Ballmer Peak(en.wikipedia.org)
68 pointsby thunderbong10 hours ago7 comments
  • fifilura6 hours ago
    There is a danish movie related to maintaining the optimal drunkedness.

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10288566/

    • pgsandstrom5 hours ago
      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).
    • PorciiVorbesc5 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.
  • bronlund6 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 :)
  • TomMaszan hour 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.
  • nraynaud5 hours ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balmer_jump I learned just a few days ago of what probably originated the joke.
    • jibalt3 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.

    • eps5 hours ago
      It's a different Balmer.
      • nraynaud5 hours ago
        Jokes are inspired by taking off from the exact subject at hand, that’s what imagination is about, not staying in the box.
  • 8 hours ago
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  • Angostura5 hours ago
    See also the Mitchell and Webb ‘inebriati’ sketch - https://youtu.be/-Zj50DmBFp0
  • taejavu7 hours ago
    I wonder how many other XKCD comics now have Wikipedia articles?
    • xeonmc6 hours ago
      citogenesis is the obvious answer
    • zeumo5 hours ago
      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] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Search&fu...

      [1] https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/Category:Wikipedi...

    • Uhhrrr6 hours ago
      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

      • sig-116 hours ago
        This obviously calls for a Venn diagram. Wikipedia articles about xkcd strips about wikipedia articles?