...hats.com Men in Hats]'' and, in the original caption, Randall directed the user to a specific ''Men in Hats'' [http://meninhats.com/d/20040225.html comic a
...s]'' and, in the original caption, [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] directed the user to a specific ''Men in Hats'' [http://meninhats.com/d/20040225.html comic a
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...any given tweet to be received as an SMS message with enough room for the user's Twitter handle (15 characters max). Randall is poking fun at both the ste
...t Randall approves of, [http://bash.org/?946687 originally suggested] by a user on bash.org called h00k, where a twitter bot be created to message politici
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...even look in the /usr/share directory for items that can be run unless the user {{w|PATH (variable)|tells it to do so by changing the $PATH variable}}. The
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...t take any action. This is generally used to create a failsafe in case the user is incapacitated . For example, many exercise treadmills include a tether m
...y after this comic was posted, [https://klout.com/#/irandallmunroe a Klout user] was created claiming to be Randall. This was a fake, so if you ever meet R
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...CHA can simply perform the tests quietly in the background without needing user consent.
...ee while driving - e.g. "Check all squares containing a stop sign". If the user clicks enough correct squares, they are permitted to continue.
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...somebody is infected; so most notifications are retrospective, telling the user about past potential exposures.
...on, so almost every interaction will generate a notification, annoying the user. Also, being exposed to someone who has not tested positive is not good ne
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...ll'': that humans tend to define "winning a fight" and "useful" as causing some form of bodily harm on their opponent despite survival and purely defensive
...thematical symbols, usually do not conduct their debates violently (though some stories suggest that {{w|Hippasus}} was killed by his fellow Pythagoreans f
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...renewed in 2006 as they [https://blog.xkcd.com/2006/10/06/many-news-things-some-overdue ran out of money to rehire him], he has supported himself primarily
...on xkcd full time after [https://blog.xkcd.com/2006/10/06/many-news-things-some-overdue NASA stops renewing his contract].
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...the plants back at base") may be referring that many FPS video games have some sort of base that you must defend or start the game in. These games do not
The title text talks about how gender is portrayed in games. For some people it is more emotionally affecting to kill a woman, as women are consi
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...same problem persists to some extent: after a few comments are posted and some votes are cast, the handful of comments having received the highest scores
...c's title refers to a once-common form of online posturing where the first user to see the article will comment "First post" or even just "First". The inte
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...ly coined in 2007, when it was proposed by user [http://www.metafilter.com/user/17900 ludwig_van] on [http://www.metafilter.com Metafilter] as a term for l
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...ntially no way to, for example, send a Twitter message directly to a Skype user. ActivityPub is an example of a standard intended to be universal, so any s
...st most of its relevance and micro USB is competing with USB-C, as well as some solutions only used by single companies (such as Apple). As of 2023, Apple
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...e operating system, while there is no such restriction on UNIX - if a root user feels like (or accidentally) deletes a vital file, they are free to do so.
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...omic by date to use it was [[39: Bowl]]. The faint remains of gridlines in some comics suggest that Randall may have erased gridlines in these comics. In 2
...se {{w|GIF#Animated GIF|animated GIFs}}, rather than standard formats, for some of the simpler [[:Category:Comics with animation|dynamic comic]] images and
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...with Cueball is nothing compared with the seconds spent spinning. A Reddit user [https://www.reddit.com/r/theydidthemath/comments/5ccbzs/comment/d9vskah ca
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{{comicsrow|272|2007-06-04|Linux User at Best Buy}}
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...haring where anyone can upload and view videos. It is notorious for having some of the most ridiculous, hateful, mean-spirited, nonsensical comments of any
...[[Black Hat]] that her computer virus that she is writing reads a YouTube user's comments back to them before it is submitted. Upon hearing their own ridi
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...s]'' and, in the original caption, [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] directed the user to a specific ''Men in Hats'' [http://meninhats.com/d/20040225.html comic a
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...x|right|thumb|Logo by [[User:Alek2407]], made transparent and resized by [[User:Omega]].]]
...xkcd.com/2012/04/13/thanks-for-your-support/ Mike] and mostly written by [[User:Jeff|Jeff]] ([https://twitter.com/jeff_underscore @jeff_underscore]), who p
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...ysadmin): "[This] comic isn't available everywhere and it can come up i[n] some situation[s] only for recognized browsers."
...ock bans" or "/z/ bans" to particularly annoying users, which redirect the user to a page containing beecock and the text "OH NO THE BOARD IS GONE".
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...and change the Web pages as you view them. Some make pages easier to read, some remove ads (the third extension is [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta
...And Chair" or {{w|PEBKAC}}, which means that the problem is caused by the user, not by any failure of the computer. However, due to the substitution, it i
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...ce. This is another reference to the Schrödinger's cat concept, where the user can't determine if the title text exists until they hover the mouse over it
...owing two distinct states (decayed, undecayed) that change over time until some "observation" forced the wave-function into one state or another (called "c
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...er, this would also prove the false nature of these advertisements, as the user is unlikely to have not noticed any hot young singles currently sharing his
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| titletext = The typical internet user (who wants to share) has an IQ of 147 and a 9-inch penis. Better than the r
...row contains four graphs. The far left is the breast size of the Internet user. (This presumably refers to female users, since male breasts are not typica
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...ja this roleplay chat transcript] (NSFW), which became an Internet meme. A user named bloodninja would roleplay as a wizard during {{w|cybersex}} (saying "
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| 5 Stars || [Has Only One Review] || No product is so perfect that every user will give it five stars - as soon as one person gives it less than five, th
...ers it's impossible to please all of them (or they did please them all and some are posting bad reviews as a cruel prank). However, 4.5 stars means almost
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...hers, and sadly for that user, the TornadoGuard app failed in alerting the user to an upcoming tornado. Tornadoes are a [[:Category:Tornadoes|recurring sub
:User Reviews:
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...e hosting server will typically generate a "404 Not Found" web page when a user attempts to follow a broken or dead link; hence the 404 error is one of the
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...er degree of consistency in making the right decision, and reduced risk of user error make the computer objectively better than the human opponent in nearl
...eby the winner is determined by the ranks and combinations of their cards, some of which remain hidden until the end of the game. It is also, however, a ga
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...olutionize" not only a particular product or service, but every facet of a user's life. One of the cliché phrases used in presentations is "Welcome to the
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...er-friendly as possible. [[Randall]] mentions that he has heard that this "user-friendly" ''Zealous Autoconfig'' option has already been installed in the l
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...rue, but plausible-sounding claim to an article in Wikipedia. A writer for some publication sees the information on Wikipedia and adds it to an article, wi
...hilipp Franz Joseph Sylvester Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg. An anonymous user added one more ("Wilhelm") to the German Wikipedia, just the evening before
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...ite, but then serve the front page of the mobile site and not the page the user had requested. In quite a few sites, there would be no 1-to-1 correspondenc
...rs send out ARP packets to see what other machines are on the network, but some machines send them out every 5 minutes, which can be extremely annoying for
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...ac|Macs}} or {{w|Personal computer|other PCs}}, usually pre-installed with some variant of the {{w|Mac OS X}} or {{w|Windows NT}} operating system families
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...|Linux}}-ism. In GNU/Linux (and all Unix derivatives), ~ is a symbol for a user's home directory (usually <code>/home/<username></code>). Presumably, "noma
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...yesterday. It seems that he is still a kid, even though it must have been some years since the young Elaine left and grew up. However, she may still be a
...le of free software; an operating system with no restriction, allowing the user to modify and customize anything they want about the computer. Stallman lik
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...t hardware). Even if a man page existed, it is unreasonable to require the user of a toaster to read the manual simply to avoid being stabbed in the face.{
...on unless you actually experience a problem. The second part suggests that some people actually die because they didn't RTFM!
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...r accounts for all referenced handles (that may not have already existed). Some of the handles continue their interactions with each other in later tweets.
...to become a [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shut-down-everything meme]. The user's Twitter handle is a reference to {{w|Pauly Shore}}, a comedian who was br
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...al-language editors of source code. The issue is that, while Emacs is more user-friendly and customizable, vim is more lightweight while needing few keystr
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| titletext = I hear in some places, you need to fill one form of ID to buy a gun, but two to pay for it
...hasn't made an error. Some forms even go the extra step of preventing the user from copy-pasting into the second field, which would render it useless as a
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...twork)| Diaspora*}}, an open-source alternative to Facebook which puts the user in control of how their information is used. Of course, this sort of use of
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...used in {{w|Unix}} systems to perform an action as an administrator/super user. This forces Randall to agree. This is a reference to the very popular comi
* Henry Reich is the creator of the web video series [http://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics MinutePhysics], and studied physics and mathematics at Grinne
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...c of 2018, the title is similar to this one, in that it gives away how the user should begin to interact with the comic. It is though nothing like this com
...there is a tall tree with no leaves on it and a broken limb. Below him are some rocks and grass. This is the initial view of the world, that can be clicked
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..., a character who has had a romantic relationship end will be shown taking some act to remove a sign of their partner's presence in their life, e.g. removi
.... The final panel shows him using the Unix command 'userdel' to delete her user account from his computer. The joke here is that he considers this to be a
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xkcd's password generation scheme requires the user to have a list of 2048 common words (log<sub>2</sub>(2048) = 11). For any a
...method "obsolete", despite the comic ''assuming'' perfect knowledge of the user's dictionary from the get-go. He advocates his own low-entropy "first lett
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...r software system and network protocol that provides a basis for graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and rich input device capability for networked computers.
...(especially manually) is much less necessary than it used to be. In fact, some distributions do not even come with an xorg.conf file, because everything n
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...can look at practically any part of anything manmade around you and think "some engineer was frustrated while designing this." It's a little human connecti
...at appears to be badly made or have no purpose other than to frustrate the user (in this case, a traffic light that seems unreasonably, inexplicably long).
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The third entry is a reference to networking. UDP stands for {{w|User Datagram Protocol}}. UDP packets don't use handshaking to verify they have
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...the weakest part of computer security is usually not the computer, but the user.
...cannot prove that encrypted information exists at all, or that allows the user to provide a password that reveals one (innocuous, or embarrassing but not
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...top screen either from the weight of its lower body or the pressure of the user's fingers on the LCD screen is enough to make him squirm in discomfort. The
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...by comic [[149: Sandwich]]. Before allowing administrator access (as root user), it asks for a password. The field is blank because, in most UNIX systems,
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[[Cueball]] is buying some new speakers for his television, and asks [[Megan]] if they have the right
...] (post #28, "We gathered up a 5 [sic] of our audio buddies...."), where a user did a blind audio test using Monster cable and coat hangers with soldered o
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...grow tired of Facebook, its arcane policies, its cavalier attitude toward user privacy and/or its general disdain for end users, and people want to leave
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...is prompts the onlookers to assume either that the buried person died from some bizarre font-related accident, or, even more worryingly, that Cueball got s
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...nces, producing playlists that the user should find enjoyable based on the user's taste in music. In other words, Pandora plays music you will probably lik
...it's playing the Enchanted soundtrack, after a short period of silence the user quietly begins singing along to the song "{{w|That's How You Know (Disney s
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...or)|Vim}} are both text editors still in relatively wide use, with complex user interfaces and a range of features. While useful, neither is particularly e
...ter}}, not a computer screen at all. It does not even display the file the user is editing!
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...ajority of users would partake. The song would interrupt whatever else the user was doing, such as listening to music, watching a video, or simply browsing
...rofiles. Thus, the auto-playing music became a compounding problem, as the user could experience it several times per browsing session.
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...tirely too brief, mainly telling what the program does, then directing the user to invoke a GNU-specific information system ({{w|Info (Unix)|GNU Info}}). G
...comic's title, suggesting that rather than typing "man(ual) override", the user/pilot should type "info override" to search GNU Info instead.
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...me across, resulting in crop devastation (some consider this a plague). In some parts of the world they are also considered a delicacy. [[Cueball]] probabl
...tall/remove APT packages. Every package contains several scripts (although some of them may be empty) that are run on various events related to that packag
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...ces and overcrowding, and propose various solutions, most of which involve some form of eugenics. 7 billion is a landmark number because it is a multiple o
...the end of the world. Amongst other things, this included the film '2012'. Some people took this rather more seriously, and actually believed that the worl
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...was to receive "handy" stimulation (or possibly that the [[Black Hat|last user of the lamp]] wished for that to happen to the next owner).
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In some companies, programmers can find themselves under-employed. This may be beca
...1: Well]]), QWERTY was and is the standard. This means that every keyboard user has to learn QWERTY anyway, and there is insufficient benefit in spending t
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...rchitecture (one for which no other tools yet exist), and is still used in some other situations (as it allows the code to be optimized more closely for th
...hat has to run the script and perhaps some additional knowledge by the end-user.
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...(likely an inability to start a graphical environment, something a novice user would depend on).
..., so that it would not be considered much of a leap for a competent Ubuntu user to switch. {{w|Gentoo Linux|Gentoo}}, on the other hand, is a very advance
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...e?" or "What's your secondary school?" and are intended to be easy for the user to answer but hard for anyone else to answer.
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...stagram.com/about/legal/terms/ terms of use], allowing the network to sell user-uploaded images, without profit to the content generators. This infuriated
...ption, so it can come as a shock when Instagram uses the data in a way the user hadn't anticipated.
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...our immortal soul to a company]. In the context of this panel, perhaps the user agreed to be executed at random.
...used in text to denote an action), presumably setting off an explosive of some kind.
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..., when first the iPhone and then Google's Android platform had popularized user-installable third-party apps for smartphones. Previously third-party smartp
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...but people do not usually read. Agreement to an E.U.L.A. is assumed when a user uses the software or service that the E.U.L.A. is attached to, which has le
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...ulnerabilities, and when the library is updated on live installations, the user also takes on the risk that the library might become unavailable or otherwi
*On the day this comic came out a Google search on Wheel would in some cases have a bicycle wheel at the top:
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...e delivered to the 100,000,000th visitor to his company's website. But the user did not react to the notice on the page about the prize, '''even though it
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...ptical disc drive}} of a desktop computer. When the tray is opened and the user is reaching for the disc, a process or task on the computer can, at that ex
This results in a sort of "tug of war" between the user who is trying to remove the disc and the CD drive trying to retract, and it
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...ate software, {{w|Adobe Flash Player}}, to render a video requested by the user.
...r wanted to watch a funny cat Flash video on the Internet; which makes the user feel like he is a god.
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| titletext = And every day it gets harder to fight the urge to su to the user and freak people out.
...lling to reboot a machine that has still running processes from a deceased user named "sam".
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...of asking a person to prove that they are human before registering them as user and allowing them to post on sites or forum topics. That is done by using p
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...omputer. Facebook sidebar messages appear on the top of each panel, with a user photo of Susie (looking like Megan leaning forward so her hair hangs down t
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...5542349 like this] (rounded off in a friendly way, with the posting of {{w|User:Frungi/Star Trek Into Darkness capitalization|a summary of the arguments}},
...g/wiki/~*~_StAr_TrEk_InTo_DaRkNeSs_~*~ was a valid redirect link for quite some time, having not been deleted when {{w|Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/L
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...tive effect with the blowing only giving comfort/satisfaction value to the user if not introducing potentially harmful moisture as well.
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...when extracted, dumps a load of files into the current directory that the user has to clean up. And although the bomb looks more like {{w|Fat Man}}, the t
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...ld neither run Vista fully nor smoothly. On top of that, the typical Linux user would not be very enthusiastic about Windows at all; someone who runs Linux
:Patient: Just wire it up to some nerves.
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In this comic, Cueball is chatting with a user named 'BSLSK05' ('basilisk05' with the vowels removed) and learns much to h
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...g satellite and aerial imagery for free. Using the {{w|scroll wheel}}, the user can zoom out to see a larger area. The {{w|Lena River}} is a river in north
...ecessitates the user making their way from the middle of the wilderness to some manner of civilization, exactly as in the comic.
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..., which may be a reference to Gentoo's notorious difficulty to manage. Any user who is capable of understanding it might have a large ego, and therefore be
::Gives root access if user says Elvish word for “friend”
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...ing an interface, imagine that your program is all that stands between the user and hot, sweaty, tangled-bedsheets-fingertips-digging-into-the-back sex.
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...nvolve alterations of the [https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1770 user interface].
...Emacs, and since it's hard to reach, users often remap it to Caps Lock or some other key. LongtimeUser4 fixed the problem very clumsily ("horrifying," as
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...ch was a location-aware feature of Google Maps that allowed a mobile phone user to allow certain people to view their current location. The reason it is wo
...nal sex toys from another store, was still unsatisfied, and then purchased some electronic devices and power tools (either to improve the performance of he
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Both AIM and LiveJournal were known for their teenage user base, as shown by the title text's fictional AIM screen name.
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''Hooray! I have some bitcoins now.|[[Randall Munroe]]|[https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5
...because I would prefer to experiment with Bitcoin as a regular, anonymous user. I put up an address here because someone on IRC asked, but I don't want an
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...ground, etc.). Of course there is no clear separation and there is always some overlap between the two scenarios, so the diagram is not meant to be taken
"Defragging" is short for {{w|disk defragmentation}}, an easy, user-friendly action that PC users can undertake to supposedly make their comput
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...e}} videos are insipid and poorly informed, being pointless arguments over some minor topic or factually incorrect position ({{rw|conspiracy}}). At the tim
* The user ''SimplePlan2009'' is likely mocking the other commenters. While the conspi
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...ading an encrypted message would require the recipient to already be a PGP user. In fact, the use of PGP even to sign email messages is so rare that most p
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:Black Hat (narrating): Use the list and some proxies to try automated logins to the 20 or 30 most popular sites, plus ba
:Labels on paper: Email User Pass
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...ar Hero (video game)|Guitar Hero}}'', which make a clicking sound when the user strums, with those of ''Rock Band'', which do not click.
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...hing like "First post!" or some variation thereof). In this variation, the user has misspelt "post" in the rush to have the first post. This was later ment
..." This comic contains many such jokes where the word sphere is replaced by some other object. A {{w|Tesseract|tesseract}} is a four-dimensional analog of t
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...of "It's Complicated"''' refers to one of Facebook's options as to what a user's relationship status currently is. A Jungle-Bay Mountain is a complicated
*'''{{w|Classmates.com}}''' is a service in which the user can meet classmates that came from the same high school. The website is pro
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...many sharp glass pieces but would also cover the hands of the unfortunate user with a mixture of mild but not harmless chemicals. Also, depending on this
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...l remove all contents of the specified directories and will not prompt the user beforehand. Under the guise of "{{w|Software portability|portability}}", th
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...shown in the comic, however, is "deep cleaning", and rips out not only the user's pore gunk, but also his entire skull. However, the skull looks extremely
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...parties where the packet comes from and where it should go (together with some other details). The payload is the data to be transmitted.
...ould require encouraging or discouraging women to have children (or as one user pointed out, either conceiving children himself, or causing abortions or mi
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...east in the beginning, only a few top-level domains were accepted.) If the user entered an acceptable domain (by xkcd's rules, which apparently changed dur
In some cases, Megan's reply seems to correspond to the company.
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...in fact, sites that use this branding in their advertisements and/or their user interface which is likely what inspired [[Randall]] to write this comic. Cu
...t was limiting posts to 140 characters, it was still popular enough to get some attention and make someone think about going to the site. Sending messages
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| titletext = ALERT: Some pending mandatory software updates require version 21.1.2 of the Oracle/Sun
...atically by default, but the operating system might install them only if a user allows it to. The frequency of software changes (and changes in the way Ado
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...the {{w|File Explorer|Windows Explorer}}, a dialog box opens to inform the user of how many of the files being moved have been moved with an estimate of ho
...lemented and that the person who did so actually talks like that. He tells some friends on the phone how long it will take for him to arrive at their meeti
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...ame suggests, these systems are meant to be used by multiple people or {{w|User (computing)|users}}, sometimes at the same time. To prevent malicious or ac
...operating systems' administrator accounts. It makes the argument that the user's data is more valuable than the integrity of the system. This is arguably
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...ees Celsius, you'd be quite comfortable outside dressed for the beach) but some of the benchmarks are humorous and/or completely useless as can be seen bel
Some people argue for switching to metric units in the US, and these people beca
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...’t see each other’s faces or properly identify that they’re human in some way.
In the first two panels, [[Cueball]] is exchanging some possibly profane insults with the other [[Cueball]]. [[Megan]] takes hold o
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...rification system to stop automatic submissions to web forms by asking the user to do something a computer program could not do, such as type a distorted w
Another reason why a CAPTCHA like this won't be very practical is that some humans haven't necessarily seen the movie in the question and would be unab
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...ill allow users to find all songs that contain a particular tag; so when a user searches for "Country breakup music," they will receive a list of {{w|Count
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...less lover, lacking that experience, might fumble with the clasp for quite some time. In the heat of the moment, a lover may feel frustrated if they feel t
...impediment. A normal bra clasp can be tricky enough for the inexperienced user, but the addition of the Rubik's Cube element is going too far. Not to ment
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...uggests that if you have synesthesia as well as {{w|colorblindness}}, then some of the colors might appear identical and so one number would not be visible
...no one set of color-number associations seen by all synesthetes. So while some synesthete might see '2' as green and '0' as red (so a red-green color-blin
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This is Randall's first map of online communities, with a successor (showing some zoomed-in highlights of the map) at [[802: Online Communities 2]]. As Randa
...ut with small letters making it spell "Noob," slang for a "Newbie" or "New user" — a person less experienced with the internet, as many of the sites to t
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{{w|Slashdot}} is a venerable techie site. On many sites, the user base can vote comments "up" or "down," but at Slashdot, only moderators (th
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...ho took their internet access seriously would have preferred that at least some of the phone wiring and phone jacks in their residences were {{w|Ethernet}}
The title text, which is a reference to foonetic user relsqui, was changed to correct their name to "Finn" after they came out as
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...ng these dots outwards towards the edge of the screen before disappearing. Some of the "stars" appear to pass closer to the viewing point than others, resu
...rtainment System}} game {{w|Duck Hunt}}, originally published in 1984. The user would point the Zapper at the connected television screen while playing Duc
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...uld prove to be very influential in the development of personal computing. Some of the technologies demonstrated found success in the following decades, wh
...nown today as "cut, copy and paste". On some early text-based systems, the user moved the cursor to the beginning of the text to be copied, typed <CTRL>+K+
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:How to freak out a mobile app user.
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...quito. Although rather innocuous, these ringtones can get very annoying to some people, which is what this comic is getting at.
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Many computer systems that let the user write in a number only work with certain numbers (such as positive numbers)
...The service Amazon Prime is provided by {{w|Amazon.com|Amazon}}, where the user pays a flat annual fee and in exchange they get access a number of "enhance
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...hey can be downloaded. This comic depicts a {{w|dialog box}} requiring the user to confirm if they want to download a potentially dangerous file — an
..."<tt>~tilde/pub/cia-bin/etc</tt>". The first part is a public folder of a user named "tilde" (which is also the name for the {{w|tilde|~ symbol}}), "<tt>c
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...erceived as rude, antisocial, or in need of help. On the other hand, if a user simply abandons his or her account without cleaning it up, then even years
...omputer programs typically require access to many resources at a time, and some of those resources may only be available insofar as the program has access
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...ffense}}". Black Hat's goal seems to be to interfere with the Google Glass user potentially recording the person with the laser, and possibly blinding Goog
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...dae c|c}} || Stampy || Most likely a reference to [https://www.youtube.com/user/stampylonghead stampylonghead], although it could be a reference to the ele
|{{w|HD|g}} || How Do I Join the IAU || This implies that the user "got lost" on the IAU website and thought that the "planet name suggestion"
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...munication, one that bypasses the standard telecom companies and gives the user a range of controls such as which device is called depending on who is call
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...s without answers. Some questions have simple answers, some are difficult, some have many different potential answers, but all of them show humans seeking
...ral rule, section numbers work top to bottom, then right to left. A Reddit user has also [https://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/1l3na7/questions/cbvigrd a
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...es for web design. Social media sites in particular often sort comments by user rating; as such, the most appreciated comments are given the most prominenc
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...is a fixed element, and can't be controlled by the user. This prevents the user from navigating through the images at their own pace or viewing any one ima
...always allowed users to browse galleries in a normal grid layout and with user-controlled photo-by-photo full-window layout.
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...is {{w|intrinsic value (ethics)|intrinsically valuable}} in its own right. Some (but not all) programmers and mathematicians find recursive functions elega
...ectations. First, expressions of the form "X combines some trait of Y with some trait of Z" usually talk about combining traits of two different things (i.
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...ead. People accustomed to this form of reading often do it absentmindedly. Some people simply highlight parts of an article they're consulting without rega
...creates satisfaction. Different highlighting patterns may be caused by the user's browser, the site provided, or by simply dragging one's cursor across the
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...4 {{w|Tab (GUI)|tabs}} on {{W|Google Chrome}} on a {{w|1080p}} screen, the user can no longer see any text on the tabs. Long before this point (~20 tabs),
...g browsing when an auto-playing video does not begin playing until after a user has moved on to a new tab, when a page with a video refreshes in the backgr
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...software keyboards simply display a standard QWERTY keyboard and allow the user to tap on the letters they wish to enter, but this is slow. More sophistica
...to text him at all. His statement that the app is better than SwiftKey "in some ways" is literally true — it's better for ''him'', not for Cueball.
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...uters that authenticate users via passwords need to be able to know if the user typed in the right password. But storing the password itself on the compute
...means that common password portions should be easy to recover and that any user may be "compromised" by someone else using a part of the same password and
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...lly consists of the user's name, email address, phone number, and also the user's home address if ordering a product that must be shipped by mail. It's not
...tomatically linked your false-name account with your real name account, in some cases banning and blocking people with suspected false name accounts.
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...or to check tomorrow's weather. Strangers and other people surrounding the user would often find it annoying to hear someone talking to "himself", or to ''
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...a chat room intended to ask for help, accessible through the help page of some unnamed old Windows utility. The people who found the chat room started out
A chat room like this must be hosted on some outside server, so the narrator of the comic wonders who runs this server.
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...lling sites and deep-linking correctly they are typically useless when the user is reading infinite-scrolling data (or worse, flat-out counterproductive, g
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...his comics posting {{w|Google+}}), attempt to aggregate all aspects of the user's online social presence. Earlier social networks had more granular focuses
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...computer after installing. This is often done by popup window shown to the user where they can choose to restart immediately or choose to be reminded later
...uter takes a significant amount of time and closes any programs running, a user may delay the update repeatedly to avoid interrupting what they were doing
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...to include the pitch drop experiment, but it turns out the gif format has some issues with decade-long loops."><tr>
...to include the pitch drop experiment, but it turns out the gif format has some issues with decade-long loops.
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...' could be interpreted as something of a threat, which is believable given some of the purported features. It is similar to the phrase ''"The last suit you
...edible objects, much less orally taken medicines{{Citation needed}}. Since some parents of young children let them teethe on their phones, this would be an
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Some people enjoy watching video games being played by other people (usually 'po
...agarden.net/wiki/Dome_and_Helix_Fossils Helix Fossil], an in-game item. As user input often leads to checking of the in-game backpack followed by erratic c
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...billions), only the very first results are mapping to the real idea of the user. The second page is not helpful for the issue.
...ally means a site has not been updated since the mid 90s, though there are some people trying to bring them back for nostalgia reasons.
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...you get". In regards to computers, it refers to text editors in which the user can see exactly what will be published as they are typing it. The comic com
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...design choice by the programmer most likely on the basis that the intended user is considered more likely to want to change the font color than to change t
...to do a simple action, such as display a message on the screen, or ask the user for a number. This is also true when a programmer is working in a language
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...f the user submitted dialogue and updates over time based on statistics of user clicks. In this manner, it is a reference to the butterfly effect: a phrase
...ecause more than four are already present or new options will be added and some options may even disappear). An option is thus only saved by choosing it an
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...off the shoulder of Orion, c-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. I should probably patch OpenSSL.
...tificate is registered the browser accepts it automatically, otherwise the user gets a popup to accept or reject this insecure certificate.
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...ncluded are many sensitive bits of information, including a master key and user passwords. One of the passwords shown is "CoHoBaSt", a reference to [[936:
...this bug in the underlying {{w|OpenSSL}} software — the use of the term "User Meg" does not imply that Meg had to authenticate first.
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...at his fan fiction - the former is less likely than the latter considering some of the other files mentioned, so it is most likely a fan fiction). The seri
...rily to install programs. A folder named "Temp" might also be created by a user to store unimportant text or image files, not intending or caring to give i
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...o using one's ISP's DNS servers (because of caching effects due to a large user base), as well as less susceptible to censorship. When Turkey started block
...n desired at short notice, even though they may in fact have a significant user base. A recent example of that is the closure of the RSS aggregation servic
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...e out like the Morse Code, Cueball describes it as "a nice place to go for some peace and quiet".
:Cueball: It's a nice place to go for some peace and quiet, I suppose.
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: A humorous function. Rather than having some sort of feature to prevent breakage or cracking when a drop is detected, th
...l campaign ads, so their partnership with a phone manufacturer would imply some sort of political motive to its design.
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| titletext = But still, my scheme for creating and saving user config files and data locally to preserve them across reinstalls might be u
...f "inventions" which seem new from the point of view of a {{w|smartphone}} user but have already been around for a long time on desktop or {{w|laptop}}/not
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...creenshot was the joke in [[1815: Flag]], where a 35% battery charge is of some minor concern to the intended recipients of the flag.
...of unreadable user information. The post contains a picture posted by the user, and it is a screenshot of a chat/SMS conversation from another phone. The
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...o have ways to deal with this, such as moving the rockets farther from the user, but there are many other practical issues which have made this an impracti
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...nies like {{w|Google}}, must, one way or another, control what content the user sees, whether to present users with a limited selection of all postings, or
...ion, so it can come as a shock when the service uses the data in a way the user hadn't anticipated.
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A request from a database by a user is called a "query". {{w|SQL}} (Structured Query Language) is a programming
...The query would then, presumably, see all the people that were deleted. In some implementations of databases deleted records are still hidden and remain un
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:A well-known scientist (some say it was {{W|Bertrand Russell}}) once gave a public lecture on astronomy.
...ent sets of comic panels. Not all white and all black panels are the same; some sets involve more than two different panels, but all involve repetitive til
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**This has been done by more than one user here. The second to mention this has explained how on his [http://azttm.wor
*Some of the pictures are almost identical, but have different titles by Randall.
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...ne whether the user is in a national park, Ponytail plans to determine the user's location using the mobile device. This location will then be cross checke
:Cueball: When a user takes a photo, the app should check whether they're in a national park...
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...s/images/searchbyimage.html Search by Image] feature. In this feature, the user uploads an image rather than providing a keyword to search on, and is prese
...ls of where or how the storage or processing is done are obscured from the user, as if it all takes place inside a cloud. In 2014, cloud computing ''as a c
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When saving documents, the user is typically prompted to choose a filename, which may seem like a trivial c
...ave "copy 2", "copy 3", etc. appended. When searching documents later, the user may struggle to remember which copy is the correct one to use.
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...is even worse by far, but MaxHD sounds similar to FullHD, so it could fool some users into thinking that this is equal or better. Yet any resolution higher
...s because the texture can be more physically stimulating to the genitalia. Some other objects can be advertised with the word ribbed as well, but mostly in
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...for different applications, and differences between "universal time" and a user's local time zone. Randall has previously advocated for widespread adoption
*%D expands to %m/%d/%y, which is "month/day/2-digit year" in the user's local time zone rather than UTC. ("12/30/14" - see below)
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...ones. The term "location sharing" specifically refers to when a smartphone user shares their location with such an entity. An example is a weather app whic
...berg {{w|uncertainty principle}}, which, in quantum mechanics, states that some pairs of values cannot be known precisely and simultaneously. The most famo
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...two screw types drawn, Phillips and Flat. More advanced users usually have some less standard drivers, such as {{w|Torx}} or {{w|Allen key|Allen}}, however
...el when faced with a screw for which they have no screwdriver. Usually the user will try to fit one of the drivers they have handy into the strange screw,
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...("off-screen") will make the window both inaccessible and invisible to the user, precluding them from closing it and re-gaining access to the software.
...also forces the operating system to redraw all windows on the desktop, and some operating systems will also validate the coordinates of all windows and adj
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...extract notes from them). As songs play several dozen notes a minute (and some songs, many more), this would lead to the flooding of friends' notification
...ore.'' Since many songs in similar {{w|Key (music)|keys}} contain at least some of the notes posted, you would be given a list of a large part of the music
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...nstructions for performing a task, usually on a computer. This comic lists some algorithms in increasing order of complexity, where complexity may refer to
...autonomously, i.e. without a human controller. Vehicles that require zero user-guidance on the roads were commonly predicted to become widely available in
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...), that are very concerned with securing the users data, his setup failed (some portions may even have caught fire? He is not sure). This has caused him to
...hat most of the content is created by the users. However he must have made some pictures to get it all started, and at least one of these can be seen [[150
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**[[#User names|User names]]
**[[#User pictures|User pictures]] (a description of possible images next to users)
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...xkcloud/Pictures of other pages|Pictures of other pages]] the following 27 user pictures can be found.
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*It is uncertain if the user name and user picture remain constant, as these have changed in the past.
*A full list of user names and user pictures are listed on [[1506: xkcloud]].
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...(hence the title of the comic) by using the arrow keys, assuming that the user is on a desktop computer or a laptop. If they are on a mobile device such
...r, “ten hundred”) most common words to provide simple explanations for some of the most interesting stuff there is, including:
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...is below the ask button. The text in the input field can be changed by the user before pressing the ask button. After the submit button is pressed, 1 to 3
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The comic [[1525: Emojic 8 Ball]] answers a user's question by returning one to three randomly-chosen emoji symbols.
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...(green onions) are similar sounding foods, therefore may be confusing for some individuals (perhaps including [[Randall]]). The final grouping on the lowe
The comic inspired several groups to play out versions of the bracket. One user-voting based match-up on twitter, [https://twitter.com/xkcdbracket XKCD Bra
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...perating Systems to mobile can be observed. Beyond the present day, we see some of Randall's humorous predictions as to which technologies and companies wi
...se of Microsoft's controversial {{w|Windows Vista}} and the advent of more user-friendly Linux distributions.
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...heroes must determine whether an unknown agent is friend or foe, which in some such media occurs by shouting through locked doors. It is not likely that R
...er lyrics-site, which also has [http://genius.com/3134866 explanations] to some parts of the text, it means that G and MC likes it (sex) together with {{w|
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*It is uncertain if the user name and user picture remain constant, as these have changed in the past.
*A full list of user names and user pictures are listed on [[1506: xkcloud]].
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...t can be compared to an angry groan in real life. Cueball is about to give some advice, but is confused by a quirk in what White Hat typed. All the charact
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...xpressions. Variation and lack of a clearly more intuitive behaviour leads some languages to have weird results when you mix types.
...+ "2"</code> uses the <code>+</code> operator on a number and a string. In some programming languages, this might result in the number <code>4</code> in ma
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...t few of them have given Google or Facebook their medical history. However some leaks have proven quite the opposite. In the [http://www.somethingawful.com
:Megan: Maybe it's best to accept that some of this big-picture planning is just happening on autopilot.
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| {{w|Seven-league boots}} are mythical boots that allow their user to move seven leagues (21 miles) per step. The "expedited shipping" part su
...-sized saddle' is presumably a very small saddle that's only usable if the user was a baby and was trying to ride a small animal such as a bobcat.
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...n for the ear. Could also be implying that there's a screen protecting the user's ear from the phone's internals, or the reverse.
...result of the phone being so exciting or frustrating that it increases its user's heart rate.
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...for decryption, and as its name implies, is meant to be used solely by the user.
...es sent to him, thus defeating the entire purpose of encryption. (Although some systems can confirm the message sender by having a secret encryption key an
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...HD|g}} || Old || How Do I Join the {{w|IAU}} || This implies that the
user "got lost" on the IAU website and thought that the "planet name suggestion"
[email protected] || Similar to "How Do I Join the IAU", this implies that the
user confused the "planet suggestion" text box for a new email they are trying t
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...prepare their taxes. More recently, software-based solutions that walk the user through a series of more understandable text-based questions are available
...uggests it might actually be possible to create an board game enjoyable to some people from the process of preparing a tax return.
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...Often the operating system (OS) needs periodic updates, which might break some apps which in turn need to be updated; apps themselves might need to be upd
*IRC for some reason: {{w|Internet Relay Chat}}.
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...ld be noted that this app would not guarantee the minimum travel time. The user doesn't find out which route was fastest until after the first ghost has ar
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...om#Headquarters|Amazon HQ}} (or its distribution hubs) to an arbitrary end-user as shown in the comic. Beyond a certain (already impractical) point, it mi
...necessarily'' safely drinkable. Water filters at the destination can solve some of these problems.
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...setting trees on fire. They're impossible to use without severe burns, but some of them swear it's worth it.
...es would indeed cause the user severe burns in a very unpleasant area. But some of the enthusiasts swear that it is still worth it, in the same manner that
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A different user-made version for the picture using Celsius instead of Fahrenheit can be fou
...tions the weather symbols are all of the same three types. Sun, clouds and some kind of {{w|precipitation}}, rain or snow. And the temperature range from 2
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...comics|April fools' comics]], [[1350: Lorenz]] and [[1506: xkcloud]], the user does not move anything, but only supplies choices, text and drawings. Howev
...would not be likely to find it by chance without these leads (or at least some of the several other hints from people on the ground [http://www.explainxkc
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...appily doing repetitive mundane tasks but then threatening the life of its user, [[Cueball]], if he as much as considers unplugging it.
...here is an arm in three sections (going down, up and down again) ending in some kind of tool close to Cueball.]
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...hair on white background. Below the pictures and below the text there are some unreadable information (indicated by wiggly lines) for the users name and t
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...needs to be repaired is an emergency situation, so it is important to have some less important glass to break, to be able to get to the important ''emergen
...above-mentioned fire extinguisher cabinet, for instance, ensuring that the user will not cut themselves when breaking the glass to retrieve it. But Randall
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...e are extensions to browsers that try to remove ads from web pages, so the user is not distracted by them. [[624: Branding]] shows what "browsing without a
:*Someone inserted an ad in the stack description. Some sites do insert ads in the middle of tables and lists, a typical case being
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...work of authenticating the bot's identity and sending the messages, so the user can concentrate on the fun parts.
...eshooting|| Cueball is having some trouble with his bot and is looking for some information about resolving the problem.
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...r ramps and circulation/reversing areas. Normally, they work by having the user drive their car onto an elevator and get out, after which the elevator lift
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...iz for knowledge of U.S. geography (the link is to such a map created by a user of this site); most people recognize states primarily by their relative loc
...been rotated, often to follow the new rotation of the state in the map. So some are written upside down or have been rotated 90 degrees clockwise or counte
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...ctates never logging in as root; instead you stay logged in as your normal user, and run system admin accounts via <code>sudo program name</code>. This pre
...l a copy of the package under $HOME/.npm and pip would work as long as the user is working in a [https://iamzed.com/2009/05/07/a-primer-on-virtualenv/ virt
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...became part of the comics. This time the user input is like a game, as the user actively adds, moves and deletes items, and new items appear based on these
...ur '''Garden'''", being a barren landscape, with a small pond to the left, some rocks at the far left and right, and a single lamp shining light yellow lig
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**Please post your user name if putting it in the first section.
...Experimental gardens|experimental gardens]] that you do not wish to post a user name post them below in the experimental gardens.
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...ts are used to illustrate the progress of the [[1663: Garden/Users gardens|user gardens]].
***Some gardens seemed to saturate and not produce any new growth rather quickly. (
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...ler to know how to call and process the blocks, and make it easier for the user to edit them without having to keep track of the minutae of how they are ha
...rogram is running; such as when the program's GUI window is resized by the user, changing the available 'virtual screen' canvas.
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...each of which suggests the author is perversely misusing or overextending some computer technology. The overall impression is of someone technically sophi
...V, and .ODS files, as these all record tabulated information. However, for some reason Randall wants to convert an image file to a spreadsheet. (This is ac
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...nt texture from the area surrounding the deleted part instead of copying a user-specified area exactly.
...replaces only parts of code with an updated version, without requiring the user to download the entire source code. Here, it appears the author was told to
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...ay, as some early distinctions are already on a very detailed level before some really important distinctions (fictional or non-political map) are made. Th
...e Exclusion Zone" in the place of Colorado are mentioned. It predicts that some kind of nuclear incident will occur in Colorado (possibly at Rulison or Rio
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..._Lorenz#Knit_Cap_Girl|knit cap]], which could be the same knit cap wearing user that was also used in [[1506: xkcloud]] (see the [[1506:_xkcloud/Transcript
...ussing their cat, but after the above substitution. Next to each post is a user image, and above the clear text of the substituted comment is a unreadable
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...346 posted a link] to the ''List of helicopter prison escapes'' article. A user [https://www.facebook.com/wikipedia/posts/10154133410693346?comment_id=1015
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...tutorials as may be found in many hardcopy product manuals. Unfortunately, some Unix commands tend to be very bloated and include lots of optional behavior
...ed after the program's name to change how the program runs. For example, a user of ''blerp'' might type:
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...sy {{w|source code}} Cueball has written. This comic evidently takes place some time later, as Ponytail now appears to be familiar with Cueball's code, and
...rbled words. The fact that a Scrabble board has criss-crossing words, with some of them traversing the board vertically, would make OCR output even less re
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...a user's password is a resolvable URL, which implies that the server is in some way attempting to resolve passwords as if they were URLs. A resolvable URL
...puter itself or the program that responds to web requests and executes the user's (i.e. Cueball's) application. Cueball would be in charge of building the
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...subwoofer}} is a large bass speaker, which this is not.{{Citation needed}} Some phones do have high-quality speakers for playing music, but these are not p
...oat or maybe a cold, but selecting randomly from all WebMD diagnoses gives some much more ominous — if very unlikely — ones, including {{w|ricin}} pois
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...at the moment... So please feel free to improve. --[[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 14:44, 13 August 2016 (UTC)}}
...n being able to remove the 'incomplete' tag! [[User:BlackHat|BlackHat]] ([[User talk:BlackHat|talk]]) 19:50, 25 October 2020 (UTC)}}
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*Below there are several images and composite images or zoom ins some with number labels, that have been created from the main image in the [[100
The numbering is arbitrary and was determined by [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] who created this sub page in the first place to get the expla
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''{{w|Snapchat}}'' is a photo-sending app that allows the receiving user to view the photo (known as a "snap") only within 24 hours of its posting,
...that Cueball learns about the winner after the 24 hours is up; Thus even a user following the outcome might not be able to see the winning entry after that
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...them. (It should also be noted that such purchasing services encourage the user to set up a PIN code to fend off such exploits.)
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...stone could also have been dropped from an airplane or by a storm. But in some few cases people have actually heard a real meteor falling and found it aft
...u/id/regmaglypts.htm regmaglypts] (the options that by saying no takes the user to the question about seeing it fall), then it is not a meteorite, and then
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...age like "You have new mail" when this mailbox file is updated, but if the user doesn't know how to check this mail file, they will likely just ignore the
...the mail program cron uses will generate an error saying it can't find the user <code>/etc/crontab</code>.
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This comic humorously lists how likely computer code is to function on the user's computer based on the source of the code.
...the storefront -- and so should be expected to run with no effort from the user. Similarly, a package manager for a Linux OS handles downloading and instal
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...last image. His name was one of the [[1506: xkcloud/Transcript#User names|user names]] used in [[1506: xkcloud]].
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...are included about the way people treat privacy policies specifically, and user agreements in general.
...disparage" any of the user's other rights, but then immediately denies the user the right not to quarter troops in their home, which is a constitutional ri
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...consistencies, implausible actions, anachronisms, etc. in the movie. While some people find enjoyment in searching for these errors, to others, the entries
...Movie Database web page showing a list of goofs from a film. Each item has some small illegible text below it, which on the real IMDb would say something l
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...ulting/harassment would involve fundamentally changing their psychology on some level. How exactly the Universal Control Console will make them immune to t
...r arrow and menu options shown above Megan appear to depict aspects of the user interface that Megan is seeing. In [[2240: Timeline of the Universe]] someo
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...onment|CDE}} (Collaborative Development Environment)), which relies on the user creating a series of nested virtual machines inside each other (creating so
A software environment which disables both the machine it runs on and the user that runs it could be thought of as a useless machine.
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...the way in which the user interacts with an app or program is called its "user interface" (UI). For an app, that may be the graphic design of the app, and
Given that some users use some apps many times a day, users tend to learn and get used to the UI of common
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...o newer and still-competing protocols, its endless customizability has led some people to support it above all others.
...logy has led to a superlative messaging network encompassing all people in some supposed, incredible bliss, there is always — in Randall's vision — goi
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...ent projections in [[977: Map Projections]], and expressed his disdain for some types he sees as less efficient but whose users feel superior. None of them
...ar projections are basically only useful for 3D graphics rendering, if the user needs a quick, inexpensive way to store map textures that will later be att
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...firmware, making their chances of connecting even better than the average user.
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...lor: #FFFFFF; padding: 0 11px;">>|</span></li> arrows, which transport the user to the first or most recent comic accordingly. Adjacent to these are the <l
...tom permalinks are used for various versions of the same comic, such as in some of the [[:Category:Interactive comics|interactive comics]] like [[1350: Lor
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...''liquid resize'' was purely aesthetic, whereas this one at least conveys some meaningful information it makes sense that this projection is ranked higher
...ent projections in [[977: Map Projections]], and expressed his disdain for some types he sees as less efficient but whose users feel superior. None of them
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...to QWERTY. The {{w|QWERTY}} keyboard is the standard in the US (as well as some other places using the roman alphabet). This implies that Cueball prefers a
...t requires a second non modifier key to trigger an action. Furthermore the user interfaces in most operation systems don't distinguish between the left and
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...sed for touchscreens, making the phone difficult to use as it would remove some of the colors shown on the screen below the glass. A typical feature notice
...98.6 °F (37 °C) a gallium smartphone chassis would melt in the user's bare hand, assuming it hadn't already done so due to heat produced by its
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...dy considered old, like ''The "chat" tab in an old {{w|Google Doc}}'', but some people keep using them, which is part of the joke. There only seems to be o
...in the 19th century. Naturally, telegraphy is now wildly obsolete (though some local services apparently do still exist) which would explain why Randall c
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...rs share one or more bikes among themselves. Typically the bikes belong to some of the members of the group who are allowing them to be used by other membe
...a common brand of {{w|laser printer}}, suggesting that his laserjet may be some rather more exotic device, such as a {{w|Laser propulsion|laser-propelled}}
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...depicted here, are able to capture in {{w|raw image format}}, allowing the user to adjust the white balance afterwards in software.
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...hem outside of incognito mode; this is usually too complex for the average user), so things such as recommended YouTube videos from within the incognito br
.... As explained above, staying for too long in incognito mode may cause the user to become "stuck" in this mode until something causes the browser to close,
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...y advice in the past has failed to improve their internet security, and in some cases even made things worse. One such example is telling people to create
...Holding one's breath can potentially prevent inhaling germs or poisons in some situations, though useless in the context of computer security. These two
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...ng multiple areas corresponding to the number of photos taken per day by a user and the total time spent reviewing them.
:[Section 2: Some photos taken per day, a limited amount of time spent going through:]
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...t is a light that can be mounted on a gun for use in low-light scenarios. (Some stores in online marketplaces may also call their flashlights "tactical" ju
...pt}} is a popular programming language which makes web pages responsive to user inputs, and while JavaScript arguably solves the problem in a practical man
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...users, sometimes the automatically corrected text will not match what the user intended to send, which can lead to miscommunication.
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The chat section for the actual livestream is disabled, but the comic adds some humorous examples of what the chat section would look like. Several of the
:User #1: Fake
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...cal evidence for the spherical shape of Earth|curved}}, all flat maps have some distortion. (A common comparison is flattening an orange peel, which cannot
.... In addition, if a map includes a {{w|Scale (map)|scale}}, it enables the user to use the ratio to calculate the actual size of the places depicted (thoug
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...such that these buttons are mostly unnecessary - for example, in Gmail, a user will see a new message instantly.
...il the cache entry is expired and a new request to the web server is done. Some browsers may try to avoid this behavior by including special headers in the
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...undamental particles (leptons, quarks and gauge bosons); however there are some exotic composite particles with twice integer charge, e.g. the recently dis
...he mass units shown (kilograms) are, however, far too large for particles. Some particles, such as photons, have zero rest mass and are therefore massless.
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