[1361] Google Announcement

Title Text:The less popular 8.8.4.4 is slated for discontinuation.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1361/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1361:_Google_Announcement Google 的公告 比較不熱門的 8.8.4.4 也已經預定要終止 https://xkcd.tw/1361 在这部漫画发行时,Vic Gundotra最近离开了谷歌。由于他是Google+的负责人,这导致包括TechCrunch在内的许多人理论上将关闭Google+,尽管谷歌继续发表评论称其将继续保持活跃和更新状态。 谷歌有关闭列出的热门服务的历史。 该漫画将此推断为谷歌即将关闭其所有受欢迎的… Read more

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[1360] Old Files

Title Text:Wow, ANIMORPHS-NOVEL.RTF? Just gonna, uh, go through and delete that from all my archives real quick.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1360/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1360:_Old_Files 旧文档 https://www.douban.com/photos/photo/2181069517/ 这部漫画是在“天空新闻”发表1985年在Amiga 1000上创作的原创安迪·沃霍尔艺术品的故事后出现的,该片是从最近发现的软盘中恢复的。 Cueball显示在字面上挖掘一堆旧文件;这是用于查看计算机上的旧文件的隐喻。桩的层布置很… Read more

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[1359] Phone Alarm

Title Text:Who’s calling me?? WHY IS THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD CALLING ME!?< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1359/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1359:_Phone_Alarm 手机闹铃 https://www.douban.com/photos/photo/2182023894/ 该流程图显示了Randall使用手机内置警报时遇到的问题。值得注意的是,声音类似于正常的铃声(可能与479:Tones有关),听起来好像有人在呼唤他,而不是唤醒他。这导致他有一个虚假的觉醒,他梦想着接听电话,说话,并最终挂断电话。当然,这并不能阻止实际的手机响铃,他最… Read more

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[1358] NRO

Title Text:’DISPATCHING DRONE TO TARGET COORDINATES.’ ‘Wait, crap, wrong button. Oh jeez.'< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1358/ 「正在將無人機部署至目標座標」「等等,靠,按錯按扭了,靠夭」 https://xkcd.tw/1358 https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1358:_NRO 沃尔多在哪里? (英哪里是沃利?北美重命名)是儿童中,你必须找到“金都”,具有鲜明的条纹衫和帽子的字符,与数百个字符挤一画谜的书。这是难度比它的声音,因为人物都非常小,非常密集的页面上,并且页面(特别是在后来的书)通常与穿着的服装Wald… Read more

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[1357] Free Speech

Title Text:I can’t remember where I heard this, but someone once said that defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you’re saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is…

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[1356] Orbital Mechanics

Title Text:To be fair, my job at NASA was working on robots and didn’t actually involve any orbital mechanics. The small positive slope over that period is because it turns out that if you hang around at NASA, you get…

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[1355] Airplane Message

Title Text:PHARAOH IRY-HOR, FROM THE 3100s BC, IS THE FIRST HUMAN WHOSE NAME WE KNOW.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1355/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1355:_Airplane_Message 飞机信息 https://www.douban.com/photos/photo/2182035191/ 大型横幅有时会在飞机后面飞行,向大量人群宣传产品或活动。在这里,兰德尔建议用一些有趣的事实来取代广告。这将告诉那些看到横幅广告的人们关于这个世界的新鲜事物,而不是试图向他们出售一些东西。他提出了两个可能的事实:阿霉素,一种癌症疗法,以及Iry-Hor,我们知道… Read more

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[1354] Heartbleed Explanation

Title Text:Are you still there, server? It’s me, Margaret.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1354/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1354:_Heartbleed_Explanation “心脏滴血”漏洞解析 http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=1354 Heartbleed bug最近收到了很多新闻报道,也是之前漫画1353:Heartbleed的主题。这个漫画解释了如何发现错误,并可以利用它来揭示服务器的内存内容。 名为Margaret(或“Meg”)的类似Megan的角色向服务器发送心跳请求,服务器通过将请求… Read more

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[1351] Metamaterials

Title Text:If I developed a hue-shifting metamaterial, I would photobomb people’s Instagram pics with a sheet of material that precisely undid the filter they were using.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1351/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1351:_Metamaterials https://app-xkcd-cn.appspot.com/ 超材料,人工制造的结构,通常由几种材料以微观棋盘图案制成,以允许奇异的光学特性(例如隐形斗篷)而闻名。这部漫画想象出超材料可以改变穿过它们的光线… Read more

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[1343] Manuals

Title Text:The most ridiculous offender of all is the sudoers man page, which for 15 years has started with a ‘quick guide’ to EBNF, a system for defining the grammar of a language. ‘Don’t despair’, it says, ‘the definitions below…

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