[1701] Speed and Danger

Title Text:NASCAR removed the passenger seats because drivers hated how astronauts kept riding along with them and loudly announcing “Ahh, what a nice and relaxing drive.”< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1701/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1701:_Speed_and_Danger https://app-xkcd-cn.appspot.com/ 在这个散点图中,兰德尔描绘了几辆车的速度(包括徒步参加“正常运动”的人)以及撞车事故的灾难性。最重要的是,太空火箭的行进速度… Read more

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[1700] New Bug

Title Text:There’s also a unicode-handling bug in the URL request library, and we’re storing the passwords unsalted ... so if we salt them with emoji, we can close three issues at once!< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1700/ 另外 URL request 函式庫裡面裡面有個處理 unicode 的 bug,而且我們存密碼的時候沒有用…

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[1699] Local News

Title Text:Will there ever be a physics term greater than ‘tachyonic antitelephone?’ According to this message from the future, the answer is ‘no.'< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1699/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1699:_Local_News https://app-xkcd-cn.appspot.com/ 典型的新闻广播分为本地,国家和全球新闻片段。新闻主播布隆迪(Blondie)在这部漫画中播出的广播已被分解为真实的地方(关于市议会选举)以及新闻播报员称之为“非地方性… Read more

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[1698] Theft Quadrants

Title Text:TinyURL was the most popular link shortener for long enough that it made it into a lot of printed publications. I wonder what year the domain will finally lapse and get picked up by a porn site.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1698/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1698:_Theft_Quadrants…

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[1697] Intervocalic Fortition

Title Text:These pranks happen all the time. English doesn’t allow one-syllable words to end in a lax vowel, so writers on The Simpsons decided to mess with future linguists by introducing the word “meh.”

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[1695] Code Quality 2

Title Text:It’s like you tried to define a formal grammar based on fragments of a raw database dump from the QuickBooks file of a company that’s about to collapse in an accounting scandal.

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[1693] Oxidation

Title Text:Calm down–there were lots of arthropods living on your skin already. These ones are just bigger.< Origin:https://xkcd.com/1693/ https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1693:_Oxidation 氧化 冷靜一點,你的皮膚上本來就住著一大堆節肢動物,那幾隻只是大一點而已。 https://xkcd.tw/1693 在这个漫画中,马尾辫将梅根的车开火,可能是撞毁了它。 氧化是指一整类化学反应。任何涉及电子损失的化学反应都称为“氧化”(因为其中很多都涉及氧气)。一种氧化反应是生锈,汽车钢中的铁原子与氧气和水分反应生成氧化铁水合物… Read more

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