It means this song https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pumped_Up_Kicks

Not disagreeing with the benefits, but my gripe with Apple is that they lock out everyone else from even competing with them, which is anticompetitive and ultimately anti-consumer. All of those cool features only with with THEIR phone, THEIR laptop, THEIR smart speaker, THEIR earphones, THEIR smartwatch, THEIR cloud storage, THEIR keyboard, THEIR mouse, THEIR location-tracking tag, THEIR VR headset, THEIR TV box… If you replace any one of those things with a competitor’s product – which might have been better than Apple’s – then you’re locked out of many great features for no good reason.

And they have about as much chance at it as the rest of us - zero.

It’s a good idea, but it’s not backwards-compatible with the system already in use.

What letter do you use for 789431?

yeah I got it

Check out my new colon:

Two possible solutions to this:

1. Always use a single digit for the base. Examples: binary is base 2, decimal is base A (because A=10 in bases higher than decimal), hexadecimal is base G.
2. Use the highest digit plus one. Examples: binary is base 1+1, decimal is base 9+1, hexadecimal is base F+1.

… or we just continue to agree that bases are always written in base 10 decimal unless specified otherwise. By the way, how does the alien speak English?

(I only read the title)

Pretty damn obvious. Yes, it needed to be tested and verified experimentally, but… well, I really mean no offense, but why is this worth sharing?

The dose makes the poison!

but it’s okay again at 22

A bit late, but the moon does not make “almost exactly 13 laps”. Info from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_month

If going by phases of the moon (synodic month), it makes 12.37 laps in a year. Not close to a round number.

If going by position in the sky relative to the stars (sidereal month), it makes 13.37 laps - one more than the former measure, because of Earth’s year cancelling out one month.

There are also other ways to measure it, but none of them get anywhere close to an integer number per year.

Then please explain how the Hebrew calendar, and all other lunisolar calendars (calendars which follow both the solar year and the lunar cycle) have 12 months most years? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunisolar_calendar

“The majority of years have twelve months but every second or third year is an embolismic year, which adds a thirteenth intercalary, embolismic, or leap month.”

It makes 12 months because the lap the Earth makes is deducted from the 13 the moon makes, so effectively it makes 12 cycles around the Earth.

FM radio.

To be honest, I mostly don’t listen to music. I do have a subscription to Spotify but I don’t really use it. I’m not cancelling it because I’m on a Duo plan with my dad and he uses it a lot, really getting his money’s worth.

So the only time I do listen to music is while driving, and then I just turn on the radio. (I also don’t drive very often, I mostly use public transport.)

:(

Okay, it’s a bit of a grey zone. Your clothes are definitely part of your look but they are also choices.

That might work. You should at least phrase it more positively: “You’re very brave.” Your version is more of a neutral observation IMHO.

You handle that gun like a professional. I like your red shirt. I like your brown pants. I like your white shoes. You seem like a very take charge person.

That was after putting 5 seconds of thought into it.

3/5 of those were about her looks. The other two, yeah, I thought of that option just before posting but figured I’d let someone else say it. Just hoped they’d be less condescending about it.

But like, it seems like she’s a complete stranger to them, how are they supposed to compliment her on anything other than her looks? This comic is trying to make some sort of point but it’s not making that point.