Talk:2884: Log Alignment - Revision history

172.68.34.17 at 17:00, 28 March 2024

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108.162.245.30 at 20:46, 10 February 2024

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NiceGuy1 at 00:56, 31 January 2024

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Rayna at 05:37, 29 January 2024

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JohnHawkinson: log video expl

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log video expl

172.70.85.152 at 13:09, 24 January 2024

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172.70.85.153 at 13:08, 24 January 2024

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172.71.242.13 at 09:37, 24 January 2024

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Rayna at 08:50, 24 January 2024

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Rayna at 08:43, 24 January 2024

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	I still think this explanation is janky, and buries the lede about how the comic accurately depicts exactly what it's describing (a perfectly normal bar graph, squished logarithmically in a way which does not line up with its axes). But I don't know how to fix this. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.30\|108.162.245.30]] 20:46, 10 February 2024 (UTC)		I still think this explanation is janky, and buries the lede about how the comic accurately depicts exactly what it's describing (a perfectly normal bar graph, squished logarithmically in a way which does not line up with its axes). But I don't know how to fix this. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.30\|108.162.245.30]] 20:46, 10 February 2024 (UTC)
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		+	oh god is that an illusion or what o-o [[Special:Contributions/172.68.34.17\|172.68.34.17]] 17:00, 28 March 2024 (UTC)

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	:Here it is! Could someone upload it, and is it possible to somehow be attributed to me? https://imgur.com/a/vEcHKez [[User:Rayna\|Rayna]] ([[User talk:Rayna\|talk]]) 05:37, 29 January 2024 (UTC)		:Here it is! Could someone upload it, and is it possible to somehow be attributed to me? https://imgur.com/a/vEcHKez [[User:Rayna\|Rayna]] ([[User talk:Rayna\|talk]]) 05:37, 29 January 2024 (UTC)
	::Well, an Imgur link is good enough for the Comments, anyway. :) [[User:NiceGuy1\|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1\|talk]]) 00:56, 31 January 2024 (UTC)		::Well, an Imgur link is good enough for the Comments, anyway. :) [[User:NiceGuy1\|NiceGuy1]] ([[User talk:NiceGuy1\|talk]]) 00:56, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
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		+	I still think this explanation is janky, and buries the lede about how the comic accurately depicts exactly what it's describing (a perfectly normal bar graph, squished logarithmically in a way which does not line up with its axes). But I don't know how to fix this. [[Special:Contributions/108.162.245.30\|108.162.245.30]] 20:46, 10 February 2024 (UTC)

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 Shall we try to straighten out the plot with regards to the axes, leaving the log stripes all wavy? For kicks? {{unsigned|Enfield|02:14, 23 January 2024}}
 :https://xkcd.com/356/ [[User:Bischoff|Bischoff]] ([[User talk:Bischoff|talk]]) 08:33, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
 I feel like this comic, along with others like 2023: Y-Axis and 2311: Confidence Interval should go in a category for misleading charts. -- {{unsigned ip|172.69.33.111|02:23, 23 January 2024}}
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 :In the interim, you could still upload it to some external generic image-sharing site (that you're comfortable with) and give the link here with explicit permission for someone who is an established uploader to copy it into the wiki proper. A bit of fuss, but it's worked for me in the past (never having bothered to get an account, and mostly no desire to do so). [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.153|172.70.85.153]] 13:08, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
 :Here it is! Could someone upload it, and is it possible to somehow be attributed to me? https://imgur.com/a/vEcHKez [[User:Rayna|Rayna]] ([[User talk:Rayna|talk]]) 05:37, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

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	:There's some degree of activity necessary, as an anti-griefer measure. Not sure how much age/editing it might currently be set as (and it wouldn't be wise to have details stated outright, or dedicated wannabe griefers could do ''just'' enough standard and benign participation to then do what they ''really'' want).		:There's some degree of activity necessary, as an anti-griefer measure. Not sure how much age/editing it might currently be set as (and it wouldn't be wise to have details stated outright, or dedicated wannabe griefers could do ''just'' enough standard and benign participation to then do what they ''really'' want).
	:In the interim, you could still upload it to some external generic image-sharing site (that you're comfortable with) and give the link here with explicit permission for someone who is an established uploader to copy it into the wiki proper. A bit of fuss, but it's worked for me in the past (never having bothered to get an account, and mostly no desire to do so). [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.153\|172.70.85.153]] 13:08, 24 January 2024 (UTC)		:In the interim, you could still upload it to some external generic image-sharing site (that you're comfortable with) and give the link here with explicit permission for someone who is an established uploader to copy it into the wiki proper. A bit of fuss, but it's worked for me in the past (never having bothered to get an account, and mostly no desire to do so). [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.153\|172.70.85.153]] 13:08, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
		+	:Here it is! Could someone upload it, and is it possible to somehow be attributed to me? https://imgur.com/a/vEcHKez [[User:Rayna\|Rayna]] ([[User talk:Rayna\|talk]]) 05:37, 29 January 2024 (UTC)

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 :{{w|Log_profile|LOG}} is also a video format, though I don't understand this well enough to discern whether this might be part of the joke or an unintentional coincidence.[[Special:Contributions/172.70.86.80|172.70.86.80]] 09:59, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
 : it's pretty common for videos to have flashbacks and scene changes. Graphing the electron beam for crt video would be pretty pretty straightforward, just wavy line(s) with pulses that mean go down one line and back the far "left."[[Special:Contributions/108.162.216.19|108.162.216.19]] 17:14, 23 January 2024 (UTC)
 There seems to be a subtle relativity joke in the title text, with misalignments in both time and space being a reference to spacetime. {{unsigned ip|172.71.154.42|00:05, 23 January 2024}}

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 Hi, I'm new here! I created an "undistorted" version of the comic, and I would like to add it to the explanation, but the site is telling me I don't have permission to create new pages (in order to upload the file). How can I add it? [[User:Rayna|Rayna]] ([[User talk:Rayna|talk]]) 08:50, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
-:There's some degree of activity necessary, as an anti-griefer measure. Not sure how much age/editing it might currently be se5 as (and it wouldn't be wise to have details stated outright, or dedicated wannabe griefers could do ''just'' enough standard and benign participation to then do what they ''really'' want).
+:There's some degree of activity necessary, as an anti-griefer measure. Not sure how much age/editing it might currently be set as (and it wouldn't be wise to have details stated outright, or dedicated wannabe griefers could do ''just'' enough standard and benign participation to then do what they ''really'' want).
 :In the interim, you could still upload it to some external generic image-sharing site (that you're comfortable with) and give the link here with explicit permission for someone who is an established uploader to copy it into the wiki proper. A bit of fuss, but it's worked for me in the past (never having bothered to get an account, and mostly no desire to do so). [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.153|172.70.85.153]] 13:08, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

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	Hi, I'm new here! I created an "undistorted" version of the comic, and I would like to add it to the explanation, but the site is telling me I don't have permission to create new pages (in order to upload the file). How can I add it? [[User:Rayna\|Rayna]] ([[User talk:Rayna\|talk]]) 08:50, 24 January 2024 (UTC)		Hi, I'm new here! I created an "undistorted" version of the comic, and I would like to add it to the explanation, but the site is telling me I don't have permission to create new pages (in order to upload the file). How can I add it? [[User:Rayna\|Rayna]] ([[User talk:Rayna\|talk]]) 08:50, 24 January 2024 (UTC)
		+	:There's some degree of activity necessary, as an anti-griefer measure. Not sure how much age/editing it might currently be se5 as (and it wouldn't be wise to have details stated outright, or dedicated wannabe griefers could do ''just'' enough standard and benign participation to then do what they ''really'' want).
		+	:In the interim, you could still upload it to some external generic image-sharing site (that you're comfortable with) and give the link here with explicit permission for someone who is an established uploader to copy it into the wiki proper. A bit of fuss, but it's worked for me in the past (never having bothered to get an account, and mostly no desire to do so). [[Special:Contributions/172.70.85.153\|172.70.85.153]] 13:08, 24 January 2024 (UTC)