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https://xkcd.com/397/

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Obligatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/1576/

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/538/

https://xkcd.com/927/

Tech support. Too bad it is just a dream.

as opposed to northern climates that might have to shut down due to whiteout conditions for days at a time. This is why businesses tend to move to more southern areas.

Wrong on both counts. Factories in northern climates very rarely close due to weather. Municipalities have equipment to plow snow and people who live there know how to drive in it. The reason factories moved south in the US was to escape unions; same reason they're moving to Mexico and China today.

And there was me (in Finland), thinking it was just to escape mosquitos...

How much you can/should juggle really depends on what you're doing, as well. If I've got various processes that require 5 minutes of work and 1h of execution (e.g. they take a long time to "run"), I'm not being very productive by take 1h5m to do task A, then task B, etc.
The more likely scenario though is that task A requires periodic attendance in 10-15 minute intervals. Usually I can juggle at least a few of these at a time and pop between them, accomplishing several full tasks within 1-2 hours instead of a single task every 1h.

Also known as compiling :-)

Heh, s/he thinks Uber cares about turnover enough to wait for "frequently". I'm afraid that's not the smart, capitalist way to use disposable proles.

Try not to lose sight of the big picture. Your line-by-line myopia resembles #895.

I've always wondered the same thing, so I googled "Can you stand on Jupiter?"

You might also enjoy Jupiter Submarine and Jupiter Descending.

I've always wondered the same thing, so I googled "Can you stand on Jupiter?"

You might also enjoy Jupiter Submarine and Jupiter Descending.

How about you try to correlate it with number of VR sets in those countries.
That at least might give you some interesting numbers.

California is the biggest consumer of furry pornography in America, followed by Texas, Florida, and New York.

Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/149/

Good one! link for Google impaired

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This is the same as the Trolley Problem, a famous philosophical dilemma, first proposed in 1967: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Basically, a runaway trolley is going to kill five people. You can either do nothing and let the trolley kill them, or pull a lever to switch it to another track on which it will kill only one person. There are many variations, including one in which you push a fat man onto the tracks to stop the trolley. Philosophers have written a LOT about it. Here are some humorous variations:
http://existentialcomics.com/c...
https://xkcd.com/1455/
http://www.mcsweeneys.net/arti...

https://xkcd.com/606/

That is pretty much what gaming on Linux amounts to if you want to talk about games with your friends still on Windows.

You appeared to reference the XKCD about this, but somehow forgot to link it.

https://xkcd.com/678/

What? No obligatory XKCD yet!? https://xkcd.com/932/

You misunderstand

Nope.

Nobody with an actual clue claimed the device violates known physics (there are a lot of clueless morons in the discussion whenever "magic" devices are the subject though), the claim is that the theory of operation offered by the creators of the device violates known physics

That was exactly my understanding. What I was pointing at (or at least trying to) is that either the phrasing of TFA is incorrect or TFA is quoting clueless people.

Obligatory xkcd.

No, this is the relevant one ;)

Large amounts of power, tiny measurements at the edge of the capabilities of their measuring systems, and very inconsistent results between designs, testing procedures, and testing teams.

It's cold fusion all over again.

Relevant xkcd (From What If #13)

So we're testing with <An Amount> of power, what would happen if we dialed up the juice?

CAPTCHA: Increase

I wouldn't call where I lived at the time rural, but for a short while there was competition between DSL ISPs as well. Speeds kept getting faster and faster. Costs stayed reasonable. The best part I remember was if I had to call my ISP's tech support. Didn't have to often. But they knew their shit and weren't reading from a script. I'd tell them the problem I was seeing, say DHCP not responding for example, they knew I knew what I was talking about, and if we didn't solve the problem quickly I'd be left with a very good idea of what was wrong.

Relevant XKCD.

It seems like this kind of fallacy.

Because the advertiser could care less about creating a native experience that the target eyeballs might care about.

https://xkcd.com/1576/

That seems pretty dangerous. If you start a study with a ton of variables and no concrete hypothesis you end up with a situation like this: https://xkcd.com/882/

#include obXKCD 927

Could someone force the dweeb who set the server up into giving away all the credentials? Definitely, yes.

I'll leave this here.

As far as we know, the one thing we don't have to worry about on Mars is having to fight our way through hostile natives.

You never know...

And the other relevant xkcd:
https://xkcd.com/1205/
He went way off this chart! lol

This man is our hero. Isn't that what we all dream about? Is this the ONE man who truly beat the tendency for automation to lead just to more work?
Relevant XKCD:
https://xkcd.com/1319/

Undocumented Feature

Mandatory XKCD

Sound like the Air Force may have added Booby Tables to the Inspector Generals Records.

https://xkcd.com/327/

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Obligatory xkcd: http://xkcd.com/927/

This story is like this story.

Apple has generation capability. At times, they will have excess capacity. Selling that capacity back on the grid is a no-brainer. Setting up a specific legal entity for those purposes is also a no-brainer. And the analysis is self-contradicting; they say that Apple "could" seemingly seek to start selling power and get into the power utility business, "across the whole of the U.S." But their FERC filing has them taking the explicit...and non-trivial, by the way...stance that they most certainly are NOT a utility and have no plans to be. They're simply using clever legal rationale to make a case for charging a retail rate for their power, rather than the wholesale rate.

https://xkcd.com/1427/

Which grouping of words is real?

#1
Alumina
Aluminate
Aluminosilicate
Aluminothermic

#2:
Aluminia
Aluminiate
Aluminiosilicate
Aluminiothermic

In no way is the root of aluminum "alumini". It's either "alumin" or just "alum". Again, calling it "alumium" would be just fine. But "aluminium" is just wrong. And ahistorical.

I know, it's weird to have a strong opinion about an issue like this...

This xkcd states it pretty well.

I own a software company. Every week someone talks with me about the app they want built. Almost always, they do not actually need any functionality that is missing from HTML5. Very occasionally they do (such as these guys.)

Why would anyone install an app which does not offer anything above the web site? They wouldn't. Clients pay tremendous amounts of money to build apps, which have not been designed, tested, or thought about in any kind of a meaningful way. Even when those clients have money, most of the time I stay away, since being a part of something dumb isn't that great (even if you're getting paid.) Or I try and help them think about it, and then build them a webpage, if they have money.

Premature optimization presumes that software will be done. You can optimize when a function stops changing.

Premature optimization

You are underestimating just how massive an amount of deep time 65-million years was.

What would a radioactive waste storage look like in a 100M years? Ridiculously stable. Dry. Sealed from elements. Even if it literally just disintegrated in place, the odd mix and ratios of remaining isotopes at the site, surrounded by solid geologically stable rock millions of years older... would clearly suggest something unnatural.

Or perhaps a lego mini-fig -- tey'll soon outnumber humans after all.
http://xkcd.com/1281/

Surely bunches of those highly stable bits of plastic will find themselves some place safe to hide... preserved in amber, or tarpits, or trapped in some glacier, at the bottom of the ocean, or in a salt mine... there are billions of them, so probably all of those things will happen.

And we have things like modern jewelry. Laser engraved diamonds, set in platinum bands. Stored inside fire proof safes... some which would end up buried in stable places... even bunkers. What's 65 million years going to do to that?

Secondly - your argument is flawed because that's not how time works, time is relative and doesn't happen at a constant rate. Planets that rotate their stars slower have physically existed longer than ones that move slower. So two planets around the same star, in different orbits, which orbit in the same timeframe, that formed together at the same time - the outer one will be significantly younger because time slows down as you speed up. It may be a matter of seconds per rotation - but there's been many billions of rotations for those to add up.

Ok... so lets put some figures into those numbers ... say 11 seconds for "a matter of seconds". And how about 4.6 billion for for "many billions" as that's the age of our solar system measured from earth's perspective at least.

11 seconds x 4.6 billion rotations = 1603 years. I don't think we need to worry too much about relative ages of the planets.

This is, actually, one reason why - if there is life on Io or Europa - that life is likely to be "bacterial" rather than fishes - those moons circle a massive planet, any life there has had significantly less time to evolve than life on earth has had. No, I don't feel like doing the math to figure out how much.

You really think its going to be billions of years though? I'm pretty skeptical. Maybe you should do the math.

Wow. What a bunch of yellow ass-niggers.

Here, FTFY.

So, it has come to this.

https://xkcd.com/936/

It seems that all major research starts on XKCD...

No, just to wanker niggers like yourself. You remind me of those obsessive evangelical christians, the ones that try to insert the bible into every single conversation. The ones who can't understand why no one else wants to be around them who didn't already agree with them.

It seems that all major research starts on XKCD...

Well, they could use this:
http://preshing.com/20110811/xkcd-password-generator/
I trust it more than building one from scratch using Munroe's Random Function,
https://xkcd.com/221/, I think he should have rolled again...

http://xkcd.com/1357/

I am literally so tired of visiting a website and having it pop up a download notification for another new app.

Obligatory xkcd

https://xkcd.com/936/

#!/bin/bash

for i in {1..4}
do
awk -v lineno="$RANDOM" 'lineno==NR{print;exit}' /usr/share/dict/american-english
done

You're welcome.