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Obligatory XKCD : https://xkcd.com/927/

Clearly you aren't keeping up. The Obligatory one is actually https://xkcd.com/1810/.

It appears that OneDrive needs to store metadata. Apple's filesystem allows that, NTFS allows that, on Android I presume they must be using some kind of database to store it.

So they could use the database method on FAT filesystems, but then they would have to support and test it. For the 7 people running OneDrive on a FAT filesystem for some reason, it's not really worth supporting.

Obligatory XKCD.

https://xkcd.com/1357/

That's the name I have for them. I still wonder if they're slowly pecking out "Brains!" while they stagger along eyes down peering at their phone while they walk out in front of traffic...

I learned to do this long before I ever got a phone. As a kid in the late 70s and early to mid 80s I read a lot of books while walking, especially to and from school.

Obligatory XKCD.

For many of us, the weekend is the time when we do all the non-job work that we couldn't get done during the week—laundry, home repairs, personal projects, correcting people on the Internet, etc.

Yep to the point where I have to try to make Sunday the day where I really do nothing so that I actually do come into work on Monday rested instead of already tired.

For many of us, the weekend is the time when we do all the non-job work that we couldn't get done during the week—laundry, home repairs, personal projects, correcting people on the Internet, etc.

Yep to the point where I have to try to make Sunday the day where I really do nothing so that I actually do come into work on Monday rested instead of already tired.

For many of us, the weekend is the time when we do all the non-job work that we couldn't get done during the week—laundry, home repairs, personal projects, correcting people on the Internet, etc.

Yep to the point where I have to try to make Sunday the day where I really do nothing so that I actually do come into work on Monday rested instead of already tired.

For many of us, the weekend is the time when we do all the non-job work that we couldn't get done during the week—laundry, home repairs, personal projects, correcting people on the Internet, etc.

Yep to the point where I have to try to make Sunday the day where I really do nothing so that I actually do come into work on Monday rested instead of already tired.

For many of us, the weekend is the time when we do all the non-job work that we couldn't get done during the week—laundry, home repairs, personal projects, correcting people on the Internet, etc.

For many of us, the weekend is the time when we do all the non-job work that we couldn't get done during the week—laundry, home repairs, personal projects, correcting people on the Internet, etc.

For many of us, the weekend is the time when we do all the non-job work that we couldn't get done during the week—laundry, home repairs, personal projects, correcting people on the Internet, etc.

For many of us, the weekend is the time when we do all the non-job work that we couldn't get done during the week—laundry, home repairs, personal projects, correcting people on the Internet, etc.

Can you imagine how kick ass Linux would have been if instead of reinventing the damned wheel 600+ times everyone got together and invested their time into simply making ONE DISTRO that was the absolute best, cleanest, and bug free OS they could possibly build?

Why would anyone do that? How does that help your project? Bragging rights?

Linux doesn't compete with Windows. Ubuntu competes with Windows. And do does Red Hat. And so does..yadda yadda.

For whatever you're actually trying to do, your kick-ass ONE DISTRO might actually be lamer and less good than Ubuntu. Or it might be better than Ubuntu but inferior to Red Hat for that application, but inferior to Ubuntu yet better than Red Hat for something else.

One of the (many) reasons that Windows and OSX aren't all that great, is that they try to be one-size-fits all for people, and everyone who tries to do that always fails. Pretty much no matter who you are and what you're trying to do, the makers of Windows and OSX fucked up and their products are pretty lame -- we merely all disagree on what and how they fucked up, because everyone wants different things! And there would be the same arguments over your ONE DISTRO. And the same applies to them all.

Except the lucky few. There's surely a lucky 1% who just happen to be doing just the right things where Ubuntu is perfect for them. And there's another lucky 1% for whom Windows is a great fit. But most of us settle for something that we hope is good enough, most of the time.

Your ONE DISTRO would be the same, and Be The 15th. You were afraid of that, and set out to avoid it, and then became your own enemy.

Diversity is the correct answer. There shouldn't be 15 distros; there should be 15 million of them. 15 distros means you're probably not going to find a great one, though you will very likely find one that is good enough. Be thankful there isn't just one distro, because you probably wouldn't like it, any more than you just happen to like Windows or OSX.

Here is a perfect example of why Linux was never a real competitor to OSX and Windows, instead of actually investing their time and money into an already established OS? Lets just follow a lame trend so old its an XKCD joke.

Because this is EXACTLY what Linux needed, yet another distro with just enough changes to make it incompatible with everyone else...sigh. Can you imagine how kick ass Linux would have been if instead of reinventing the damned wheel 600+ times everyone got together and invested their time into simply making ONE DISTRO that was the absolute best, cleanest, and bug free OS they could possibly build? It would make OSX and Windows look like DOS!

But no, instead we have SSDD, one of 600+ distros to pile on distrowatch which will probably either be dead in less than 3 years or have less users than win98 in 2017, because God forbid people actually work together for the common good instead of more NIH bullshit...sigh.

Tangentially related, Windows 3.1 was supported until *after* the 9/11 attacks.

For some reason that sort of freaks me out (semi-relevant XKCD).

Thus I never make it through the SQL query from HR to pull applicants for any position.'

It's easy to get past that form. Instead of putting a check mark in that box, write in ' OR 1=1

You could also just change your name to Bobby Tables.
https://xkcd.com/327/

Maybe the author of the article got married today

https://www.xkcd.com/903/

All the people that are wrong on the internet. DUTY CALLS!

https://xkcd.com/792/

Like the comic https://www.xkcd.com/713/ said, ISS can now get geoip'd, yieldeing ads to "meet local girls in LOW EARTH ORBIT."
Progress is sad ;)

We demolish Rhode Island.

Do you mean like this?

The corporate world and governments don't want a 'decentralized' internet, because that would make it much more difficult to collect data on people, spy on people, surveil people, and exercise censorship. If Mozilla wants a 'decentralized' internet, they'd be better off spending that $2,000,000 on WMDs to wipe companies like Comcast/Xfinity off the map and assassins to kill government officials who advocate for destroying peoples' privacy rights all in the name of corporate profits. For the most part the Horse Has Already Left The Barn, and the only way you'd get real Net Neutrality and true Decentralization would be to hit the 'Hardest Refresh' button.

We know how it ended. Now we know where /how it started.

Oblig XKCD :
https://xkcd.com/1504/

But 100 million years ago, nobody gave a shit about temperatures being 5 degrees warmer.

Climate changed in the past, but not at current rate. The timeline is quite shocking

And the problem is that the ecosystem that supports human being is not likely to adapt in such a short time.

> I don't understand why Apple is resisting the Vulkan API

Because Apple suffers from Not Invented Here (NIH) syndrome.

Sometimes they are correct, others times no.

If they would just fix their shitty OpenGL 4.5 support everyone would be happier instead of inventing yet-another-standard

This alarmism is based on an extrapolation of current conditions

I realize xkcd goes over the heads of many people, but the *joke* is that if you reduce the sample size enough (in this case, down to 2 days), you can make an extrapolation say whatever you want. If you need it explained in a webcomic, here you go.

We have detailed climate data going back to 1850, which means an 80 year extrapolation into the future isn't exactly a shot in the dark.

Obligatory xkcd about the changing temp.

This alarmism is based on an extrapolation of current conditions. Extrapolations 80 years into the future have a long history of looking laughably silly in hindsight.

The snow on Kilimanjaro was predicted to disappear by 2015 or thereabouts.

Of course, it actually didn't.

Science is all about forming hypotheses, then making falsifiable predictions.

What testable predictions do we have for Ethiopian coffee? What year will coffee be untenable as a crop?

Wait a couple of years and see if these predictions are correct - sounds like a valid test of climate change.

What's the problem with doing that?

(If you don't like waiting years, then let's look at previous testable predictions and see how well they held up. Anyone have a list of testable predictions?)

This alarmism is based on an extrapolation of current conditions. Extrapolations 80 years into the future have a long history of looking laughably silly in hindsight.

xkcd did that joke already, using cream corn instead of chicken stock.

And there is the point of politics. There has to always be a good, or a bad. How else can politicians tell us that they are protecting us.

I know the guy going for this isn't a politician but he falls into that camp that the government needs to protect us from this new fangled technology that is changing our kids brains. Once again we pull our the tried and true, let's protect the children.

Even though we have no evidence of what harm all this stuff is doing. We just don't know that changing our brains is supposed to be bad.

I'm afraid XKCD described this problem of competing build systems very well, years ago.

https://xkcd.com/927/

And the obligatory followup: https://xkcd.com/1831/

https://www.xkcd.com/793/

P.S. I was a physics major, once upon a time.
P.P.S I am guilty of having done what is portrayed in that comic.
P.P.P.S I had a physic prof comment on me looking down on chemistry, "as you should." I *think* the comment was tongue-in-cheek.

Obligatory xkcd.

Pythagoras ban's on fava beans can be traced back to his having favism.

Farting in rich primary colors, shocking your fellow French artists.

This is a good place for this then: https://www.xkcd.com/1012/

There are more quirkly homeless people than quirky geniuses.

Just playing devil's advocate but is this actually true and what is the evidence for or against? Are you just assuming it to be true because it sounds right? We're talking about opposite ends of the spectrum in many cases but both tend to be some standard deviations outside the norm. It wouldn't actually surprise me if the number of crazy geniuses in total wasn't all that different from the number of crazy homeless people. I have no evidence for or against but it is an interesting question. (to me anyway...)

We already have too much self-described geniuses on websites like Slashdot who are arseholes because they read a self-confirming article that many geniuses were arseholes.

There's definitely a surviorship bias in play here.

Well. You understand that 2% of the US counties have something like 33% - 50% of the gun violence.

Those wouldn't happen to be the 2% of counties that have a majority of the country's population, would they?

How about the last 10000 year? See https://xkcd.com/1732/.

I would pay a lot for an outdoor-does-it-all device.

I believe you can train a child/wife for this.

Fuck the training. That's what sudo is for.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/155/

Damn, you beat me to it.

The computer heater would win, and the refrigerator/freezer would just stay warm. In fact, it would overheat because the fridge would be insulated and trap all the heat inside.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/155/

While I agree with the motivation for discouraging universities from disinviting invited speakers,

Why would you disagree with that? Since when do Universities get exempted from the First Amendment? Note that that also has some things to say about the government's right to interfere with who you associate with.

https://xkcd.com/1357/

Universities are not the Government. The 1st Amendment protects your speech from the Government arresting you for what you say. Universities can invite whatever speakers they want and disinvite them as well. Even the proposed law in Wisconsin is not a 1st Amendment issue. It is just a political law that public enforces the rights that everyone already has.

https://xkcd.com/1512/

There was an XKCD what-if about toasters vs freezers. While a CPU doesn't run as hot as a toaster, the end result should be pretty much the same: inside the fridge ends up hotter than outside. https://what-if.xkcd.com/155/ Conduction through air is poor at removing waste heat. And you don't get much convection in an enclosed space.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/155/

Imagine Component A breaks on the system. Now, imagine Component A has been retired for a decade,

And that's where you part company from industrial reality. A significant part of the high maintenance costs of industrial equipment (not the disposable crap that is sold to street consumers, with it's 20-year lifespan) is the maintenance of those stores of old equipment. P>I bet that you think that WD-40 is for loosening tight nuts, not for mothballing electronics. You probably don't even know what "mothballing" is, except as a particularly niche application of Rule 34.

That's right, it works this way