...u HAVE to know are how to make enough of a living to stay alive and how to get your taxes done. All the fun parts of life are optional.
...e so than algebra. See "[https://archive.org/details/AMathematiciansLament A Mathematician's Lament]" by Paul Lockhart.
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...isfaction, followed by ennui, followed by getting bored and trying to make it happen again.
...some blocks have been erased, likely when a line had been deleted because it was full.
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...s actually going into improving our self-driving car project, so hurry up--it's almost at the minefield.
...lity, and later versions of reCAPTCHA can simply perform the tests quietly in the background without needing user consent.
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...on different things, different animals in the same ecosystem actually live in very different worlds. Everything about you shapes the world you inhabit--f
...live or where they came from determines which comic they actually see. As a result, there are actually multiple comics that went up on April Fools' Day
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| titletext = For the moment it's a standoff<br><br>''<span class="plainlinks">[https://web.archive.org/web/200
...floating in a bowl of water. On one level, the absurdity of this is funny in itself; on another level, the audience is invited to imagine what might pos
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...he expanded perspective over the landscape attained by early experimenters in overland flight.
...ings, humorous details, people here and there, cave mazes, things floating in the air, jokes and references, unexpected things, relaxing views, etc.
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Another fine example of [[356|nerd sniping]], as mentioned in the title text.
...circuit diagrams, road maps, chemical diagrams, and other things all mixed in.
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...to a very tiny font size, which makes it hard to read without zooming in. It states:
...est viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.0 or below on a Pentium 3±1 emulated in Javascript on an Apple IIGS
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...money solely to tell me they wanted to give me something for nothing. It's a much more vivid memory than the (related) parental Santa talk.
...out as: The {{w|Union (set theory)|union}} of {{w|Set (mathematics)|sets}} A and B equals the set of all x, such that x is {{w|Inequality (mathematics)|
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...aneiro in 2016, the same jump will get an athlete 0.25% higher (>1cm) than in London four years prior.
...ll explains that a pole vaulter might jump 2 cm higher in a city with a smaller gravitational force.
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...ged particles of more than 5 TeV pass through a bubble chamber, they leave a trail of candy.
...gs Boson was first detected in 2012, and confirmed to exist in March 2013. It was the last particle of the {{w|Standard Model}} of Physics to be experime
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| titletext = 'Are you stealing those LCDs?' 'Yeah, but I'm doing it while my code compiles.'
...ractical modern project where alternatives exist, where anything more than a {{w|"Hello, World!" program|Hello World}} could be awkward to implement str
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| titletext = How could you choose avoiding a little pain over understanding a magic lightning machine?
[[Cueball]] pulls a lever. A bolt of lightning comes down and strikes him.
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...me Scenes and Parts from the main explanation of [[1190: Time]]. To expand a section, click the '''[Expand]''' or '''[Collapse]''' buttons on the right
:+00:00 [Megan and Cueball sitting on a beach near a ocean.]
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...letext = As the King of All Cosmos remarked, 'Is it that it's fun, or that it lets you forget yourself?'
...ach level. The rainbow is a symbol of gay pride, in addition to being just a generally happy (i.e. gay) idea.
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...y or do we lose creativity and fall into the routine? Anyway, who's up for a road trip!
...professionals, given as a warning that their posts online could be seen by a potential future boss.
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...icle that have appeared on [https://xkcd.com/bitcoin xkcd.com/bitcoin] and in the [[Footnote|footnote]] on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com], along with the ea
...p2 #xkcd-bitcoin channel] on irc.foonetic.net, he explained why he created it:
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...is is the year of Linux on the desktop! The world of Windows will fade any moment now!
...h is a type of actual biological virus which injects its genetic code into a cell and may wait several cell generations before triggering and multiplyin
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| titletext = Sadly, this is a true story. At least I learned about the OS X 'say' command.
...d by a short quip, then a sudden, silent pause for the implied realization moment.
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| titletext = The problem with perspective is that it's bidirectional.
...proof presented, and suddenly wants to focus on the mathematics again, in a humorous reversal of his position about what is meaningful.
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