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| + | I hope I didn't freak you out with my subject line, but I'm really in love with you. Don't worry; it's not in a creepy way. What I mean is I'm in love with your website explainxkcd.com. |
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| + | You probably get tons of people daily who are in love with explainxkcd.com, so I won't bore you with my reasons. Instead, I could show you some appreciation by giving you some feedback on how you can improve your website. |
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| − | | titletext = NEGATIVE REVIEWS MENTION: Unreliable internet. POSITIVE REVIEWS MENTION: Unreliable internet.
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| − | ==Explanation==
| + | #1 Keep it Fresh |
| − | {{incomplete|Created by ROUND TRIP LATENCY BACKOFF. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}
| + | Regular updates to your website's content show that you're keeping up with the latest trends and are committed to providing accurate information to your visitors. This can help build trust and confidence in your brand, leading to increased sales and repeat customers. |
| | + | You may have heard this expression: Time is money. So, by using this valuable tool "Wordplay" can help you create high-quality, long-form content quickly and efficiently so that you can focus on other important aspects of your business. |
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| − | In today's world, the Internet, pervasive mobile technology and the COVID pandemic have all caused an implicit expectation for many people to be available all hours of the day, whether for work or social communications, even when on vacation. In this comic, [[Randall]] addresses the issue with a deliberately suboptimal internet device that drops Internet connectivity intermittently and at unpredictable intervals, thereby causing activities that require a constant, uninterrupted connection to be unusable. The device appears to be an internet {{w|modem}} connected to an automated version of a {{w|Galton board}} or {{w|Jin Akiyama}}'s mathematical {{w|pachinko}} machine[https://arxiv.org/pdf/1601.05706.pdf] with a series of twelve switches at the bottom to be pressed by falling balls, eleven of which are linked to a the label "on" and one linked to a second label "off," both such sets of switches apparently controlling the connection. This solves the social problem of demands for the likes of {{w|synchronous conferencing|synchronous teleconferencing}}, by causing {{w|Asynchronous communication|asynchronous}} methods of communication to be relatively more reliable and efficient for personal use.
| + | Source: https://cutt.ly/Wordplay |
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| − | This is funny because such a device could likely much more easily be implemented in the {{w|firmware}} of the internet or WiFi modem or {{w|Router (computing)|router}}s. (See [[1785: Wifi]] for an explanation of firmware.) It's not clear whether the switches merely interrupt the connection momentarily or control power to the modem, which would involve a much longer booting sequence. The "unreliable" connection provides an excuse to be unavailable for work or social calls, and thus free to enjoy one's vacation. However the device also allows the user to have a fast internet connection most of the time, enabling them to use it for leisure purposes, such as downloading movies for entertainment, or to connect with others on one's own terms. It thus retains most of the benefit of a good connection.
| + | #2 Fix those links! |
| | + | No one likes a broken link. They click on it, and instead of being taken to the page they wanted, they get an error message. Broken links are frustrating for customers and can damage your website's reputation. Use our free broken link checker to find and fix those pesky broken links! |
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| − | The probability of a ball hitting the "off" switch is 165/2048, or about 8% (assuming the machine is ordinary,[https://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2018/8817/pdf/LIPIcs-FUN-2018-26.pdf] and the space between switches is disregarded) because it's in the ninth position. We don't know the frequency with which new balls are dropped, so we can't estimate the frequency at which the device is likely to trigger {{w|Session Initiation Protocol}}, {{w|Transmission Control Protocol}}, or similar {{w|Timeout (computing)|timeout}} conditions that would likely close synchronous {{w|VOIP}}, video conferencing, and e.g. {{w|VRChat}} connections. Even if such connections were to survive the induced service interruptions, the {{w|application layer}} call or teleconference quality would suffer during them. The device may cause interruptions rarely enough that the connection is usable for casual purposes, but the user can still reasonably claim that it's unreliable to get out of online obligations.
| + | Source: https://cutt.ly/BrokenLinksFinder |
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| − | The title text reflects on today's increasingly always-connected world, where emphasis may be changing from finding rare vacation spots that have reliable internet, to now finding somewhere worthwhile to go that still doesn't have it. It could also be a comment on the mild paradox that a nominally unreliable internet connection has advantages for those whose communication schedule, volume, or style preferences make synchronous teleconferencing less practical, desirable, or both. The reviews for the new vacation spot indicate that disconnections are found to be both desirable and undesirable, possibly even by the same person.
| + | And if you are wondering how you can repay your biggest fan, feel free to link to my website https://cutt.ly/SEOtools |
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| − | ==Transcript==
| + | Ah… just kidding; you've already done enough for me by making explainxkcd.com so awesome! |
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| − | :[There are twelve switches under an automated Galton board or pachinko machine, eleven of which are linked to a large item marked "on" but the ninth of which is linked to one marked "off", apparently controlling the operation of a modem connected to a gigabit data-cable and also connected onwards to a WiFi router. There is a supply of balls in a hopper above the board, with the triangular configuration of pins directing the balls chaotically to one or other of the switches, as shown by a single released ball and a motion path partially showing how it had rebounded from around half-way down until after hitting and rebounding away off a bottom-layer "on" switch.]
| + | Cheers, |
| | + | Patty Staples |
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| − | :[Caption below the panel]:
| + | P.S. Not interested in further emails? Please reply “REMOVE” in the subject line to unsubscribe future communication. |
| − | :My new vacation spot has very fast internet that turns off randomly every now and then, just so you can tell people you'll be staying somewhere without a reliable connection.
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I hope I didn't freak you out with my subject line, but I'm really in love with you. Don't worry; it's not in a creepy way. What I mean is I'm in love with your website explainxkcd.com.
You probably get tons of people daily who are in love with explainxkcd.com, so I won't bore you with my reasons. Instead, I could show you some appreciation by giving you some feedback on how you can improve your website.
- 1 Keep it Fresh
Regular updates to your website's content show that you're keeping up with the latest trends and are committed to providing accurate information to your visitors. This can help build trust and confidence in your brand, leading to increased sales and repeat customers.
You may have heard this expression: Time is money. So, by using this valuable tool "Wordplay" can help you create high-quality, long-form content quickly and efficiently so that you can focus on other important aspects of your business.
Source: https://cutt.ly/Wordplay
- 2 Fix those links!
No one likes a broken link. They click on it, and instead of being taken to the page they wanted, they get an error message. Broken links are frustrating for customers and can damage your website's reputation. Use our free broken link checker to find and fix those pesky broken links!
Source: https://cutt.ly/BrokenLinksFinder
And if you are wondering how you can repay your biggest fan, feel free to link to my website https://cutt.ly/SEOtools
Ah… just kidding; you've already done enough for me by making explainxkcd.com so awesome!
Cheers,
Patty Staples
P.S. Not interested in further emails? Please reply “REMOVE” in the subject line to unsubscribe future communication.
