https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=172.68.246.56&feedformat=atomexplain xkcd - User contributions [en]2024-03-28T18:43:02ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.30.0https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=2273:_Truck_Proximity&diff=1878172273: Truck Proximity2020-02-27T06:40:14Z<p>172.68.246.56: Added real truck example.</p>
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<div>{{comic<br />
| number = 2273<br />
| date = February 26, 2020<br />
| title = Truck Proximity<br />
| image = truck_proximity.png<br />
| titletext = See also: Farm animals and dinosaurs. I am so confident that there exists children's media that involves dinosaurs driving trucks on a farm that I'm writing this without even Googling to check.<br />
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==Explanation==<br />
{{incomplete|Created by a DINOSAUR DRIVING A TRUCK. Please mention here why this explanation isn't complete. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}}<br />
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This comic is a graph showing the relationship between time spent in proximity to trucks and level of knowledge about different types of trucks. For the average person, the two go together: people who do not spend much time around trucks are less likely to have knowledge about trucks, and people who spend more time around trucks are more likely to have knowledge about trucks. People with jobs or hobbies involving trucks spend a lot of time with them and must know how they work, so they fit this trend but at a higher level on both axes.<br />
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The outlier group presented here are parents of small children. Small children think trucks are cool and learn a lot about them, and then share this knowledge with their parents. The children themselves might be counted into the "people with truck-related hobbies" but parents won't and are unlikely to go near any truck. They might also ''try'' to keep their children away from them, but fail.<br />
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The title text presumes that this graph could also be made about dinosaurs and farm animals. [[Randall]] confidently states that children like dinosaurs and farms and trucks, and so there must be multimedia featuring all three at once. In fact, books about dinosaurs driving tractors on farms do exist ([https://www.amazon.com/Dinosaur-Farm-Penny-Dale/dp/0763699365 Dinosaur Farm!] and [https://www.amazon.com/Dinosaur-Farm-Frann-Preston-Gannon/dp/1454911328 Dinosaur Farm] are two examples), as are books about them driving trucks ([https://www.amazon.com/Dinosaur-Rescue-Penny-Dales-Dinosaurs/dp/0857631675 Dinosaur Rescue!]). No all three together [https://www.reddit.com/r/xkcd/comments/f9zvra/childrens_media_that_involves_dinosaurs_driving/ so far], apparently trucks and farms do not mix very well.<br />
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==Transcript==<br />
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[[Category: Charts]]</div>172.68.246.56https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=Talk:2033:_Repair_or_Replace&diff=162119Talk:2033: Repair or Replace2018-08-31T10:03:39Z<p>172.68.246.56: </p>
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Do I have to make a backup of ALL my friends and family? [[Special:Contributions/162.158.122.66|162.158.122.66]] 16:33, 15 August 2018 (UTC)<br />
:Yes, in the cloud... --[[User:Dgbrt|Dgbrt]] ([[User talk:Dgbrt|talk]]) 16:41, 15 August 2018 (UTC)<br />
:: Which reminds me on: http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Nethersphere [[User:Elektrizikekswerk|Elektrizikekswerk]] ([[User talk:Elektrizikekswerk|talk]]) 08:28, 16 August 2018 (UTC)<br />
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I’ll just “forget” to backup ms sister, hehehe [[Special:Contributions/162.158.74.225|162.158.74.225]] 16:35, 15 August 2018 (UTC)<br />
:I think you should consider replacing your MS Sister with open source variant.<br />
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Given the number of stories on TFTS about users who don't actually know what "backup" means, this is either a really bad idea or a really good idea. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.75.46|162.158.75.46]] 17:21, 15 August 2018 (UTC)<br />
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It's rather nonsensical when you're talking about things from the same generation, but James May, in his book The Reassembler, made a good argument against fixing old things - old things made for a time when things were expensive and had to be built to last, which meant making them easy to repair when they broke down (which happened frequently) - new things are more reliable and require repair far less often than the products of old, and attempting to repair old things diverts energy away from new innovations, thus holding humanity back. No sense trying to repair an old Nokia 5110 when even the cheapest smartphone from Wish will run rings around it and last longer anyway. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.250.11|108.162.250.11]] 00:29, 16 August 2018 (UTC)<br />
:Well, the old Nokias are indestructible anyways, so you wouldn't even be ''able'' to open the case and repair it. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.91.59|162.158.91.59]] 09:14, 16 August 2018 (UTC)<br />
:Depends. The Nokia 5110 has a stand-by-time of 150h – show me a smartphone that has something like this ;-). --[[User:DaB.|DaB.]] ([[User talk:DaB.|talk]]) 13:54, 16 August 2018 (UTC)<br />
:I remember trying to break my old Nokia 1611 so I could get a new one on "insurance". Used it to play fetch with the dog, threw it against a brick wall, jumped up and down on it wearing army boots. The damned thing would not break. Compare that to a modern smartphone that bricks if you look at it wrong. [[Special:Contributions/162.158.155.170|162.158.155.170]] 14:14, 16 August 2018 (UTC)<br />
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Thank goodness, when I get rid of an old car the next owner can't log into it and review every single place I drove and every conversation I had while driving it... that's coming, though. :( [[User:MaineGrammy|MaineGrammy]] ([[User talk:MaineGrammy|talk]]) 09:19, 16 August 2018 (UTC)<br />
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I feel like he's ignoring that it's kind of absurd how easily we replace cars too. A couple years ago my car was caught in a hail storm. The roof was dented, but nothing was damaged. You can barely even see the dents unless the light is from the correct angle. But it would still cost more to "fix" the car, than the salvage value, and it was therefore "totaled". The car has worked absolutely fine with no problem for two years since then, but it's insane to think that if my 100% functional car was hit by a meteor right now it would not decrease in value. --[[Special:Contributions/172.68.34.94|172.68.34.94]] 19:09, 16 August 2018 (UTC)<br />
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Friendly reminder to all the nerds out there, help your actual friends/family make backups BEFORE the phone is broken. - sincerely, the bearer of bad news [[Special:Contributions/162.158.75.238|162.158.75.238]] 13:14, 18 August 2018 (UTC)<br />
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"(Perhaps, it would be smart to have ones enemies in the car so that they are thrown away with it.)" That's called "murder" and is in fact frowned upon in most societies. [[Special:Contributions/172.69.210.34|172.69.210.34]] 15:01, 19 August 2018 (UTC)</div>172.68.246.56