...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
...on 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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...ly coined in 2007, when it was proposed by user [http://www.metafilter.com/user/17900 ludwig_van] on [http://www.metafilter.com Metafilter] as a term for l
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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 (or accidentally) deletes a vital file, they are free to do so.
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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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{{comicsrow|272|2007-06-04|Linux User at Best Buy}}
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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."
...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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...and change the Web pages as you view them. Some make pages easier to read, some remove ads (the third extension is [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta
...And Chair" or {{w|PEBKAC}}, which means that the problem is caused by the user, not by any failure of the computer. However, due to the substitution, it i
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...ce. This is another reference to the Schrödinger's cat concept, where the user can't determine if the title text exists until they hover the mouse over it
...owing two distinct states (decayed, undecayed) that change over time until some "observation" forced the wave-function into one state or another (called "c
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...er, this would also prove the false nature of these advertisements, as the user is unlikely to have not noticed any hot young singles currently sharing his
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| titletext = The typical internet user (who wants to share) has an IQ of 147 and a 9-inch penis. Better than the r
...row contains four graphs. The far left is the breast size of the Internet user. (This presumably refers to female users, since male breasts are not typica
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...ja this roleplay chat transcript] (NSFW), which became an Internet meme. A user named bloodninja would roleplay as a wizard during {{w|cybersex}} (saying "
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| 5 Stars || [Has Only One Review] || No product is so perfect that every user will give it five stars - as soon as one person gives it less than five, th
...ers it's impossible to please all of them (or they did please them all and some are posting bad reviews as a cruel prank). However, 4.5 stars means almost
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...hers, and sadly for that user, the TornadoGuard app failed in alerting the user to an upcoming tornado. Tornadoes are a [[:Category:Tornadoes|recurring sub
:User Reviews:
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...e hosting server will typically generate a "404 Not Found" web page when a user attempts to follow a broken or dead link; hence the 404 error is one of the
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...er degree of consistency in making the right decision, and reduced risk of user error make the computer objectively better than the human opponent in nearl
...eby the winner is determined by the ranks and combinations of their cards, some of which remain hidden until the end of the game. It is also, however, a ga
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...olutionize" not only a particular product or service, but every facet of a user's life. One of the cliché phrases used in presentations is "Welcome to the
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...er-friendly as possible. [[Randall]] mentions that he has heard that this "user-friendly" ''Zealous Autoconfig'' option has already been installed in the l
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...rue, but plausible-sounding claim to an article in Wikipedia. A writer for some publication sees the information on Wikipedia and adds it to an article, wi
...hilipp Franz Joseph Sylvester Freiherr von und zu Guttenberg. An anonymous user added one more ("Wilhelm") to the German Wikipedia, just the evening before
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...ite, but then serve the front page of the mobile site and not the page the user had requested. In quite a few sites, there would be no 1-to-1 correspondenc
...rs send out ARP packets to see what other machines are on the network, but some machines send them out every 5 minutes, which can be extremely annoying for
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...ac|Macs}} or {{w|Personal computer|other PCs}}, usually pre-installed with some variant of the {{w|Mac OS X}} or {{w|Windows NT}} operating system families
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...|Linux}}-ism. In GNU/Linux (and all Unix derivatives), ~ is a symbol for a user's home directory (usually <code>/home/<username></code>). Presumably, "noma
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...yesterday. It seems that he is still a kid, even though it must have been some years since the young Elaine left and grew up. However, she may still be a
...le of free software; an operating system with no restriction, allowing the user to modify and customize anything they want about the computer. Stallman lik
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...t hardware). Even if a man page existed, it is unreasonable to require the user of a toaster to read the manual simply to avoid being stabbed in the face.{
...on unless you actually experience a problem. The second part suggests that some people actually die because they didn't RTFM!
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...r accounts for all referenced handles (that may not have already existed). Some of the handles continue their interactions with each other in later tweets.
...to become a [http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/shut-down-everything meme]. The user's Twitter handle is a reference to {{w|Pauly Shore}}, a comedian who was br
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...al-language editors of source code. The issue is that, while Emacs is more user-friendly and customizable, vim is more lightweight while needing few keystr
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| titletext = I hear in some places, you need to fill one form of ID to buy a gun, but two to pay for it
...hasn't made an error. Some forms even go the extra step of preventing the user from copy-pasting into the second field, which would render it useless as a
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...twork)| Diaspora*}}, an open-source alternative to Facebook which puts the user in control of how their information is used. Of course, this sort of use of
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...used in {{w|Unix}} systems to perform an action as an administrator/super user. This forces Randall to agree. This is a reference to the very popular comi
* Henry Reich is the creator of the web video series [http://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics MinutePhysics], and studied physics and mathematics at Grinne
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...c of 2018, the title is similar to this one, in that it gives away how the user should begin to interact with the comic. It is though nothing like this com
...there is a tall tree with no leaves on it and a broken limb. Below him are some rocks and grass. This is the initial view of the world, that can be clicked
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..., a character who has had a romantic relationship end will be shown taking some act to remove a sign of their partner's presence in their life, e.g. removi
.... The final panel shows him using the Unix command 'userdel' to delete her user account from his computer. The joke here is that he considers this to be a
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xkcd's password generation scheme requires the user to have a list of 2048 common words (log<sub>2</sub>(2048) = 11). For any a
...method "obsolete", despite the comic ''assuming'' perfect knowledge of the user's dictionary from the get-go. He advocates his own low-entropy "first lett
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...r software system and network protocol that provides a basis for graphical user interfaces (GUIs) and rich input device capability for networked computers.
...(especially manually) is much less necessary than it used to be. In fact, some distributions do not even come with an xorg.conf file, because everything n
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...can look at practically any part of anything manmade around you and think "some engineer was frustrated while designing this." It's a little human connecti
...at appears to be badly made or have no purpose other than to frustrate the user (in this case, a traffic light that seems unreasonably, inexplicably long).
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The third entry is a reference to networking. UDP stands for {{w|User Datagram Protocol}}. UDP packets don't use handshaking to verify they have
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