#xkcd

Decay path showing how an iPhone 16 Pro Max decays. The caption reads, "Physicists believe that and iPhone 16 Pro Max will, left alone long enough, decay into an iPhone 7, the heaviest stable model.
See https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3071

Apr 03, 2025, 18:11 · · 0 · 0

Khurram Wadee @mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk

#xkcd: #Orogeny

https://xkcd.com/3070/

#Humour #Cartoon

Two people are out in a mountainous terrain. One says, "I hear these mountains are a billion years old." The other replies, "Well, sort of. An ancient collision created the mountain belt, but the actual rock layers have been continually uplifted and eroded away." The first one asks, "So it's an mountain range, but it's been fully renovated?" The other says, "Yessir, torn down to the roots, this is good solid plutonic bedrock, freshly uplifted. Great value. You in the market?" The first person is not sure, "I dunno, I was looking for new construction. You got any emerging volcanic seamounts?" The other says, "Nah, that market is a little too hot right now."

Apr 01, 2025, 11:14 · · 0 · 0

Khurram Wadee @mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk

#xkcd: #TerrorBird

https://xkcd.com/3069/

#Humour #Cartoon

A boy and a girl are looking at the skeleton of a 2.5 m tall terror bird in a museum. The boy says, "Wow. Now that we know how scary they were, do you think Sesame Street will update him?"

Mar 29, 2025, 08:05 · · 0 · 0

Khurram Wadee @mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk

#xkcd: #RockIdentification

https://xkcd.com/3068/

#Humour #Cartoon

How to ask geologists to identify a rock.

Wrong:
Person 1: Can you identify this rock that I found?
Person 2: Not without knowing where you found it. It's difficult to identify minerals by sight with the geological context.

Right:
Person 1: Can you identify this rock that I found wrapped in a $5 bill?
Person 2: Sure! Looks like garnets in mica schist.

Mar 27, 2025, 10:29 · · 0 · 0

tk @ Google+ @tkgplus@bbs.kawa-kun.com

#xkcd #life http://xkcd.com/1222/

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-EviX1_UUtQ0/UbGiq0NtzTI/AAAAAAAArnc/oDjbjqjo-uU/s0/photo.jpg

Mar 24, 2025, 20:15 · · 1 · 0

XKCD bot @xkcdbot@me.ns.ci

#xkcd No. 3067 explanation: https://explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3067

3067: SawStart - explain xkcd

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Mar 24, 2025, 12:40 · · 0 · 0

XKCD bot @xkcdbot@me.ns.ci

#xkcd No. 3067
Date: 2025-3-24
Title: SawStart
Alt text: Unfortunately, SawStart is one-use-only. Once started, the blade cannot be stopped, and must be replaced with a fresh blade while the running one is carefully disposed of.
https://xkcd.com/3067/

Description:
Single-panel xkcd comic shows a stick figure in a hat presenting a table saw to two other figures. The saw has "SAWSTART" written on its side.

Transcript:
WHEN THE SAW DETECTS CONTACT
WITH SKIN, AN EXPLOSIVE CHARGE
STARTS THE BLADE SPINNING AT FULL
SPEED WITHIN A FEW MILLISECONDS.

[Illustration of a table saw with a blade. The word "SAWSTART" is printed on the front of the saw.]

SAWSTOP'S LESS-POPULAR COMPETITOR

Mar 24, 2025, 12:40 · · 1 · 0

stateful being @unspeaker@mastodon.social

okay, cleaned up the surrounding code, added some #ui gimmicks, and next thing to do will be saving files - for real for real.

big milestone given #tek still can't! i'll post a proper screencast, too, to showcase the improved #tui and the general workflow.

building a tool for preparing releases (not to mention that whole #diy #daw thing) instead of making music ... what is wrong with me ... smh. #xkcd 1205 comes to mind...

#rustlang #taggart #id3

Mar 23, 2025, 22:21 · · 0 · 0

Khurram Wadee @mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk

#xkcd: #SquareUnits

https://xkcd.com/3065/

#Humour #Cartoon

A person sees an interesting fact on her phone. She tells her friend, "This newly-discovered insect can devour up to a square inch of grass per day." Her friend says, "Oh neat." Later he tells another friend, "... it eats a square inch, or 6 cm^2 of grass per day..." She tells her friend, "... a 6-centimetre (2 1/2 inch) square of grass, or 36 cm^2..." and things escalate from there, "... a 36 centimetre square, or over a square foot..." "... a square foot, or 900 cm^2..." "... a 900 cm (30 foot) square..." "... a 30 foot square of grass (900 square feet)..." "... 900 foot square, or almost 20 acres..." "... 20 acres (8 hectares) or 80,000 square metres..." "... an 80,000 metre (80 km) square..." "...a square 80 km wide, or roughtly 2,500 square miles..." "... A 2,500-mile squer or twice the land area of Australia, per day..." Finally, it ends up with someone says, "Did you hear about this insect that defoliates the entire land are of Australia twice a day?" His colleagues say, "Gosh." "Wow" and "I hope at least it's contained there..."

Mar 20, 2025, 11:39 · · 0 · 0

Khurram Wadee @mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk

#xkcd: #Lungfish

https://xkcd.com/3064/

#Humour #Cartoon

A fish has its head above water and is talking to a human standing on a jetty. It tells the person, "It turns out I've been editing both copy of copy of gene v3 (newest)(2) and copy of copy of gene v3(final)(2) so now I can't delete either one." The human says, "You have got to stop doing this." The fish replies, "It's fine, I'll just buy more storage." The caption reads, "Why lungfish have such enormous genomes."

Mar 17, 2025, 20:52 · · 0 · 0

Khurram Wadee @mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk

#xkcd: #PlanetDefinitions

https://xkcd.com/3063/

#Humour #Cartoon

Number of planets in the Solar System according to some some and some crazy criteria. See https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/3063 for details.

Mar 14, 2025, 18:11 · · 0 · 0

Khurram Wadee @mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk

#xkcd: #OffByOne

https://xkcd.com/3062/

#Humour #Cartoon

A person has invented a new algorithm. He tells his colleagues, "Any time an integer is stored or read, its value is adjusted upwards or downwards by a random amount between 40 and 50." The caption reads, "My new language almost completely eliminat4es off-by-one errors."

Mar 13, 2025, 17:57 · · 0 · 0

FlohEinstein @FlohEinstein@chaos.social

Since the ACPI mode s4 in humans can only be induced chemically, I now have a control port in my arm.
Thinking of that old xkcd about the usb port...

#anaesthesia #xkcd

Xkcd about a patient who wants a usb port implanted

Mar 13, 2025, 07:00 · · 0 · 0

Khurram Wadee @mkwadee@mastodon.org.uk

#xkcd: #WaterBalloons

https://xkcd.com/3061/

#Humour #Cartoon

In a straight-line graph of mass versus lifetime on logarithmic scales, ranging form 10^(-20) s to 10^20 s and 10^(-30) kg to 10^30, featuring mesons and planets, right in the middle scientists are have a flying water balloon fight. The caption reads, "In the annual interdepartmental water balloon fight, meson partical physicists and planetary scientists are usually evenly matched since they're both equally far outside their areas of expertise."

Mar 11, 2025, 12:58 · · 0 · 0

MarkusWET @markuswet@federation.network

Installing FOSS apps on your phone sometimes certainly feels like an eternal XKCD 927 purgatory.

- Apps by GrapheneOS for some GrapheneOS apps (and assorted other apps).
- Obtainium for installing apps directly from source/repos.
- Neo Store for installing apps who cannot be arsed to have .apk files in their repos (#AntennaPod), yet without dealing with the typical F-Droid shenanigans.
- Accrescent, because hell, why not! The more, the merrier!
- And, of course, Google Play Store for the corporate goblins.

#FOSS #GrapheneOS #Obtainium #NeoStore #FDroid #Accrescent #GooglePlayStore #XKCD #XKCD927