I mean, technically, the record will play just fine. Everything will be slightly slower and lower pitched, but it’ll work. Think doom metal meets 1930s jazz.

Everything in XKCD is based on truth. That’s what makes it so funny… to geeks, at least.

Edit: God damn it, he put 72 instead of 78 RPM. I guess he does make mistakes after all…

He’s not even a U.S. citizen.

You have sidewalks in India? In Kathmandu, you mostly walk in the street or the gutter that runs down the side.

I spend a fair bit of time in Nepal, so I have a good idea what it’s like there. My point is, it should be walkable.

Did I hear that right? He took a tuk-tuk to go 200m? That’s… walkable, surely? I’m sure I do that every day on my commute.

A lot of people write Lambdas in TypeScript (compiled to JavaScript of course).

The lint filter, I think. I’ve never heard of cleaning it every time, though.

That and don’t forget to clean the filter! I do that every month, doesn’t take long and it keeps everything running smoothly.

What? Poor people are incredibly inflexible, working two jobs, juggling kids, zero hours contracts etc.

Not bad? I’m no fan of T Pain, and kind of so-so with Sabbath - but this was a great cover version. Amazing musicians really milking that tune for all its worth.

Nvidia made money, but I’ve not seen OpenAI do anything useful, and they are not even profitable.

Tram tracks are my second biggest nightmare after car doors!

I thought these things were a bit dumb, then I figured out that the fatter tires make riding on the cobble stones that are common in my city more comfortable. I still don’t want one, but I see that they have their place.

That sounds a lot like corruption.

Sounds like she failed successfully!

2, 4, 5, 10 & 12…

I wonder what the apologists from .ml have to say…

OK, it was a basic pattern recognition model, nothing nearly as sophisticated as we have now, but I think it would have performed significantly faster.

I had the idea to offload machine learning to GPUs back in the early 00’s. I was working for a company doing number plate recognition back then, so I was even in a position to act on my idea… but my boss thought I was nuts.

I’m not sure how much money I would have made, but it’s got to be better than this!