second-guessing by halves

Early strips of some webcomics carry the author’s much later comments. Christopher Baldwin (Bruno) and David Willis (Roomies!) are reposting old series that ended. David Morgan-Mar’s (Irregular Webcomic!) schedule these days is two new strips and five comments on old strips each week.

If it were me, I think I’d want to keep coming back to older strips, with ever decreasing frequency. Perhaps like this:

if n even:
    n /= 2
    comment on n
    while n even:
        n /= 2
        add n to backlog
else:
    pop a number from backlog and comment on it
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4 Responses to second-guessing by halves

  1. jonas says:

    That’s incorrect. Irregular Webcomic runs new strips four times a week and rerun comments three times a week.

  2. Anton says:

    This is how I get readers to reveal themselves.

  3. Anton says:

    Sexy Losers (formerly The Thin H Line) also has two layers of later comments.

  4. Anton says:

    I remembered writing this but could not come up with keywords to find it!

    With my scheme, there is no retro-comment when n is a Mersenne number.

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