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Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/

• adamnemecek 6y ago
  XKCD is legit shit. This one, the standards one, the Bobby Tables one. And the password one. Things that are barely worth a chuckle are repeated as gospel.
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  • grayhatter 6y ago
    Wow, bruh, who hurt you?
    • nurettin 6y ago
      xkcd is as generic as they get. Randall goes idea -> generate numbers -> generate graph -> punchline and people milk it for as long as possible. It's like geek themed garfield. I wouldn't be surprised if he tries xkcd without stick people soon.
      • grayhatter 6y ago
        So it's generic and boring. But why are you really angry about it?
        • adamnemecek 6y ago
          Because it's everywhere.
        • nurettin 6y ago
          Why do you attribute anger to every criticism? This is getting weird.
• mdifrgechd 6y ago
  Not having heard of something is always understandable, and it's pretty immature to make fun or "feign surprise" when someone doesn't know something you know. But not searching to see if something had been posted before on a forum is a bit different[0] [0] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=inverse+square+root https://hn.algolia.com/?q=inverse+square+root
  • andreareina 6y ago
    > If a story has not had significant attention in the last year or so, a small number of reposts is ok. Otherwise we bury reposts as duplicates. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
• bawolff 6y ago
  Interestingly there is also an xkcd comic that references this tooic in the alt text https://xkcd.com/664/ https://xkcd.com/664/