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People may complain about readability, but even with jpeg compression, extracting the data points is usually computationally feasible if there aren’t too many of them.
xkcd #2864: Compact Graphs
Submitted 11 months ago by randomaccount43543@lemmy.world to xkcd@lemmy.world
https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/compact_graphs_2x.png
Comments
randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 11 months ago
XbSuper@lemmy.world 11 months ago
If it needs explanation, it’s not a good joke.
stebo02@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
that’s the stupidest thing I’ve ever heard
SciPiTie@iusearchlinux.fyi 11 months ago
You are one of today’s lucky 10.000! www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/…/1053:_Ten_Thousand
threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Are you kidding? Half the fun of Randall’s comics is learning something new from them!
celeste@kbin.social 11 months ago
That assumes every human being has the same base of knowledge and people have to cater to that to tell a good joke. You can just not like it.
Kichae@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Yes, yes, you’re quite right. Things must be accessible to 2 year olds, or they’re not worth doing. Or if they’re not accessible to someone, they should have no direct means to understand them.
Now carry on believing all of that, if that’s what you wish.
Wutchilli@feddit.de 11 months ago
The fact that this is actually usable with different colored glasses amazes me.
Donjuanme@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m amazed nobody had posted this one… I’ll have to try my own hand at posting next time! Thanks for the inspiration!
ThatOneKirbyMain2568@kbin.social 11 months ago
Massive waste of space. Should've used a smaller font size.