The most danish movie ever made. It gets an extra layer if you are at least somewhat familiar with the hedonistic aspect of danish culture (at least in contrast to swedish culture).
PorciiVorbesc 18 hours ago [-]
I felt like there's a seed of truth to that plot, even if it's probably not scientifically proven. I could always get more complex problems solved when I had a slight buzz than without, at least in college. I don't know now.
CalRobert 6 hours ago [-]
things don't go so great in the end...
adfghiono9i 12 hours ago [-]
That is not actually what the movie's about.
dcrazy 10 hours ago [-]
Starring Mads Mikkelsen, no less?
bronlund 19 hours ago [-]
I have reference this more times than I'm willing to admit. Usually together with that old rumor; that back in the days, if you went to a computer show, it was pretty obvious that the Apple guys were smoking and the Microsoft guys were drinking :)
bitwize 10 hours ago [-]
The high-level Apple guys were tripping balls, especially—in all seriousness—Jobs.
TomMasz 14 hours ago [-]
Back in the '90s I worked for a small consulting company that was conveniently next to a bar that we often went to after work on Friday. One of the other software engineers, who was an exceptionally gifted programmer, would walk back to the office to write some more code. He said he was his most profific/creative after a couple of beers.
Jokes are inspired by taking off from the exact subject at hand, that’s what imagination is about, not staying in the box.
eps 4 hours ago [-]
You have a point. It's possible that Munroe being a physist might've known about Balmer Jump... though that's still quite a stretch to assume it was the source of the comic.
jibalt 16 hours ago [-]
> probably originated the joke
A completely baseless claim ... "probably" means > .5 probability, but there is no evidence to support that; it's sheer speculation.
mitjam 3 hours ago [-]
My definition of luck: No appointments and a little buzz. — Harald Juhnke
someonebaggy 12 hours ago [-]
Why does this deserve a Wikipedia article when so many other more important things don't?
amclennon 10 hours ago [-]
Be the change you want to see in the world. Submit a Wikipedia article about a subject you truly care about
someonebaggy 2 hours ago [-]
Have done, it was deleted because not notable
bazoom42 6 hours ago [-]
Probably because someone has created the page and nobody has deleted it.
Before the advent of the brogrammer, I had a British manager/lead programmer at (big name GPS supplier) who kept a 6-pack of beer in his desk for sipping alone after everyone else went home. I don't know if it was either sad the drinking alone part or concerning that the code would drive one to drinking. Maybe there's something to a beer enabling flow state.
taejavu 20 hours ago [-]
I wonder how many other XKCD comics now have Wikipedia articles?
someonebaggy 11 hours ago [-]
Hopefully none, since they don't meet Wikipedia's notability requirements and much more important things (such as places with thousands of people, and software with tens of thousands of users) have been rejected for not meeting the same requirements.
Luckily, "xkcd" doesn't refer to anything else than the comic AFAIK, so we can easily search and find that 143 English Wikipedia articles reference the comic. [0] Glossing over the list, I'd count 4 of these are directly referencing a specific comic or a concept invented in one: Time, Ballmer Peak, and Geohashing.
There are more if you include special pages, like Citogenesis reported by sibling.
The other way around, folks at the Explain xkcd wiki have categorized the comics and 56 of them reference Wikipedia. [1]
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10288566/
A completely baseless claim ... "probably" means > .5 probability, but there is no evidence to support that; it's sheer speculation.
There are more if you include special pages, like Citogenesis reported by sibling.
The other way around, folks at the Explain xkcd wiki have categorized the comics and 56 of them reference Wikipedia. [1]
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&fu...
[1] https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Wikipedi...
Edit: I asked Opus 5.5, medium effort, and got a lame answer. Then asked it for "extra" effort, and the summary of that is:
WP->xkcd: Ballmer Peak, Geohashing, Time, a few other passing mentions
xkcd->WP: Missal of Silos, Rolle's Theorem, at least 54 other general references to WP