...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
...'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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...nteau" was originally coined in 2007, when user [http://www.metafilter.com/user/17900 ludwig_van] proposed it on [http://www.metafilter.com Metafilter] as
...manteau" first, Randall replied {{w|User talk:xkcd#Talk:Malamanteau|on his user talk page}}:
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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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| titletext = Proper User Policy apparently means Simon Says.
...e operating system, while there is no such restriction on UNIX - if a root user feels like deleting (or accidentally deletes) a vital file, they are free t
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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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...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."{{Actual citation needed}}
...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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