This comic is inspired by XKCD and recent events and observations in my life. Disclaimer: I have no artistic ability and blatantly rip off the XKCD style and artwork, however the idea is mine and I feel it fits.

  • 14th_cylon@lemm.eeEnglish
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    6 months ago

    The problem is xkcd is about science and this is as scientific as trump solving the hurricane with a sharpie…

      • 14th_cylon@lemm.eeEnglish
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        6 months ago

        yeah, but your comics is not funny observation. it is untrue and unscientific, which is really against the general ethos of xkcd.

        the alarm doesn’t really go off more often at night.

        it is just that when it goes off during the day, you fix the problem and move on. when it goes off during night, and presumably wakes you up, it pisses you off and you tend to remember it more due to associated emotions.

        it is a case of selective memory.

        • Dave.@aussie.zoneEnglish
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          6 months ago

          I shall counter with a hypothesis:

          It could be that extended lower temperatures at night slow battery chemistry to the point where the voltage sags below the trigger threshold. It would take quite a few hours to cool the battery down from day time ceiling temps, so this would naturally occur in the early hours of the morning just before temperatures rise again.

    • p3n@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Thanks, really no need to apologize. I had assumed it was just selective memory myself and hadn’t considered the temp/voltage drop possibility, but now we have learned something.

  • verstra@programming.devEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I’m reading this at 4:39 it seems like you got woken up by the alarm, could not fall asleep again and grudgingly made this comic

  • jqubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    I was on my honeymoon, quiet little cabin in the mountains, had just run a hot bath in the jacuzzi tub for my wife and myself, poured some champagne… and a smoke alarm started the low battery chirp.

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Pro tip… If your detector is beeping at 2 AM and you don’t have/can’t find a replacement to make it stop… your freezer is sound proof. :)

  • andrew@lemmy.stuart.funEnglish
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    6 months ago

    Voltages drop in the cold, and the middle of the night is usually the coldest. So that’s why this is probably not far from reality.

    • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Wouldn’t the lower temperature make it highly likely that the low power beep occurs only during the middle of the night, but not during the day?

      • MindTraveller@lemmy.caEnglish
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        6 months ago

        That’s if the alarm reads the voltage directly. But if the low voltage flips a switch that stays flipped, then no.

        • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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          6 months ago

          Ok, but the probability would still be shifted towards starting at night.

          Maybe it could be more like 80% for it to start beeping in the night and 20% it starts during other times.

  • recklessengagement@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    6 months ago

    It is uncanny seeing this, as I experienced this EXACT situation less than a week ago.

    I still refuse to replace the battery out of spite. I’d rather burn alive than be awoken in such a way again