Title Text:I’ll never install a smart home smoke detector. It’s not that I don’t trust the software–it’s that all software eventually becomes email, and I know how I am with email. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2389/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2389:_Unread 未读 我从来不安装家用烟雾探测器，不是说我不相信这个软件，而是因为所有软件最终都像电子邮件那样，而我也知道我怎么对待电子邮件。 http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=… Read more

Title Text:[scrolling through a giant spreadsheet of transcribed data] ‘Wow, a surprising number of users grew up at 420 69th St.’ ‘Yeah, must be a high-rise or something.’ Origin:https://xkcd.com/2388/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2388:_Viral_Quiz_Identity_Theft 病毒问卷窃取身份信息 [划过一大张转录数据的表格] ‘哇，在69街420号长大的用户惊人得多’ ‘是啊，肯定是个超高的大楼… Read more

Title Text:”Are you concerned the witches won’t breed in captivity?” “Honestly, we’re more concerned that they WILL. We don’t know what it involves, but our biologists theorize that it’s ‘harrowing.'” Origin:https://xkcd.com/2387/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2387:_Blair_Witch 布莱尔女巫 “你担心女巫不会在饲养情况下繁殖怎么办？”“老实说，我们更担心… Read more

Title Text:The ten-year cancerversary is traditionally the Cursed Artifact Granting Immortality anniversary. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2386/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2386:_Ten_Years 十年 癌症十年纪念日传统意义上是诅咒物品获得永生纪念日。 http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2386 兰德尔当时的未婚妻（现为妻子）在2010年末被诊断出患有癌症。这是他之前在漫画中多次讨论的问题，兰德尔被描绘成Cueball，他的妻子被描绘成梅根。从她的诊断和治疗到现在已经十年了。 此漫画是1141年：… Read more

Title Text:For those of you also taking Game Theory, your grade in that class will be based on how close your grade on this exam is to 80% of the average. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2385/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2385:_Final_Exam 期末考试 那些还选了博弈论的同学，你们那门课的成绩取决于你们这门课的成绩有多接近平均成绩的80%。 http://xkcd.in/comic?lg=cn&id=2385 在这部漫画中，马尾辫似乎正在管理一个参加网络安全考试的小组。但是，在考试开始时，她告知学生尽管没有参加考… Read more

Title Text:She referenced Billie Eilish, so this must be getting pretty close to the pandemic. But we’ve seen the last two years in-universe, so if it’s set in the future, they must be in at least 2023 by now. [*adds…

Title Text:He also broke the streak that incumbents with websites are unbeatable and Delawareans can’t win, creating a new precedent: Only someone from Delaware can defeat an incumbent with a website. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2383/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2383:_Electoral_Precedent_2020 2020年选举先例 他还打破了拥有网站的现任者不可战胜、特拉华州人无法取胜的局面，创造了一个新的先例：只有来自特拉华州的候选人才能击败拥有网站的现… Read more

Title Text:Good luck to Democrats in the upcoming Georgia runoff elections, and to the Google Sheets SREs in the current run-on elections. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2382/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2382:_Ballot_Tracker_Tracker 选票追踪器的追踪器 祝乔治亚州的民主党们在接下来的决胜选举中好运，也祝谷歌表格的网络可靠性工程师们在当下的持续选举中好运。 脚注： 网络可靠性工程师：软件工程师和系统管理员的结合，直接掌管着互联网公司的机器和服务，保证网站不宕机是他们的使命。 http://xkcd.in/… Read more

Title Text:Thank you to Gretchen McCulloch for fielding this question, and sorry that as a result the world’s foremost internet linguist has been devoured by the brown one. She will be missed. Origin:https://xkcd.com/2381/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2381:_The_True_Name_of_the_Bear 熊的真名 感谢格雷琴•麦卡洛克解决了这个问题，但那只棕色的玩意儿吞了这位世界领先的网络语言学家，我们对此深感惋惜，我们会怀念她的。 http://xkcd.in/c… Read more

Title Text:You might think most people you know are reliable voters, or that your nudge won’t convince them, and you will usually be right. But some small but significant percentage of the time, you’ll be wrong, and that’s why this…