Edited xkcd comic. Ponytail: xkcd comics are second nature to us geeks ∪ nerds, so it’s easy to forget that the average person probably only knows “standards”, “workflow” and “ten thousand”. Cueball. And “dependency”, of course. Ponytail: Of course. Caption: Even when they’re trying to compensate for it, expers in anything wildly overestimate the average person’s familiarity with their field.