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Mesuring temperature in radians: 3.14/π
As a non English native: "Car on"
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/20160782
Explanation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_(moon)#Name
Missed opportunity:
"And next time, I'll make baby toys that glow in the dark with Uranium"
Missing the Metric-Freedom conversion error
Ah en effet, my bad, je retire mon message ;)
Here's the sauce: xkcd/2803
And here is another lemmy post about this commic: https://sh.itjust.works/post/1694738 (on !xkcd@lemmy.world)
Not sure CrowdStrike runs on npm, but still ruined it all for sure
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8677292
Transcript:
[A computer program.]
int getRandomNumber() { return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll. // guaranteed to be random. }
Hover Text:
RFC 1149.5 specifies 4 as the standard IEEE-vetted random number.
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8653164
Transcript:
Cueball: Hey, check it out: e^π^−π is 19.999099979. That's weird.
Black Hat: Yeah. That's how I got kicked out of the ACM in college.
Cueball: ...what?Black Hat: During a competition, I told the programmers on our team that e^π^−π was a standard test of floating-point handlers -- it would come out to 20 unless they had rounding errors.
Cueball: That's awful.
Black Hat: Yeah, they dug through half their algorithms looking for the bug before they figured it out.
Hover text:
Also, I hear the 4th root of (9^2^ + 19^2^/22) is pi.
cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8619086
Title text:
It's like the traveling salesman problem, but the endpoints are different and you can't ask your friends for help because they're sitting three seats down.
Links:
Source: Itchy Feet (https://www.itchyfeetcomic.com/2024/01/real-name.html)
Title text: An apple fell on Isaac Newton's head and gave him the idea that the moon might be a tasty apple, though this turned out not to be true--the Apollo program eventually determined that it was just a desolate and bland Red Delicious.
Transcript
[Cueball sits under a tree. An apple falls from the tree and hits him on the head.]
Bonk
[The view zooms out, showing the moon, which Cueball looks up at.]
[Closeup on Cueball.]
Cueball: ...
Cueball: We should grow apples on the moon.
Title text: In the LotR map, up and down correspond LOOSELY to northwest and southeast respectively.
Transcript too long for lemmy, check Explain xkcd wiki to get one ;)
These charts show movie character interactions. The horizontal axis is time. The vertical grouping of the lines indicate which characters are together at a given time.
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A (wo?)man of culture