...om the third zero. The table has been updated to include room for all 1000 characters, so it will be possible to easily continue with the explanation of each of
...mpleted the descriptions for characters 647-1000; however, for many of the characters, verification and/or alternate explanations might be necessary. I will cont
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...gh, follow up on the previous global warming comic: [[1379: 4.5 Degrees]]. By having readers scroll through millennia of slow-paced natural changes, Rand
...le who claim that this is not happening, or at least that it is not caused by any human actions, called {{w|Climate change denial|climate change deniers}
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...disks to trick the computer into writing more data on them than specified by the manufacturer. With punchcards on the other hand, the holes themselves e
...echnique in his paper, it would be impossible to discover the hacked login by examining the official source code for either the login or the compiler its
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...w|The Chronicles of Narnia}} by {{w|C. S. Lewis}}. In the books, the child characters use different portals to get into the alternative dimension/world of {{w|Na
...g their trash there{{Citation needed}}. He would probably try to stop this by any means necessary, including coming up through a trash chute into another
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...passwords harder to remember (leading people to create huge security risks by [https://arstechnica.com/security/2015/04/hacked-french-network-exposed-its
...ithms that are computed by machines. They don't have any effect when used by humans in passwords, except for maybe making it harder to remember. In addi
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...ving this by providing for a single character encoding for all the various characters used in the world's languages.
...ho worked for Xerox in the 1980s. He has a beard and may be the character featured in the first and third panels.
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...rite a given program, probably to achieve a trivial outcome, using as many characters as possible. Randall's approach to this in the code example shown in the co
...unctions. Python has no limit for function name length, and was previously featured in comic [[353: Python]].
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...the collection of personal information of up to 87 million Facebook users by the political targeting firm Cambridge Analytica.
...r was sent back in time to prevent the birth of a human resistance leader, by killing his mother before he was born. In the movie, the Terminator looked
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...r counterintuitive if you understand how they really work. The five people featured in this comic, all from different disciplines, are all aware of certain fac
* [[Megan]], a {{w|botanist}}, is struck by the fact that trees are made in large part from air, as in the carbon dioxi
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...n the launch version of the game had been announced, though with five more characters coming in 2019 as {{w|downloadable content}}.
...dy chosen and that they were not accepting further requests; all remaining characters would then be gradually released over the next three years, culminating in
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[[Ponytail]] and other characters also fly in the background. The screen is explaining his options for shari
...seems to have a face and have very advanced AI, which can even be arrogant by assuming that it already knew the information about the “option in betwee
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...ut the inherent dangers of highly radioactive material). This is reflected by Megan and Hairy treating Cueball's idea as a joke.
...emitted by plutonium-238 is relatively harmless, as it is quickly absorbed by surrounding material and turned to heat – but plutonium is still incr
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...rd to tie everything together. Doris Kearns Goodwin, the sports journalist featured in "Baseball," was somehow ALSO a famous historian who wrote bestselling bi
...verse|universe}}, meaning that characters in one work can conceivably meet characters in another work via conventional travel, and sometimes such crossovers are
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...ns it won't be modified like the rest of the comics. See the list of these comics [[#Comic-specific header text|here]].
...Amber], and [https://github.com/dyfrgi Michael Leuchtenburg] with physics by [https://rapier.rs/ Rapier].
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...cted by the person's age, where they live, and how prominently the news is featured in their homes and surroundings.
...for the many students who saw it live, but Hairy subverts this expectation by clarifying that he saw it in 1995, nearly a decade after the explosion. He
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It was, of course, released on [[:Category:Sunday comics|a Sunday]] (August 4th), becoming only the fifth comic to be released on a
...mics/disappearing_sunday_update.png image] (and its [https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/disappearing_sunday_update_2x.png 2x version]) was still on the xkcd image
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...and [[:Category:Interactive comics|interactive]], and include [[:Category:Comics with animation|animations]]. Also, the [[Header text|header text]] changed
...t it. As such, despite its mass in principle being liftable by many of the characters, only Thor, God of Thunder (who is canonically worthy), is able to throw it
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...was [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNdb03Hw18M very thoroughly homaged] by ''A New Hope''. The original trilogy of movies only had two Death Stars, b
...ulation among Star Wars fans as to the identity of her parents. Many major characters in ''Star Wars'' have unexpected heritages of great portent, most famously
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...he year {{w|2020}}. It was the second of two [[:Category:New Year|New Year comics]] around the 2019-2020 New Year, after [[2248: New Year's Eve]].
...rticularly in the latter half of the 20th century, eras were often defined by decades, such as discussing the social movements of the 60s, or the music o
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...t turns out that it contains a water gun, which she uses to soak the other characters. It is unclear whether she has somehow hidden the water gun inside the trom
In the second panel, she is priming the water gun by pumping air into it, following the sequence of pump actions used for the Su
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