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Ken_g6

If you zip it, is it still 200TBs of 9s? Hm. If each "9" is a byte, then I think it's still 200TBs of 9s. But maybe not. 270 billion 9s took 5088 bytes. Then, 200TB of double-bzipped 9s would be...about 10 sextillion 9s! :shock: psst… use a run-length encoder first. I didn't think they co...

Ken_g6

I remember, once upon a time, there was a link to these forums in the list of links at the top left corner of the main site. Then it got replaced by "What If?". I thought that would be temporary, but it's been years. I just checked, and there is still no link to this site anywhere on the m...

Ken_g6

This got me curious if I could generate 200TB of nines. Well, I think I can: perl -e 'for($i=0; $i < 200*1024; $i++) { print "9"x(1024*1024*1024); print STDERR "$i GB so far\n" }' Then the next question would be how to submit it? Gzip was too big to be practical. So were bzip2 an...

Ken_g6

https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/chicken_pox_and_name_statistics.png Title text: 'People with all six of those names agree that it's weird that we have teeth, when you think about it for too long. Just about everyone agrees on that, except—in a still-unexplained statistical anomaly—people named "T...

Ken_g6

No, see, if 2018 were a leap year, we'd get a chance to elect a better President than our current one. But we don't, so it's not.

Ken_g6

The sound effect ought to change for some holidays. For instance, the first time the assistant is used on the morning after Valentine's Day, it could say, "Mmmm...good morning, lover. What can I do for you this morning?" It could sound disappointed if the query doesn't violate a Safe Searc...

Ken_g6

I have a feeling that once space travel outside cis-lunar space becomes commonplace, we'll have scheduled total eclipse-viewing ships every day.

Ken_g6

Between the last comic and this one, I'm starting to think Randall needs a vacation. Without technology.

Ken_g6

I pronounce "epitome" like e-pit o' me. And this would seem to be the e-pit o' Randall.

Ken_g6

You think mint < pistachio < green apple? Your nuts!

Spoiler:

Ken_g6

I'm guessing that next-to-last review ("How do I preorder?") came from one Donald J. Trump in 2014.

Ken_g6

Hm, if the thing in the bag is "bespoke", then it can be anything I want it to be, right? As long as it's something that can be "stone-ground" and "cage-free". If there's a single price listed for it, I'll take mine full of gold dust, please!

Ken_g6

Really? You could have used your power to promote a 3rd party ( any third party!) making a push to actually change this broken 2-party system. And instead you give us a boring endorsement for the usual lesser of two evils? Sad, sad, sad. The American election system is really broken. If any third-p...

Ken_g6

Some people just wanna throw shade on NASA.

Ken_g6

Later: "My astrological observing last night was blocked by all the chemtrails."

Ken_g6

When a fixion is collided with a strange quark, it produces a top quark. (Also known as a "truth" quark.)

Thus proving that truth is stranger than fixion.

Ken_g6

Apparently, nobody's told CBS, either.

Ken_g6

Am I the only one with a standard set of five really random words? It's what I think I remember the Klingon for accepting the role of cha'leech is. But I'm sure it's not right, since it's a very mixed metaphor. "Gelasnesh." (That one's right.) "Cree hol mek," (That's something Te...

Ken_g6

Hey, somebody's gotta be the security guard at the warehouse, right?

Ken_g6

Oh, dear, looks like there are no good politicians left!

Q: Who will be the next President?
A: 👎

Ken_g6

If you ever wondered how (real) Magic 8 Balls work: http://xkcd.com/1525/#eyJxIjoiV2hhdCBhc ... YzQjI7Il19

Ken_g6

You totally made that up! So, it looks like you've invented the Emoji-Turing Test: Can the reader distinguish between Randall's generator and a real person with bad intent? :twisted: Yeah, it looks like it could be fun to manipulate the results. Especially if you send them to people who don't know ...

Ken_g6

Now that I think about it, my knowledge is definitely getting outdated with that Windows 8+ Metro sh-...tuff being actually out there. My Windows knowledge has been getting outdated since I went from WinXP to Linux when I built this computer in 2009. I'll probably upgrade my laptop from Win7 to Win...

Ken_g6

Fun fact about sapphire: its chemical formula is Al₂O₃. Which means that if made without impurities it's probably the closest thing we'll ever get to...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSmGjB-G6v8&t=118

Ken_g6

...Wat Isn't the first thing to ask when you are designing something to be used in space, 'Does this work in space?" Apparently they only discovered that the propellant doesn't work in space last year... It may be that nobody had actually tried it ever until then . The chemistry looks OK for s...

Ken_g6

I'm on Firefox on Linux, and I'm getting Cross-Origin Request Blocked errors on the comic. Anyone else?

Ken_g6

Oh, now I see why my Android phone hasn't done this. Mine's so cheap and low-powered (single-core ARMv7) that it's basically a red dwarf.

Ken_g6

Arthur C. Clarke's 3001 includes the next step beyond a space elevator: a sort of space elevator tower made of diamond. Like a space elevator, it's supported from the top, so it's bigger at the top than at the bottom. But unlike a space elevator it has stories - lots of stories. But don't let your d...

Ken_g6

So, obviously, there are a few ways to fix this bug. One is to limit what's sent to what's received. Meg: Server, are you still there? If so, reply "HAT" (50 letters.) Server: a connection. Jake requested pictures of deer. User Meg wants these 50 letters: HAT -hey, that's only 3 letters. E...

Ken_g6

OpenSSL does its own memory caching, so most of the time it does not actually call the real malloc() and free(). So, most of the time the leaked memory contains something that was previously used by OpenSSL in the same process. This often includes remnants of previous HTTP requests, which is how pe...

Ken_g6

I fixed the https issue, but after clicking an option, Firebug in Firefox shows this error: Cross-Origin Request Blocked: The Same Origin Policy disallows reading the remote resource at http://c4.xkcd.com/graph/1/be7a3304-b685-11e3-8001-94de80a03a29. This can be fixed by moving the resource to the s...

Ken_g6

So that's what Iceland's up to.

Ken_g6

Why does Windows require so many reboots, anyway? After all these years you'd think they could have fixed that. This also reminds me, remember when Dell recalled all those laptop batteries that were causing fires ? I had one of those, and got it replaced. But the new battery never worked nearly as w...

Ken_g6

I constantly exorcise my computer with distributed computing programs to prevent this kind of thing.

Oh, wait, distributed computing programs exercise my computer.

Uh, oh.

Ken_g6

Funny Randall should mention turbulence on the same day that Mukhtarbai Otelbayev claims to have solved it.

(Slashdot link if you don't trust Kazakh links.)

Ken_g6

sourmìlk wrote: Fortunately, exactly zero other annoying internet behaviors have developed during this time.

As clearly shown by this video.

Ken_g6

Which Ba'al?? http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20080812190429/stargate/images/6/6a/Ba'alClones.jpg Yeah, I thought Congress was fully funding space exploration to defeat Ba'al. http://24.media.tumblr.com/006378b708a371ad8fe3313c094432ad/tumblr_mgcctfB5uv1rm2f59o1_400.png

Ken_g6

This seems like a really bad example here in Colorado right now.

Also I just had a house fire.

Ken_g6

There's a reason I tell my browsers not to save my passwords for my bank, PayPal, and GMail. (Though, yes, GMail may be logged on at any given time, my bank and PayPal aren't.) And I don't do Facebook - I do forums like this one instead. ;) WHAT other users? Hey, not EVERYONE can afford their own co...

Ken_g6

As noted, a 418 woll-did be funnier. Other candidates be 453: Not Enough BANDwidth (badumpum) :roll: 416: Requested Range Not Satisfiable (if you c an't hit the high notes in the song) Oh and hey: for those trying to parse the music, protip: it be in 6/8! Personally, I'd go with...

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