[1916] Temperature Preferences

Title Text:There’s a supposed Mark Twain quote, “The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.” It isn’t really by Mark Twain, but I don’t know who said it鈥擨 just know they’ve never been to McMurdo Station.

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[1915] Nightmare Email Feature

Title Text:”…just got back and didn’t see your message until just now. Sorry! — TIME THIS MESSAGE SAT HALF-FINISHED IN DRAFTS FOLDER: 3 days, 2 hours, 45 minutes.”< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1915/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1915:_Nightmare_Email_Feature 电邮噩梦 http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=1915 大多数现代电子邮件客户端都提供工具来帮助用户有效地阅读,编写和跟踪电子邮件。例如,如果电子邮件正文包含表示已附加文件但没有实际附件的措辞,则用户可以接收通知,以防止他们忘记在电子邮件中包括预期文件。 这个漫画提出了一个类似的功能,一个不会通知用户,而是消息的接收者,在发送之前电子邮件被修改了多长时间。这是律师事务所和现代文字处理器(如Microsoft Word 2016)使用的协作工具的一个共同特征的扩展.Randall称这是他的梦魇电子邮件功能,这意味着他花了太多时间修改应该是简单的电子邮件和使自己 – 或更糟的是,接收者 – 意识到实际的时间会让他感到焦虑。…

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[1914] Twitter Verification

Title Text:When we started distributing special status tokens that signify which people are important enough to join an elite group, we never could have imagined we might be creating some problems down the line.

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[1913] A ?

Title Text:If you want in on the fun, map a key on your keyboard to the sequence U+0041 U+0020 U+FFFD (or U+0021 U+0020 U+FFFD for the exclamation point version), and then no update can never take this away from you.

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[1912] Thermostat

Title Text:Your problem is so terrible, I worry that, if I help you, I risk drawing the attention of whatever god of technology inflicted it on you.

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[1911] Defensive Profile

Title Text:NO DRAMA ZONE -> If I’ve made you sad, you’d better not tell me, because I am TERRIFIED of that situation and have NO IDEA how to handle it.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1911/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1911:_Defensive_Profile 實話實說 -> 如果我讓你不開心,最好不要跟我說,因為這種情況會讓我很驚慌,完全不知道該怎麼辦。 https://xkcd.tw/1911 这部漫画演示了一个理论特征,为社交媒体简介提供了更真实的解释。我们看到一个人说他们有“过滤器”的简介,并且毫不犹豫地冒犯或惹恼任何看似激进的观点的人。但是描述的“翻译”表明,这是一个非常不安全的人,似乎每次都有说错事的问题,因此他们的简介描述是他们为自己的评论辩护的一种方式。 标题文本继续,积极的“O DRAMA区域”变成意味着用户只是试图将任何冒犯或真正令人不安的评论从他们的页面上移开,因为他们根本不知道如何在情感上处理伤害某人的情况。檚感情。 兰德尔此前在1085年演示了另一个解决被动攻击行为的理论特征:ContextBot。并且表明Cueball在1984年有同样的感觉:误解。…

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[1910] Sky Spotters

Title Text:Where I live, one of the most common categories of sky object without a weird obsessive spotting community is “lost birthday party balloons,” so that might be a good choice鈥攁lthough you risk angering the marine wildlife people, and they…

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[1909] Digital Resource Lifespan

Title Text:I spent a long time thinking about how to design a system for long-term organization and storage of subject-specific informational resources without needing ongoing work from the experts who created them, only to realized I’d just reinvented libraries.

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[1908] Credit Card Rewards

Title Text:I should make a list of all the things I could be trying to optimize, prioritized by … well, I guess there are a few different variables I could use. I’ll create a spreadsheet …

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[1907] Immune System

Title Text:It also helps with negotiation. “Look, if it were up to me, *I’d* accept your offer, but my swarm of autonomous killer cells literally can’t be reasoned with. It’s out of my hands!”

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