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[–] ch00f@lemmy.world 63 points 10 hours ago (3 children)

There's an xkcd about this, but I have no idea how to search for it.

[–] Toldry@lemmy.world 38 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

https://xkcd.com/1301/

Alt text:

I have never been lied to by data in a .txt file which has been hand-aligned

[–] TriangleSpecialist@lemmy.world 10 points 5 hours ago

Aligning figures the way you want to in Latex saps all the energy that would otherwise be dedicated to lying.

[–] HarkMahlberg@kbin.earth 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Where would .md fit in that graph I wonder...

[–] nimble@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 3 hours ago

Somewhere between .txt and .doc

[–] whimsy@lemmy.zip 48 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

There must be an xkcd for this too

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 20 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Is there not an XKCD for there being an XKCD about everything?

[–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 5 points 8 hours ago

There is not an xkcd for there not being an xkcd about this.

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

the xkcd app has a pretty good search function. got any keywords we can try?