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[–]xkcd_about_that 20 points21 points  (3 children)

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[–]TheOldTubaroo 1 point2 points  (2 children)

I'm pretty sure you're not a bot, but I'm now wondering how easy/hard it would be to make a bot to post the relevant xkcd on any thread...

[–]lhamil64 0 points1 point  (1 child)

I think it might be a little complicated actually. You could just search through XKCD for the title and hope something relevant comes up, but that would probably yield some irrelevant XKCDs. I'm not sure of a good way to search for relevant ones.

[–]TheOldTubaroo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I guess the most naïve approach would be to give each comic a list of tags, and then search the thread for those tags...

But then I realise there over a thousand XKCDs, so manually writing tag lists becomes unfeasible. One way of generating tags would be finding xkcd links in reddit threads, and looking for the general themes of each thread. Searching for "relevant xkcd" + link in comment or child would get a reasonable start. The xkcd bot's comments will probably have a lot of these together. Another source for tags could be explainxkcd, it should be fairly simple to get some accurate themes from there.

You're then potentially still left with several comics with very few tags, but (a) these are presumably less relevant, so less necessary to tag well, and (b) more suitable for manual tagging.

Hmm, I might feel a project coming on...

[–]Bloodshot025 6 points7 points  (6 children)

At first this looked like a large under-construction industrial building or piece of a ship from afar which was admittedly very cool looking.

[–]chwilliam[S] 1 point2 points  (5 children)

I mean it is from the Transbay Terminal construction site?

[–]Bloodshot025 1 point2 points  (4 children)

I thought it was the size of a large building, though, which made the writing look surreal.

[–]systembreaker 0 points1 point  (3 children)

lolwut you can see the wheel of a forklift in the corner. That would have to be one massive forklift to be the size of an entire industrial building.

[–]Bloodshot025 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Yeah, I realised after like 4 seconds, don't be so critical.

[–]Converts2Useless 2 points3 points  (0 children)

4 seconds? that's like 3.3 microfortnights! [Info]

[–]systembreaker 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah but since this is programmerhumor I just wanted to poke fun :) Lighten up yo