# ­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:** 90
**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:** [November 7, 2022, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1783 "2022-11-07T23:10:56Z")
I’m sure that the one I’m remembering was seeds for something… ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1784 "2022-11-09T17:40:26Z")
> **[Precision vs Accuracy](https://xkcd.com/2696/)** > > 'Barack Obama is much less likely than the average cat to jump in and out of cardboard boxes for fun' is low precision, but I'm not sure about the accuracy. ---
**Author:** ![Chelonaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9a140/32.png) [@Chelonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chelonaut)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1785 "2022-11-09T17:40:51Z")
Dang, ninjaed! Is “weigh as much as 17.082 cats” really high precision? 5 significat digits, but a very fuzzy (here kitty! Kitty, kitty!) unit. And is “fewer legs than your kat” really medium accuracy? Fewer people have a cat, than those who doesn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1786 "2022-11-09T20:02:22Z")
ACME Earthquake pills maybe? ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1787 "2022-11-11T22:22:59Z")
> **[Y2K and 2038](https://xkcd.com/2697/)** > > It's taken me 20 years, but I've finally finished rebuilding all my software to use 33-bit signed ints. ---
**Author:** ![SunUp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea5d25/32.png) [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2022, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1788 "2022-11-11T22:29:22Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > It’s taken me 20 years, but I’ve finally finshed rebuilding all my software to use 33-bit signed ints. Year 2106 bug, here we come! ETA: quote from xkcd as quoted by **dtilque** , not **dtilque** themself. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1789 "2022-11-15T00:08:35Z")
> **[Bad Date](https://xkcd.com/2698/)** > > "Even split between us, this will pay way better than the Jumanji sponsorship I came into the date with." ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1790 "2022-11-15T00:14:34Z")
That would be super-cool if they could end the date as good business partners, even if the romantic hook-up doesn’t work out. It’s probably easier to find romantic hook-ups than good business partners. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1791 "2022-11-15T00:22:18Z")
It’s rare that an xkcd comic makes me actually chuckle, but this one did it. ---
**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:** [November 15, 2022, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1792 "2022-11-15T02:20:36Z")
Two comics in a row about date disasters? He’s slipping. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1793 "2022-11-15T02:59:01Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > Two comics in a row about date disasters? He’s slipping I’m sure the next one will be about Phoenix dactylifera contributing to global warming… ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1794 "2022-11-15T03:10:26Z")
Huh? I don’t see a second one. Unless you’re talking about the Y2K strip and I’m being wooshed ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2022, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1795 "2022-11-15T03:16:52Z")
> [@Zyada](#): > > I’m being wooshed Yup. Your punishment is to meditate upon the possible alternate meanings of “date disaster”. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1796 "2022-11-16T23:52:09Z")
> **[Feature Comparison](https://xkcd.com/2699/)** > > Below the Web, and the Dark Web, a shadowy parallel world of Cybiko users trade messages on the Translucent Neon Plastic Web. ---
**Author:** ![Ponderoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponderoid/32/19221_2.png) [@Ponderoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponderoid)\ **Post date:** [November 16, 2022, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1797 "2022-11-16T23:59:37Z")
There should be rows for “advertiser-friendly” and “does this make money”. That’s all that I can think of but I’m sure there’s something else. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2022, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1798 "2022-11-17T00:01:34Z")
A quick Wiki says that Cybikos communicated directly with each other at ranges up to 100 meters. Does “mesh networking” mean that, if there were a sufficient density of Cybiko devices in an area, messages would be transmitted further than that, through however many relays were necessary? ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2022, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1799 "2022-11-17T00:24:37Z")
This appears to be a patent by the people behind Cybiko asserting that it could relay messages beyond the individual device range > **[US20020122410A1 - Method of wireless data exchange amongst devices of limited...](https://patents.google.com/patent/US20020122410)** > > Proposed a method of wireless data exchange amongst ad-hoc mobile devices of limited range within a communications network, the network comprising a plurality of mobile units including a source mobile unit and a destination mobile unit and a... > - The present invention relates to a novel routing method specifically adapted for use with ad-hoc heterogeneous mobile networks and more particularly though not exclusively to a routing method where communications between source and destination mobile units is carried out across a conference size packet radio network of mobile units. > > - [0003] > > Status of the Prior Art Ad-hoc heterogeneous mobile networks have recently become important in the field of mobile communications particularly with respect to mobile computer supported collaborative work. An Ad-hoc heterogeneous mobile network comprises a plurality of mobile units each being able to communicate with its neighbouring mobile units which are a single hop away. In such a network, each mobile unit acts as a router forwarding packets of information from one mobile unit to another via any existing communication link between them. ---
**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:** [November 17, 2022, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1800 "2022-11-17T01:02:40Z")
> [@Ponderoid](#): > > There should be rows for “advertiser-friendly” and “does this make money”. That’s all that I can think of but I’m sure there’s something else. The comic is listing features for users, not for the developers. But a matrix for developer features would be interesting, too. ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1801 "2022-11-19T01:14:00Z")
> **[Account Problems](https://xkcd.com/2700/)** > > My password is just every Unicode codepoint concatenated into a single UTF-8 string. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2022, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574/1802 "2022-11-19T01:31:39Z")
> [@dtilque](#): > > [xkcd: Bad Date](https://xkcd.com/2698/) > [@](#): > > “PSST - This date is going so badly that the people around us are posting it live.” Ahem: > [@Lawyers are terrible on blind dates.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-are-terrible-on-blind-dates/846482): > > In a restaurant, having supper by meself, at a nice restaurant. Woman is seated at a nearby table. Asks for water. Clear she’s waiting for someone. Then hé arrives. Late. Starts talking politics, about Justin and the Liberals. Then he moves on to the articling course For some reason, she sounds interested. Or she’s being polite. > [@Lawyers are terrible on blind dates.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lawyers-are-terrible-on-blind-dates/846482/2): > > Now we’re onto foreclosure law. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574.md?page=89) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/xkcd-thread/854574.md?page=91)