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[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 9 hours ago

Same way people think corporations pay taxes, instead of just passing them along to the consumer.

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 11 hours ago

"Drop off" makes it sound like he'll carry you.

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 days ago

Here's a hint: if a mirror truly did not flip anything, then when you looked into a mirror you would see your back, and it also does not "rotate" you. So how can you see your front?

spoilerA plane has a "normal" (a direction coming "out of the mirror"), and it basically flips things in that direction (front to back). It might help the understanding (and possibly the creepiness factor) to consider just the outer few atoms of your hair/skin that reflects light... and you are roughly seeing that, in the mirror in the same orientation that it actually is IRL if it were pushed into the mirror...

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 days ago

The boob that launched a thousand forum threads.

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

There was a time that i was really confused as to why a mirror regardless of orientation would change left-hands to right, but not transpose heads and feet (or the like)...

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 3 days ago

In my experience it gets worse as the amount of context increases. I'll often re-ask a question w/o history just for comparison (getting significantly different results), and for the same reason i can't imagine the "memory" feature being beneficial (quickly turned that off).

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I hope it's not "worse than useless" (which would mean "misleading"), as my goal was simply to find more identifiers for discussion or research beyond those provided: norway, thorium, 1959...

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 33 points 3 days ago
odometer += sensor * this_is_just_for_debugging_i_promise(odometer);
[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago

Something about that fastener seems out-of-class with the rest of the sign.

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 week ago

Mirror selfie showing they use an iPhone, or if they are making that ironic "duck face".

[–] xia@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago

Ortholinear Dvorak.

 
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