[1674] Adult
Title Text:(1) That shopping cart is full of AirHeads, and (2) I died at 41 from what the AirHeads company spokesperson called ‘probably natural causes.’
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Month: April 2016
[1673] Timeline of Bicycle Design
Title Text:I’ll be honest–the 1950s were a rough time for cycling.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1673/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1673:_Timeline_of_Bicycle_Design 自行车进化史 http://xkcd.com.cn 兰德尔创造了自称有200年历史的自行车，有13个设计，从1810年到2016年。然而，粗略地看一眼每一个都表明它们几乎都是虚构的，严重缺陷，而且大多数甚至都不符合“自行车”。漫画的主要内容是展示这些愚蠢的笑话设计。 唯一看起来像真正的模型并且适合当年的模型是1875型号，类似于Penny-farthi… Read more
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[1672] Women on 20s
Title Text:I get that there are security reasons for the schedule, but this is like the ONE problem we have where the right answer is both easy and straightforward. If we can’t figure it out, maybe we should just give…
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[1671] Arcane Bullshit
Title Text:Learning arcane bullshit from the 80s can break your computer, but if you’re willing to wade through arcane bullshit from programmers in the 90s and 2000s, you can break everyone else’s computers, too.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1671/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1671:_Arcane_Bullshit https://app-xkcd-cn.appspot.com/ 在修复/改进现有计算机程序时，程序员有时需要阅读，理解和改进… Read more
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[1670] Laws of Physics
Title Text:The laws of physics are fun to try to understand, but as an organism with incredibly delicate eyes who evolved in a world full of sharp objects, I have an awful lot of trust in biology’s calibration of my…
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[1669] Planespotting
Title Text:No, a hydroplane doesn’t land on water–that’s an aquaplane. A hydroplane is a plane that gets electric power from an onboard water reservoir with a tiny dam and turbines.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1669/ 不，水力飛機不是降落在水上的飛機，那是水上飛機。水力飛機是透過機上的小水庫推動渦輪發電作為動力的飛機。 https://xkcd.tw/1669 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1669:_Planespotting Cueball和一个戴着帽子… Read more
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[1668] Singularity
Title Text:I figured that now that society has collapsed, I wouldn’t need to wear clothes anymore, but apparently that violates some weird rule of quantum gravity.
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[1667] Algorithms
Title Text:There was a schism in 2007, when a sect advocating OpenOffice created a fork of Sunday.xlsx and maintained it independently for several months. The efforts to reconcile the conflicting schedules led to the reinvention, within the cells of the…
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[1666] Brain Upload
Title Text:I just spent 20 minutes deciding whether to start an email with ‘Hi’ or ‘Hey’, so I think it transferred correctly.
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[1665] City Talk Pages
Title Text:I don’t think the Lakeshore Air Crash Museum really belongs under ‘Tourist Attractions.’ It’s not a museum–it’s just an area near the Lake Festival Laser Show where a lot of planes have crashed.
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