cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2989211

> Mastodon Toot. > > Project.

cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/21076796

> xkcd #2977: Three Kinds of Research > > alt text: > > > The secret fourth kind is 'we applied a standard theory to their map of every tree and got some suspicious results.' > > https://explainxkcd.com/2977/

>Henry@hl@social.lol > > Glad to see the great job @openstreetmap and @organicmaps are doing. For cycling to the zoo's main entrance, where I can buy entry, they suggest a sensible route. #Google maps seems to suggest I go through the zoo, possibly via the tiger cage. > >https://social.lol/@hl/113047359789803891

>Dawid Rejowski@didek@101010.pl > >@hl @openstreetmap @organicmaps > >Also somehow ZOO looks more like a ZOO. > >Here I needed a while to understand what is that place. Only after reading the labels I understood it is the center of Warsaw, a place that should be one of the most recognizable places in Poland.\ >Compared to OragnicMaps, with rich colors, colorful Metro icons, building shapes and rails, Google Maps looks very blended. > >https://101010.pl/@didek/113050389244877936

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/18747630

https://xkcd.com/2956

Alt text: > Attention all passengers: This is an express sequence to infinity. If your stop is not a power of two, please disembark now.

https://xkcd.com/2949

Alt text: > If you repeatedly rerun the development of technological civilization, it turns out that for some reason the only constant is that there is always a networking utility called 'netcat', though it does a different thing in each one.

https://xkcd.com/2945

> In addition to eating foxes, rabbits can eat grass. The grass also eats foxes. Our equations chart the contours of Fox Hell.

https://xkcd.com/2944

Alt text: > The ten-way tie was judged a ten-way tie, so no one won the grand prize, a rare fishing monopole.

https://xkcd.com/2943

Alt text: > I'm an H⁺ denier, in that I refuse to consider loose protons to be real hydrogen, so I personally believe it stands for 'pretend'.

https://xkcd.com/2941

Alt text: > It's believed that Golgi was originally an independent organism who was eventually absorbed into our cells, where he began work on his Apparatus.

https://xkcd.com/2939

Alt text: > PERPETUALLY OPTIMISTIC CASE: Early in the execution, our research group makes a breakthrough on proving P=NP.

https://xkcd.com/2938

Alt text: > Cosmologists estimate the spaghetti strand to be about 200 septillion calories, though it could be higher depending on the nutritional value of dark matter.

https://xkcd.com/2936

Alt text: > Karpov's construction of a series of increasingly large rice cookers led to a protracted deadlock, but exponential growth won in the end.

https://xkcd.com/2935

Alt text: > I can't believe they wouldn't even let me hold a vote among the passengers about whether to try the loop.

https://xkcd.com/2934

Alt text: > Sometimes, you can tell Bloom filters are the wrong tool for the job, but when they're the right one you can never be sure.

https://xkcd.com/2933

Alt text: >\==COSMOLOGY==> 'Uhhh ... how sure are we that everything is made of these?'

https://xkcd.com/2932

Alt text: > This PSA brought to you by several would-be assassins who tried to wave me in front of speeding cars in the last month and who will have to try harder next time.

https://xkcd.com/2931

Alt text: > Certain hybrid events can only happen in certain locations where all the conditions are present; chasers flock to the area in and around Kansas known as tumbleweed-colliding-with-possum alley.

https://xkcd.com/2930

Alt text: > From Google Trends, it looks like the lag between people Googling cocktail recipes and 'hangover cure' is 14 hours.