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Received — 24 December 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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D Roll 22 December 2024 at 19:00

D Roll

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22 December 2024 at 19:00

Under some circumstances, if you throw a D8 and then a D12 at an enemy, thanks to the D8's greater pointiness you actually have to roll a D12 and D8 respectively to determine damage.

Received — 21 December 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Exclusion Principle 19 December 2024 at 19:00

Exclusion Principle

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19 December 2024 at 19:00

Fermions are weird about each other in a standoffish way. Integer-spin particles are weird about each other in a 'stand uncomfortably close while talking' kind of way.

Received — 19 December 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Linear Sort 17 December 2024 at 19:00

Linear Sort

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17 December 2024 at 19:00

The best case is O(n), and the worst case is that someone checks why.

Received — 17 December 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Phase Change 15 December 2024 at 19:00

Phase Change

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15 December 2024 at 19:00

Even when you try to make nice, smooth ice cubes in a freezer, sometimes one of them will shoot out a random ice spike, which physicists ascribe to kiki conservation.

Received — 13 December 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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METAR 12 December 2024 at 19:00

METAR

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12 December 2024 at 19:00

In the aviation world, they don't use AM/PM times. Instead, all times are assumed to be AM unless they're labeled NOTAM.

Received — 12 December 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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The Maritime Approximation 10 December 2024 at 19:00

The Maritime Approximation

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10 December 2024 at 19:00

It works because a nautical mile is based on a degree of latitude, and the Earth (e) is a circle.

Received — 10 December 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Making Tea 8 December 2024 at 19:00

Making Tea

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8 December 2024 at 19:00

No, of course we don't microwave the mug WITH the teabag in it. We microwave the teabag separately.

Received — 7 December 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Seismologists 5 December 2024 at 19:00

Seismologists

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5 December 2024 at 19:00

And even when they're not distracted, they usually get kicked out for illegal under-the-net 'subduction spikes'.

Received — 5 December 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Infinite Armada Chess 3 December 2024 at 19:00

Infinite Armada Chess

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3 December 2024 at 19:00

Stockfish 16 suggests the unconventional opening 1. RuntimeError: Out of bounds memory access

Received — 3 December 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Advent Calendar Advent Calendar 1 December 2024 at 19:00

Advent Calendar Advent Calendar

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1 December 2024 at 19:00

The growth rate of items per day may may seem absurd, but it's actually much less than the acceleration in the 12 Days of Christmas song.

Received — 30 November 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Second Stage 28 November 2024 at 19:00

Second Stage

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28 November 2024 at 19:00

Hmm, they won't do in-flight delivery, so let's order a new first and second stage to our emergency landing site and then try to touch down on top of them to save time.

Received — 28 November 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Neutrino Modem 26 November 2024 at 19:00

Neutrino Modem

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26 November 2024 at 19:00

Our sysadmin accidentally won a Nobel Prize while trying to debug neutrino oscillation error correction.

Received — 26 November 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Cold Air 24 November 2024 at 19:00

Cold Air

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24 November 2024 at 19:00

We also should really have checked that the old water tower was disconnected from the water system before we started filling it with compressed air.

Received — 23 November 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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D Combinatorics 21 November 2024 at 19:00

D Combinatorics

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21 November 2024 at 19:00

Look, you can't complain about this after giving us so many scenarios involving N locked chests and M unlabeled keys.

Received — 21 November 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Arizona Chess 19 November 2024 at 19:00

Arizona Chess

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19 November 2024 at 19:00

Sometimes, you have to sacrifice pieces to gain the advantage. Sometimes, to advance ... you have to fall back.

Received — 19 November 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Kedging Cannon 17 November 2024 at 19:00

Kedging Cannon

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17 November 2024 at 19:00

The real key was inventing the windmill-powered winch.

Received — 16 November 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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The Future of Orion 14 November 2024 at 19:00

The Future of Orion

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14 November 2024 at 19:00

Dinosaur Cosmics

Received — 13 November 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Europa Clipper 12 November 2024 at 19:00

Europa Clipper

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12 November 2024 at 19:00

They had BETTER make this a sample return mission.

Received — 12 November 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Geometriphylogenetics 10 November 2024 at 19:00

Geometriphylogenetics

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10 November 2024 at 19:00

There's a maximum likelihood that I'm doing phylogenetics wrong.

Received — 9 November 2024 ⏭ xkcd.com

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Number Shortage 7 November 2024 at 19:00

Number Shortage

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7 November 2024 at 19:00

"10 minutes ago we were down to only 2 0s!" "How many do we have now?" "I ... don't know!!"