XKCD Still Sucks

Tuesday, August 17, 2021

WOW WHAT A CURSED CONNECTOR, IF YOU DID THAT I'M PRETTY SURE IT WOULD JUST BREAK YOUR DEVICES INSTEAD OF CONNECTING THEM, WHAT A SCARY IDEA

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TBHAugust 17, 2021 at 10:59 AM
I dunno how they did things at NASA, but it's perfectly feasible to hack together working connectors for one-off uses. You could connect serial lines on your Arduino to an RS-232 connector! Woah!
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AnonymousAugust 17, 2021 at 3:07 PM
If this was 2008, he would have made a Nethack joke already
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As the years drag on, the early, golden years of XKCD constitute an ever-smaller fraction of its lifespan. The jokes have passed from whimsical, through insufferable, to positively Garfieldian. Today they are mostly just dated, written by and for the kind of people who still think Neil deGrasse Tyson is cool. I have not Greg's bonhommie or Carl's sheer malice, but this torch must be kept burning, however feebly; and so it is with the greatest humility and respect for hateblogs past that I join the succession of pyramid-kickers.