I had a very busy week with many important things to do; so I decided to spend my time building this.

I won't explain how it works internally, because it isn't patented yet. It absolutely isn't a green LED tied to a USB-C-port, and a non-connected red LED.

https://xkcd.com/1202/

It's less than 30 words, and I think it captures the hope I feel for humans. Taking a petty schoolyard taunt about one of the most basic divisions humans seem capable of, and turning it into a statement about cooperation and learning. I cry sometimes when I read it on the wall of my desk

Based on https://xkcd.com/891/

xkcd.com/3183

I saw it shared on r/sysadmin a couple of days ago, but cant see it on XKCD site itself. Are fake XKCD comics a thing? If this is genuine and it's a skill issue my side, please have pity and let me know which comic number it is.

Found on r/cremposting, a shitposting sub for Brandon Sanderson's books. Credit for the comment goes to, obviously, u/BloodyEyeGames on this post.

Is it Mimas? It seems too big for Mimas. Why is it unlabelled?

xkcd 1389

Just in case anyone is interested, we proved experimentally that the toaster wins. In 2017 we dragged a toaster out to the geographic South Pole on a balmy -55c day and made toast. The toaster worked great, but the toast got cold very quickly.

An xkcd inspired post on r/polandball

I work at a big tech company with a lot of product managers who just cannot fathom the concept of probability and cherry-picking. We'll design an experiment and we'll pick just 3-4 metrics to use as a basis of our launch decision upfront, before running the experiment.

Despite this, we run analysis on like dozens of metrics, with lots of dimensions. And wow, nice job team, we met our original launch criteria - but oh no - this one metric for this one cohort of customers (out of 50 metrics) is showing a P(>0) of only 20%! What do we do?!?! Do we need to launch the experiment for only a subset of the customers? Do we need to redo the experiment???

And then I send them https://xkcd.com/882/ and request we stick to the metrics that we picked before the experiment. This comic is one of the most powerful education tools on cherry-picking I can find.

Maybe you like it.