xkcd: dual USB-C plugs
https://xkcd.com/2493/

Oh, nothing could go wrong with that.

Explained at:
https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2493:_Dual_USB-C

Lynn

In article <sdhv9a$son$1@dont-email.me>,
Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>xkcd: dual USB-C plugs
> https://xkcd.com/2493/
>
>Oh, nothing could go wrong with that.
>
>Explained at:
> https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2493:_Dual_USB-C

I keep intending to bring that up and ask Hal wotthehell it
means. He'd probably know. I can't tell the thing from a
standard two-prong plug.

--
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
Www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/

On Sat, 24 Jul 2021 21:29:50 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J
Heydt) wrote:

>In article <sdhv9a$son$1@dont-email.me>,
>Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>xkcd: dual USB-C plugs
>> https://xkcd.com/2493/
>>
>>Oh, nothing could go wrong with that.
>>
>>Explained at:
>> https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2493:_Dual_USB-C
>
>I keep intending to bring that up and ask Hal wotthehell it
>means. He'd probably know. I can't tell the thing from a
>standard two-prong plug.

Well that's kind of the point. You can plug it into a wall outlet.
Hilarity will Ensue.

In article <v4bpfgtvrjl526917eh8luephfjpc7149o@4ax.com>,
J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>On Sat, 24 Jul 2021 21:29:50 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J
>Heydt) wrote:
>
>>In article <sdhv9a$son$1@dont-email.me>,
>>Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>xkcd: dual USB-C plugs
>>> https://xkcd.com/2493/
>>>
>>>Oh, nothing could go wrong with that.
>>>
>>>Explained at:
>>> https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2493:_Dual_USB-C
>>
>>I keep intending to bring that up and ask Hal wotthehell it
>>means. He'd probably know. I can't tell the thing from a
>>standard two-prong plug.
>
>Well that's kind of the point. You can plug it into a wall outlet.
>Hilarity will Ensue.

I guess. Thanks for posting the link to the explanation, which I
have read. That I don't understand it is probably because I
majored in Linguistics rather than EECS.

One of the reasons Hal's and my marriage has endured for so long
with so little Hilarity Ensuing is that our knowledge overlaps.
Think of a Venn diagram where the intersection is about half the
area of each of the sets. That intersection has grown over the
years, because we talk to each other a lot.

--
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
djheydt at gmail dot com
Www.kithrup.com/~djheydt/

On 7/24/21 9:15 PM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> In article <v4bpfgtvrjl526917eh8luephfjpc7149o@4ax.com>,
> J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, 24 Jul 2021 21:29:50 GMT, djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J
>> Heydt) wrote:
>>
>>> In article <sdhv9a$son$1@dont-email.me>,
>>> Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> xkcd: dual USB-C plugs
>>>> https://xkcd.com/2493/
>>>>
>>>> Oh, nothing could go wrong with that.
>>>>
>>>> Explained at:
>>>> https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2493:_Dual_USB-C
>>>
>>> I keep intending to bring that up and ask Hal wotthehell it
>>> means. He'd probably know. I can't tell the thing from a
>>> standard two-prong plug.
>>
>> Well that's kind of the point. You can plug it into a wall outlet.
>> Hilarity will Ensue.
>
> I guess. Thanks for posting the link to the explanation, which I
> have read. That I don't understand it is probably because I
> majored in Linguistics rather than EECS.
>
> One of the reasons Hal's and my marriage has endured for so long
> with so little Hilarity Ensuing is that our knowledge overlaps.
> Think of a Venn diagram where the intersection is about half the
> area of each of the sets. That intersection has grown over the
> years, because we talk to each other a lot.
>
I think your problem is a bit of fine detail. A standard American power
plug has two solid-copper prongs; this imaginary plug, on each prong,
sports tiny pins like the ones in a USB plug.

--
John W. Kennedy
"The blind rulers of Logres
Nourished the land on a fallacy of rational virtue."
-- Charles Williams. "Taliessin through Logres: Prelude"