[1211] Birds and Dinosaurs

Title Text:Sure, T. rex is closer in height to Stegosaurus than a sparrow. But that doesn’t tell you much; ‘Dinosaur Comics’ author Ryan North is closer in height to certain dinosaurs than to the average human.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1211/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1211:_Birds_and_Dinosaurs https://app-xkcd-cn.appspot.com/ 鸟类通常被认为是一类独立的四足动物。然而,根据系……

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[1210] I’m So Random

Title Text:In retrospect, it’s weird that as a kid I thought completely random outbursts made me seem interesting, given that from an information theory point of view, lexical white noise is just about the opposite of interesting by definition.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1210/…

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[1209] Encoding

Title Text:I don’t see how; the C0 block is right there at the beginning.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1209/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1209:_Encoding 编码 https://www.douban.com/photos/photo/1979260377/ Skywriting正在使用飞机在天空中用受控释放的烟雾写出文字。 Unicode是数字编码文本的标准,支持各种各样的字符和修饰符。 Cueball和Megan聘请了一位天空作家写了他们用Unicode提供的一些文字,但现在他们对结果不满意,Cueball正在使用他们的一个对讲机告诉飞行员他的… Read more

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[1208] Footnote Labyrinths

Title Text:Every time you read this mouseover, toggle between interpreting nested footnotes as footnotes on footnotes and interpreting them as exponents (minus one, modulo 6, plus 1).< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1208/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1208:_Footnote_Labyrinths https://app-xkcd-cn.appspot.com/ 这是一个逻辑难题,读者必须遵循一个令人困惑的脚注网络来确定是否要忽略单词“no”。 在下面的解决方案中,“右关联”意味着脚… Read more

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[1206] Einstein

Title Text:Einstein was WRONG when he said that provisional patent #39561 represented a novel gravel-sorting technique and should be approved by the Patent Office.

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[1205] Is It Worth the Time?

Title Text:Don’t forget the time you spend finding the chart to look up what you save. And the time spent reading this reminder about the time spent. And the time trying to figure out if either of those actually make…

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[1204] Detail

Title Text:2031: Google defends the swiveling roof-mounted scanning electron microscopes on its Street View cars, saying they ‘don’t reveal anything that couldn’t be seen by any pedestrian scanning your house with an electron microscope.'< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1204/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1204:_Detail https://app-xkcd-cn.appspot.com/ Google地… Read more

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[1203] Time Machines

Title Text:’All time machine systems nominal… T-minus ten… eleven …'< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1203/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1203:_Time_Machines 時光機 系統正常,倒數十秒…十一秒… https://xkcd.tw/1203 Cueball激活时间机器回到过去。时间机器会倒退时间,但在此过程中会重新启动时间机器本身打开的事件,并在此过程中关闭时间机器。在激活时间机器之前,他现在已经过了几秒钟,但他感到困惑的是他似乎没有完成任何事情并且无意中关闭了时间机器。时间机器似乎… Read more

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