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I of course understand the joke, but I’ll give someone else the pleasure of explaining it…

    • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      142·
      2 days ago

      When posting links to helpful websites rather than answering the question yourself, it’s a good idea to actually read the answer on the helpful website first.

      You know, in case there’s a big banner across the top saying “This answer is a useless pile of trash generated by an LLM, please ignore it” (mildly paraphrasing).

      • death_to_carrots@feddit.orgEnglish
        5·
        2 days ago

        The header on explainxkcd is always something funny, because the volunteers are not yet ready to say thst they habe finished the explanation.

      • davidgro@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        2 days ago

        The LLM answer was deleted even before I posted the link. As mentioned the header is always a joke, and in this case it’s referencing that, but over the next few days I expect that link to become increasingly useful.

        • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          2 days ago

          I mean, it wasn’t deleted before you posted the link, because I clicked the link and saw it, but I do see that it’s been updated now.

          • davidgro@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            2 days ago

            I mean the actual text that was LLM generated was deleted. The header had been left mentioning it as a joke. Note the discussion section:

            “… But I’m gonna go out on a limb and assume this mostly vapid explanation is as good as no explanation, and remove it for now. 108.162.216.132 05:42, 2 January 2025 (UTC)”

    • smegOPEnglish
      12·
      2 days ago

      It’s all kicking off in the discussion!

      Created by CHATGPT FOR SOME REASON - This needs an explanation. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.

      But I’m gonna go out on a limb and assume this mostly vapid explanation is as good as no explanation, and remove it for now.

      So, all the real nerds are still on holiday?

  • ERPAdvocate@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    61·
    2 days ago

    Finally something I can apply my expensive ChemE degree on :')

    These diagrams were always the worst to use, far too busy and usually printed on cheap paper making it impossible to distinguish one line from the other.

    Basically its a diagram is relating the energy required to change the state of something (usually water) and while in theory is amazing and clean in allowing you to determining enthalpy necessary for a state at a constant pressure.

    In practice though can get really messy especially with more variables in play, as shown with the temperature decreasing as the balloon altitude increases.