“…you just say it like the ‘x’ in ‘fire’.”
You mean that isn’t obvious to everybody?
He should know – It’s pronounces identically with the X in XKCD.
Wouldn’t the Chemist be incorrect? The question asked about a coffee cup, not a cup of coffee. Though the Philosopher drawing does show liquid flowing out.
The caffeine molecules are in the cup, so their holes are, too.
So if you ask for a coffee cup and I give you one you’ll be happy, even though it’s empty? As opposed to asking for a cup of coffee?
There’s a difference between the two. A coffee cup, at least to me, does not imply contents.
It doesn’t exclude contents either, and at least in the last two panels, it did contain them.
Now, the error I see is the theoretical physicist, as the number of holes would be countable, even if it’s many.
Since there are probably orders of magnitude more disposable-type coffee cups than eared ceramic ones, I’d be that guy and say, on average, way less than half a hole (at the Topologist level of resolution, that is).
But what about the disposable ones with fold-out handles? Those have two and would bring the average back up.
How common are those? I can’t think of any coffee chain that has those here.
No, but a million little independent donut shops in the states use that kind of cup, if not extruded foam. The main problem with them is that they are too small for a decent dose of caffeine.
I’ll merely say that that cartoon is going up on my door next week.
Well, this didn’t take long. The first camera with in-camera cryptographic signatures is now available:
https://www.sony.eu/presscentre/news/sony-unlocks-in-camera-forgery-proof-technology
It looks like the camera doesn’t use a stacked sensor (i.e., sensor and image processor stacked into a single IC), so it’s not quite as secure as it might otherwise be. But it would still require some serious physical tampering to bypass. A good start for the first iteration.
If I’m not mistaken, that’s a 55/2048 chance of turning off every time a ball drops, with the complementary chance of turning back on with the next ball. Now we just need to know how often the balls drop, which will determine both the frequency of the outages and their typical duration.
Is it better to have a one-minute outage every ~200 minutes, or a five-minute outage every ~1000 minutes, or…?
I dunno. Gen Z are the children of Gen X. While every generation has some degree of “How do you do, fellow kids?”, ultimately I expect that parents have some idea what their kids are really up to. They aren’t completely disconnected as the comic implies.
Also, “same energy” is totally a Gen Z thing.
We’re Gen X. We know, but we don’t really care.
I almost typed out a long response, but… meh.
What is it about kids these days? They keep caring about stuff! In my day, we would just roll our eyes, and say, “Whatever.”