏幕外设置。实际上可以做到这一点,但它被广泛认为是一个非常糟糕的主意,因为它可以以不那么明显的方式破坏系统(主要是通过使看似平凡的操作无限循环)。这意味着该文件夹不需要包含色情图片,因为该文件夹是色情内容违反禁忌循环是屏幕外角色发现色情的东西。 link()是用于创建硬链接的Linux系统… Read more

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[980] Money

Title Text:There, I showed you it. Origin:https://xkcd.com/980/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/980:_Money FullSize 这是漫画的另一个图表 – 兰德尔不时做的一种漫画。例如,他已经完成了互联网地图(两次!)和其他巨大的可视化,如此图表Radiation,其结构与此图表相似,但以Radiation为主题。辐射图很可能是这个更全面的Money图表的灵感来源。 在图表中有五个框,其中包含不同规模货币价值的项目。每种美元增量的比例都是不同的颜色。一美元的增量是绿色的 – 当然,因为美国的纸币是绿色的。成千上万的是橙色/红色。数百万是灰色的。数十亿是黄色的。数万亿是蓝色的… Read more

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[979] Wisdom of the Ancients

Title Text:All long help threads should have a sticky globally-editable post at the top saying ‘DEAR PEOPLE FROM THE FUTURE: Here’s what we’ve figured out so far …’ Origin:https://xkcd.com/979/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/979:_Wisdom_of_the_Ancients 前人的智慧 很長的求救文應該要讓討論串的第一篇可以被任何人編輯,開頭是「來自未來的各位,我們現在的進度是… https://xkcd.tw/979 这部漫画是指那些… Read more

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[978] Citogenesis

Title Text:I just read a pop-science book by a respected author. One chapter, and much of the thesis, was based around wildly inaccurate data which traced back to… Wikipedia. To encourage people to be on their toes, I’m not going…

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