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xkcd #2949: Network Configuration

https://xkcd.com/2949

Alt text: > If you repeatedly rerun the development of technological civilization, it turns out that for some reason the only constant is that there is always a networking utility called 'netcat', though it does a different thing in each one.

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xkcd #2945: Broken Model

https://xkcd.com/2945

> In addition to eating foxes, rabbits can eat grass. The grass also eats foxes. Our equations chart the contours of Fox Hell.

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xkcd #2944: Magnet Fishing

https://xkcd.com/2944

Alt text: > The ten-way tie was judged a ten-way tie, so no one won the grand prize, a rare fishing monopole.

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xkcd #2943: Unsolved Chemistry Problems

https://xkcd.com/2943

Alt text: > I'm an H⁺ denier, in that I refuse to consider loose protons to be real hydrogen, so I personally believe it stands for 'pretend'.

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xkcd #2941: Cell Organelles

https://xkcd.com/2941

Alt text: > It's believed that Golgi was originally an independent organism who was eventually absorbed into our cells, where he began work on his Apparatus.

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xkcd #2939: Complexity Analysis

https://xkcd.com/2939

Alt text: > PERPETUALLY OPTIMISTIC CASE: Early in the execution, our research group makes a breakthrough on proving P=NP.

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xkcd #2938: Local Group

https://xkcd.com/2938

Alt text: > Cosmologists estimate the spaghetti strand to be about 200 septillion calories, though it could be higher depending on the nutritional value of dark matter.

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xkcd #2936: Exponential Growth

https://xkcd.com/2936

Alt text: > Karpov's construction of a series of increasingly large rice cookers led to a protracted deadlock, but exponential growth won in the end.

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xkcd #2935: Ocean Loop

https://xkcd.com/2935

Alt text: > I can't believe they wouldn't even let me hold a vote among the passengers about whether to try the loop.

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xkcd #2934: Bloom Filter

https://xkcd.com/2934

Alt text: > Sometimes, you can tell Bloom filters are the wrong tool for the job, but when they're the right one you can never be sure.

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xkcd #2933: Elementary Physics Paths

https://xkcd.com/2933

Alt text: >\==COSMOLOGY==> 'Uhhh ... how sure are we that everything is made of these?'

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xkcd #2932: Driving PSA

https://xkcd.com/2932

Alt text: > This PSA brought to you by several would-be assassins who tried to wave me in front of speeding cars in the last month and who will have to try harder next time.

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xkcd #2931: Chasing

https://xkcd.com/2931

Alt text: > Certain hybrid events can only happen in certain locations where all the conditions are present; chasers flock to the area in and around Kansas known as tumbleweed-colliding-with-possum alley.

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xkcd #2930: Google Solar Cycle

https://xkcd.com/2930

Alt text: > From Google Trends, it looks like the lag between people Googling cocktail recipes and 'hangover cure' is 14 hours.

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xkcd #2929: Good and Bad Ideas

https://xkcd.com/2929

Alt text: > While it seemed like a fun prank at the time, I realize my prank fire extinguishers full of leaded gasoline were a mistake.

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xkcd #2928: Software Testing Day

https://xkcd.com/2928

Alt text: > The company tried to document how often employees were celebrating Software Testing Day, but their recordkeeping system kept mysteriously crashing.

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xkcd #2927: Alphabetical Cartogram

https://xkcd.com/2927/

Alt text: > Poor Weeoming.

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xkcd #2926: Doppler Effect

https://xkcd.com/2926

Alt text: > The Doppler effect is a mysterious wavelength-shifting phenomenon which seems to primarily affect sirens, which is why the 🚨 emoji is red.

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xkcd #2925: Earth Formation Site

https://xkcd.com/2925/

Alt text: > It's not far from the sign marking the exact latitude and longitude of the Earth's core.

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xkcd #2924: Pendulum Types

https://xkcd.com/2924

Alt text: > The creepy fingers that grow from a vibrating cornstarch-water mix can be modeled as a chain of inverted vertical pendulums (DOI:10.1039/c4sm00265b) and are believed to be the fingers of Maxwell's Demon trying to push through into our universe.

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