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Talk:event

2025-09-22T14:09:57Z

Dousha99: apologies for the blunders of interpreting the data

What does this mean? [[User:CalibansCreations|'''<span style="color:#ff0000;">Caliban</span>''']] ([[User talk:CalibansCreations|talk]]) 21:41, 16 August 2025 (UTC)
:It means the denizens of this wiki try to document ''everything'' that Randall puts on the website, even if it's apparently a mistake and/or a corrupted file. [[Special:Contributions/70.29.243.228|70.29.243.228]] 17:08, 18 August 2025 (UTC)
Why does this page have the refresh every 60 seconds html attribute? [[User:Preloading|Preloading]] ([[User talk:Preloading|talk]]) 20:43, 25 August 2025 (UTC)

After loading the image into a hex editor, I found that it is not an image, but a UTF-16LE with BOM file. The data look like this:
<div class="toccolours mw-collapsible mw-collapsed">
UTF-16LE with BOM data. There are multiple new lines trailing in the original data. The content may vary.
<div class="mw-collapsible-content">
<pre>
StatusCode : 200
StatusDescription : OK
Content : {255, 216, 255, 224...}
RawContent : HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: keep-alive
Age: 22
X-Served-By: cache-nrt-rjtt7900070-NRT
X-Cache: HIT
X-Cache-Hits: 1
X-Timer: S1756704587.574873,VS0,VE1
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 1359...
Headers : {[Connection, keep-alive], [Age, 22], [X-Served-By, cache-n
rt-rjtt7900070-NRT], [X-Cache, HIT]...}
RawContentLength : 1359

</pre>
</div>
</div>

The <code>Content</code> field does indicate a valid JPEG image. So maybe this is a misconfigured CDN edge? [[User:Dousha99|Dousha99]] ([[User talk:Dousha99|talk]]) 06:13, 1 September 2025 (UTC)

I'm sorry but what the hell are you talking about? > UTF-16LE with BOM file, for starters, the JPG does not contain BOM data (doesn't start with any of the BOM markings), and the JPG does not contain any coherent UTF-16LE text. What I assume you did was just cURL the request, and got back all the header data, and the raw http response that HTTP sends along. You can even see in the Content field the decimal array of the JPG. The actual data is a JPEG, not text. I also assume you ran a command to identify what type of file you got back from your cURL output (or whatever you used to make that request), which is why you said it was "UTF-16LE". [[User:Preloading|Preloading]] ([[User talk:Preloading|talk]]) 16:21, 13 September 2025 (UTC)

My apologies, I must have mistaken the header output for actual file content (since I have encountered similar issues so I assumed it was the same issue I've seen -- you cannot trust what URL have told you but I digress.). The actual <code>newest.jpg</code> is missing the <code>EOI</code> tag and is too short for an image of this dimension. There is no EXIF information. However, the dimensions itself are quite intriguing as they are both multiples of 8, which is the block size used by JPEG format. [[User:Dousha99|Dousha99]] ([[User talk:Dousha99|talk]]) 14:09, 22 September 2025 (UTC)

Talk:event

2025-09-01T06:13:35Z

Dousha99: update on the content of the corrupted image file

Talk:1853: Once Per Day

2021-03-30T13:39:36Z

Dousha99: -

At 60 calories for an apple, 157 calories for the red wine, 74 calories for the egg and assuming 6-7 ounces of dark chocolate, one could take 10 years to starve to death on this diet. But you ain't going to be exercising on only 1300-1400 calories per day.[[User:Seebert|Seebert]] ([[User talk:Seebert|talk]]) 16:22, 21 June 2017 (UTC)
:Depends on the type of exercise. He could mean exercising his mind. But the total time it takes to accomplish all of that (including sleep) means that his "day" would last at most 11 hours. His circadian rhythm is going to be all sorts of messed up. [[User:OldCorps|OldCorps]] ([[User talk:OldCorps|talk]]) 17:56, 21 June 2017 (UTC)

I've tried improving the explanation but in my opinion, it's still quite rough. Feel free to edit phrasing. <span style="background:#0064de;font-size:12px;padding:4px 12px;border-radius:8px;">[[User talk:AgentMuffin|<span style="color:#f0faff;">~AgentMuffin</span>]]</span>

Randall get out of my head! This morning like EVERY working day I took the train to the World Trade Center walked up 130 steps from the platform to the street and another 15 minutes to work. Sat down to eat my daily breakfast of oatmeal plus a spoon of dark bakers cocoa, a hard boiled egg and a cup of coffee. For lunch I will eat a plain Greek yogurt, two pieces of whole grain bread and two fresh fruits (an apple and something else) and at the end of the day I will walk another 15 minutes and down the stairs to the train stop to go home and set the timer to get my healthy 8 hours of sleep. I'm a living Cueball (except I have hair). Ouch! This is no joke. [[User:Rtanenbaum|Rtanenbaum]] ([[User talk:Rtanenbaum|talk]]) 14:30, 22 June 2017 (UTC)

I take issue with the statement that "adults require 6-8 hours of sleep". (Yes, I'm nitpicking, but nitpicking is an ExplainXKCD staple, so nyah! LOL!) As someone who has suffered from sleep issues all his life, I've always paid attention when the subject has come up, and literally EVERY recommendation has been 8 hours for adults, with children requiring more. In recent years I've heard that suggestion adjusted to say less can be okay (but still at least 6), as long as it's once in a while, and the adult usually gets 8 hours. So 6 hours on weeknights isn't enough, 8 hours weeknights and 6 weekend nights would be fine. :) [[User:NiceGuy1|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1|talk]]) 04:40, 27 June 2017 (UTC)
:I added in most of the explanations. There is a reason I said an "average" adult requires somewhere in the range of 6-8 hours, varied by person by age. I know adults who are fully functional on 6 and some(like me) that requires 8. And while anecdotal evidence isn't evidence at all, I phrased it more vaguely to be inclusive. This comic is in general makes fun of the fact that these recommendations are always so specific but would affect people in different ways. [[User:Zazathebot|Zazathebot]] ([[User talk:Zazathebot|talk]]) 21:57, 10 August 2017 (UTC)

The latest researches suggest that any amount of alcohol intake would have a negative impact on health. Drinking wine is no longer considered a healthy practise if you are a teetotaler. [[User:Dousha99|Dousha99]] ([[User talk:Dousha99|talk]]) 13:39, 30 March 2021 (UTC)