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1685: Patch

2016-05-25T13:45:26Z

Alephprime: /* Explanation */

{{comic
| number = 1685
| date = May 25, 2016
| title = Patch
| image = patch.png
| titletext = My optimizer uses content-aware inpainting to fill in all the wasted whitespace in the code, repeating the process until it compiles.
}}

==Explanation==

{{w|Adobe Photoshop}} is a commonly used software for image manipulation. One of its features is "content-aware inpainting", which allows the user to delete parts of the image and seamlessly replacing the deleted sections with "patches" of texture from other parts of the image.

The {{w|GNU}} {{w|Patch (Unix)|patch}} is a software program that replaces only parts of the code with an updated version, without requiring the user to download the entire source code. Here, it appears the author was told to "patch" the code, but used Photoshop to do this instead of GNU patch, with devastating results. Although the title text suggest that if you did this enough times the code would eventually compile, this would never happen. In fact, Photoshop could only edit an image of the text and not the text itself.

The code appears to be written in {{w|Python_(programming_language)|Python}}, a programming language often referred to in xkcd. A few of the function names that can be recognized are "isPrime" and "quicksort", both elementary programming algorithms.

The title text also explains that patch used the content-aware inpainting to fill in all the wasted whitespace in the code. In Python, whitespaces are used as a part of programming syntax (for example, new line of code are used instead of semicolon (;), and indents are used instead of curly brackets.

The original code was likely as follows:

:import re
:def isPrime(n):
:::if n<1:
:::::return False
:::for i in range(2, int(n**0.5)+1):
:::::if n%i==0:
:::::::return False
:::return True
:def isPrimeRegex(n):
:::if re.match(r'^1?$|^(.1+?)\1+$', '1'*n):
:::::return False
:::return True
:def quicksort(a):
:::if len(a) < 2:
:::::return a
:::pivot=a[0]
:::l=[i for i ln a if i<pivot]
:::r=[i for i ln a if i>pivot]
:::mid=[pivot]*(len(a)-(len(l)+len(r)))
:::return quicksort(l)+mid+quicksort(r)

==Transcript==
:[The panel displays part of a code, in four different colors (red, light blue, green and purple) as well as normal black text, which due to image editing is difficult to read. The first and last line are partly obscured by the frame of the panel. Here below is an attempt to transcribe the code, using the sign "¤" for anything not easily transcribed. Feel free to add other signs instead of these that looks more like the one in the image (and also improve the attempted transcription if possible).]
:impo¤l me
:dooPisPS¤me(n):
:::r(¤n<n,1:
:::::retern F(ise
:::for i irararre(2, nint *n**n+5)+5):
:::::if n i==0
:::::::ret¤¤nrselsel:
:::re¤ irn True
:defesisPrimcieg ¤x(cx
:::if ge¤inatcx(r'^(1?| ?.1+?)\+)$'*n )1'*n):
:::::rerjrn Fa( e
:::LetylnrTrl
:dql qlsorsorn(a :
:::if ¤n(a < 2:
:::::eteturn a
:::pi= =r fa[0]
:::l=pi=for j ln a i< i<pi<(t]()
:::r=[l=for f in a) r i>viviv](vo)
:::mid=[pi[*t]*(l*t,(a)-(lenpienlen(c)))
:::r¤lrurrriklcksckt(l) + r ¤ ¤quickrort(r)

:[Caption below the panel:]
:Protip: If you don't have access to the GNU ''patch'' tool, you can use the Photoshop one.

{{comic discussion}}

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1685: Patch

2016-05-25T13:35:03Z

Alephprime: /* Explanation */

{{comic
| number = 1685
| date = May 25, 2016
| title = Patch
| image = patch.png
| titletext = My optimizer uses content-aware inpainting to fill in all the wasted whitespace in the code, repeating the process until it compiles.
}}

==Explanation==

{{w|Adobe Photoshop}} is a commonly used software for image manipulation. One of its features is "content-aware inpainting", which allows the user to delete parts of the image and seamlessly replacing the deleted sections with "patches" of texture from other parts of the image.

The {{w|GNU}} {{w|Patch (Unix)|patch}} is a software program that replaces only parts of the code with an updated version, without requiring the user to download the entire source code. Here, it appears the author was told to "patch" the code, but used Photoshop to do this instead of GNU patch, with devastating results. Although the title text suggest that if you did this enough times the code would eventually compile, this would never happen. In fact, Photoshop could only edit an image of the text and not the text itself.

The code appears to be written in {{w|Python_(programming_language)|Python}}, a programming language often referred to in xkcd. A few of the function names that can be recognized are "isPrime" and "quicksort", both elementary programming algorithms.

The title text also explains that patch used the content-aware inpainting to fill in all the wasted whitespace in the code. In Python, whitespaces are used as a part of programming syntax (for example, new line of code are used instead of semicolon (;), and indents are used instead of curly brackets.

The original code was likely as follows:

:import re
:def isPrime(n):
:::if n < 1:
:::::return False
:::for i in range(2, int(n**0.5)+1):
:::::if n%i==0:
:::::::return False
:::return True
:def isPrimeRegex(n):
:::if re.match(r'^1?$|^(.1+?)\1+$', '1'*n):
:::::return False
:::return True
:def quicksort(a):
:::if len(a) < 2:
:::::return a
:::pivot=a[0]
:::l=[i for i ln a if i < pivot]
:::r=[i for i ln a if i > pivot]
:::mid=[pivot]*(len(a)-(len(l)+len(r)))
:::return quicksort(l)+mid+quicksort(r)

==Transcript==
:[The panel displays part of a code, in four different colors (red, light blue, green and purple) as well as normal black text, which due to image editing is difficult to read. The first and last line are partly obscured by the frame of the panel. Here below is an attempt to transcribe the code, using the sign "¤" for anything not easily transcribed. Feel free to add other signs instead of these that looks more like the one in the image (and also improve the attempted transcription if possible).]
:impo¤l me
:dooPisPS¤me(n):
:::r(¤n<n,1:
:::::retern F(ise
:::for i irararre(2, nint *n**n+5)+5):
:::::if n i==0
:::::::ret¤¤nrselsel:
:::re¤ irn True
:defesisPrimcieg ¤x(cx
:::if ge¤inatcx(r'^(1?| ?.1+?)\+)$'*n )1'*n):
:::::rerjrn Fa( e
:::LetylnrTrl
:dql qlsorsorn(a :
:::if ¤n(a < 2:
:::::eteturn a
:::pi= =r fa[0]
:::l=pi=for j ln a i< i<pi<(t]()
:::r=[l=for f in a) r i>viviv](vo)
:::mid=[pi[*t]*(l*t,(a)-(lenpienlen(c)))
:::r¤lrurrriklcksckt(l) + r ¤ ¤quickrort(r)

:[Caption below the panel:]
:Protip: If you don't have access to the GNU ''patch'' tool, you can use the Photoshop one.

{{comic discussion}}

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[[Category:Protip]]
[[Category:Programming]]

1685: Patch

2016-05-25T13:32:26Z

Alephprime: /* Explanation */

{{comic
| number = 1685
| date = May 25, 2016
| title = Patch
| image = patch.png
| titletext = My optimizer uses content-aware inpainting to fill in all the wasted whitespace in the code, repeating the process until it compiles.
}}

==Explanation==

{{w|Adobe Photoshop}} is a commonly used software for image manipulation. One of its features is "content-aware inpainting", which allows the user to delete parts of the image and seamlessly replacing the deleted sections with "patches" of texture from other parts of the image.

The {{w|GNU}} {{w|Patch (Unix)|patch}} is a software program that replaces only parts of the code with an updated version, without requiring the user to download the entire source code. Here, it appears the author was told to "patch" the code, but used Photoshop to do this instead of GNU patch, with devastating results. Although the title text suggest that if you did this enough times the code would eventually compile, this would never happen. In fact, Photoshop could only edit an image of the text and not the text itself.

The code appears to be written in {{w|Python_(programming_language)|Python}}, a programming language often referred to in xkcd. A few of the function names that can be recognized are "isPrime" and "quicksort", both elementary programming algorithms.

The title text also explains that patch used the content-aware inpainting to fill in all the wasted whitespace in the code. In Python, whitespaces are used as a part of programming syntax (for example, new line of code are used instead of semicolon (;), and indents are used instead of curly brackets.

The original code was likely as follows:

:import re
:def isPrime(n):
:::if n < 1:
:::::return False
:::for i in range(2, int(n**0.5)+1):
:::::if n%i==0:
:::::::return False:
:::return True
:def isPrimeRegex(n):
:::if re.match(r'^1?$|^(.1+?)\1+$', '1'*n):
:::::return False
:::return True
:def quicksort(a):
:::if len(a) < 2:
:::::return a
:::pivot=a[0]
:::l=[i for i ln a if i < pivot]
:::r=[i for i ln a if i > pivot]
:::mid=[pivot]*(len(a)-(len(l)+len(r)))
:::return quicksort(l)+mid+quicksort(r)

==Transcript==
:[The panel displays part of a code, in four different colors (red, light blue, green and purple) as well as normal black text, which due to image editing is difficult to read. The first and last line are partly obscured by the frame of the panel. Here below is an attempt to transcribe the code, using the sign "¤" for anything not easily transcribed. Feel free to add other signs instead of these that looks more like the one in the image (and also improve the attempted transcription if possible).]
:impo¤l me
:dooPisPS¤me(n):
:::r(¤n<n,1:
:::::retern F(ise
:::for i irararre(2, nint *n**n+5)+5):
:::::if n i==0
:::::::ret¤¤nrselsel:
:::re¤ irn True
:defesisPrimcieg ¤x(cx
:::if ge¤inatcx(r'^(1?| ?.1+?)\+)$'*n )1'*n):
:::::rerjrn Fa( e
:::LetylnrTrl
:dql qlsorsorn(a :
:::if ¤n(a < 2:
:::::eteturn a
:::pi= =r fa[0]
:::l=pi=for j ln a i< i<pi<(t]()
:::r=[l=for f in a) r i>viviv](vo)
:::mid=[pi[*t]*(l*t,(a)-(lenpienlen(c)))
:::r¤lrurrriklcksckt(l) + r ¤ ¤quickrort(r)

:[Caption below the panel:]
:Protip: If you don't have access to the GNU ''patch'' tool, you can use the Photoshop one.

{{comic discussion}}

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[[Category:Protip]]
[[Category:Programming]]

1685: Patch

2016-05-25T13:29:13Z

Alephprime: /* Explanation */

{{comic
| number = 1685
| date = May 25, 2016
| title = Patch
| image = patch.png
| titletext = My optimizer uses content-aware inpainting to fill in all the wasted whitespace in the code, repeating the process until it compiles.
}}

==Explanation==

{{w|Adobe Photoshop}} is a commonly used software for image manipulation. One of its features is "content-aware inpainting", which allows the user to delete parts of the image and seamlessly replacing the deleted sections with "patches" of texture from other parts of the image.

The {{w|GNU}} {{w|Patch (Unix)|patch}} is a software program that replaces only parts of the code with an updated version, without requiring the user to download the entire source code. Here, it appears the author was told to "patch" the code, but used Photoshop to do this instead of GNU patch, with devastating results. Although the title text suggest that if you did this enough times the code would eventually compile, this would never happen... In fact, Photoshop could only edit an image of the text and not the text itself.

The code appears to be written in {{w|Python_(programming_language)|Python}}, a programming language often referred to in xkcd.. A few of the function names that can be recognized are "isPrime" and "quicksort", both elementary programming algorithms.

The title text also explains that patch used the content-aware inpainting to fill in all the wasted whitespace in the code. In Python, whitespaces are used as a part of programming syntax (for example, new line of code are used instead of semicolon (;), and indents are used instead of curly brackets.

The original code was likely as follows:

:import re
:def isPrime(n):
:::if n < 1:
:::::return False
:::for i in range(2, n**0.5+1):
:::::if n%i==0:
:::::::return False:
:::return True
:def isPrimeRegex(n):
:::if re.match(r'^1?$|^(.1+?)\1+$', '1'*n):
:::::return False
:::return True
:def quicksort(a):
:::if len(a) < 2:
:::::return a
:::pivot=a[0]
:::l=[i for i ln a if i < pivot]
:::r=[i for i ln a if i > pivot]
:::mid=[pivot]*(len(a)-(len(l)+len(r)))
:::return quicksort(l)+mid+quicksort(r)

==Transcript==
:[The panel displays part of a code, in four different colors (red, light blue, green and purple) as well as normal black text, which due to image editing is difficult to read. The first and last line are partly obscured by the frame of the panel. Here below is an attempt to transcribe the code, using the sign "¤" for anything not easily transcribed. Feel free to add other signs instead of these that looks more like the one in the image (and also improve the attempted transcription if possible).]
:impo¤l me
:dooPisPS¤me(n):
:::r(¤n<n,1:
:::::retern F(ise
:::for i irararre(2, nint *n**n+5)+5):
:::::if n i==0
:::::::ret¤¤nrselsel:
:::re¤ irn True
:defesisPrimcieg ¤x(cx
:::if ge¤inatcx(r'^(1?| ?.1+?)\+)$'*n )1'*n):
:::::rerjrn Fa( e
:::LetylnrTrl
:dql qlsorsorn(a :
:::if ¤n(a < 2:
:::::eteturn a
:::pi= =r fa[0]
:::l=pi=for j ln a i< i<pi<(t]()
:::r=[l=for f in a) r i>viviv](vo)
:::mid=[pi[*t]*(l*t,(a)-(lenpienlen(c)))
:::r¤lrurrriklcksckt(l) + r ¤ ¤quickrort(r)

:[Caption below the panel:]
:Protip: If you don't have access to the GNU ''patch'' tool, you can use the Photoshop one.

{{comic discussion}}

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[[Category:Protip]]
[[Category:Programming]]

Talk:1674: Adult

2016-04-29T15:54:10Z

Alephprime:

I included an alternate explanation that approached the joke from a different perspective. The first explanation agreed that certain tasks identify one as an adult while I saw the joke to mean that we bestow adult-like properties onto certain tasks in order to convince ourselves we must be an adult when those tasks do nothing to mature us or bestow maturity.[[User:R0hrshach|R0hrshach]] ([[User talk:R0hrshach|talk]]) 15:39, 29 April 2016 (UTC)

I understood the joke to be that a large number of people, if not everybody, behaves like cueball when they become adults. They perform adult tasks out of necessity. They are surprised that they are doing such adult things because they have not felt any discernible change in themselves as they transition into adulthood and therefore assume that they lack the maturity necessary to be an adult. However, the irony is that doing such tasks is what makes others perceive them as adults. Their peers have no transparency into their inner thought process and simply assume those performing adult tasks are mature and have something they themselves don't, when in reality this is far from the case. The joke is then that Cueball takes it to the extreme and even verbalizes it in his will, which is an extremely serious document and in which such a joking remark is unexpected.
[[User:Alephprime|Alephprime]] ([[User talk:Alephprime|talk]]) 15:54, 29 April 2016 (UTC)