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https://xkcd.com/2956

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Attention all passengers: This is an express sequence to infinity. If your stop is not a power of two, please disembark now.

[-] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 79 points 5 months ago

Lots of other websites have already copied the "pay or consent" ad model

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https://xkcd.com/2949

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If you repeatedly rerun the development of technological civilization, it turns out that for some reason the only constant is that there is always a networking utility called 'netcat', though it does a different thing in each one.

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https://xkcd.com/2945

In addition to eating foxes, rabbits can eat grass. The grass also eats foxes. Our equations chart the contours of Fox Hell.

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https://xkcd.com/2944

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The ten-way tie was judged a ten-way tie, so no one won the grand prize, a rare fishing monopole.

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https://xkcd.com/2943

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I'm an H⁺ denier, in that I refuse to consider loose protons to be real hydrogen, so I personally believe it stands for 'pretend'.

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https://xkcd.com/2941

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It's believed that Golgi was originally an independent organism who was eventually absorbed into our cells, where he began work on his Apparatus.

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https://xkcd.com/2939

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PERPETUALLY OPTIMISTIC CASE: Early in the execution, our research group makes a breakthrough on proving P=NP.

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https://xkcd.com/2938

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Cosmologists estimate the spaghetti strand to be about 200 septillion calories, though it could be higher depending on the nutritional value of dark matter.

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https://xkcd.com/2936

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Karpov's construction of a series of increasingly large rice cookers led to a protracted deadlock, but exponential growth won in the end.

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xkcd #2935: Ocean Loop (imgs.xkcd.com)

https://xkcd.com/2935

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I can't believe they wouldn't even let me hold a vote among the passengers about whether to try the loop.

[-] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 114 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Great news! Web apps represent the democratization of mobile apps, empowering independent developers free from the constraints of the App Stores

[-] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 58 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are a plot device in a fiction book that are designed to initially look good and then fail spectacularly. Not sure they are the best to base your Robot Constitution on.

[-] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 139 points 1 year ago

They will have to pry my iPhone 13 mini from my cold dead hands! Small phone gang unite! ✊

[-] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 112 points 1 year ago

I hope not! Firefox FTW!

[-] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 86 points 1 year ago

Didn’t Windows used to have a browser selection screen already? What happened?

[-] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 76 points 1 year ago

There were 500 smartphone brand to begin with?

[-] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 60 points 1 year ago

Google's constant A/B testing is really tiring and confusing. One day a feature is there, next day it’s nowhere to be found

[-] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 87 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Back to pirating 🏴‍☠️ Arrrr!

[-] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 305 points 1 year ago

Just a word of caution: Non-peer reviewed, non-replicated, rushed-looking preprint, on a topic with a long history of controversy and retractions. So don't get too excited yet.

[-] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 160 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Guys, if you don’t like these proposals from Google, you need to switch to Firefox now! It’s the only way to defend freedom on the web!

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