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[2377] xkcd Phone 12

Published on October 26, 2020November 2, 2020 by xkcd

Title Text:New phone OS features: Infinite customization (home screen icons no longer snap to grid), dark mode (disables screen), screaming mode (self-explanatory), and coherent ultracapacitor-pumped emission (please let us know what this setting does; we’ve been afraid to try it).

Origin:https://xkcd.com/2377/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2377:_xkcd_Phone_12

xkcd Phone1

[2376] Curbside

Published on October 24, 2020November 2, 2020 by xkcd

Title Text:The state has had so many contact tracers disappear into that shop that they’ve had to start a contact tracer tracing program.

Origin:https://xkcd.com/2376/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2376:_Curbside

无接触配送

国内已有太多接触者追踪人员进了那家店后失踪，没办法他们只好启动接触者追踪人员追踪程序。

http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2376

贝雷帽·盖伊（Beret Guy）正在与一家销售被诅咒物品的商店联系，直到顾客试图退货时才消失。他先前曾提到1772… Read more

[2375] Worst Ladder

Published on October 21, 2020November 2, 2020 by xkcd

Title Text:[Six months later] “Well, our ‘worst ladder’ subscription series was a surprisingly lucrative success, but was completely canceled out by the losses from the disastrous Home Depot merchandising tie-in.”

Origin:https://xkcd.com/2375/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2375:_Worst_Ladder

最糟的梯子

[六个月后]“额，我们的‘最遭的梯子’付费系列取得了惊人的商业成功，然而被灾难性的家得宝¹捆绑

[2374] 10,000 Hours

Published on October 19, 2020November 2, 2020 by xkcd

Title Text:I’m proud to announce that as of this year I’ve become a world-class expert at chewing.

Origin:https://xkcd.com/2374/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2374:_10,000_Hours

10000小时定律

http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2374

这部漫画引用了一种普遍的观点，即人们必须做一万小时才能成为专家。

链接的文章指出：

练习很重要，是的。但同时，不可能弥合自然巨星和普通球员之间的差距。

这是固定心态的经典表达; 他们没有付出努力，获得… Read more

[2373] Chemist Eggs

Published on October 16, 2020November 2, 2020 by xkcd

Title Text:Chemists actually find it simpler to define a general odor of rotten eggs as a baseline, and the LACK of rotten eggs as a distinct smell.

Origin:https://xkcd.com/2373/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2373:_Chemist_Eggs

化学家鸡蛋

化学家实际上发现这样更简单：将烂鸡蛋的整体气味定义为基准气味，而将缺少烂鸡蛋气味的气味定义为特殊的气味。

http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2373

在这部漫画中，马尾辫向库伯（Cueball）解释说，如果他闻到硫化物的气味，那么他们所… Read more

[2372] Dialect Quiz

Published on October 14, 2020November 2, 2020 by xkcd

Title Text:Do you make a distinction between shallots, scallops, and scallions? If you use all three words, do they all have different meanings, all the same, or are two the same and one different?

Origin:https://xkcd.com/2372/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2372:_Dialect_Quiz

方言问卷

你能分得清葱(shallots)，扇贝(scallops)和青葱(scallions)吗？你在使用这三个词的时候，它们会代表3个意思，2个意思还是1个意思？

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[2371] Election Screen Time

Published on October 12, 2020November 2, 2020 by xkcd

Title Text:Feels like I picked a bad year to try to start having a healthy relationship with political news.

Origin:https://xkcd.com/2371/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2371:_Election_Screen_Time

选举期屏幕使用时间

http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2371

Cueball的手机上有一个应用程序，可告知他将其用于各种目的所花费的时间。这些通常用于监视自己（或可能是十几岁的孩子）（过度）使用游戏，社交媒体应用程序，通用浏览器等，并突出显示任何令人… Read more

[2370] Prediction

Published on October 9, 2020October 14, 2020 by xkcd

Title Text:You’d think it’d be easy to just bet money against these people, but you have to consider the probability of them paying up.

Origin:https://xkcd.com/2370/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2370:_Prediction

预测

http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2370

这本漫画是关于误解的概率。有时人们会错误地认为，如果一个事件比另一个事件更可能发生，那么该事件就会发生；或者，如果一个事件列出两个或多个结果，… Read more

[2369] All-in-One

Published on October 7, 2020October 14, 2020 by xkcd

Title Text:Changes with this update: If you use the combined scan-shred function, it now performs them in that order instead of the reverse, saving a HUGE amount of CPU time.

Origin:https://xkcd.com/2369/

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2369:_All-in-One