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The little man in the screenshot is from the "LOFI Fantasy 2D/3D" tileset[1], which has a CC BY-NC-ND license. After a quick look around, doesn't look like it's available on Oryx's…

Your reasoning reminds me of the danger of retinal damage when observing a solar eclipse - a human's natural inclination to not stare at the sun is sharply reduced because the view…

Can you elaborate? What does Mark Karpeles have to do with xkcd?

3,3,4 isn't a valid solution because then B would not reply "that's not enough information." There's exactly one triplet that adds up to eleven, so if B's phone number ended in 11,…

Yes, Tetris DX's maximum speed is pretty permissive. Even at level 30, you still have enough time to orient your piece and place it anywhere on the playing field. This isn't the ca…

Not too weird. That's just how high the score counter goes. You can keep playing after that, but the number stops going up. (source: I've gotten that score myself. (although I paus…

Ok, but how do you determine which ideas are "correct"?

What about the other direction? [4,2,2,0] while shifting left or up?

Mars does have wind. In fact, dust storms have been known to last for weeks and encompass nearly the entire planet. However, I don't think the wind is a likely culprit. If the wind…

Some simple resolutions would be: a freak lightning strike disables the robot's button-pressing hardware. Or a cosmic ray flips a bit in its machine code, causing it to shut down. …

I know of one other mathematical fact that matches the Monty Hall problem in the loudness of its opponents: 0.999(...) exactly equals one. Despite a number of proofs existing, you …

Perhaps Kellogg's limiting factor was not their salary budget, but maximum occupancy on their assembly lines. Switching from eight hours to six means you can hire a whole additiona…

Playing the devil's advocate here: if contractors self-select themselves out of being hired because they're not sure they can get the job done, then all the better! The remaining a…

An additional upside for them is, it sets an example. If MegaCorp gains a reputation for being revenge-driven life ruiners, then future contractors will know the stakes are serious…

> Doesn't Stack-anything fill that niche already? If you ask, "how do I use [library X] to draw a rounded rectangle?" on Stack Overflow, they will put your question on hold until y…

The way you phrased it makes it sound as though, if you are a Windows user that experienced fraudulent charges, then the _only_ possible explanation is malware. Your explanation is…

It's possible you're getting downvoted because of the way you phrased your post. >> At the same time so upsetting that I am unable to completely read it all. At first I interpreted…

A roughly spherical asteroid of radius r has volume 4/3 * pi * r^3 Using Ceres as a benchmark for typical asteroid density, an asteroid of radius r has mass [volume in meters^3] * …

Wikipedia says[1], IBM experienced a growth spurt towards the end of the war. If they had any sort of hiring quota to reach, it would make sense to relax eligibility rules. Additio…

> When you argue that Sheldon is a “totally accurate portrayal of someone on the autistic spectrum,” then you have broadened the definition of autism to the point where you have re…

The title is a bit of a garden path sentence[1], since "build" can be a noun or a verb. I initially misread it as, "Before launching (your) build, software people use" and was conf…

I'm a bit lost by this sentence: > We will hire several (as many as possible, in fact) throughout the next few weeks only to show you, dear reader, the confidence we have in develo…

I've been on the wrong end of #4 a couple of times. My boss' opinion of what is "interesting and really challenging" rarely coincides with my own opinion. By this criteria, "make m…

Perhaps he thinks the cofounder wants to coast along in a cushy position for the rest of his life, burdening the company. He's saying "phew! I don't ever have to apply for another …

When you say, "coders have solved for this issue", what do you mean? Do you mean that the movie industry's coders have made DRM so un-intrusive that it's no longer an issue for con…