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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There’s a famous hill-top cemetery in the city, and sure enough I saw basically all of my classmates there too

That was an unexpected dark turn. Glad you live to tell their story!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

That's already pretty cool! It surely does generate very random numbers. I still think you can take it a step – or a random number of steps, hah! – further by repeating the process a random number of times! Maybe this way we can reach maximum randomness. Probably need to reroll the number until it's big enough for that.

I would also check if the result is 4. If it's 4, it should be discarded. 4 is not an actual random number but a joke random number from a comic.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And group people based on how loud their snacks are.

Also, am I the only one hating that person who keeps talking how the seating is suboptimal while everyone else tries to watch the movie?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago

That might be the unfunniest xkcd I've seen so far. It pretty much reads like a table "things which are so and so hot".

[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Then null will be returned, as the value of b.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That causes problems with culture/language/communication.

Like the saying "from 9 to 5" could not be applied to other timezones anymore. Or when reading direct speech in a book, "Let's meet at 15:00", you wouldn't be able to tell anymore what time of the day that means.

Since both approaches have pros and cons, I think we would need overwhelmingly good arguments to justify a change.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Let's jump straight to decimal time then.

1^h^23^m^45^s^ is 1 decimal hour, 23 decimal minutes, and 45 decimal seconds, or 1.2345 decimal hours, or 123.45 decimal minutes or 12345 decimal seconds; 3 hours is 300 minutes or 30,000 seconds. This property also makes it straightforward to represent a timestamp as a fractional day, so that 2023-10-26.54321 can be interpreted as five decimal hours and 43 decimal minutes and 21 decimal seconds after the start of that day, or a fraction of 0.54321 (54.321%) through that day (which is shortly after traditional 13:00)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

And this wasn't just any but fuck man. It was the "perfect but fuck man I love"!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Falling in is only "definitely fatal" if it's too big. For all we know, black holes can be tiny and light. We can debate if you can still "fall in" one of those. Maybe the process is more like passing by, or some mote of dust sticking to your clothes.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Make a comment with your conclusion and how you arrived at it.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

signs may only apply to the road after them, so you could validly stop just before it.

My thoughts exactly; problem solved. Just do what the first sign says before the others apply.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think we were talking about the same thing. You're talking about restricting your behaviour, "focus on your niche", "stay away from propaganda media". My proposal was to use an instance which makes it unecessary for you to restrict yourself to certain areas, if their moderation policy aligns with your default behaviour.

Of course it ultimately comes down to similar things, since instances which do not care wether you're nice aren't allowed in all places which require you to be nice. The key difference is still that you don't have to be wary yourself. It sounded as if you would not like that.

 

Original title: "Misunderstanding Your Job Description - Delivery" by Viva La Dirt League

Delivery man Byron learns some really important information about his job... that he probably should have learnt 6 years ago...

For those who don't know the show: It's important to understand that Byron is a very, very dedicated employee, who accepts any challenge, and takes great pride in his work. His colleagues sometimes don't remember him after working with him for years.

 

First, thanks for creating this community!

I liked about https://old.reddit.com/r/xkcd/ that you can expand the comic, even if the full URL was submitted (not just the image URL). This way, I could either peek the comic but stay where I am, or open the URL and still go to the XKCD site.

Recent example posts which do that:

  • xkcd 2794: Alphabet Notes
  • xkcd 2793: Garden Path Sentence
  • xkcd 2792: Summer Solstice

Here, posted comics look as if an image could be expanded, but it redirects me to XKCD instead.

Not sure how /r/xkcd did this. Any chance we can do a similar thing here?

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