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[–] doingthestuff 1 points 8 months ago (21 children)
[–] [email protected] 121 points 8 months ago (13 children)

In case you are serious: It's probably not.
When you're not careful with parallel processing / multithreading, you can run into something called a "race condition", where results of parallel computations end up in the wrong order because some were finished faster than others.
The joke here is that whoever "programmed" this commic is bad at parallel progmming and got the bubbles in the wrong order because of that.
The image makes perfect sense if you read it in the order 3, 1, 2.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

Apart from the fact that bubble 1 and 2 point to the wrong person.

[–] jettrscga 3 points 8 months ago

Oooh. Thanks for that, makes more sense now.

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