[1658] Estimating Time

Title Text:Corollary to Hofstadter’s Law: Every minute you spend thinking about Hofstadter’s Law is a minute you’re NOT WORKING AND WILL NEVER FINISH! PAAAAAANIIIIIIC!< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1658/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1658:_Estimating_Time 估計時間 侯世達定律:你每花一分鐘思考侯世達定律,你就有一分鐘沒在工作,而且你永遠做不完!完~~蛋~~啦~~~! https://xkcd.tw/1658 估计很困难;很多人似乎都大大低估… Read more

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[1657] Insanity

Title Text:I looked up “insanity” in like 10 different dictionaries and none of them said anything like that. Neither did the DSM-4. But I’ll keep looking. Maybe it’s in the DSM-5!< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1657/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1657:_Insanity 瘋狂 我在十本字典裡面找 “insanity”,沒有一本寫了類似的東西。DSM-4 裡面也沒提到。不過我會繼續找下去,搞不好 DSM-5 裡面會有! https……

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[1656] It Begins

Title Text:You can also try ‘Yikes.'< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1656/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1656:_It_Begins 開始了 也可以試試看「矮額~」 https://xkcd.tw/1656 这部漫画鼓励读者在互联网上发布随机新闻报道,其内容为“它开始”。这会产生一种即将到来的厄运感,同时让人们想知道究竟是什么。这也可以鼓励人们理解正在开始的事情。当他们试图理解作者所说的内容时,它也可能会使目标受众感到困惑。 在最糟糕的情况下,这可能会迅速导致几个人重新发布这样一个不会引起任何关注的非新闻报道。这可能导致猜测,以及其他奇怪的理论,它可能会产生恐惧或大规模的歇斯底里… Read more

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[1654] Universal Install Script

Title Text:The failures usually don’t hurt anything, and if it installs several versions, it increases the chance that one of them is right. (Note: The ‘yes’ command and ‘2>/dev/null’ are recommended additions.)< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1654/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1654:_Universal_Install_Script 萬用安裝 script 失敗的時候通常不會有什麼問題,如果安裝了好… Read more

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[1652] Conditionals

Title Text:’If you’re done being pedantic, we should get dinner.’ ‘You did it again!’ ‘No, I didn’t.'< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1652/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1652:_Conditionals 條件判斷 「如果你執著夠了,我們來去吃晚餐」「你又來了」「我沒有!」 https://xkcd.tw/1652 这个漫画是关于人类语言中条件语句的许多不同用法,例如用英语单词“if”标记的那些。最明显的条件是关于条件和后果(即因果关系)的陈述。诸如“If A,the… Read more

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[1643] Degrees

Title Text:”Radians Fahrenheit or radians Celsius?” “Uh, sorry, gotta go!”< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1643/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1643:_Degrees 溫度 「攝氏弳度還是華氏弳度?」「呃,不好意思,我先走了」 https://xkcd.tw/1643 朋友要求Cueball提供温度。当他正在检查他的智能手机的天气时,他开始思考在回答问题时应该使用哪个单元。 (见下面的Cueball推理。) 在美国(Cueball和Randall来自),日常生活中使用的温度标度是华氏温度。然而,世界上大多数人在日常生… Read more

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[1642] Gravitational Waves

Title Text:”That last LinkedIn request set a new record for the most energetic physical event ever observed. Maybe we should respond.” “Nah.”< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1642/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1642:_Gravitational_Waves 重力波 最後一筆 Linkedin 連結請求創下了天文史上發射能量最強的紀錄,也許該回他一句「鼻要」 https://xkcd.tw/1642 Megan,Cueball和Ponytail正在观察引力波探测器的结果(详见… Read more

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[1638] Backslashes

Title Text:I searched my .bash_history for the line with the highest ratio of special characters to regular alphanumeric characters, and the winner was: cat out.txt | grep -o “[[(].*[])][^)]]*$” … I have no memory of this and no idea what…

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[1636] XKCD Stack

Title Text:This site requires Sun Java 6.0.0.1 (32-bit) or higher. You have Macromedia Java 7.3.8.1戮 (48-bit). Click here [link to java.com main page] to download an installer which will run fine but not really change anything.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1636/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1636:_XKCD_Stack XKCD 架構…

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[1633] Possible Undiscovered Planets

Title Text:Superman lies near the bird/plane boundary over a range of distances, which explains the confusion.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1633/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1633:_Possible_Undiscovered_Planets 可能還沒發現的行星 超人在鳥跟飛機的邊界上,難怪有人會搞錯。 https://xkcd.tw/1633 这部漫画是关于Planet Nine的,这是一颗海王星大小的行星,远远超出了最远的行星海王星。天文学家Mike Brown和Konstantin Batygin在2016-01-20发表了一篇论文… Read more

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