Superstition is the act of acknowledging that anything bad that happens is your fault.
It’s important to teach yourself to feel responsible for random events, because with great responsibility comes great power.
Superstition is the act of acknowledging that anything bad that happens is your fault.
It’s important to teach yourself to feel responsible for random events, because with great responsibility comes great power.
Just felt like an XKCD character when I assumed my partner would be just as excited as myself at a video demonstrating a marlinspike hitch spilling into a bowline.
#xkcd No. 3177
Date: 2025-12-5
Title: Chessboard Alignment
Alt text: Luckily, the range is limited by the fact that the square boundary lines follow great circles.
https://xkcd.com/3177/
Sorry, I couldn’t resist making this remix of this #XKCD classic …
#xkcd No. 3177
Date: 2025-12-5
Title: Chessboard Alignment
Alt text: Luckily, the range is limited by the fact that the square boundary lines follow great circles.
https://xkcd.com/3177/
Sorry, I couldn’t resist making this remix of this #XKCD classic …
Animated xkcd 2347.
I originally made this after the backdooring attempt of the XZ Utils repo by some entity named Jia Tan was discovered, but without sound. Finally, it is available in stereo, headphones recommended.
Damned, the whole thing was discovered in march 2024! The relevance of this clip might be like a sine wave, hopefully not, but we'll see :P
#b3d #blender3D #npr #xkcd #xkcd2347 #xz #backdoor #infrastructure
Randall Munroe's #XKCD comic has the power to make you laugh, to make you think ... and sometimes to make you cry. For the right reasons.
Wishing another fifteen (and many more) to Randall Munroe, his wife (name unknown but it's not Megan), and everyone else. #FuckCancer
So you plan to thaw out your 20 kg solid block of frozen tofurkey in the microwave for 1 minute and 10 seconds.
Which button presses are most optimal?
![Description:
Three chessboards are set up side-by-side, each with two players. A bishop from the middle board is shown moving onto the right-hand board.
Transcript:
[The panel shows three separate chess games being played side-by-side. A glowing, pixelated path shows a bishop moving from a square on the middle board to a square on the board to the right.]
Caption: IT DOESN'T HAPPEN OFTEN BECAUSE IT REQUIRES MICROMETER PRECISION, BUT IF TWO CHESS BOARDS ARE PERFECTLY ALIGNED, IT'S ACTUALLY LEGAL TO MOVE PIECES BETWEEN THEM.](https://me.ns.ci/system/media_attachments/files/115/672/273/572/401/333/original/2e2432eedec7cac2.png)
