Wolf314159

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[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago

What a convincing argument. I didn't realize you had the authority to just decide.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago (2 children)

It's an optical illusion. By definition their isn't generally anything YOU would call erroneous about any optical illusion, I'd guess. The fact that the text is difficult bordering on impossible to read at some angles is the perceptual error. Stop ignoring obvious interpretations to support your pedantic trolling.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 3 points 3 days ago (4 children)

That's an unhelpfully restrictive definition of illusion that is itself illusory. An illusion is also:

A sensation originated by some external object, but so modified as in any way to lead to an erroneous perception; as when the rolling of a wagon is mistaken for thunder.

The text is hidden or revealed through a change in perspective. That is the illusion.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Kink shaming is the real mental illness.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 1 points 6 days ago

How is a zig-zag numbering any less valid than any other method? Your mapping a two dimensional space with what is essentially a line. Sometimes it doesn't make sense for there to be discontinuities in the numbering, as one would have to do if the numbers always incremented in the same direction. Would you prefer that the numbers follow the path of a Hilbert Curve?

To answer your question though, surveyors have been using this method to number sections of land for much longer than you or I have been alive.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 38 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Whenever I'm forced to use windows, show file extensions and show hidden files.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because vector graphics take up much less space. That's the joke.

Now I'm going to put the joke out of it's misery.

Most of the illustrations, formula, tables etc. in a math book could be vector graphics, most of them were in 90% of the upper level math text books I've ever had, usually in only 2 colors. Many math formulas can be represented and formatted directly using only Tex or LaTex. Mostly physics and math involving more than two dimensions would have more raster images, even color. But it's not like the publishers are going to be handing out PDFs with original vector graphics embedded. That would make high quality knockoffs trivial.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 40 points 1 week ago

Thumper (Bambi) is a rabbit.

Hazel (Watership down) is a hare.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 points 2 weeks ago

The crouching guidelines were never about avoiding being stuck, rather about reducing harm if you are incapable of reaching a safer location.

[–] Wolf314159@startrek.website 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So, given your work history, where do you stand on the Clerks deathstar contractor debate?

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