# ­xkcd thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** comic-strips\ **Created:** [May 28, 2020, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574 "2020-05-28T00:57:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 209
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/4163 "2025-04-06T01:38:03Z")
Also sandboxes. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/4164 "2025-04-06T01:41:32Z")
Hourglasses, ant farms, sandbags… ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/4165 "2025-04-06T14:55:47Z")
Did I misread this or was there another “fix”? ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/4166 "2025-04-06T16:36:33Z")
You misread it (which was Randall’s intention). ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/4167 "2025-04-06T16:43:20Z")
Oh, and previous installments in this series (as suggested by the “4” in the title): > **[Stargazing](https://xkcd.com/1644/)** > **[Stargazing 2](https://xkcd.com/2017/)** > **[Stargazing 3](https://xkcd.com/2274/)** ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [April 6, 2025, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/4168 "2025-04-06T18:44:59Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > You misread it (which was Randall’s intention). Curse you Randall Munroe. As God is my witness, I will only wear black hats until I get my revenge. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2025, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/4169 "2025-04-08T04:51:11Z")
> **[Tariffs](https://xkcd.com/3073/)** [![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tariffs.png) ](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/tariffs.png) “[later] I don’t get why our pizza slices have such terrible reviews; the geotextile-infused sauce gives the toppings incredible slope stability!” ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/4170 "2025-04-10T04:58:21Z")
> **[xkcd: Push Notifications](https://xkcd.com/3074/)** [![](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/push_notifications.png) ](https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/push_notifications.png) ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/4171 "2025-04-10T05:06:58Z")
I chickened out in the last step and didn’t enable notifications. Did anyone do it? Is the threat of endless notifications the April Fools joke, or is the joke that you actually will get endless notifications? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/4172 "2025-04-10T05:10:12Z")
There are a lot of notifications. Plus various things happen to the image: [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/lIxpirX.png "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/lIxpirX) ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/4173 "2025-04-10T12:19:19Z")
After i said i really, really wanted push notifications, it said there was an error sending push notifications, and the image showed the guy sitting in from of a laptop in flames. ---
**Author:** ![Kron](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kron/32/12444_2.png) [@Kron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kron)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/4174 "2025-04-10T15:29:19Z")
I activated it ~15 minutes ago and have probably received 40 notifications so far. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/4175 "2025-04-10T15:48:04Z")
I tried earlier and got nothing., Tried again, and noticed that I had notifications blocked due to browser setting.(not curious enough to unblock them) Brian ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/4176 "2025-04-10T15:54:19Z")
Do people actually use push notifications? I’m not sure what the use case for them is. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/4177 "2025-04-10T18:20:50Z")
I’m getting a constant flow of “zoom notifications” that just say (number, number). Examples (33,1), (54,17). Anyone know what to do with these? There are some occasional funny ones mixed in, but mostly just these random number sets. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 7:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/4178 "2025-04-10T19:04:57Z")
I tried writing down a bunch of the numbers, interpreted them as 2D coordinates, and wrote a script to visualize them, but it doesn’t seem sensible: [![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/oL4VD4Z.png "imgur.com") ](https://imgur.com/oL4VD4Z) Don’t have any other ideas at the moment. ---
**Author:** ![puzzlegal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/puzzlegal/32/3827_2.png) [@puzzlegal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/puzzlegal)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/4179 "2025-04-10T19:40:30Z")
Oh, maybe i have notifications blocked by my browser. That would make sense. It seems likely i chose to do that at some point. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2025, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/4180 "2025-04-10T21:04:27Z")
I clicked through all the way to enable notifications, and I got a browser pop-up saying that I’d enabled notifications from [xkcd.com](http://xkcd.com), but I haven’t noticed any actual browser notifications. ---
**Author:** ![abcdefghij](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/43a26b/32.png) [@abcdefghij](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abcdefghij)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/4181 "2025-04-11T03:13:34Z")
> [@Dr.Strangelove](#): > > I tried writing down a bunch of the numbers, interpreted them as 2D coordinates, and wrote a script to visualize them, but it doesn’t seem sensible Maybe they’re progressive offsets? ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Strangelove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.strangelove/32/6613_2.png) [@Dr.Strangelove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Strangelove)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/4182 "2025-04-11T03:16:50Z")
Never saw any negative offsets. So if they were progressive, they’d just make a wiggly line that goes up and to the right. I feel like the “Zoom” is a hint somehow, but I haven’t thought about it too hard (or looked at explainxkcd for a spoiler). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574.md?page=208) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574.md?page=210)