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Orbital Argument
Monday February 26^th, 2024 at 10:42 AM

xkcd.com

"Some people say light is waves, and some say it's particles, so I bet light is some in-between thing that's both wave and particle depending on how you look at it. Am I right?" "YES, BUT YOU SHOULDN'T BE!"

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mw

50 days ago

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Frame of reference, frame of reference, frame of reference.

popular

50 days ago

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Covarr

50 days ago

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The Earth and the Sun both orbit Venus.

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silberbaer

52 days ago

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He *would* be right by accident, if the sun and the earth were the only two objects in the solar system.

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kfet

52 days ago

Center of the Milky Way is what they mean

silberbaer

52 days ago

@kfet: ...no. That is not what they mean. They are talking about the barycenter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barycenter_(astronomy)

geordie

52 days ago

I think the truth is somewhere in the middle... it is somewhere between Sagittarius A* and the Solar System's barycenter. And for the humor impaired I agree that Munroe was referring to the barycenter.

JayM

52 days ago

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Ha

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Always Use Crosswalks
Saturday December 23^rd, 2023 at 12:44 PM

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Liz is such a charmer

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mw

114 days ago

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Hehe

Dimensional Chess
Wednesday May 19^th, 2021 at 4:09 PM

xkcd.com

In Dimensional Chess, every move is annotated '?!'.

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mw

1062 days ago

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What does "behind" even mean here anyway?

jlvanderzwan

1062 days ago

Next up: polar coordinate chess

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1062 days ago

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In Dimensional Chess, every move is annotated '?!'.

Tally Ho
Thursday April 27^th, 2017 at 10:14 AM

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mw

2546 days ago

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Are those Loebs on Claire's shelf?

Algorithms
Wednesday April 13^th, 2016 at 10:58 AM

xkcd.com

There was a schism in 2007, when a sect advocating OpenOffice created a fork of Sunday.xlsx and maintained it independently for several months. The efforts to reconcile the conflicting schedules led to the reinvention, within the cells of the spreadsheet, of modern version control.

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mw

2925 days ago

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I would have expected a schism instead of the reinvention of DVCS.

popular

2924 days ago

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Cthulhux

2925 days ago

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I wonder how many people will understand the leftpad joke in 10 years.

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acdha

2925 days ago

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Not shown on the right due to scale: “Enterprise software requirements as documented by the customer”

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jlvanderzwan

2924 days ago

I bet Felienne Hermans is loving this

Covarr

2925 days ago

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Where does the algorithm for determining what restaurant to go to on date night lie on this chart?

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ddmf

2925 days ago

"I'm happy to go anywhere." "What about xxx" "No, I don't want xxx, but I don't mind where"

Brstrk

2925 days ago

boolean suitableRestaurant(int choiceID, BogoBogoSort dateMindset) {return false;}

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2925 days ago

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There was a schism in 2007, when a sect advocating OpenOffice created a fork of Sunday.xlsx and maintained it independently for several months. The efforts to reconcile the conflicting schedules led to the reinvention, within the cells of the spreadsheet, of modern version control.

reconbot

2925 days ago

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Attacking complex Excel sheets is a source of most of my income

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Websl

2925 days ago

Haha. It's part of my job too...

c_dave

2925 days ago

part of my job too.

Cthulhux

2925 days ago

"Attacking" is easy. The problem is that, most of the time, they must not be deleted for that.

spiffytech

2925 days ago

Where do you find jobs attacking spreadsheets?

Ironica

2924 days ago

Unfortunately, a good bit of my job consists of using Excel spreadsheets to mitigate the shortcomings of an actual honest-to-Godzilla database. It's a *bad* database.

amijangos

2923 days ago

I, Satya Nadella, do hereby dub thee, reconbot, Knight of the God-Aweful Excel Sheets, may your courage and devotion become a shining example to the people of the M$ Empire Pro 2016 Ultimate.

the dinosaur comics players in: i dunno, some politics thing
Monday March 28^th, 2016 at 1:21 PM

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mw

2940 days ago

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We should care about farm subsidies.

Orbital Argument Monday February 26th, 2024 at 10:42 AM

Always Use Crosswalks Saturday December 23rd, 2023 at 12:44 PM

Dimensional Chess Wednesday May 19th, 2021 at 4:09 PM

Tally Ho Thursday April 27th, 2017 at 10:14 AM

Algorithms Wednesday April 13th, 2016 at 10:58 AM

the dinosaur comics players in: i dunno, some politics thing Monday March 28th, 2016 at 1:21 PM

Orbital Argument
Monday February 26^th, 2024 at 10:42 AM

Always Use Crosswalks
Saturday December 23^rd, 2023 at 12:44 PM

Dimensional Chess
Wednesday May 19^th, 2021 at 4:09 PM

Tally Ho
Thursday April 27^th, 2017 at 10:14 AM

Algorithms
Wednesday April 13^th, 2016 at 10:58 AM

the dinosaur comics players in: i dunno, some politics thing
Monday March 28^th, 2016 at 1:21 PM