15 Apr 2025 |
XKCD |  Download the_roads_both_taken.png | 05:03:47 |
XKCD | When you worry that you're missing out on something by not making both choices simultaneously by quantum superposition, that's called phomo. | 05:03:48 |
16 Apr 2025 |
| tulirchanged room power levels. | 23:32:32 |
| tulir changed the join rule to "restricted" from "public". | 23:32:39 |
| tulirchanged room power levels. | 23:34:59 |
17 Apr 2025 |
XKCD | 3077: de Sitter | 06:34:28 |
tulir | xkcd was unfortunately interrupted due to a bug in synapse https://github.com/element-hq/synapse/issues/18349
your regularly scheduled broadcasts should continue on Friday | 09:15:05 |
tulir | !xkcd | 09:15:07 |
XKCD | 3077: de Sitter | 09:15:08 |
XKCD |  Download de_sitter.png | 09:15:08 |
XKCD | Our anti-de Sitter club is small at the moment, but I've started corresponding with the conformal field theory people. | 09:15:08 |
| Luis Eduardo left the room. | 16:48:25 |
19 Apr 2025 |
XKCD | 3078: Anchor Screws | 02:45:14 |
XKCD |  Download anchor_screws.png | 02:45:15 |
XKCD | The biggest expense was installing the mantle ducts to keep the carbonate-silicate cycle operating. | 02:45:16 |
21 Apr 2025 |
XKCD | 3079: Air Fact | 15:16:11 |
XKCD |  Download air_fact.png | 15:16:12 |
XKCD | 'Wow, that must be why you swallow so many of them per year!' 'No, that's spiders. You swallow WAY more ants.' | 15:16:13 |
23 Apr 2025 |
XKCD | 3080: Tennis Balls | 23:27:03 |
XKCD |  Download tennis_balls.png | 23:27:05 |
XKCD | After initial tests created a series of large holes in the wall of the lab, the higher-power Scanning Tunneling Tennis Ball Microscope project was quickly shut down. | 23:27:06 |
25 Apr 2025 |
XKCD | 3081: PhD Timeline | 15:37:44 |
XKCD |  Download phd_timeline.png | 15:37:46 |
XKCD | Rümeysa Öztürk was grabbed off the street in my town one month ago. | 15:37:47 |
28 Apr 2025 |
XKCD | 3082: Chess Position | 21:58:46 |
XKCD |  Download chess_position.png | 21:58:47 |
XKCD | It's important to learn the moves that take you into the vortex, but it's best not to study vortex itself too closely. Even grandmasters who have built up a tolerance lose the ability to play for a few hours after studying it. | 21:58:48 |
30 Apr 2025 |
XKCD | 3083: Jupiter Core | 14:29:24 |
XKCD |  Download jupiter_core.png | 14:29:25 |
XKCD | Juno mission data suggests that Jupiter actually contains Matryoshka doll-style nested copies of every other planet in the Solar System. | 14:29:26 |