On an unrelated note, AI completely changed economics of https://xkcd.com/1205/
Previously I'd postpone some tooling since I'd lost more time on it (unless it's something I wanted to learn anyway), but now I'm all in.
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#82Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can someone help me understand the single brick at the very bottom under Linux? What is it representing?
The undersea cables actually connecting the entire internet. Sometimes sharks just take a bite of them, they're reasonable well protected but it's enough damage to cause outages and disruptions. It's the single pin under everything because there are a limited number of those cables especially in some regions so a single shark can take out the entire internet for some countries. http://www.mirceakademy.com/uploads/MSA…
I feel like having them as a single brick is a bit hyperbolic, since undersea cables are pretty redundant in most of the world. Get rid of one and traffic just routes around it. Ships have been routinely destroying cables in the Gulf of Finland and the Baltic Sea in the past couple of years without causing significant disruptions.
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#83I knew exactly what this would be before even clicking it. Someone had to make it!
There is so many xkcd things, I didn't know which it would be.
It's 2,347. There's also 927. And 538, and who can forget 386. 936 is also a classic. 1205 is a favorite, although AI changes the scales these days. As does 303. 1838 is another good one for when CC is "thinking". 1425.
Edit oh and Extrapolating out; 605.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
On my machine, the initial state isn't simulated. It only begins simulation when I touch it. At which point, the weight causes the bottom blocks to intersect each other significantly.
For me, bottom blocks stay still while those on the very top fall down.
If I open it, click on the background to activate the physics and just keep the tab open, pretty much all of the blocks that can collapse do eventually collapse.
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#85Very satisfying. I ripped out the load bearing piece and everything stayed standing except for the tiny pieces at the very top. Doesn't seem so bad according to the simulations, maybe we could use a good shakeup?
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#87I love that the initial state itself isn't stable. The world keeps moving around us. Can't choose staying still.
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#88I would like to have online multiplayer version of Jenga game based on these mechanics
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#89I would suggest adding the /r/ProgrammerHumor version too: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/1p204nx/ac... The AI crank always cracks me up.
One of DNS pillars should be replaced by BGP.
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#90Feature request - be able to change the text and re-share it. Half the fun of this xkcd is referring to it in context of whatever just went haywire.
The source code is right there ... just change the background image to whatever you want.
Ha! ^_^
That text is literally the only thing hardcoded. It's inside a PNG, sourced in.
I get it though. Reproducing that cutesy "hand drawn" text would be a pain in the arse if you didn't just have the font.[1]
[1] https://github.com/ipython/xkcd-font