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by doctorpangloss 2663 days ago
It's funny, we already have a format for transferring graphical data in real time that the web has optimized relentlessly: video!

You'd think someone would just run a daemon local to the data that live-streams a compressed video feed rendering the graph, instead of relentlessly and repeatedly reinventing some notion of lossy-but-useful realtime data transferring technology.