tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post6839300779170861839..comments2024-03-17T05:03:46.056-07:00Comments on xkcd sucks: Comic 730: Feel The ElectricityCarlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01074589998141327538noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-40458886373523448662010-08-26T13:57:55.332-07:002010-08-26T13:57:55.332-07:00I don't get the second paragraph? Was it a cr...I don't get the second paragraph? Was it a criticism that you could understand most of the jokes, or was it a redeeming quality to this comic? This part of the review seems rather pointless.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-85842618765683838312010-04-29T23:06:38.709-07:002010-04-29T23:06:38.709-07:00@Haup I assume the BJT was pandering to high schoo...@Haup I assume the BJT was pandering to high school students as well?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-9110078320984326912010-04-27T06:19:16.984-07:002010-04-27T06:19:16.984-07:00Bottom line is: he will sell it as a poster soon e...Bottom line is: he will sell it as a poster soon enough, "by popular demand".Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-37806207253653436192010-04-25T09:00:03.017-07:002010-04-25T09:00:03.017-07:00Well, the only thing that I've gathered from t...Well, the only thing that I've gathered from this comic is that at some point, Randall took a basic 'Intro to EE' course somewhere (probably high school). As an electrical engineer, I found the comic wholly unfunny, and painful to look at. He basically threw in a bunch of random nonsense, peppered with the most rudimentary of EE components; which of course works for him, because he's pandering to the lowest common denominator. Hell, if you wanna be a real snob, he didn't even do a good job of representing circuit components. Notice there's all of ONE capacitor, no transistors, and no opamps - three of the most commonly used and crucial circuit elements. Fucking unfunny high school pandering. Die in a fire, Randall.Hauptjaegerhttp://www.ncsu.edunoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-80026940812585483302010-04-24T22:31:59.305-07:002010-04-24T22:31:59.305-07:00All those slangy words are imprecise by their natu...All those slangy words are imprecise by their nature. It's perfectly acceptable to call a latch a flip-flop; I'm pretty sure that if you look at a semiconductor retailer, a number of their "flip-flops" will be latches or optionally clocked.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-48012947445569175112010-04-24T21:59:55.927-07:002010-04-24T21:59:55.927-07:00...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Mr......<br /><br />Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe Mr. Munroe may have messed up the flip-flop joke... in that what he drew was a latch, and not a flip-flop (a flip flop being clocked that is)<br /><br />... but whatever, we all understood it anyways...<br /><br />--DanDan (we can share the name!)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-6654115607603975812010-04-24T05:52:40.679-07:002010-04-24T05:52:40.679-07:00I'm sorry, Anon, I must have given you the wro...I'm sorry, Anon, I must have given you the wrong impression. The most complicated electronics I've ever done was an oscillating LED with a 555 chip, and that was years ago.<br /><br />That said, that computer appears to have a perfectly reasonable circuit layout. I'm sure anyone with actual experience in micro controller circuits would have little trouble interpreting the details of its workings. The Casette PCB looks like a bit of a mess though.<br /><br />My point was that I haven't really heard of anyone complaining about <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_code" rel="nofollow">"spaghetti circuits"</a> or a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Obfuscated_C_Code_Contest" rel="nofollow">"circuit obfuscation contest"</a> or <a rel="nofollow">"self modifying circuit"</a> or excessive goto usage or people deciding that just redesigning a circuit would be easier than understanding and fixing an existing design.<br /><br />There ARE very difficult to understand circuits. I remember reading about somebody running a genetic algorithm to design a circuit which would require 140 or so transistors at least if designed by a human. The algorithm spat out a working solution with only half that, which was downright bizarre in structure, including some unconnected transistors which would break the circuit if they were removed.<br /><br />Anyway, whatever the reason may be, it seems people make confusing circuits less often than they make confusing code.Person Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03486274284758665991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-61905316394410453072010-04-24T01:57:46.189-07:002010-04-24T01:57:46.189-07:00@Ayn Rand
Comprehend this, bitch.
http://www.z80...@Ayn Rand<br /><br />Comprehend this, bitch.<br /><br />http://www.z80.info/gfx/Circuit_diagram_2A_3A.gifAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-64402226061853448242010-04-23T20:09:20.102-07:002010-04-23T20:09:20.102-07:00I have to say, I'm sort of surprised at the mi...I have to say, I'm sort of surprised at the minimally savage treatment of this comic. I am a sometime xkcd apologist, since--although I have noted and lamented the undeniable decline of the comic-- I think he still comes out with something good every few weeks or so. But I thought this comic was the absolute worst xkcd of all time. It's a big wash of bad jokes that take time to sort all the way through, and with absolutely 0 payoff (not a single joke is actually funny,) and the chart has no particular organizing principle to justify the mess of jokes. 482 could be characterized as something quite cool with a few jokes arbitrarily tacked on, but there's nothing about this circuit diagram interesting outside the jokes--which are not interesting. Basically this is an xkcd so awful that I have just commented here, which I have never done before, and will probably never do again. Good day.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-1170441567813352782010-04-23T19:25:56.890-07:002010-04-23T19:25:56.890-07:00Reminds me of this:
http://img262.imageshack.us/i...Reminds me of this:<br /><br />http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/9581/waltz19pq.jpg<br /><br />except less funny and FOR NERDS LOL!Stephenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03058768975626742611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-79780696037039719772010-04-23T19:09:22.436-07:002010-04-23T19:09:22.436-07:00Not one single part of this made me laugh.Not one single part of this made me laugh.Archon Divinushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10963780230730547035noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-84635131113951906622010-04-23T11:56:51.450-07:002010-04-23T11:56:51.450-07:00The circuit diagram comic is lame. It would've...The circuit diagram comic is lame. It would've been a lot funnier if he would've put the effort into making a circuit that at least makes some sense, or is similar to a real-world circuit. Say, a textbook amplifier, but with jokes substituted for some/most of the parts. Instead we get random crap and lame jokes connected together making absolutely no sense.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-24116356998465184462010-04-23T08:24:34.593-07:002010-04-23T08:24:34.593-07:00The alt text was the only worthwhile thing about t...The alt text was the only worthwhile thing about this. The comic itself looks like a really bad doodle, only it's made as if RM is trying to pretend he put a lot of thought into it.Ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-48531287318456956872010-04-23T05:24:40.913-07:002010-04-23T05:24:40.913-07:00I actually kind of like the discovery channel one....I actually kind of like the discovery channel one. I've seen a number of bad ripoffs of that song, but Randall gets the rhythm correct and actually knows how to rhyme, and I appreciate good construction when I see it.<br /><br />Alas, they've been doing funny circuit diagrams <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:INTERCAL_Circuitous_Diagram.svg" rel="nofollow">since 1972</a>, so this one doesn't ring as true with me. Which is to say it's a terrible crock of shit. Although, I keep looking back at the one switch which is labeled "glue this open" and wonder if there isn't a fully realized joke just waiting to be fleshed out there. Yknow, like it's the "press here to be funny" switch on Randall's back, but it's glued open so nobody can press it.Simon Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17656417618699122533noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-48672536744003921232010-04-23T00:19:22.202-07:002010-04-23T00:19:22.202-07:00Bottom: "Not a resistor, the wire just does t...Bottom: "Not a resistor, the wire just does this". I had always assumed that the resistor symbol is that way because since real wires have resistance, the simplest way to add a resistor would be to make that section of the circuit very long, folded in a zigzag for compactness.<br /><br />Also, this is not funny. Circuit diagrams are not prone to being incomprehensible. The magic ritual joke works with code, but somehow I'm just not seeing it with a circuit. The only way I could is if I was a frustrated student, maybe.Person Guyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03486274284758665991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6714810984552499396.post-40416813793746146002010-04-22T23:28:40.243-07:002010-04-22T23:28:40.243-07:00Those were basically my thoughts: a lot of half-as...Those were basically my thoughts: a lot of half-assed jokes put together. <br /><br />To explain the few weirder ones:<br /><br />The digital circuit next to the sandal text is a circuit with two stabile states, such circuits being called "flip-flops".<br /><br />The symbol that has a triangle with a line in the end stands for diode. Diode is a component which lets current to go only to the direction of the triangle; hence the arena with two diodes leading to it and only one leaving.FrozenFalconhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04228016315126885948noreply@blogger.com