"No" is the most accurate I could ever have imagined for Inkjet Printers
Old and gold, 15 May 2009
inplace sort be like:
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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8677292
Transcript:
[A computer program.]
int getRandomNumber() { return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll. // guaranteed to be random. }
Hover Text:
RFC 1149.5 specifies 4 as the standard IEEE-vetted random number.
Comics are not only meant to present something that can happen IRL :P
That kind of trolls happen occasionally in IT, where not everybody know well about maths and physics, they may easily fall into these kind of traps by taking granted that the maths you gave is more trustful than computer code they wrote (usual kind of joke to make your friend understand that he what was doing something wrong or without understanding)
Also, in Uni, we were all little Satans, trying more to break others students works instead of trying to improve self (that was a true war among IT students). All means were used, this kind of troll (as depicted in this comics) to make the other loose time is truly expected
Classical "type Alt+F4 before saving your code to automatically fix bugs" kind of joke
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8653164
Transcript:
Cueball: Hey, check it out: e^π^−π is 19.999099979. That's weird.
Black Hat: Yeah. That's how I got kicked out of the ACM in college.
Cueball: ...what?Black Hat: During a competition, I told the programmers on our team that e^π^−π was a standard test of floating-point handlers -- it would come out to 20 unless they had rounding errors.
Cueball: That's awful.
Black Hat: Yeah, they dug through half their algorithms looking for the bug before they figured it out.
Hover text:
Also, I hear the 4th root of (9^2^ + 19^2^/22) is pi.
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8619086
Title text:
It's like the traveling salesman problem, but the endpoints are different and you can't ask your friends for help because they're sitting three seats down.
Links:
HTML: You are not a nerd
Edit: OH MY GOD what did you just share !!!
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I was like "Hum... That should do like more than 3.5, but 4 at maximum..."
Then he shows options, and I was like "What ? There's nothing between 3.5 and 4"; then thought about it a bit more, and found Exactly 4 as an answer; then continued to watch the end of the video to see why my calculations were wrong (they wer'nt)
Do I need to precise that my post was a /s ? It was ! Actually already 2 comments are saying that US is missing, so I joked about it and about the fact some said this is biased because countries are missing
Actually there is all the source given in the picture itself, if a country is missing, maybe check the data before complaining about people hiding things to you; maybe the data itself does not exists for the country you think is missing
Error: Please enter your birthdate
Title text: An apple fell on Isaac Newton's head and gave him the idea that the moon might be a tasty apple, though this turned out not to be true--the Apollo program eventually determined that it was just a desolate and bland Red Delicious.
Transcript
[Cueball sits under a tree. An apple falls from the tree and hits him on the head.]
Bonk
[The view zooms out, showing the moon, which Cueball looks up at.]
[Closeup on Cueball.]
Cueball: ...
Cueball: We should grow apples on the moon.
Title text: In the LotR map, up and down correspond LOOSELY to northwest and southeast respectively.
Transcript too long for lemmy, check Explain xkcd wiki to get one ;)
These charts show movie character interactions. The horizontal axis is time. The vertical grouping of the lines indicate which characters are together at a given time.
Title text: A circle with an A in it means that the circuit has committed a sin and has been marked as punishment.
Transcript
[A chart of various circuit symbols and their (mostly) fictitious meanings based off of their drawings, captioned:] Circuit Symbols
[Symbol for a switch, labelled:] Drawbridge
[Symbol for a capacitor, labelled:] Overpass
[Symbol for a connection to ground, labelled:] Pogo Stick
[Symbol for a resistor, labelled:] Earthquake
[Symbol for an inductor, labelled:] Sheep
[Symbol for a transformer, labelled:] Two Sheep in Love, Trapped on Opposite Sides of a Fence
[Symbol for a battery, labelled:] Battery
[Symbol for a battery, sorted, labelled:] Baertty
[Symbol for a battery, with far too many short lines, labelled:] Battttttttttttery
[Symbol for a photodiode, labelled:] Check Out This Really Cool Diode
[Symbol for an oscillator, labelled:] Wave Pool
[Symbol for a transistor, labelled:] Trolley Problem
Title text: They tried to report me to the authorities, but because I had the device they couldn't charge me.
Transcript
[Ponytail, who has her fists clenched and a black smoke cloud above her head, is standing in front of a desk, a beam of electron holes is being fired at a printer on the desk; the beam is shown reacting to the printer, dispersing lightning bolts and 'particles' but causing no obvious damage. There are little '+' signs distributed along the beam and in the circles around the printer, though they're much easier to see in the higher-resolution version of the strip that's displayed if one zooms in on the original comic page.]
Ponytail: This doesn't even make sense! They're quasiparticles, not real-
Off-panel voice: Pew pew pew
Ponytail: Stop it!
[Caption below the panel:]
Physicists got really mad about my device that fires a beam of electron holes.
Title text: The heartfelt tune it plays is CC licensed, and you can get it from my seed on JoinDiaspora.net whenever that project gets going.
Transcript
2003:
[Cueball approaches a bearded fellow.]
Cueball: Did you get my essay?
Bearded Fellow: Yeah, it was good! But it was a .doc; You should really use a more open-
Cueball: Give it a rest already. Maybe we just want to live our lives and use software that works, not get wrapped up in your stupid nerd turf wars.
Bearded Fellow: I just want people to care about the infrastructures we're building and who-
Cueball: No, you just want to feel smugly superior. You have no sense of perspective and are probably autistic.
2010:
Cueball: Oh my God! We handed control of our social world to Facebook and they're DOING EVIL STUFF!
Bearded Fellow: Do you see this?
[Inset, the bearded fellow rubs his index and middle fingers against his thumb.]
Bearded Fellow: It's the world's tiniest open-source violin.
Title text: If that doesn't fix it, git.txt contains the phone number of a friend of mine who understands git. Just wait through a few minutes of 'It's really pretty simple, just think of branches as...' and eventually you'll learn the commands that will fix everything.
Transcript
[Cueball points to a computer on a desk while Ponytail and Hairy are standing further away behind an office chair.]
Cueball: This is git. It tracks collaborative work on projects through a beautiful distributed graph theory tree model.
Ponytail: Cool. How do we use it?
Cueball: No idea. Just memorize these shell commands and type them to sync up. If you get errors, save your work elsewhere, delete the project, and download a fresh copy.
Title text: Their crash investigation team had some particularly harsh words for Dave Matthews.
Transcript
[Map of San Fernando Valley, California, with dotted line labeled “flight path” and several other features marked on and around the line:]
[In the top left of the map, the logo of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB)]
[Caption below the panel:] Due to an obscure law, if you download a song onto a flight data recorder and send it to the NTSB, they have to do a report on it.
Title text: My password is just every Unicode codepoint concatenated into a single UTF-8 string.
Transcript
[Cueball carries an open laptop over to Ponytail, holding it in both hands. The screen shows a box filling the screen with some text on lines. Ponytail is sitting in an office chair with her laptop at her desk. She has turned her head away from the computer looking at Cueball's screen.]
Cueball: Can you help me with my account?
Ponytail: Oh no.
[Cueball holds his laptop up in front of Ponytail who has turned the chair so she faces him, with her hands in her lap. Her table is not drawn.]
Cueball: No no, I promise it's a normal problem this time.
Ponytail: Okay. Fine. What is it?
[Cueball holds both hands out palm up towards Ponytail who is sitting with his laptop in her lap typing on it.]
Cueball: I included a null string terminator as part of my password, and now I can't-
Ponytail: How?!
Cueball: They said to use special characters!
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