Another XKCD classic
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Hover: Plus, time's all weird in there, so most of it probably broke down and decomposed hundreds of years ago. Which reminds me, I've been meaning to get in touch with Yucca Mountain to see if they're interested in a partnership.
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Hover: Texting should work. Unless the message is too long, in which case it gets converted to voicemails, and I think I'm locked out of my voicemail.
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On the other hand, the refractor's limited light-gathering means it's unable to make out shadow people or the dark god Chernabog.
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This is just beautiful...
"Maybe if I spin it back and forth really fast I can do some kind of pulse-width modulation."
"Maybe if I spin it back and forth really fast I can do some kind of pulse-width modulation."
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From the Been There, Done That files:
'Automating' comes from the roots 'auto-' meaning 'self-', and 'mating', meaning 'screwing'.
'Automating' comes from the roots 'auto-' meaning 'self-', and 'mating', meaning 'screwing'.
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"I'm one of the few Instagram users who connects solely through the Unix 'talk' gateway."
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Not in the same zip code of that complex but so friggen true.
No phone and no in person?
No phone and no in person?
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What are those?LordMortis wrote:No phone and no in person?
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SMS is on there.LordMortis wrote:No phone... ?
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l.o.l.stessier wrote:SMS is on there.LordMortis wrote:No phone... ?
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+1GreenGoo wrote:l.o.l.
I have 6 ways to talk to someone in the office alone.
in person (which building are we meeting up in? as of today, there are 8 at my location)
phone (desk or mobile - desk phone are dying, I disconnected mine, but people still use them)
skype
slack (which channel, take your pick! I might see it eventually)
Hmm, there was a sixth when I was counting them in my head. I guess it would be SMS/iMessage (no, I don't differentiate them since they are the same app on my phone and the only way I know the difference is the color of the bubble).
The only one I add outside work is Facebook Messenger. Technically you can talk to be on steam, uplay, xblive, psn,origin, etc, but I hope you aren't looking for a response.
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in person (which building are we meeting up in? as of today, there are 8 at my location)
phone (desk or mobile - desk phone are dying, I disconnected mine, but people still use them)
skype
SMS
at least four different applications where you write something in the damned application and then the application sends you an email to tell you to check in to the application to respond without telling you what the damned thing is you are supposed to respond to.
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In case anyone else has no idea...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_pattern
In mathematics, physics, and art, a moiré pattern (/mwɑːrˈeɪ/; French: [mwaˈʁe]) or moiré fringes[1] are large scale interference patterns that can be produced when an opaque ruled pattern with transparent gaps is overlaid on another similar pattern. For the moiré interference pattern to appear, the two patterns must not be completely identical in that they must be displaced, rotated, etc., or have different but similar pitch.
Moiré patterns appear in many different situations. In printing, the printed pattern of dots can negatively interfere with the image. In television and digital photography, a pattern on an object being photographed can interfere with the shape of the light sensors to generate unwanted artifacts. They are also sometimes created deliberately- in micrometers they are used to amplify the effects of very small movements.
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They also appear frequently during the design of handheld LCD devices.
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Be careful—it's breeding season, and some of these can be *extremely* defensive of their nests.
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That's very exciting! The bad news is that it's a risk factor for a lot of things.
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Russell's Teapot
Damn you xkcd...now I have to go look that up.
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From Wikipedia:Bakhtosh wrote: Damn you xkcd...now I have to go look that up.
Russell's teapot is an analogy, formulated by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), to illustrate that the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making unfalsifiable claims, rather than shifting the burden of disproof to others.
Russell specifically applied his analogy in the context of religion.[1] He wrote that if he were to assert, without offering proof, that a teapot orbits the Sun somewhere in space between the Earth and Mars, he could not expect anyone to believe him solely because his assertion could not be proven wrong.
Russell's teapot is still invoked in discussions concerning the existence of God, and has had influence in various fields and media.
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Over the years I've decided I'd rather have them on than not, but I'm glad there aren't "has opened a blank note to compose a reply to you" notifications.
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I had some important research to do on proposed interstellar space missions, basketball statistics, canceled skyscrapers, and every article linked from "Women in warfare and the military in the 19th century.
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Sorry, Yoopers.
A schism between the pro-panhandle and anti-panhandle factions eventually led to war, but both sides spent too much time working on their flag designs to actually do much fighting.
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If toying with the UP, they should at least make consistent the other MI border. Hello Toledo!
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It's almost as if people are the problem.
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There was a war about that. That's how MI ended up with the yoopers.The Meal wrote:If toying with the UP, they should at least make consistent the other MI border. Hello Toledo!
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Very interesting read!killbot737 wrote:There was a war about that. That's how MI ended up with the yoopers.The Meal wrote:If toying with the UP, they should at least make consistent the other MI border. Hello Toledo!
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And here I thought we ceded Toledo by making them keep Cleveland.Z-Corn wrote:Very interesting read!killbot737 wrote:There was a war about that. That's how MI ended up with the yoopers.The Meal wrote:If toying with the UP, they should at least make consistent the other MI border. Hello Toledo!
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"I should make a list of all the things I could be trying to optimize, prioritized by ... well, I guess there are a few different variables I could use. I'll create a spreadsheet ..."
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Spreadsheet?
I started off with countless problems. But now I know, thanks to COUNT(), that I have "#REF! ERROR: Circular dependency detected" problems.
I started off with countless problems. But now I know, thanks to COUNT(), that I have "#REF! ERROR: Circular dependency detected" problems.
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Spent about a minute laughing at the Alt text on this one:
https://xkcd.com/1912/
Your problem is so terrible, I worry that, if I help you, I risk drawing the attention of whatever god of technology inflicted it on you.
https://xkcd.com/1912/
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"No, wait, come back! I want to be friends at you!"
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"This one is perfect in every way, except that for some reason it's woven from a tungsten mesh, so it weighs 85 pounds and I'll need to carry it around on a hand cart." "That seems like a bad--" "BUT IT HAS THE PERFECT POCKET ARRANGEMENT!"
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"If most people turn into muderers all of a sudden, we'll need to push out a firmware update or something."
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"[They do not move.]"
Probably more than a few of us in this situation when it comes to social interactions.
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I am social butterfly! Oh look a pretty light!!!
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"Just tell me everything you're thinking about in order from most important to last, and then we'll be friends and we can eat apples together."
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I also was obsessed with Turkish Delight as a kid after reading those books. I was so disappointed when I finally tried it a few years back.
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