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taejavu · 1790747775 · focus · HN ↗
I wonder how many other XKCD comics now have Wikipedia articles?
1. Uhhrrr · 1790749492 · focus · HN ↗
  I wonder how many Wikipedia articles have XKCD comics?
  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
  1. sig-11 · 1790749916 · focus · HN ↗
    This obviously calls for a Venn diagram. Wikipedia articles about xkcd strips about wikipedia articles?
2. xeonmc · 1790751529 · focus · HN ↗
  citogenesis is the obvious answer
  1. stymaar · 1790752356 · focus · HN ↗
    <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_incidents" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_...
3. zeumo · 1790753792 · focus · HN ↗
  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]
  [0] <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&fulltext=1&search=xkcd&ns0=1" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&fu...
  [1] <a href="https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Wikipedia" rel="nofollow">https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Wikipedi...
4. someonebaggy · 1790778088 · focus · HN ↗
  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.
bronlund · 1790749287 · focus · HN ↗
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 :)
1. bitwize · 1790783507 · focus · HN ↗
  The high-level Apple guys were tripping balls, especially—in all seriousness—Jobs.
  1. hypercube33 · 1790830565 · focus · HN ↗
    LSD is how we got HyperCard
fifilura · 1790749757 · focus · HN ↗
There is a danish movie related to maintaining the optimal drunkedness.
<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10288566/" rel="nofollow">https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10288566/
1. PorciiVorbesc · 1790755084 · focus · HN ↗
  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.
  1. adfghiono9i · 1790774779 · focus · HN ↗
    That is not actually what the movie's about.
  2. CalRobert · 1790796489 · focus · HN ↗
    things don't go so great in the end...
    PorciiVorbesc · 1790865871 · focus · HN ↗
    Because they went from a strictly measured buzz, to full blown alcoholism.
2. pgsandstrom · 1790755303 · focus · HN ↗
  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).
  1. pseudohadamard · 1790825271 · focus · HN ↗
    "Come to Copenhagen and help carry a drunk Swede to the ferry". This was before the Øresund bridge.
3. rozab · 1790780856 · focus · HN ↗
  And a Mitchell and Webb: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zj50DmBFp0" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Zj50DmBFp0
4. dcrazy · 1790782410 · focus · HN ↗
  Starring Mads Mikkelsen, no less?
5. lazyweb · 1790945738 · focus · HN ↗
  It's a very good watch, highly recommended.
nraynaud · 1790752882 · focus · HN ↗
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1. eps · 1790753735 · focus · HN ↗
  It's a different Balmer.
  1. nraynaud · 1790754827 · focus · HN ↗
    Jokes are inspired by taking off from the exact subject at hand, that’s what imagination is about, not staying in the box.
    eps · 1790804881 · focus · HN ↗
    You have a point. It's possible that Munroe being a physist might've known about Balmer's Jump.
2. jibalt · 1790761983 · focus · HN ↗
  > probably originated the joke
  A completely baseless claim ... and it's not even the same spelling.
Angostura · 1790753571 · focus · HN ↗
See also the Mitchell and Webb ‘inebriati’ sketch - <a href="https://youtu.be/-Zj50DmBFp0" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/-Zj50DmBFp0
TomMasz · 1790768061 · focus · HN ↗
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.
someonebaggy · 1790777673 · focus · HN ↗
Why does this deserve a Wikipedia article when so many other more important things don't?
1. amclennon · 1790782334 · focus · HN ↗
  Be the change you want to see in the world. Submit a Wikipedia article about a subject you truly care about
  1. someonebaggy · 1790813336 · focus · HN ↗
    Have done, it was deleted because not notable
2. bazoom42 · 1790797579 · focus · HN ↗
  Probably because someone created the page and nobody deleted it.
3. NewJazz · 1790833218 · focus · HN ↗
  [delayed]
burnt-resistor · 1790798132 · focus · HN ↗
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.
solarkraft · 1790807318 · focus · HN ↗
In popular media: <a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=45sJJpS1OEM&t=3m28s" rel="nofollow">https://youtube.com/watch?v=45sJJpS1OEM&t=3m28s
mitjam · 1790807406 · focus · HN ↗
My definition of luck: No appointments and a little buzz. — Harald Juhnke
westi · 1791088749 · focus · HN ↗
... <a href="https://ballmerpeakdistillery.com/" rel="nofollow">https://ballmerpeakdistillery.com/ ... a local gem

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