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xkcd #2864: Compact Graphs (imgs.xkcd.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

You are one of today's lucky 10.000!

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/1053:_Ten_Thousand

[–] JohnDClay 7 points 9 months ago

Saying 'what kind of an idiot doesn't know about the Yellowstone supervolcano' is so much more boring than telling someone about the Yellowstone supervolcano for the first time.