https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=108.162.221.130&feedformat=atomexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2024-03-19T03:08:35ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1033:_Formal_Logic&diff=1488991033: Formal Logic2017-12-07T20:07:35Z<p>108.162.221.130: /* Explanation */ pointed out that if you love formal logic, you must honk</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1033<br />
| date = March 23, 2012<br />
| title = Formal Logic<br />
| image = formal_logic.png<br />
| titletext = Note that this implies you should NOT honk solely because I stopped for a pedestrian and you're behind me.<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
This comic is a riff on bumper stickers that say "honk if you love ____". Here, the subject is {{w|Mathematical logic|formal logic}}, but the word "if" is replaced with a formal logic term "{{w|If and only if|iff}}," which means "if and only if".<br />
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"If and only if" sets a condition which must be met before a procedure is allowed. In this case, you must love formal logic (condition) in order to be allowed to honk (procedure). The title text further elaborates on this, saying in essence: "Don't honk at me just because you're impatient that I stopped for a pedestrian."<br />
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The joke is the contained self-reference. You have to love formal logic to take the sticker seriously and honk for exclusively that reason. In fact, by logic you MUST honk if you love formal logic. The title text reveals the sticker is actually there to stop people from honking at him altogether, because Randall understandably hates it when he yields for pedestrians only to get honked at by some impatient driver behind him; the ONLY reason you're allowed to honk is to declare your love for formal logic.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[The rear end of a car (with an unreadable license plate), with a bumper sticker over the tailpipe to the right:]<br />
:Honk iff you love <br />
:<big>formal logic</big><br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Logic]]<br />
[[Category:Math]]</div>108.162.221.130https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1917:_How_to_Make_Friends&diff=1480411917: How to Make Friends2017-11-17T16:33:17Z<p>108.162.221.130: prereq</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1917<br />
| date = November 17, 2017<br />
| title = How to Make Friends<br />
| image = how_to_make_friends.png<br />
| titletext = No, wait, come back! I want to be friends at you!<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a user who also doesn't know how to make friends - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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The theme of this comic is social awkwardness. It shows [[Cueball]] (standing in for [[Randall]]) trying to be friends with [[Hairy]]. <br />
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It starts out with a common way of making friends or interacting with friends, hanging out over a meal, which Cueball suggests. Before Hairy can even respond, however, Cueball then says that they could instead "sit together and talk without eating." Although this is indeed another common way to make friends, it's kind of an odd way to phrase it, especially since he didn't even give Hairy a chance to reply to his initial suggestion. Cueball then says he doesn't need to eat (meaning not ''right now'', especially as a prerequisite to talking), but he immediately feels compelled to clarify that he ''does'' need to eat (meaning ''in general''), and again it's weird that he clarified, as his original wording probably would have been understood. He then awkwardly remarks about how he can eat later if Hairy would rather just talk. The overall implication is that Cueball's awkwardness and over-explanation would be off-putting to a typical person.<br />
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This is apparently a situation that Randall has encountered before, and he apologizes for trying to offer advice.<br />
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The title text says Cueball wants to be friends ''at'' Hairy, rather than ''with'' him, which isn't how friendship usually works. "At" implies that Cueball considers being friends to be a unilateral action that he needs to direct towards Hairy, like "smiling at" or "pointing at", and does not understand that it is typically a mutual activity of building a relationship, which would be indicated by being friends ''with'' him.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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:[First panel with words:]<br />
:''Presenting:''<br />
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:How to make friends<br />
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:[Second panel with Cueball and Hairy facing each other:]<br />
:Cueball: Want to go eat food together?<br />
:Cueball: We could also sit together and talk without eating. I don't need to eat. I mean, I do need to eat. But if you don't want to eat then we can just talk. I can eat later.<br />
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:[Third panel with words:]<br />
:''Okay''<br />
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:It turns out I still haven't figured how to do this.<br />
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:''Sorry''<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]]</div>108.162.221.130https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1917:_How_to_Make_Friends&diff=1480401917: How to Make Friends2017-11-17T16:29:24Z<p>108.162.221.130: /* Explanation */ parentheses</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1917<br />
| date = November 17, 2017<br />
| title = How to Make Friends<br />
| image = how_to_make_friends.png<br />
| titletext = No, wait, come back! I want to be friends at you!<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a user who also doesn't know how to make friends - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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The theme of this comic is social awkwardness. It shows [[Cueball]] (standing in for [[Randall]]) trying to be friends with [[Hairy]]. <br />
<br />
It starts out with a common way of making friends or interacting with friends, hanging out over a meal, which Cueball suggests. Before Hairy can even respond, however, Cueball then says that they could instead "sit together and talk without eating." Although this is indeed another common way to make friends, it's kind of an odd way to phrase it, especially since he didn't even give Hairy a chance to reply to his initial suggestion. Cueball then says he doesn't need to eat (meaning not ''right now''), but he immediately feels compelled to clarify that he ''does'' need to eat (meaning ''in general''), and again it's weird that he clarified, as his original wording probably would have been understood. He then awkwardly remarks about how he can eat later if Hairy would rather just talk. The overall implication is that Cueball's awkwardness and over-explanation would be off-putting to a typical person.<br />
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This is apparently a situation that Randall has encountered before, and he apologizes for trying to offer advice.<br />
<br />
The title text says Cueball wants to be friends ''at'' Hairy, rather than ''with'' him, which isn't how friendship usually works. "At" implies that Cueball considers being friends to be a unilateral action that he needs to direct towards Hairy, like "smiling at" or "pointing at", and does not understand that it is typically a mutual activity of building a relationship, which would be indicated by being friends ''with'' him.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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:[First panel with words:]<br />
:''Presenting:''<br />
<br />
:How to make friends<br />
<br />
:[Second panel with Cueball and Hairy facing each other:]<br />
:Cueball: Want to go eat food together?<br />
:Cueball: We could also sit together and talk without eating. I don't need to eat. I mean, I do need to eat. But if you don't want to eat then we can just talk. I can eat later.<br />
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:[Third panel with words:]<br />
:''Okay''<br />
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:It turns out I still haven't figured how to do this.<br />
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:''Sorry''<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]]</div>108.162.221.130https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1917:_How_to_Make_Friends&diff=1480391917: How to Make Friends2017-11-17T16:25:40Z<p>108.162.221.130: a little more</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1917<br />
| date = November 17, 2017<br />
| title = How to Make Friends<br />
| image = how_to_make_friends.png<br />
| titletext = No, wait, come back! I want to be friends at you!<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a user who also doesn't know how to make friends - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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The theme of this comic is social awkwardness. It shows [[Cueball]] (standing in for [[Randall]]) trying to be friends with [[Hairy]]. <br />
<br />
It starts out with a common way of making friends or interacting with friends, hanging out over a meal, which Cueball suggests. Before Hairy can even respond, however, Cueball then says that they could instead "sit together and talk without eating." Although this is indeed another common way to make friends, it's kind of an odd way to phrase it, especially since he didn't even give Hairy a chance to reply to his initial suggestion. Cueball then says he doesn't need to eat, meaning he doesn't need to eat ''right now'', but he immediately feels compelled to clarify that he ''does'' need to eat, meaning ''in general'', and again it's weird that he clarified, as his original wording probably would have been understood. He then awkwardly remarks about how he can eat later if Hairy would rather just talk. The overall implication is that Cueball's awkwardness and over-explanation would be off-putting to a typical person.<br />
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This is apparently a situation that Randall has encountered before, and he apologizes for trying to offer advice.<br />
<br />
The title text says Cueball wants to be friends ''at'' Hairy, rather than ''with'' him, which isn't how friendship usually works. "At" implies that Cueball considers being friends to be a unilateral action that he needs to direct towards Hairy, like "smiling at" or "pointing at", and does not understand that it is typically a mutual activity of building a relationship, which would be indicated by being friends ''with'' him.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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:[First panel with words:]<br />
:''Presenting:''<br />
<br />
:How to make friends<br />
<br />
:[Second panel with Cueball and Hairy facing each other:]<br />
:Cueball: Want to go eat food together?<br />
:Cueball: We could also sit together and talk without eating. I don't need to eat. I mean, I do need to eat. But if you don't want to eat then we can just talk. I can eat later.<br />
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:[Third panel with words:]<br />
:''Okay''<br />
<br />
:It turns out I still haven't figured how to do this.<br />
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:''Sorry''<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]]</div>108.162.221.130https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1917:_How_to_Make_Friends&diff=1480381917: How to Make Friends2017-11-17T16:18:04Z<p>108.162.221.130: this joke is tired</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1917<br />
| date = November 17, 2017<br />
| title = How to Make Friends<br />
| image = how_to_make_friends.png<br />
| titletext = No, wait, come back! I want to be friends at you!<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a user who also doesn't know how to make friends - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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The theme of this comic is social awkwardness. It shows [[Cueball]] (standing in for [[Randall]]) trying to be friends with [[Hairy]]. <br />
<br />
It starts out with a common way of making friends or interacting with friends, hanging out over a meal, which Cueball suggests. Before Hairy can even respond, however, Cueball then says that they could instead "sit together and talk without eating." Although this is indeed another common way to make friends, it's kind of an odd way to phrase it, especially since he didn't even give Hairy a chance to reply to his initial suggestion. Cueball then says he doesn't need to eat, meaning he doesn't need to eat ''right now'', but he feels compelled to clarify that he ''does'' need to eat, meaning ''in general'', and again it's odd that he clarified, as his original wording would probably be understood. He then awkwardly talks about how he can eat later if Hairy would rather just talk.<br />
<br />
This is apparently a situation that Randall has encountered before, and he apologizes for trying to offer advice.<br />
<br />
The title text says Cueball wants to be friends ''at'' Hairy, rather than ''with'' him, which isn't how friendship usually works. "At" implies that Cueball considers being friends to be a unilateral action that he needs to direct towards Hairy, like "smiling at" or "pointing at", and does not understand that it is typically a mutual activity of building a relationship, which would be indicated by being friends ''with'' him.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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:[First panel with words:]<br />
:''Presenting:''<br />
<br />
:How to make friends<br />
<br />
:[Second panel with Cueball and Hairy facing each other:]<br />
:Cueball: Want to go eat food together?<br />
:Cueball: We could also sit together and talk without eating. I don't need to eat. I mean, I do need to eat. But if you don't want to eat then we can just talk. I can eat later.<br />
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:[Third panel with words:]<br />
:''Okay''<br />
<br />
:It turns out I still haven't figured how to do this.<br />
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:''Sorry''<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]]</div>108.162.221.130https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1917:_How_to_Make_Friends&diff=1480371917: How to Make Friends2017-11-17T16:17:39Z<p>108.162.221.130: reword and expand explanation a little more</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1917<br />
| date = November 17, 2017<br />
| title = How to Make Friends<br />
| image = how_to_make_friends.png<br />
| titletext = No, wait, come back! I want to be friends at you!<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a user who also doesn't know how to make friends - Please change this comment when editing this page. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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The theme of this comic is social awkwardness. It shows [[Cueball]] (standing in for [[Randall]]) trying to be friends with [[Hairy]]. <br />
<br />
It starts out with a common way of making friends or interacting with friends, hanging out over a meal, which Cueball suggests. Before Hairy can even respond, however, Cueball then says that they could instead "sit together and talk without eating." Although this is indeed another common way to make friends, it's kind of an odd way to phrase it, especially since he didn't even give Hairy a chance to reply to his initial suggestion. Cueball then says he doesn't need to eat, meaning he doesn't need to eat ''right now'', but he feels compelled to clarify that he ''does'' need to eat, meaning ''in general'', and again it's odd that he clarified, as his original wording would probably be understood. He then awkwardly talks about how he can eat later if Hairy would rather just talk.<br />
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This is apparently a situation that Randall has encountered before, and he apologizes for trying to offer advice.<br />
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The title text says Cueball wants to be friends ''at'' Hairy, rather than ''with'' him, which isn't how friendship usually works{{Citation needed}}. "At" implies that Cueball considers being friends to be a unilateral action that he needs to direct towards Hairy, like "smiling at" or "pointing at", and does not understand that it is typically a mutual activity of building a relationship, which would be indicated by being friends ''with'' him.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript|Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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:[First panel with words:]<br />
:''Presenting:''<br />
<br />
:How to make friends<br />
<br />
:[Second panel with Cueball and Hairy facing each other:]<br />
:Cueball: Want to go eat food together?<br />
:Cueball: We could also sit together and talk without eating. I don't need to eat. I mean, I do need to eat. But if you don't want to eat then we can just talk. I can eat later.<br />
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:[Third panel with words:]<br />
:''Okay''<br />
<br />
:It turns out I still haven't figured how to do this.<br />
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:''Sorry''<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Hairy]]</div>108.162.221.130https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:135:_Substitute&diff=145159Talk:135: Substitute2017-09-09T07:13:29Z<p>108.162.221.130: Issue with set theory regarding doors.</p>
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<div>[[User:Rikthoff|Rikthoff]] ([[User talk:Rikthoff|talk]]) The issue date is off, as i can't find a create date for the image. Can anyone fix?<br />
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:Yes, I've fixed the date on the page. [[User:Lcarsos|lcarsos]] ([[User talk:Lcarsos|talk]]) 15:30, 14 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
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1. It takes the raptor 25m/s / 4m/s^2 = 6.25s to reach it's top speed, during which I can run 6.25s * 6m/s = 37.5m. Add on my 40m head start, and I can reach a spot 77.5m away from the raptor before he gets me. In the same time, the raptor can run 4m/s^2 * (6.25s)^2 / 2 = 78.125m. I'm eaten before he's fully up to speed. <br />
Therefore, I have to solve for when the raptors location, r(t) = 4m/s^2 * t^2 /2 - 40, and my location, m(t) = 6m/s*t, are equal. Dropping units, we get 2t^2 -40 = 6t, or 2t^2 - 6t - 40 = 0. Dividing by 2 I get t^2 - 3t - 20=0. Using the quadratic equation, I get (3 +/- sqrt(89))/2, roughly equal to 6.217s and -3.217s. Plugging that back into m(t), I get 37.302m for my terminal run. [[User:Blaisepascal|Blaisepascal]] ([[User talk:Blaisepascal|talk]]) 22:18, 14 September 2012 (UTC)<br />
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I don't think there is enough information to solve the second problem, because you don't know how fast the non-injured raptors go. Unless you take that information from the first problem. But then, how fast does the wounded raptor accelerate? You would have to find the angle where the wounded and the closest non-wounded raptor would meet you at the same time. [[Special:Contributions/213.127.132.140|213.127.132.140]] 17:17, 5 September 2013 (UTC)<br />
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With all three raptors and you running at top speeds, I don't think you get caught by the injured raptor and uninjured raptor at the same time. I believe that you must run directly towards the wounded raptor and the two non-injuried raptors will reach you simultaneously before you and the injured raptor meet, and you cannot do better. After all, you can try to run directly away from an uninjured raptor, but you will lose ground to it at a rate of 25-6=19 m/s (but, it is worst for the other uninjured raptor). By running directly at the injured raptor, you lose ground from it at the rate of 10+6=16 m/s. However, if you can accelerate at a rate far above the raptors, I think you could change directions so fast that one raptor could not catch you. However, I am not sure you can keep away from all three indefinitely. --DrMath 04:01, 24 October 2013 (UTC)<br />
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I did the math and if you run directly towards the wounded raptor it will catch you before the uninjured raptors do. (It would be better to run directly away from the uninjured raptor than it would be to run towards it, but that still not the answer.) As you would cover ~8m if you ran at the wounded raptor and survive for ~1.33s where as the uninjured raptors (assuming they rundirectly towards the point you meet the wounded raptor would take ~2.9s to reach this point. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.178.116|162.158.178.116]] 00:35, 8 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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For 1 and 2 the solution depends on whether the raptors can accelerate at 2m/s, or they actually increase their speed at this rate. If they just accelerate, It should be possible to do tight circles, and even wind yourself slowly towards another location. I believe this is possible even treating yourself and the raptors as point masses. [[Special:Contributions/2.102.215.18|2.102.215.18]] 13:19, 17 July 2013 (UTC)<br />
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This could also be a parody of Snape substituting for Lupin (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban) in the Defense against Dark Arts class. Snape assigns homework on werewolves, in the hopes of one of the students connecting the dots. Here, Randall might be trying to get the students to suspect that Mrs.Lenhart might be a raptor (out of sympathy, or just being a classhole?). Also [[155]]. [[Special:Contributions/208.124.118.63|208.124.118.63]] 18:58, 1 October 2013 (UTC)BK201<br />
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There is a problem with the test, as Mr. Munroe wrote it: Question #1 says that a raptor has a top speed of 25 m/s, but question #3 says "Remember, raptors run at 10 m/s...". Furthermore, question #2 says an injured raptor runs at 10 m/s.<br />
:The way I resolved that was that raptors wouldn't be able to run straight long enough to reach their top speed inside of a building. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.161|108.162.237.161]] 23:53, 27 April 2015 (UTC)<br />
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BTW, the answer to question #2 is: run straight toward the injured raptor. The uninjured raptors will run toward you and the injured raptor. Just as you get close to the injured one, slide under his legs. Because he is injured, the uninjured raptors will feast on him instead of you. [[Special:Contributions/173.245.55.227|173.245.55.227]] 20:58, 13 December 2013 (UTC)<br />
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:This presumes the raptors are cannibalistic. -Pennpenn [[Special:Contributions/162.158.2.221|162.158.2.221]] 05:30, 15 June 2015 (UTC)<br />
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::In the original Jurassic park book, the little children get chased through the hatchery, and they try to use a baby raptor to distract the raptors chasing them, but the small raptor gets ripped to shreds. Raptors are merciless and horrible beings. Randall is right to hate them.[[User:RedHatGuy68|RedHatGuy68]] ([[User talk:RedHatGuy68|talk]]) 01:28, 29 October 2015 (UTC)<br />
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::I solved it by being a t-rex and just eating the raptors. It's amazing how many math problems become easier when you're a t-rex. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.69|162.158.255.69]] 23:29, 16 September 2015 (UTC)<br />
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What if they're utahraptors or nanotyranus [[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.120|108.162.245.120]] 07:14, 13 October 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Question 3 is inaccurate: Using the knowledge gleaned from the movie, we can only assume raptors can open <i>some</i> doors. i.e., those with lever handles. Given their anatomy, it is unlikely that they would achieve proficiency with the more standard round-knob-based doors. --Electro-- [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.130|108.162.221.130]] 07:13, 9 September 2017 (UTC)</div>108.162.221.130https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1812:_Onboarding&diff=1375231812: Onboarding2017-03-18T14:33:32Z<p>108.162.221.130: type, not -> no</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1812<br />
| date = March 17, 2017<br />
| title = Onboarding<br />
| image = onboarding.png<br />
| titletext = 'So we just have a steady flow of metal piling up in our server room? Isn't that a problem?' 'Yeah, you should bring that up at our next bismuth meeting.'<br />
}}<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
This is another in the series of [[Beret Guy]]'s mysterious business, in which he shows new employee [[Ponytail]] around the building in which the company resides. <br />
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=== Existential Welcome ===<br />
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The first panel starts out as a typical welcoming of the new employee to a small indie business. The process of showing a new employee around the business and starting to get them introduced to people and systems and procedures is often referred to as "{{w|onboarding}}" – hence the title of this comic. Very quickly, however, his explanation jumps to an existential viewpoint. Very rarely do conversations or introductions involve discussing the eventual fate of our bodies, and certainly not in a professional light as in this comic. Beret, however, has no problem with discussing death and decay as just part of his business. This seemingly contradicts the title text in [[1493: Meeting|Meeting]], where it is claimed that employees of the company can not physically die. Alternatively, this is a literal statement, perhaps related to the cursed Wi-Fi mentioned later in the comic.<br />
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=== Bikeshare ===<br />
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In the second panel, Beret shows Ponytail the free bikeshare system this business apparently has in place. {{w|Bicycle-sharing system|Bikesharing}} is a system in which many users share one or more bikes amongst themselves. Typically the bikes belong to some of the members of the group who are allowing them to be used by other members who may not have one, but Beret calmly remarks that this system will only exist "until whoever owns those bikes finds out", implying that they were not donated or shared by any member of the group, but are being used without permission or the knowledge of the true owner of the bikes. <br />
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=== Printer === <br />
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In the third panel, Beret explains the Laserjet ''and'' the printer. This is a bit disconcerting, since the {{w|HP LaserJet}} is in fact a common brand of {{w|laser printer}}, suggesting that Beret's Laserjet may be some rather more exotic device, such as a {{w|Laser propulsion|laser-propelled}} {{w|jet aircraft}}. In any case, however, the printer is not available, as it's been printing an infinite-scroll web page since 2013.<br />
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An [[wikt:infinite scroll|infinite-scrolling web page]] is a web page that, as the name implies, seems to have no end. This style of webpage typically has no definite pages or sections, but instead continues to feed data to the screen as the user scrolls. In reality, trying to print one of these would only print the current section the user was viewing, and even if it was somehow able to infinitely print, the operator could theoretically cancel the operation at any time. Either this continuous printing serves some useful purpose, e.g. prints latest news, or Beret doesn't know how to stop it/does not care. Mistaken print jobs are sometimes notoriously difficult to stop due to many levels of buffering (application, printer driver, OS spooler, print server, printer device) and lapses in job control software.<br />
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Infinite scrolling (in the sense of an annoying UI design style for browsing large but finite documents) was previously covered in [[1309: Infinite Scrolling]]. A similar separation of the phrase "laserjet printer" has been explored in [[1681: Laser Products]].<br />
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=== Infrastructure Buzzwords ===<br />
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In the next (lower left) panel, Beret makes a few more remarks. He claims that the restrooms are "all-digital -- no pipes." While many technology standards nowadays are entirely digital, one's restroom is one of the things that most definitely should not be. A restroom without pipes would have no way to transfer bodily waste, and would most certainly be at the very least an unpleasant encounter. The Wi-Fi is "very fast, but cursed." Fast Wi-Fi is certainly desirable, but in this case, Beret claims it is also cursed. Whether the curse is a side-effect of the fast Wi-Fi or totally unrelated is left unsaid, as well as what the curse is. This could possibly be a joke relating to some of the quirks of Wi-Fi. While all technology can behave inexplicably from time to time, Wi-Fi is notorious for randomly losing connection, which might be seen as a curse. [[1772: Startup Opportunity|Knowing Beret]], though, it's probably literal.<br />
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He then explains that the server room is {{w|carbon neutrality|carbon-neutral}}. Normally, this would mean that it is designed to be environmentally friendly by reducing and offsetting its carbon emissions enough that it has no net effect on the environment. The term is a little bit confusing because the meaning is of course carbon-dioxide-neutral. But while carbon is not a common material used in servers, {{w|Bismuth|bismuth}} is used as lead replacement in {{w|solder}}. While this replacement is often used because of the toxicity of lead, in this case it refers to an IBM mainframe computer where the Bi<sub>58</sub>Sn<sub>42</sub> alloy is used because of its low temperature soldering characteristics. So producing bismuth would destroy all the electric connections in the server. An alternative explanation is a {{w|Lead-cooled fast reactor|compact nuclear reactor}} in the server room which can both make server room carbon-neutral <em>and</em> leak bismuth.<br />
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=== Lin-Manuel Miranda ===<br />
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In the last two panels, Beret explains that Ponytail will be working on the infrastructure, which is apparently maintained by Lin-Manuel Miranda. {{w|Lin-Manuel Miranda}}, among other things, is a songwriter, but certainly not an engineer or anyone qualified to be responsible for an entire infrastructure. Ponytail clearly knows this and is surprised by this fact. (This echoes [[1665: City Talk Pages]], which includes a train station designed by {{w|Andrew Lloyd Webber}}, a composer best known for writing ''{{w|The Phantom of the Opera}}''.<br />
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It is worth noting that Beret actually acknowledges the mistake here, claiming the mistake "cost a fortune." This is unusual for Beret, as he has of yet failed to acknowledge or recognize the oddity of every other aspect of his mysterious business, many of which are certainly stranger than this. However, he doesn't seem to mind this at all and, instead of fixing the mistake (i.e. hiring a real network engineer to supplement or replace Lin-Manuel), he quickly explains the bright side of having Lin-Manuel Miranda in his business, which is apparently that Lin-Manuel is nice and makes {{w|karaoke}} nights fun, referencing his songwriting ability.<br />
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Off screen, Lin-Manuel is heard singing "{{w|How Far I'll Go}}", which is a song that he composed for the recent Disney movie ''{{w|Moana (2016 film)|Moana}}''.<br />
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=== Title Text ===<br />
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The title text mentions the potential dangers of having your server room constantly produce bismuth, but only as a prelude to a bismuth/business pun. Because of the earlier carbon reference, it could also be a parallel to the difficulty in convincing businesses to become more energy efficient and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, even though climate change is accelerating and these things are becoming urgent to the survival of life as we know it.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Beret Guy shakes hands with Ponytail in front of a building.]<br />
:Beret: Hi! Welcome to the team! We do business here and we'll turn into dirt later.<br />
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:[Beret Guy and Ponytail walk by a set of bikes.]<br />
:Beret Guy: This is our main campus. We have a free bikeshare system, at least until whoever owns those bikes finds out.<br />
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:Beret Guy: The LaserJet is over there, and the printer is over there. You can't use it right now; it's been printing an infinite-scroll webpage since 2013.<br />
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:Beret Guy: Restrooms are all-digital -- no pipes. The WiFi is very fast, but cursed. Our server room is carbon-neutral but produces bismuth constantly.<br />
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:Beret Guy: You'll be working on our infrastructure, which is currently maintained by Lin-Manuel Miranda.<br />
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:Ponytail: ...the songwriter? Is he also an engineer?<br />
:Beret Guy: Nope, huge misunderstanding on our part. Cost a fortune. But he's really nice and it makes karaoke nights fun.<br />
:Lin-Manuel Miranda (off-screen): ''How far I'll gooo''<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Puns]]</div>108.162.221.130https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1798:_Box_Plot&diff=1351581798: Box Plot2017-02-13T16:17:32Z<p>108.162.221.130: /* Explanation */</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 1798<br />
| date = February 13, 2017<br />
| title = Box Plot<br />
| image = box_plot.png<br />
| titletext = You have to be careful doing this. Sometimes, when you push the whisker down, dynamite explodes.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|stub, maybe dynamite detonators like this are still in use?}}<br />
This comic refers to {{w|Box plot|box plots}}. The joke arises from how when depicted in the orientation shown, the plot can look like it can be pumped up.<br />
One could say that the "data" in this comic was "inflated."<br />
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The title text refers to how {{w|dynamite}}, an explosive, often used to have detonators which also looked similar to this. These detonators were most commonly used for mining, with a long charge leading to the explosives.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
{{incomplete transcript}}<br />
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{{comic discussion}}<br />
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[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]</div>108.162.221.130