https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=141.101.98.77&feedformat=atomexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T11:56:16ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2892:_Banana_Prices&diff=3346592892: Banana Prices2024-02-09T17:13:35Z<p>141.101.98.77: /* Explanation */ Combined 'my initial attempt' with what Edit Conflicted my submission. Will check compatibility further, once posted.</p>
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| date = February 9, 2024<br />
| title = Banana Prices<br />
| image = banana_prices_2x.png<br />
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| titletext = It's a linear extrapolation, Michael. How big could the error be? 10%?<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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‘It’s one banana, Michael. What could it cost, $10?' is a line from an {{w|Arrested Development}} episide (Season 1, Episode 6, "Visiting Ours", 2003). This expression has frequently been used as a meme to mock the wealthy who are out of touch as to what prices for common items are. Someone would only think a banana cost $10 in 2003, or now, if they never did any grocery shopping because they have people for that (the line was spoken by Lucille Bluth, a rich socialite). According to the graph, the banana price at the time of that episode was actually just under 25 cents.<br />
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This comic shows 3 different linear extrapolations of the current increasing trend in banana prices, using a graph of historic banana prices and a series of projected future prices based upon predicted trends for salient economic factors. [[Randall]] shows that the extraordinary situation from the quote is still likely to be a long time hence before becoming a dead meme overtaken by reality.<br />
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The title text is a meta-joke about the false precision of extrapolations. Any extrapolation into the distant future based on past data points is just an educated guess likely to be at least somewhat wrong. However, it could very well be quite wrong, with an error far in excess of 10%. Assuming that the error couldn't be more than 10% shows that the person reviewing the linear extrapolation is presuming way more accuraacy from a multi-century prediction than is warranted.<br />
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The most likely reason for these extrapolations to be incorrect is that the current rate of inflation – around 5% in the US – is much higher than the historical average from the past several decades, and if recent historical trends dominate, inflation is likely to revert back to the more typical 1-to-2% range in the near term (next 5 to 10 years), and is rather unlikely to continue at 5% for the next century. The error rate on this prediction is less than 10% (not really).<br />
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The comic also does not appear to acknowledge possible {{w|Banana#Pests, diseases, and natural disasters|supply issues}} that could make the current supply of bananas into a rarer (or even {{w|Gros Michel banana|commercially 'extinct'}}) commodity, thus bucking all the economic projections that the graph anticipates.<br />
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The graph is drawn to a logarithmic vertical scale, in order to present to exponential price-rise linear, which is a graphing theme that has featured in several recent comics as the seconnd comic in a row to involve logarithms (the prior one being [[2891: Log Cabin]]) and the secnd comic in the last four to involve prediction across centuries (i.e. [[2889: Greenhouse Effect]]). The title text then continues with a meta-joke along the same theme in which the possible error in 'slope' is similarly subject to hyperbole, but quoting ten ''percent'' (a proportional change) rather than ten ''dollars'' (a price threshold).<br />
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:[A graph with the x-axis showing time, from the years 1950 to around 2275. The y-axis is a log scale showing the price of a banana. A label called "Price of a banana (BLS/St. Louis ''Fred'')" show a rising trend in the price of a banana. There are two dots on that trend. One is labeled "Episode airs" and the other one "Now". 3 extrapolations labeled "General inflation rate", "Fresh fruit price trend" and "Banana price trend" extend until reaching the $10 mark, indicated by 3 dots.]<br />
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:Caption above the graph : "It's one banana, Michael. What could it cost? $10?<br />
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:Caption below comic : That line probably has another century or so left.<br />
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<div>The title text suggests that something bad has happened, not simply that he is swimming elsewhere or that Randall is disappointed the boy is no longer floating in the barrel. [[User:Grahame|Grahame]] ([[User talk:Grahame|talk]]) 05:30, 18 October 2013 (UTC)Grahame<br />
:Fixed. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.45|108.162.216.45]] 02:54, 17 November 2013 (UTC)<br />
:The title text suggests unhappiness at the knowledge that the boy is apparently no longer inside the barrel that has been preserving his life so far. We can speculate that something bad has happened, but a sad smiley does not do that for us. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.58|108.162.219.58]] 01:12, 1 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
:: Agreed - the sadness could be that the boy has embarked on a new stage of his adventure, and we're not able to follow it.[[Special:Contributions/141.101.76.16|141.101.76.16]] 10:28, 5 January 2018 (UTC)<br />
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@Koolkat38: Updated the link you added to the [[:Category:Barrel|Barrel series]], to be more direct, in all the instances. Though this might have been unnecessary given the exact same link is mentioned in the lower part of the explanation. Still, good to think of, and perhaps the latter (original) link is now unneccesary. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.77|141.101.98.77]] 12:56, 9 May 2023 (UTC)<br />
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== Repeated vandalism ==<br />
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Page history suggests this article has been vandalized multiple times within past weeks, with no recent legitimate edits. Article should be locked. [[Special:Contributions/172.70.214.185|172.70.214.185]] 17:13, 26 May 2022 (UTC)</div>141.101.98.77https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:353:_Python&diff=311062Talk:353: Python2023-04-21T19:22:04Z<p>141.101.98.77: </p>
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<div>It is necessary for both Cueballs to sample the medicine cabinet in order for this to be a hallucination. It was probably python.{{unsigned ip|122.161.29.247}}<br />
:Or maybe there is just one Cueball - the one on the ground who is hallucinating - because he tried everything...? ;-) [[User:Kynde|Kynde]] ([[User talk:Kynde|talk]]) 20:45, 3 May 2014 (UTC)<br />
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'I also sampled everything in the medicine cabinet for comparison' is a possible reference to George's Marvellous Medicine, the children's book written by Roald Dahl, wherein a combination of medicines and household materials produces fantastical effects. [[User:Quetzalcoatl|Quetzalcoatl]] ([[User talk:Quetzalcoatl|talk]]) 14:31, 10 February 2014 (UTC)<br />
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:I think it's related to the invention of photographs, but I'm not sure [[Special:Contributions/173.245.48.81|173.245.48.81]] 06:19, 3 January 2015 (UTC)<br />
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Woah guys, antigravity is a real module in Python! I was looking around the lib folder, trying to figure out how to put a module into it, and there it was - antigravity.py . It just sends your browser to the comic. --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.171|108.162.219.171]] 22:07, 13 December 2014 (UTC)<br />
:Yeah, that's already covered in the ''Trivia'' section ;-) --[[User:SlashMe|SlashMe]] ([[User talk:SlashMe|talk]]) 23:22, 14 December 2014 (UTC)<br />
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The implication is that in Python many otherwise amazing things become easily possible after a simple import statement and/or that there is a module for almost anything you'd want to do no matter how difficult.[[Special:Contributions/199.27.130.216|199.27.130.216]] 16:30, 29 April 2015 (UTC)<br />
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The explanation was wrong about many things. Python doesn't have a heavily-simplified syntax--it's about as simple as Perl (and a lot less simple than Lisp); the difference is that it's designed first and foremost to be consistent, easy to read, and easy to remember, even at the cost of occasionally being more verbose or rigid. Its syntax doesn't generally reduce complicated things to a single word; it does allow many complicated things that might take 20 statements in C to be reduced to a single statement, but that's because it's high-level (again, like Perl), not because of its syntax. Dynamic typing has nothing to do with declaring the types of values, much less specifically numeric values, and it has nothing to do with Python automatically knowing how much space to reserve for a value--in fact, it's the opposite; C knows to reserve 4 bytes for an int variable at compile time, whereas Python has no idea what kind of value you're going to put into the variable until runtime. And "like in Visual Basic or JavaScript" is very confused--Visual Basic is statically typed, while JavaScript is dynamically typed, just like Python.<br />
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Also, the explanation didn't explain why Cueball's friend was reticent to use dynamic typing or significant whitespace, or what the point of importing modules is.<br />
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So I rewrote most of it. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.255.69|162.158.255.69]] 20:55, 15 September 2015 (UTC)<br />
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I remember this Roald Dahl story where some guy takes everything in the medicine cabinet of their grandparent and can fly. That's what i instanly thought when i saw that phrase. I'm not sure which story, but it was a good one and i think it's worth mentioning. [[Special:Contributions/172.64.238.49|172.64.238.49]] 17:37, 21 April 2023 (UTC)<br />
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: Oh wait, i'm dumb it's //George's Marvellous Medicine// [[Special:Contributions/172.71.186.83|172.71.186.83]] 17:43, 21 April 2023 (UTC)<br />
::Not really, because {{w|George's Marvellous Medicine|that}} was mostly about size-changing abilities of an entire houshold (and more?) of constituent ingredients. But getting (or hallucinating) the ability to fly after consuming random pharmaceuticals is a fairly typical trope that stands well on its own general merit.<br />
::I reverted your change, though no doubt you could write a better hedging statement that ''compares'' the one situation with the other. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.77|141.101.98.77]] 19:22, 21 April 2023 (UTC)</div>141.101.98.77https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2740:_Square_Packing&diff=306617Talk:2740: Square Packing2023-02-22T19:43:59Z<p>141.101.98.77: </p>
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I suspect Randall saw the same social media post that I did (or maybe a repost of the same social media post, who knows or cares). I don't really want to make an explanation, but anyone who does, here's a link to a bunch of square packing findings... of course, no hydraulic press allowed for these packings. https://erich-friedman.github.io/packing/squinsqu/ [[User:Tsumikiminiwa|Tsumikiminiwa]] ([[User talk:Tsumikiminiwa|talk]]) 22:07, 20 February 2023 (UTC)<br />
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:Yeah, this was on r/mathmemes the other day. [[Special:Contributions/172.64.238.48|172.64.238.48]] 00:03, 21 February 2023 (UTC)<br />
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Welcome to the Hydraulic Press Channel. Today we have a set of squares that are usually used in packing problems. You are supposed to fit them into other squares by arranging them. But I think we can get them to fit easier if we put them on the press, and just try to make them smaller. We are going to start with one square, and see how much smaller we can make this. And here we go.<br />
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:Needs to include a mention of the "Square Packer Five Meeellion"... [[Special:Contributions/172.68.51.141|172.68.51.141]] 16:48, 21 February 2023 (UTC)<br />
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The post where I saw this said: “God is dead, and what killed him was learning [the similarly inelegant-appearing n=17 solution].” [[Special:Contributions/172.70.254.216|172.70.254.216]] 13:08, 21 February 2023 (UTC)<br />
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[[Special:Contributions/172.70.54.77|172.70.54.77]] 19:26, 21 February 2023 (UTC)<br />
Welcome to the Hydraulic Press channel<br />
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What does "s<" mean? [[User:Kev|Kev]] ([[User talk:Kev|talk]]) 22:54, 21 February 2023 (UTC)<br />
:"S" (the size of the square, within which lie the N small squares) is less than the following number. i.e. that any S of that amount or greater is more than enough space to contain N unit squares. But it isn't fully established what the ''smallest'' value of S is, just that it will not be bigger than (or equal to) that provisional limit.<br />
:(Do we need a wikilink to inequality notation in the explanation, then? Maybe you can tell us, Kev.) [[Special:Contributions/172.71.242.191|172.71.242.191]] 23:17, 21 February 2023 (UTC)<br />
::Please! I came to the discussion to ask that an explanation of what s means. I did have a look in the Wikipedia article about it, but they don't use it there. So an explanation in the text with perhaps a link to something that expands on the explanation would be greatly appreciated by me :-) [[Special:Contributions/172.70.91.198|172.70.91.198]] 12:45, 22 February 2023 (UTC)<br />
:::Added something about this. Seems too wordy and partly a repeat of the above. Future editors will refine, no doubt. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.77|141.101.98.77]] 19:43, 22 February 2023 (UTC)<br />
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I think I saw this new solution in a paper authored by USPS et al. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.159|108.162.216.159]] 23:33, 21 February 2023 (UTC)<br />
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I believe we can get S<3.32 for this problem... if it will Blend. --[[Special:Contributions/172.69.79.133|172.69.79.133]] 09:28, 22 February 2023 (UTC)</div>141.101.98.77https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1689:_My_Friend_Catherine&diff=1229681689: My Friend Catherine2016-07-06T20:32:00Z<p>141.101.98.77: </p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
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| date = June 3, 2016<br />
| title = My Friend Catherine<br />
| image = my_friend_catherine.png<br />
| titletext = I can't get any work done because my friend Catherine is sitting on my keyboard.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
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This is another comic using [[:Category:Substitutions|substitutions]] to create the joke by replacing words or phrases, in this case "My cat", with a different word or phrase, in this case "My friend Catherine" (hence the title). The choice of the name is probably because "Kat" is a common nickname for "Catherine".<br />
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By doing so in a list of [[#The original posts|people discussing things their cat did]], it makes it seem like they are discussing things their female human friend did. What is cute (sitting on keyboards), impressive (doing backflips to eat bugs), or at least normal behavior for a cat (vomiting hairballs) would often be weird, disgusting or disturbing if an adult human were to do it, which is what makes the substitution humorous.<br />
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The comic depicts a feed on a page for people discussing their cat, similar to Twitter or Facebook, which would be the only kind of place where the substitution is really funny. Apart from known characters like two looking like [[Cueball]], [[Megan]] and [[Ponytail]], there is also a person with black hair, not looking particularly like any standard characters, and then a person with a [[1350:_Lorenz#Knit_Cap_Girl|knit cap]], which could be the same knit cap wearing user that was also used in [[1506: xkcloud]] (see the [[1506:_xkcloud/Transcript#User_pictures| pictures of the users]]).<br />
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In the title text there is another cat related status update regarding a cat sitting on a keyboard. Given the fact that one of the earlier substitution comics from before the [[1288: Substitutions|three]] ''[[1625: Substitutions 2|Substitution]]'' [[1679: Substitutions 3|comics]], was [[1031: s/keyboard/leopard/]] that replaced keyboard with leopard, many [[#Discussion|fans of xkcd]] were a little disappointed that the title text did not read: ''I can't get any work done because my friend Catherine is sitting on my leopard.''<br />
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===The original posts===<br />
*My cat just did a backflip and then ate a bug! <br />
*I wish my cat wouldn't wake me up by chewing on my hair. <br />
*Oh no, my cat has learned to open the refrigerator. <br />
*My cat just walked in, threw up on the rug, and walked out. <br />
*My cat is looking out the window making weird noises at the birds. <br />
*I wish my cat wouldn't make eye contact with me while pooping.<br />
*I can't get any work done because my cat is sitting on my keyboard. (title text)<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[Captions above the frame:]<br />
:New favorite substitution:<br />
:<big>My Cat→My Friend Catherine</big><br />
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:[A news feed with comments by six different people discussing their cat, but after the above substitution. Next to each post is a user image, and above the clear text of the substituted comment is a unreadable line of wiggles probably with information about the post time stamp.]<br />
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:[A head shot of a person seen straight on with black hair:]<br />
:My friend Catherine just did a backflip and then ate a bug!<br />
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:[A full view of Cueball:]<br />
:I wish my friend Catherine wouldn't wake me up by chewing on my hair.<br />
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:[A head shot of Megan with unreadable text below the image:]<br />
:Oh no, my friend Catherine has learned to open the refrigerator.<br />
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:[A head shot seen from the side of a person with a knit cap and short black hair below the cap:]<br />
:My friend Catherine just walked in, threw up on the rug, and walked out.<br />
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:[A head shot of Ponytail:]<br />
:My friend Catherine is looking out the window making weird noises at the birds.<br />
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:[Cueball seen from the torso and up:]<br />
:I wish my friend Catherine wouldn't make eye contact with me while pooping.<br />
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[[Category:Substitutions]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Cueball]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Ponytail]]<br />
[[Category:Comics featuring Megan]]<br />
[[Category:Multiple Cueballs]]<br />
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[[Category:Animals]]</div>141.101.98.77https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1697:_Intervocalic_Fortition&diff=122260Talk:1697: Intervocalic Fortition2016-06-22T11:22:14Z<p>141.101.98.77: </p>
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The idea, stated in the alt-text, that "meh" was created by writers of "The Simpsons", is incorrect. "The Simpsons", however, was responsible for widely popularizing it. See [http://www.slate.com/blogs/lexicon_valley/2013/09/06/meh_etymology_tracing_the_yiddish_word_from_leo_rosten_to_auden_to_the_simpsons.html] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meh] [[User:Dubaaron|Dubaaron]] ([[User talk:Dubaaron|talk]]) 04:31, 22 June 2016 (UTC)<br />
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"The" ends in a lax vowel, and it's the most ubiquitous word in the language, so that rule is wrong. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.221.10|108.162.221.10]] 04:45, 22 June 2016 (UTC)<br />
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: I've always seen "lax vowel" referring to full (unreduced) vowels. When unstressed, the vowel in "the" is reduced (/ðə/), and when stressed it's tense (/ði:/). [[Special:Contributions/188.114.109.66|188.114.109.66]] 05:08, 22 June 2016 (UTC)<br />
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:: Furthermore, the lax vowel is only used if 'the' is followed by another syllable, and so the utterance will not be lax-vowel-final. {{unsigned ip|162.158.2.219}}<br />
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:::What the? That can't be right...<br />
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Questions. Is this happening in (American) English? is "adverb" becoming /adferb/. Any other examples?[[User:Zeimusu|Zeimusu]] ([[User talk:Zeimusu|talk]]) 05:55, 22 June 2016 (UTC)<br />
: I scanned some 'v' words and didn't see much. A plural of [http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000293.html dwarf] discussion; similarly wharf splits into both wharfs and wharves. 'Halving' might benefit in the sense that the 'l' is silent so it sounds like 'having' and might be more clear as 'halfing'. I've also noticed a smattering of YouTubers writing "could of/should of" instead of contracting 'have', i.e, "could've/should've". [[User:Elvenivle|Elvenivle]] ([[User talk:Elvenivle|talk]]) 06:50, 22 June 2016 (UTC)<br />
:No, I don't think this is really happening. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.77|141.101.98.77]] 11:22, 22 June 2016 (UTC)</div>141.101.98.77https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:1692:_Man_Page&diff=121674Talk:1692: Man Page2016-06-10T07:51:04Z<p>141.101.98.77: Unmatched brackets</p>
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I do not entirely understand how wikis work; however, I have attempted to add a transcript. I apologize if anything breaks. I also apologize if this is not how I should be apologizing.<br />
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[[Special:Contributions/108.162.241.135|108.162.241.135]] 04:27, 10 June 2016 (UTC)<br />
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The Pope flag is referencing the time of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avignon_Papacy Avignon Papacy] --[[Special:Contributions/108.162.237.243|108.162.237.243]] 04:56, 10 June 2016 (UTC)<br />
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The horrible thing about this comic is that somebody is sure to have implemented this program by the end of the day... {{unsigned ip|141.101.104.140}}<br />
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"Behavior Not Defined" might be a reference to undefined behavior, where a program is allowed to do anything including make demons fly out your nose: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undefined_behavior [[Special:Contributions/108.162.219.12|108.162.219.12]] 06:48, 10 June 2016 (UTC)<br />
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[[Special:Contributions/162.158.135.36|162.158.135.36]] 06:58, 10 June 2016 (UTC) Søren Mors<br />
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I thought Ansel was a deliberate misspelling of ANSI, the most common 8 bit codepage. {{unsigned ip|162.158.135.36}}<br />
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The commit "Revision as of 07:08, 10 June 2016" reverted an IMO good explanation for the debug option with a bad one. Consider changing it back. [[User:Todor|Todor]] ([[User talk:Todor|talk]]) 07:20, 10 June 2016 (UTC)<br />
:I agree. The bad explanation also mixed up {{w|Pipeline (Unix)|piping}} with {{w|Redirection (computing)|redirection}} --[[Special:Contributions/141.101.104.76|141.101.104.76]] 07:41, 10 June 2016 (UTC)<br />
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I don't think `blerp -a -d -t -p "AVIGNON"` is a valid call to blerp, because the syntax line syntax is utterly off. For example, the first line has an unclosed open [, whereas the second line – in addition to having the corresponding unmatched ] – plays with the fact that even though {} is usually used to list a set of required items, {} is also how `find` (which might do something similar to blerp, and is in fact mentioned in -v) denotes its results when passed to an exec. {{unsigned ip|141.101.104.30}}<br />
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Command line options do not normally use n-dashes; they use hyphens. Another problem with this option is that n-dashes and m-dashes cannot usually be displayed properly in the fixed-width fonts commonly used for command line terminals. The usual custom is to use two hyphens to represent a dash (which for proportional font display will often be converted to either an n-dash or m-dash).<br />
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While "check whether input halts" clearly alludes to the halting problem, it may not actually be impossible, depending on what blerp actually does and what sort of input it accepts. (It says nothing about actually ''reporting'' the result, and it makes no guarantees that it will itself halt.)<br />
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—[[User:PhantomLimbic|PhantomLimbic]] ([[User talk:PhantomLimbic|talk]]) 07:30, 10 June 2016 (UTC)<br />
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Currently, there is no mention of the unmatched square brackets in the synopsis, or unmatched parenthesis in the title text. Presumably a reference to XKCD comic 859. [[Special:Contributions/141.101.98.77|141.101.98.77]] 07:51, 10 June 2016 (UTC)</div>141.101.98.77https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1663:_Garden&diff=1162971663: Garden2016-04-04T14:33:01Z<p>141.101.98.77: /* Explanation */</p>
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*'''Note''' this is an interactive comic. Go to xkcd to try it out.<br />
*'''Post new images''' etc. in this page [[1663: Garden/Images]]!<br />
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{{incomplete|And will be so for a long time...}}<br />
This is this year's [[:Category:April fools' comics|April fools' comic]] in celebration of {{w|April Fools' Day}}. Due to technical problems (or to make fools of his fans?) the comic did not go live until Sunday evening (after midnight) so there was no Friday release, and this may be the Monday release instead of the planned comic (as to not take attention from this.) So in this way there were only two comics last week, the first time since xkcd went live on xkcd.com.<br />
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If you leave the lights on and wait (or relax) then the plants in your '''garden''' start to grow slowly. The plants appear one at a time slowly, but only a few of them actually grow. There is a large tree that does, but most other plants just appear. Some of the plants sway in the breeze.<br />
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Also animals and [[Megan]] may appear. See examples here [[1663: Garden/Images]].<br />
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Every so often the image will refresh. You can change the number of lights, their position, direction, beam width and the color temperature from red to yellow to white to blue. How much this affects the growth is hard to say, but there seems to be some correlation.<br />
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===Functionality===<br />
*The lamp(s)<br />
**It can be moved and turned. <br />
**The light's color can be changed from yellow to red and back to blue.<br />
*The icons:<br />
**By clicking the icon with a lamp and a + in the top right corner a new lamp is added.<br />
***Up to two more lamps can be added for three in total.<br />
***When there are three the icon becomes faded out.<br />
**By clicking the large X icon something may be deleted<br />
***When anything is selected the X becomes red. For instance when a lamp is selected.<br />
***By clicking the icon the selected lamp can be deleted.<br />
***The same can be done for any item appearing (growing or otherwise) by selecting the item and clicking the X.<br />
****An item selected gets a red circle around it<br />
***The X has the same effect as pushing the delete button on the keyboard.<br />
***Some items (the large tree) can be deleted in minor parts taking a branch or a section with leaves off without deleting the entire tree.<br />
*Saving images.<br />
**The image as seen with the light, but without the lamps themselves and the two icons can be saved by right clicking in the image.<br />
***At least for Edge, Firefox and Chrome, but not for all IE versions.<br />
**There doesn't seem to be any [[1350#Permalink|permalink]] options like there were for the last two years' April Fools' Day comics.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
:[There is a web applet with up to three adjustable lights over a patch of dirt. Two buttons in the top right corner let you add another light, or remove objects. If you wait, something (a plant, an animal, ...) will grow.]<br />
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==Trivia==<br />
On Friday, April 1st, 2015, the website [http://web.archive.org/web/20160401204749/https://xkcd.com/ began displaying] a message where "XKCD updates every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday" usually is:<br />
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The xkcd April 1st comic is currently experiencing technical<br />
difficulties.<br />
Please stand by! <br />
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The next day, the following message [http://web.archive.org/web/20160402144823/http://xkcd.com was displayed]:<br />
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The xkcd April 1st comic is currently experiencing technical<br />
difficulties.<br />
Status update: Please stand by.<br />
Status update: This is fine. Everything is fine.<br />
Status update: Everything is on fire.<br />
Status update: Searching for calendar systems in which Saturday is April 1st.<br />
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On April 3rd, the message [http://web.archive.org/web/20160403234504/https://xkcd.com/ changed] to:<br />
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The Friday xkcd comic is currently experiencing technical difficulties<br />
[Editor's note: Everything is on fire] and has been delayed until<br />
Sunday night.<br />
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