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- 01:40, 17 January 2025 (diff | hist) . . (+8) . . 3038: Uncanceled Units (Undid revision 362344 by 172.70.100.12 and edited. Conversion to kJ/day is distracting; the joke is kWh/day => kW, not kWh => kJ (which is somewhat covered by next paragraph).)
- 01:06, 17 January 2025 (diff | hist) . . (-186) . . 3038: Uncanceled Units (Undo revision 362344 by Regex user (talk). Joule is an SI unit. Further reducing to the 7 base SI units (using E=mc^2) is out of scope, and is always ridiculous. (And it doesn't cancel more.))
- 00:59, 17 January 2025 (diff | hist) . . (+1) . . m 3038: Uncanceled Units (fix typos (properly this time))
- 00:59, 17 January 2025 (diff | hist) . . (+314) . . m 3038: Uncanceled Units (Undo revision 362378 by Hddqsb (talk). I accidentally rolled back to an old version.)
- 00:58, 17 January 2025 (diff | hist) . . (-314) . . m 3038: Uncanceled Units (fix typos)
- 00:56, 17 January 2025 (diff | hist) . . (-160) . . 3038: Uncanceled Units (Undo revision 362361 by Fephisto (talk). "Mathematically simplified" is perfectly clear, the "in other words" is just confusing (and uses uncommon acronyms).)
- 00:54, 17 January 2025 (diff | hist) . . (-28) . . 3038: Uncanceled Units (Undo revision 362363 by TheHYPO (talk) and clarify. The (main) joke is that kWh/day has two time units that cancel, not that W is a composite unit that includes a time unit (it's mentioned later).)
- 00:41, 17 January 2025 (diff | hist) . . (-133) . . 3038: Uncanceled Units (Undo revision 362364 by TheHYPO (talk). The examples I found only report kWh/year, not W. And we have to be careful because a power rating might be for the maximum, while 125W is the average.)
- 04:29, 16 January 2025 (diff | hist) . . (-531) . . 3038: Uncanceled Units (Rewrite and simplify main explanation. The joke is that "kW * h / day" has two time units that cancel. The the first long paragraph of the previous explanation completely missed this.)
- 05:01, 1 November 2023 (diff | hist) . . (+125) . . Talk:2848: Breaker Box (edited no friction section)
- 04:59, 1 November 2023 (diff | hist) . . (+83) . . 2848: Breaker Box (→Table of the breakers labels: there are ways to light a fire without friction; also remove extra line breaks)
- 04:58, 1 November 2023 (diff | hist) . . (-111) . . 2848: Breaker Box (→Table of the breakers labels: no-friction allows perpetual motion but doesn't allow generating energy; and it's still possible to hold objects, just need to surround/support (credit: 172.70.90.230))
- 14:29, 15 September 2023 (diff | hist) . . (+497) . . Talk:2828: Exoplanet Observation (The word "shadow") (current)
- 12:00, 14 September 2023 (diff | hist) . . (-5) . . m 2828: Exoplanet Observation
- 11:59, 14 September 2023 (diff | hist) . . (-81) . . 2828: Exoplanet Observation (→Explanation: move short explanation to top, various edits)
- 11:24, 14 September 2023 (diff | hist) . . (-108) . . 2828: Exoplanet Observation (→Explanation: move definition of "spectral analysis" to start, explicitly state pun, various other edit)
- 16:19, 13 September 2023 (diff | hist) . . (-5) . . 2828: Exoplanet Observation (→Transcript: I'm fairly certain the slide is showing a planet, not a star (planet makes sense -- arrows indicate that the ghosts are on the planet, and the second ring is the atmosphere))
- 16:11, 13 September 2023 (diff | hist) . . (+226) . . 2828: Exoplanet Observation (→Explanation: rewrite explanation of title text)
- 15:43, 13 September 2023 (diff | hist) . . (+125) . . Talk:2828: Exoplanet Observation
- 15:40, 13 September 2023 (diff | hist) . . (+431) . . 2828: Exoplanet Observation (→Explanation: add link to relevant event from the news (exoplanet K2-18 b))
- 11:11, 31 August 2023 (diff | hist) . . (+224) . . 2822: *@gmail.com (add trivia: comic number is the same as email RFC (credit: @Tobu on Hacker News: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37334604))
- 09:54, 18 April 2023 (diff | hist) . . (-9) . . m 2764: Cosmological Nostalgia Content
- 09:52, 18 April 2023 (diff | hist) . . (+385) . . 2764: Cosmological Nostalgia Content (an object moving away from the observer is not "further back in time" as such; they only *appear* younger because the *image* (light) seen by the observer was emitted further back in time; also clarify red tint)
- 05:09, 8 April 2023 (diff | hist) . . (+16) . . 2757: Towed Message (Add reference to comic 1927: Tinder as pointed out by User:KingPenguin in the talk.)
- 05:04, 8 April 2023 (diff | hist) . . (-225) . . 2757: Towed Message (Undo revision 309909 by User:Kynde. Trivia already mentions 555 number. It's a strong meta-convention, interpreting it in-comic is unlikely. Add forward ref to 555 Trivia item and move to top. Move April's Fools to Trivia.)
- 04:46, 8 April 2023 (diff | hist) . . (+110) . . 2760: Paleontology Museum (→Explanation)
- 06:28, 4 April 2023 (diff | hist) . . (-158) . . 2757: Towed Message (Undo revision 309662 by User:Ɱ (555 number as reason for disconnect). Trivia already mentions 555 (merge explanations). It's a strong meta-convention, interpreting it in-comic is unlikely. Title text suggests number is valid.)
- 06:28, 3 April 2023 (diff | hist) . . (-2) . . m 2757: Towed Message (Use visible quotes instead of italics for denoting word)
- 06:27, 3 April 2023 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . m 2757: Towed Message (→Trivia: move reference to Self Driving comic further up)
- 06:26, 3 April 2023 (diff | hist) . . (+37) . . 2757: Towed Message (Move WaPo link to Trivia and edit (I don't think it is a likely inspiration))
- 06:10, 3 April 2023 (diff | hist) . . (-8) . . 2757: Towed Message (→Explanation: reword User:Giggle's plane crash explanation)
- 13:39, 1 April 2023 (diff | hist) . . (+270) . . 2757: Towed Message (rewrite)
- 11:36, 1 April 2023 (diff | hist) . . (0) . . 2700: Account Problems (Move "Trivia" section to after "Transcript" for consistency with other pages)
- 13:06, 24 November 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+140) . . 2700: Account Problems (→Trivia: rewrite business network example added by @162.158.91.102. I found the original version hard to understand, I hope my interpretation is correct.)
- 12:55, 24 November 2022 (diff | hist) . . (-112) . . 2700: Account Problems (→Trivia: rewrite emoji example)
- 12:34, 24 November 2022 (diff | hist) . . (-9) . . 2700: Account Problems (→Trivia: edit Unicode/ASCII example (loosely based on the changes from Special:Diff/299765))
- 11:54, 24 November 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+292) . . 2700: Account Problems (→Trivia: restore Unicode/ASCII example (it was tweaked to become a different example in Special:Diff/299765, but I think both should be kept) (currently has some duplication, will edit in a separate revision))
- 11:49, 24 November 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+60) . . 2700: Account Problems (→Explanation: Mention that additional situations are described later. (I think it's best to have just 1 short & simple example in the explanation, and have the many others separate. The length-based example isn't perfect but it's simple.))
- 11:43, 24 November 2022 (diff | hist) . . (-341) . . 2700: Account Problems (Undo revision 299657 by @Cwallenpoole (already mentioned in Trivia))
- 15:49, 22 November 2022 (diff | hist) . . (-2) . . 2700: Account Problems (→Trivia: in Unicode/ASCII scenario: "transmit" => "submit" (I think "transmit" is too technical))
- 10:08, 22 November 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+83) . . m Talk:2700: Account Problems (forgot to sign)
- 10:06, 22 November 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+452) . . Talk:2700: Account Problems (reply to @172.70.91.54 re superfluous first para and Pascal strings)
- 09:59, 22 November 2022 (diff | hist) . . (-243) . . 2700: Account Problems (→Explanation: remove the most superfluous part from the first paragraph, and pare down explanation of Pascal strings (in response to discussion comments by @172.70.91.54))
- 09:53, 22 November 2022 (diff | hist) . . (-7) . . 2700: Account Problems ("source string" => "string" (I originally used "middle of the string" loosely to contrast with end of the string, but as @172.71.178.136 pointed out it's not accurate; I dislike "source" (not used elsewhere))
- 09:45, 22 November 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+2) . . 2700: Account Problems (Move @BunsenH's paragraph about C string functions to Trivia, because it is not directly relevant to the comic. (Also move the additional situations nearer the top, so they won't get obscured by the technical points.))
- 15:49, 21 November 2022 (diff | hist) . . (-21) . . m 2700: Account Problems (→Explanation)
- 15:47, 21 November 2022 (diff | hist) . . (-11) . . 2700: Account Problems (→Explanation: the title text *might* be referring to Cueball's situation (because as pointed out by Kimmerin, Unicode includes the null character); I don't think it's likely, but still)
- 15:39, 21 November 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+3) . . m 2700: Account Problems (→Explanation)
- 15:38, 21 November 2022 (diff | hist) . . (+144) . . Talk:2700: Account Problems (notify User:Kimmerin that I added his point about title text and null character to the explanation)
- 15:36, 21 November 2022 (diff | hist) . . (-150) . . 2700: Account Problems (→Explanation: remove footnote saying UTF-8 encoding of null character is zero byte (probably too technical for most readers, easier to just gloss over it), convert other footnote to parenthetical, reword)
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