Title Text:Someone’s probably working on an eBook app where, if you stop reading right before some plot twist happens, the app will wait a while and then send you a breaking news alert about what’s happening, prompting you to open…
Title Text:[after typing 1,500 words on feathered dinosaurs, paleontology, sexism, lava, and dinosaurs as animals rather than movie monsters] Sorry to cut it short, I’m on my phone. When I’m back at a keyboard, I can give you another 5,000…
Title Text:Rome’s declaration of war against Carthage was sent from a no-reply address, so Hannibal had to cross the Alps to deliver his “UNSUBSCRIBE” response in person. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2181/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2181:_Inbox 罗马对迦太基的宣战是从一个无法回复的地址发出的，因此汉尼拔不得不越过阿尔卑斯山亲自发出他的“取消订阅”的回复。 http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2181 电子邮件与“蜗牛”邮件… Read more
Title Text:My brother once asked me if there was a function to produce a calendar grid from a list of dates in Google Sheets. I replied with a single-cell formula that took in a list of dates and outputted a…
Title Text:Kind of rude of them to simultaneously issue an EVACUATION – IMMEDIATE alert, a SHELTER IN PLACE alert, and a 911 TELEPHONE OUTAGE alert. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2179/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2179:_NWS_Warnings 他们同时发布了紧急疏散警报、就地避难所警报和911电话故障警报，这有点鲁莽。 http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2179 在美国国家气象局（NWS）是负责与发行全国天气预报和美国联邦机构的极端天气警报。 这部漫画将新创建描绘成一个需… Read more
Title Text:”Wait, we’ve MOVED since 2010. How on Earth did–” “Look, some of us were just born to be champions.” Origin:https://xkcd.com/2178/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2178:_Expiration_Date_High_Score “等下，我们2010年之后不是搬过家吗，这东西到底…？” “你看，有些人生来就是要成为冠军的嘛。” http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2178 兰德尔（Randall）引入了游戏有效期最高分数（… Read more
Title Text:”Mostly it means that I’m acutely aware that the kid one table over coughed as the server walked past with our food.” Origin:https://xkcd.com/2177/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2177:_Gastroenterology 这主要意味着，我能敏锐的察觉到，当服务员端着我们的食物走过时，邻桌的孩子咳嗽了。 http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2177 肠胃病学是对正常功能和消化系统疾病的研究：食道，胃，小肠，结肠和直肠，胰腺，胆囊，胆管和肝脏。 抗生素是杀死… Read more
Title Text:If only somebody had warned them that the world would roll them like this. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2176/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2176:_How_Hacking_Works 駭客在做的事情 要是有人告訴他們世界會這麼磨平他們的稜角就好了。 https://xkcd.tw/2176 类似于538：安全，此漫画处理了多少人认为黑客和安全最佳实践，以及与实际情况有何不同。特别是，这部漫画指出了一些有安全意识的人的论点的缺陷，即在一张纸上写下密码是一个巨大的操作安全漏洞，而不是考虑到普通大众的威胁模型：重用的密码似乎从外泄良性的地方。 第一个面板显示了… Read more
Title Text:When Salvador Dal铆 died, it took months to get all the flagpoles sufficiently melted. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2175/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2175:_Flag_Interpretation 萨尔瓦多·达利²去世后，花了几个月的时间才把所有的旗杆完全熔化。 http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2175 在包括美国在内的许多国家（漫画中描绘了其旗帜），当重要的公众人物死亡时，习惯上将旗帜降低到一半。这通常是通过将旗帜升高到全高，然后立即“降低”到半高来完成的。在美国，关于在半数工作人员悬挂国旗的规定规… Read more
Title Text:Psychology researchers say our ‘flashbulb’ memories of big events can be unreliable, but I clearly remember watching live on CNN as Challenger crashed into and destroyed the Berlin Wall. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2174/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2174:_First_News_Memory 心理学研究人员表示，我们对重大事件的“闪光灯”记忆²可能并不可靠，但我清楚地记得，当挑战者号撞毁柏林墙时，我看了CNN的现场直播。 http://xkc… Read more
