I love how Hobbes' startle is drawn here.
Deebster
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I failed at this. I had END in, although I knew the politicians which should have tipped me off to my error.
I should have read the instructions - just completed it on my phone without knowing anything going in. 11 minutes, but I'll definitely use a desktop next time.
Good catch - he's updated the graphic but this is still wrong.
He's mixed up the first two diagrams - Pluto should be coloured in for the first and not for the second.
It looks like there was a text box bottom-left that was cropped out, but I think it's funnier without it.
What's the name of the book?
I think I need to spend a while watching and reading everything this guy's ever done, especially if it's in this dry, understated humour.
The old footage looked like Robot Wars if they didn't have any safety requirements.
After being virtually dead, it's had a lot more development over the last few years(?), with steady progress towards passing the tests and supporting the specs (including reporting spec bugs and vagueness). It's still a long way from being generally usable.
The focus is on making something that could be embeddable, although there are basic browsers using that embed. The focus seems to be on for use-cases like Electron, which doesn't need all of the web APIs.
I don't use it or contribute (yet), but I have their blog in my RSS reader and so keep an eye on it.
What names has this process come up with?
I like that one of the first things I see is The UX of LEGO Interface Panels - you've got yourself another subscriber!
Title text:
If only my ancestors had been fortunate enough to marry into the branch of the bacteria family that could photosynthesize, like all my little green cousins here.
Transcript:
[Cueball and Beret Guy, seen from afar in silhouette, are walking up a grassy hill.]
[They continue walking up the hill, reaching its grassy summit. Now with normal lighting. Beret Guy is a bit ahead of Cueball.]
Beret Guy: I learned something today.
Beret Guy: I went on one of those family tree sites and kept clicking back, and it turns out I'm related to stromatolites![Closeup on Cueball. Beret Guy's reply comes off-panel from a starburst on the right edge of the panel.]
Cueball: The bacterial mats?
Beret Guy [off-panel]: Yeah! A few billion years back, on my mitochondria's side.[Cueball and Beret Guy standing on the top of the grassy hill facing each other. Berety Guy holding a hand out towards Cueball.]
Beret Guy: My Archaean ancestors absorbed some bacteria that were cousins of stromatolites. That's how I got mitochondria.
Beret Guy: Cell nuclei, too.[Cueball is standing behind Beret Guy who is now sitting down in the grass leaning back on one arm with the other arm resting on his bent knee.]
Cueball: I think there are still living stromatolites. You could get in touch.
Beret Guy: Nah, they're probably busy. I don't want to bother them.[Cueball is sitting behind Beret Guy who is now lying down, both again shown in silhouette from a far, revealing they are on the top of the grassy hill.]
Cueball: So what are you going to do with this knowledge? Nothing?
Beret Guy: Lying on a hill in the warm sun is an old family tradition.
Source: https://xkcd.com/3046/
Title text:
They're continuing to search for a square with the same area as the circle, as efforts to construct one have run into difficulties.
Transcript:
[In a single panel, White Hat, Ponytail, Miss Lenhart, Cueball, and Megan are standing in a field. Ponytail is holding a notebook and taking notes, Miss Lenhart is kneeling and holding her hands on a circular object with the radius marked on it, Cueball is holding a large caliper-like measuring instrument, and Megan is taking a photo with her phone sideways.]
[Caption below the panel:]
Math breakthrough: Dimensional analysts have discovered a real unit circle. Once they measure it, units can finally be added to all our geometry textbooks.
Source: https://xkcd.com/3041
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For me, it was only the second I'd attempted and I was still learning what kind of questions and answers to expect. The first I did had cryptic crossword questions, which I was comfortable with, but the trivia and single word questions in this made me unsure what kind of thinking was needed.
When I saw the answers, none of them seemed unfair (e.g. I didn't know what to do with X, but would have been entirely happy with it as part of a cryptic clue).