[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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[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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[1201] Integration by Parts

Title Text:If you can manage to choose u and v such that u = v = x, then the answer is just (1/2)x虏, which is easy to remember. Oh, and add a ‘+C’ or you’ll get yelled at.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1201/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1201:_Integration_by_Parts…

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[1200] Authorization

Title Text:Before you say anything, no, I know not to leave my computer sitting out logged in to all my accounts. I have it set up so after a few minutes of inactivity it automatically switches to my brother’s.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1200/…

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[1199] Silence

Title Text:All music is just performances of 4’33” in studios where another band happened to be playing at the time.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1199/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1199:_Silence 沈默 所有的音樂都是 4’33″,只是剛好旁邊有其他樂團在演奏。 https://xkcd.tw/1199 4’33“是由美国前卫作曲家约翰凯奇于1952年创作的作品,由四分三十三秒的沉默组成。更具体地说,4’33”完全由来自环境的微弱环境声音组成,而所有的玩家默… Read more

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[1198] Geologist

Title Text:’It seems like it’s still alive, Professor.’ ‘Yeah, a big one like this can keep running around for a few billion years after you remove the head.'< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1198/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1198:_Geologist 地质学家与猎人 https://www.douban.com/photos/photo/1942559869/ 地质学是研究地球的物理和化学组成,地质学家被称为岩石猎人,有时甚至是嘲弄的。 猎人在杀死一只特别困难或… Read more

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[1197] All Adobe Updates

Title Text:ALERT: Some pending mandatory software updates require version 21.1.2 of the Oracle/Sun Java(tm) JDK(tm) Update Manager Runtime Environment Meta-Updater, which is not available for your platform.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1197/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1197:_All_Adobe_Updates 所有的ADOBE更新 警告:一部分的相依軟體更新需要 21.1.2 版的 Oracle/Sun Java(TM) JDK(TM) 更新程式執行環境資料更新程… Read more

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