1812: Onboarding - Revision history

42.book.addict: we don't use TOCs in comic pages

2025-10-23T05:08:22Z

we don't use TOCs in comic pages

2001:4450:813D:C800:FCCA:442D:8C9D:DF33 at 22:19, 22 October 2025

2025-10-22T22:19:35Z

172.70.111.150: /* Printer */ corrected URL, as linked-to page had error message.

2025-05-07T16:42:43Z

‎Printer: corrected URL, as linked-to page had error message.

WilliamBrennan: shorter

2025-04-03T01:39:10Z

shorter

162.158.186.198: /* Title Text */

2024-11-16T16:26:59Z

‎Title Text

172.69.43.247: Undo revision 353850 by 172.69.195.175 (talk) My mistake, always thought that song snippet was something from Hamilton, but apparently from Moana. (Not seen either, 'sounded' Broadway)

2024-10-23T20:15:40Z

Undo revision 353850 by 172.69.195.175 (talk) My mistake, always thought that song snippet was something from Hamilton, but apparently from Moana. (Not seen either, 'sounded' Broadway)

172.69.195.175: Undo revision 353836 by 42.book.addict (talk) If this is an example of what apparently constitutes a "Disney" (or "Movies") reference, I imagine many other over-reaching examples exist.

2024-10-23T19:54:09Z

Undo revision 353836 by 42.book.addict (talk) If this is an example of what apparently constitutes a "Disney" (or "Movies") reference, I imagine many other over-reaching examples exist.

42.book.addict at 19:41, 23 October 2024

2024-10-23T19:41:51Z

172.68.186.128: Undo revision 350776 by Kynde (talk) He has (among other things) made a server room somehow create bismuth... Sounds to me like his 'powers' are in play...

2024-09-19T18:08:32Z

Undo revision 350776 by Kynde (talk) He has (among other things) made a server room somehow create bismuth... Sounds to me like his 'powers' are in play...

Kynde: This is his bussiness and not any particular power so removing strange power category

2024-09-19T11:15:51Z

This is his bussiness and not any particular power so removing strange power category

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	==Explanation==		==Explanation==
−	~~{{TOC}}~~
	This is another one of [[Beret Guy\|Beret Guy's]] mysterious [[:Category:Beret Guy's Business\|businesses]], in which he shows new employee [[Ponytail]] around the building in which the company resides. 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 the comic.		This is another one of [[Beret Guy\|Beret Guy's]] mysterious [[:Category:Beret Guy's Business\|businesses]], in which he shows new employee [[Ponytail]] around the building in which the company resides. 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 the comic.

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	This is another one of [[Beret Guy\|Beret Guy's]] mysterious [[:Category:Beret Guy's Business\|businesses]], in which he shows new employee [[Ponytail]] around the building in which the company resides. 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 the comic.		This is another one of [[Beret Guy\|Beret Guy's]] mysterious [[:Category:Beret Guy's Business\|businesses]], in which he shows new employee [[Ponytail]] around the building in which the company resides. 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 the comic.

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 In the third panel, Beret Guy shows Ponytail that the laserjet is over there '''and''' the printer is over there, thus indicating that  the ''laserjet'' is not a printer. This is a bit disconcerting, since the {{w|HP LaserJet}} is in fact a common brand of {{w|laser printer}}, suggesting that his 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.
-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. One such example is [https://endless.horse endless.horse], a webpage that features an infinitely tall horse. 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. Presumably, this continuous printing serves some useful purpose, e.g. prints latest news, because someone would have to be refilling the paper for the printer to have kept running this long; it would have run out of paper long ago otherwise.  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.
+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. One such example is [http://endless.horse endless.horse], a webpage that features an infinitely tall horse. 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. Presumably, this continuous printing serves some useful purpose, e.g. prints latest news, because someone would have to be refilling the paper for the printer to have kept running this long; it would have run out of paper long ago otherwise.  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.
 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]].

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 '''Our server room is carbon-neutral but produces bismuth constantly.''' Normally, {{w|carbon neutrality|carbon-neutral}} 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. Instead of producing carbon-dioxide as a side-effect of its power usage, Beret Guy's server room produces the element {{w|Bismuth|bismuth}}, which is absurd. Bismuth is used as lead replacement in some {{w|solder}}s. While this replacement is often used because of the toxicity of {{w|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. Therefore, producing excess bismuth in the server room would destroy all the electric connections.
-An explanation for how the server room might produce bismith, is a {{w|Lead-cooled fast reactor|compact nuclear reactor}} which can both make the server room carbon-neutral ''and'' leak bismuth (by creating it in the reactor). This being Beret Guy, another possibility is that bismuth simply appears in that room as the server operates, because he didn't want it to create carbon emissions and so it had to emit something else.
+One way the server room might produce bismuth is a {{w|Lead-cooled fast reactor|compact nuclear reactor}} which can both make the server room carbon-neutral ''and'' leak bismuth (by creating it in the reactor). This being Beret Guy, another possibility is that bismuth simply appears in that room as the server operates, because he didn't want it to create carbon emissions and so it had to emit something else.
 === Lin-Manuel Miranda ===

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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 despite the urgency, as [[Randall]] has [[:Category:Climate change\|often referred]] to in xkcd with [[1732: Earth Temperature Timeline]].		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 despite the urgency, as [[Randall]] has [[:Category:Climate change\|often referred]] to in xkcd with [[1732: Earth Temperature Timeline]].
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		+	The fact that the business has meetings to discuss the bismuth, but apparently no one has ever mentioned at one of these meetings that the bismuth may be a problem, is strange. It is unclear what participants in these meetings ordinarily say about the bismuth.

	==Transcript==		==Transcript==

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 [[Category:Comics featuring real people]] <!-- Lin-Manuel Miranda  -->
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 [[Category:Songs]]
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 [[Category:Comics with cursed items]]