Hacker News' favorite Xkcd comics (2022)(quaxio.com) |
Hacker News' favorite Xkcd comics (2022)(quaxio.com) |
Implied. Eg. A new standard for MarkDown!? Will it meet standard of XKCD 927
Click to disagree anonymously, the whole thing is automatic and effortless. You don't have to organize your thoughts when you have a button to express your feelings.
No disagreements with an absence of opinions. Automatic.
No answers to an absence of questions. Effortless.
As is usual with statistics, the methodology greatly affects the outcome.
Also "(2022)"
Fantastic to see the Chess Coaster examples, hilarious, thank you:
https://xkcd.com/chesscoaster/
I had never seen 162 Angular Momentum so well deserved mention for this geek physicist:
Nice honoring of the XKCD byline by mixing romance and physics.
No, well there should be.
A lot of "optimizations" didn't get done, and the ones that were huge wins got moved to the front of the line.
However, for some reason #1053 (number three on this list) does not feel right.
Maybe it’s oversimplified. I don’t think linear interpolation works in this case. Most things are learned in bursts at certain ages.
Then again: maybe I’m wrong and need to learn this!
But that doesn't change the validity of the conclusion: When someone doesn't know about something, it's always best to excitedly show them the information than to mock them for not knowing it.
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1053
I think it is funny and amazing, that there is a whole dedicated wiki about xkcd.
(I do not know, whether your concern is adressed there in detail, but probably it is indeed just oversimplification)
This aged very poorly in light of what happened in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic.
Where were people arrested? Or their talk declared illegal?
Visibility on some plattforms was reduced and you can argue, that it is a slippery slope, if government intervention with cooperations that host those plattforms, happens in a nontranparent way. (I do think this was bad, opening ways for secret manipulation)
But people could (and did) continiue to talk about their alternative theories for ages.