[1745] Record Scratch

Title Text:The 78-rpm era was closer to the Civil War than to today.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1745/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1745:_Record_Scratch https://app-xkcd-cn.appspot.com/ 乙烯基盘(也称为留声机记录)是一种存储介质,其通过将音频数据雕刻到盘表面上的连续螺旋槽中而将音频记录存储在盘上。这些通常在留声机上播放(也称为唱片播放器(自20世纪40年代以来)或最近的转盘)。当固定式手写笔沿着凹槽骑行时,播放器旋转光盘。触针沿凹槽的移动由电磁或压电换能器转换成相应的电流,放大器然后将其转换成声音。 被称为“记录划… Read more

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[1741] Work

Title Text:Despite it being imaginary, I already have SUCH a strong opinion on the cord-switch firing incident.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1741/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1741:_Work 工作量 雖然是我自己想像的,但我對帶開關的電源線起火事件已經有*這麼*多意見了… https://xkcd.tw/1741 这部漫画详细介绍了一系列理论案例,说明了日常物品的设计和制造工作量。请参阅下面的各个设计元素的说明。 这个笑话围绕着这样一个事实,即现代大多数人都经常被人造物体所包围,我们通常使用这些物体而不给他们太多思考。兰… Read more

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[1739] Fixing Problems

Title Text:’What was the original problem you were trying to fix?’ ‘Well, I noticed one of the tools I was using had an inefficiency that was wasting my time.'< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1739/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1739:_Fixing_Problems 修复问题 http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=1739 由于程序或其他系统中的复杂关系,进行更改可能会导致程序其他部分出现问题。这可能导致一个看似很小的“修复”成为一个长链的调试和… Read more

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[1737] Datacenter Scale

Title Text:Asimov’s Cosmic AC was created by linking all datacenters through hyperspace, which explains a lot. It didn’t reverse entropy–it just discarded the universe when it reached end-of-life and ordered a new one.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1737/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1737:_Datacenter_Scale 資料中心規模 艾西莫夫(最後的問題)漫畫裡的AC是藉由把每個資料中心透過超空間相連而建立起來的,這… Read more

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[1732] Earth Temperature Timeline

Title Text:[After setting your car on fire] Listen, your car’s temperature has changed before.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1732/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1732:_Earth_Temperature_Timeline https://xkcd.tw/1732 内容 1解释 1.1漫画中的笑话 1.2所有要素表 1.3来源 2成绩单 3琐事 3.1漫画的流行 3.1.1删除警告和脚注 4。讨论 4.1实际最佳情况 4.2 Joanne Nova 4.3有趣的方式来看待它。 4.4事实检查Stack Exchange上的图表 4.5摩尔斯电码信息的翻译 这个漫画是… Read more

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[1731] Wrong

Title Text:Hang on, I just remembered another thing I’m right about. See…< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1731/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1731:_Wrong 錯了 啊,我剛想起有另外一件事情我是對的,像是這個… https://xkcd.tw/1731 我们在日常生活中遇到的所有事情都是正常的事情,而不是反物质。原子,虽然它们被称为物质的最小单位,但现在已知它们由质子,中子和电子组成。质子和中子又由夸克组成,夸克是基本粒子。夸克有六种不同的“味道”(上,下,上,下,魅力和奇怪),质子和中子由前两种类型组成。每种香精还含有相应… Read more

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[1730] Starshade

Title Text:The New Worlds Mission is already trying to get funding for this, but NASA sponsored their proposal, so it will be hard to catch the telescope people by surprise with it.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1730/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1730:_Starshade 掩星板 New Worlds 任務有在爭取掩星板的預算,不過因為 NASA 有贊助,所以很難用這招嚇到他們的望遠鏡操作人員。…

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[1728] Cron Mail

Title Text:Take THAT, piece of 1980s-era infrastructure I’ve inexplicably maintained on my systems for 15 years despite never really learning how it works.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1728/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1728:_Cron_Mail Cron Mail 接招吧,我在系統上意外維護了十五年卻從來沒搞懂怎麼用的 1980 年代架構的鬼東西 https://xkcd.tw/1728 在类Unix系统上,cron是一个按计划运行任务的系统实用程序。这个程序自Unix早期就已存在并且没有太大… Read more

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[1727] Number of Computers

Title Text:They try to pad their numbers in the annual reports by counting Galileo’s redundant systems as multiple computers, but they’re falling behind badly either way.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1727/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1727:_Number_of_Computers 電腦數量 他們為了灌水,在年度報告中把伽利略上的備援系統算成好幾台電腦。但就算這樣他們的進度還是嚴重落後。 https://xkcd.tw/1727 这部漫画展示了一个带有两条红线的半对数图… Read more

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[1726] Unicode

Title Text:I’m excited about the proposal to add a “brontosaurus” emoji codepoint because it has the potential to bring together a half-dozen different groups of pedantic people into a single glorious internet argument.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1726/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1726:_Unicode Unicode 我對於申請雷龍的表情符號 codepoint 的提案感到非常期待,這東西有潛力把好幾群脫離現實的書呆子… Read…

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