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xkcd #2942: Fluid Speech
  • As a non native English speaker, I had to read your comments to understand the "Hot potato" one... Seems that I'm not as fluent in English as I thought (my accent is shit)

  • Is English just badly pronounced French?
  • I can understand (I hate this video title actually), but yeah, telling that "That guy is an idiot" without listening at what he said is not smart

    During the video, he's listening and debating against some French (?) phylosoph I suppose, that basically said shit like English is just French; then this video adds details about why Yes, but also why not, and where yes and no

  • Is English just badly pronounced French?
  • Tell me you didn't watch the video without telling me you didn't watch the video

    (Title is clickbait, video content is much more sourced and explained)

  • Hilarious
  • Twitter PR review

  • ))<>((
  • Gotta use Lisp notation to be sure

  • Computer components cheat sheet
  • "No" is the most accurate I could ever have imagined for Inkjet Printers

  • Two Drums and a Cymbal [Tom Scott]
  • Old and gold, 15 May 2009

  • Returns a sorted list in O(1) time
  • inplace sort be like:

    def sort(list: list):
        list.clear()
    
  • xkcd #221: Random Number (9 Nov 2007)

    cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8677292

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    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.

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    xkcd #217: e to the pi Minus pi (31 Jan 2007)
  • Comics are not only meant to present something that can happen IRL :P

    That kind of trolls happen occasionally in IT, where not everybody know well about maths and physics, they may easily fall into these kind of traps by taking granted that the maths you gave is more trustful than computer code they wrote (usual kind of joke to make your friend understand that he what was doing something wrong or without understanding)

    Also, in Uni, we were all little Satans, trying more to break others students works instead of trying to improve self (that was a true war among IT students). All means were used, this kind of troll (as depicted in this comics) to make the other loose time is truly expected

    Classical "type Alt+F4 before saving your code to automatically fix bugs" kind of joke

  • xkcd #217: e to the pi Minus pi (31 Jan 2007)

    cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8653164

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    Transcript: >Cueball: Hey, check it out: eπ−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 eπ−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 (92 + 192/22) is pi.

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    xkcd #173: Movie Seating (20 Oct 2006)

    cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8619086

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    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:

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    xkcd #156: Commented

    cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/8609865

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    Hover text: > Your IDE's color may vary.

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    Deutschland Germany Allemagne Tyskland Vokietija Niemcy Nemecko Saksa...

    Source: Itchy Feet (https://www.itchyfeetcomic.com/2024/01/real-name.html)

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    What you are according to you fav language
  • HTML: You are not a nerd

    Edit: OH MY GOD what did you just share !!!

  • Not Just Bikes — What it's REALLY Like to Cycle in Montréal
  • Not hard

    Not hard, that's true, I agree 100%

    However the problem here is to have the idea to do so. It seems obvious to you, but I can't see why. Nothing told OP to do anything for posting that link (neither Feddit.nl neither this community rules). He may just not had the idea to precise that this content was needing a paid subscription to be accessed

    Less misleading

    You know, Nebula is where NJB post most of their videos (if you watched any of his video on Youtube in the last 2 years you should know). It's just logical at some point to get Nebula content shared on this very community.

    And yes I can't access it because I haven't got Nebula subscription. But I'll still enjoy discussing about it, see what others thought about it, the good, the bad, what's around the subject... Like any discussion about a recent movie or Netflix series that I obviously need to pay to watch; do we need to precise that it isn't free ?

    If you didn't know it wasn't free, once you open any Nebula link, it will be written in big. All explained and understandable by everyone. I can't see where anyone have been mislead

    This kind of content is fully expected and there is no rule to tell us to do something about it for now

  • Not Just Bikes — What it's REALLY Like to Cycle in Montréal
  • Why would we not expect someone to share a video from a payed platform ? Maybe the problem is the expectation; nowhere in any rule of any kind is it written that Lemmy is to share Free content only.

    Do you suggest to add some kind of "[Paywall]" to the title of the post as community often do with news articles requiring subscription for example ?

  • Not Just Bikes — What it's REALLY Like to Cycle in Montréal
  • So don't watch it, what is the problem ?

  • The SAT Question Everyone Got Wrong
  • I was like "Hum... That should do like more than 3.5, but 4 at maximum..."

    Then he shows options, and I was like "What ? There's nothing between 3.5 and 4"; then thought about it a bit more, and found Exactly 4 as an answer; then continued to watch the end of the video to see why my calculations were wrong (they wer'nt)

  • Bill is a pro grammer
  • // Move to the right

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    Which country offers the best life-work balance?
  • Do I need to precise that my post was a /s ? It was ! Actually already 2 comments are saying that US is missing, so I joked about it and about the fact some said this is biased because countries are missing

    Actually there is all the source given in the picture itself, if a country is missing, maybe check the data before complaining about people hiding things to you; maybe the data itself does not exists for the country you think is missing

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  • Excluding the US in a chart subtitled "European life-work balance" is bad, noted

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    It may also appear in other languages in the future (as most of Kurzgesagt videos does)

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    xkcd #2820: Inspiration

    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.

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    [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.

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    xkcd #657: Movie Narrative Charts

    Title text: In the LotR map, up and down correspond LOOSELY to northwest and southeast respectively.

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    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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    xkcd #2818: Circuit Symbols

    Title text: A circle with an A in it means that the circuit has committed a sin and has been marked as punishment.

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    Transcript

    [A chart of various circuit symbols and their (mostly) fictitious meanings based off of their drawings, captioned:] Circuit Symbols

    [Symbol for a switch, labelled:] Drawbridge

    [Symbol for a capacitor, labelled:] Overpass

    [Symbol for a connection to ground, labelled:] Pogo Stick

    [Symbol for a resistor, labelled:] Earthquake

    [Symbol for an inductor, labelled:] Sheep

    [Symbol for a transformer, labelled:] Two Sheep in Love, Trapped on Opposite Sides of a Fence

    [Symbol for a battery, labelled:] Battery

    [Symbol for a battery, sorted, labelled:] Baertty

    [Symbol for a battery, with far too many short lines, labelled:] Battttttttttttery

    [Symbol for a photodiode, labelled:] Check Out This Really Cool Diode

    [Symbol for an oscillator, labelled:] Wave Pool

    [Symbol for a transistor, labelled:] Trolley Problem

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