Tag: xkcd

Greek Letters
If you ever see someone using a capital xi in an equation, just observe them quietly to learn as much as you can before they return to their home planet.

I like this one. From my experience I can tell you, at least half of those are true.

To all the scientists out there, I challenge you:

Write a real paper, a good paper, which will get accepted at a decent conference or journal, but _replace all greek letters, by Wingdings characters_!

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One of the best Xkcd evergreens:

Fortunately, the charging one has been solved now that we’ve all standardized on mini-USB. Or is it micro-USB? Shit.
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Time to reblog another of my all-time-favorites from xkcd: tar

I don’t know what’s worse–the fact that after 15 years of using tar I still can’t keep the flags straight, or that after 15 years of technological advancement I’m still mucking with tar flags that were 15 years old when I started.

There are plent of tools, which are still used today, athough they were crap from the start. I know, this example here is mocking Nix. But there are plenty of similar examples in the MS Windows ecosystem as well.

I am not mocking those tools. I am mocking the people who advertise to use those tools!

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When I read this comic on xkcd i started thinking. I enjoy reading xkcd. Few comics are bad, most are nice, and some are brilliant. And those are the ones I will now start reblogging here, as distributed archive. ;-)

“If you can read this, congratulations—the archive you’re using still knows about the mouseover text”!
“If you can read this, congratulations—the archive you’re using still knows about the mouseover text”!
Digital Data [xkcd_1683]
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