Month: October 2015

[1597] Git

Title Text:If that doesn’t fix it, git.txt contains the phone number of a friend of mine who understands git. Just wait through a few minutes of ‘It’s really pretty simple, just think of branches as…’ and eventually you’ll learn the commands that will fix everything.<

Origin:https://xkcd.com/1597/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1597:_Git

GIT

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[1596] Launch Status Check

Title Text:Visual checks suggest the cool bird has exited the launch zone. Tip the rocket sideways and resume the countdown–we’re gonna go find it!<

Origin:https://xkcd.com/1596/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1596:_Launch_Status_Check

第一个小组展示了火箭发射,这是任何太空任务的关键点。在此之前,一大批技术人员已经投入了多年的努力,但如果在发布期间出现任何问题,那么所有工作(甚至是生命)都可以在一秒钟内被销毁。 T-Minus 2分钟意味着火箭实际发射前只剩下两分钟,所… Read more

[1595] 30 Days Hath September

Title Text:There’s a cool mental calculation hack I recently learned for this: If you open the calendar app on your phone or computer, the highest-numbered box along the bottom is equal to the number of days in the month!<

Origin:https://xkcd.com/1595/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1595:_30_Days_Hath_September

九月三十天是一个记忆法,经常用来记住格里高利历中每个月有多少天。 Cueball正在背诵助记符,试图弄清楚十月有多少天。这部… Read more

[1594] Human Subjects

Title Text:After meeting with a few of the subjects, the IRB actually recommended that you stop stressing out so much about safety guidelines.<

Origin:https://xkcd.com/1594/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1594:_Human_Subjects

该条带参与涉及人类受试者的某些实验。马尾辫质疑梅根的实验结果的可靠性,因为她的人类受试者似乎非常不寻常和高度反社会。

在第二个小组中,她提到一项研究中有几个人因纵火而被捕。梅根开始暗示纵火是在她得知纵火犯在对照组中之前所测试的任何东西的副作用 – 也就是说,没有经受任何… Read more

[1593] Play-By-Play

Title Text:The thrower started hitting the bats too much, so the king of the game told him to leave and brought out another thrower from thrower jail.<

Origin:https://xkcd.com/1593/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1593:_Play-By-Play

贝雷特盖伊评论棒球比赛使用不正确的术语,表明他不明白比赛是如何进行的。此外,他的天真说话方式表明他并不知道自己缺乏知识,也不认为可能的情况是,他的观众对这项运动及其规则更为熟悉。他的超凡脱俗的谈话方式甚至让人怀疑他是否对人们体验运动的方式有任何想法。他选择的术语让人想起1… Read more

[1592] Overthinking

Title Text:On the other hand, it took us embarrassingly long to clue in to the lung cancer/cigarette thing, so I guess the real lesson is “figuring out which ideas are true is hard.”<

Origin:https://xkcd.com/1592/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1592:_Overthinking

在这部漫画中,Cueball告诉White Hat他最近读过的几项科学研究似乎与先前研究的结果相矛盾,这些研究结果已经存在很长时间,或者是长期存在的错误观念。这些研究可以通过Randall引用中的数… Read more

[1591] Bell’s Theorem

Title Text:The no-communication theorem states that no communication about the no-communication theorem can clear up the misunderstanding quickly enough to allow faster-than-light signaling.<

Origin:https://xkcd.com/1591/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1591:_Bell%27s_Theorem

马尾辫开始将贝尔定理读到距离5米远的Cueball。 Cueball以1纳秒的速度回应了贝尔定理的误解。真空中的光速为每秒299,792,458米。在一个纳秒内,来自马尾辫的光只… Read more

[1590] The Source

Title Text:Why did we even have that thing?<

Origin:https://xkcd.com/1590/

聲音來源

我們哪來的這鬼東西啊?

https://xkcd.tw/1590

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1590:_The_Source

这部漫画是关于在空荡荡的房间里体验高亢的嗡嗡声。 “空房间嗡嗡声”是一种高音调的嗡嗡声,通常由耳鸣引起,这是一种医疗状况,当周围没有其他噪音时会产生高音调。耳鸣通常是听力状况,而不是疾病。这可能是因为大脑增加了对噪音的敏感度。

有时不是每个人都能听到“空房间的嗡嗡声”;然而,那些能听到它的人通常会发现它非常烦人。如果你确实听到了噪音,你想找到The Source – ?因此是漫… Read more

[1589] Frankenstein

Title Text:”Wait, so in this version is Frankenstein also the doctor’s name?” “No, he’s just ‘The Doctor’.”<

Origin:https://xkcd.com/1589/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1589:_Frankenstein

怪人;或者,现代普罗米修斯是玛丽雪莱于1818年出版的一部小说。其中,维克多弗兰肯斯坦是一个创造怪物(从未命名)的人。然而,在流行文化中,“弗兰肯斯坦”被认为是怪物的名称,而不是它的创造者。

虽然这是一个经常被纠正的“错误”,但有人认为称怪物“… Read more

[1588] Hardware Reductionism

Title Text:My MRI research shows a clear correlation between the size of the parietal lobe–the part of the brain that handles spatial reasoning–and enjoyment of 3D Doritos庐.<

Origin:https://xkcd.com/1588/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1588:_Hardware_Reductionism

还原论认为,事物可以用较小的部分来解释。当具有多种原因的复杂现象归因于单一,简单的原因时,它可能被滥用。

神经学还原论是试图通过大脑的物理特征来解释人们的行为和个性。随着神经科学的进步,… Read more

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