"And next time, I'll make baby toys that glow in the dark with Uranium"
Missing the Metric-Freedom conversion error
Ah en effet, my bad, je retire mon message ;)
Here's the sauce: xkcd/2803
And here is another lemmy post about this commic: https://sh.itjust.works/post/1694738 (on [email protected])
Not sure CrowdStrike runs on npm, but still ruined it all for sure
As a non native English speaker, I had to read your comments to understand the "Hot potato" one... Seems that I'm not as fluent in English as I thought (my accent is shit)
I can understand (I hate this video title actually), but yeah, telling that "That guy is an idiot" without listening at what he said is not smart
During the video, he's listening and debating against some French (?) phylosoph I suppose, that basically said shit like English is just French; then this video adds details about why Yes, but also why not, and where yes and no
Tell me you didn't watch the video without telling me you didn't watch the video
(Title is clickbait, video content is much more sourced and explained)
Twitter PR review
Gotta use Lisp notation to be sure
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:
Source: Itchy Feet (https://www.itchyfeetcomic.com/2024/01/real-name.html)
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
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/3511115
Title text: I pronounce the 'u' in 'pronunciation' like in 'putting' but the 'ou' in 'pronounce' like in 'wound'.
Transcript
[The word "Tuesday", with each letter labeled by a box with an arrow:]
T: As in buffet
u: As in minute
e: As in record
s: As in use
d: As in moped
a: As in bass
y: As in gyro
[Caption below the panel:]
Pet peeve: Ambiguous pronunciation guides
Missed opportunity: