xkcd #2880: Sheet Bend

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• cron@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I just noticed this info in the xkcd website for the first time:

  xkcd.com is best viewed with Netscape Navigator 4.0 or below on a Pentium 3±1 emulated in Javascript on an Apple IIGS at a screen resolution of 1024x1. Please enable your ad blockers, disable high-heat drying, and remove your device from Airplane Mode and set it to Boat Mode. For security reasons, please leave caps lock on while browsing.

  Randall is such a genius.

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  • kurwa@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Boat Mode needs to be a thing, I don’t know what it does but I want it.

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    • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It unlocks your screen rotation settings and links screen orientation to the phones gyroscopic sensor to maintain orientation perpendicular to the horizon.

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  • magic_lobster_party@kbin.social ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Must be a new addition. I haven’t seen it either until now.

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    • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s been there for a while, just hard to spot. From doing a binary search with web.archive.org, it seems it was added on October 5th, 2016 web.archive.org/web/20161005090723/…/xkcd.com/

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• randomaccount43543@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  explainxkcd.com/2880

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• peopleproblems@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That

  is one mother fucking cursed connector

  it’s brilliant because it’s so hazardous yet still creates a contact between two wires.

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  • runeko@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Additionally, the next “wire” would be connected reversed polarity so you would never know if grey or yellow were hot.

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    • yetiftw@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      why would it be connected with reversed polarity?

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• Crackhappy@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Fuck everything about that.

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• pelya@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I want to see IRL photo of this connection.

  The knot also needs to be adapted for common two-core electrical appliance cable, if you remove a piece of the insulation on one side and with an offset on the other side, the cable needs to be twisted mid-knot to match the correct wire.

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• uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  WTF? the sheet bend is close to a square knot which is much more secure. Or a thieves’ knot if you’re looking for something that slips apart after limited tension.

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  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    A sheet bend is more secure for cords of two different types/diameters. A square knot is for cords of the same diameter.

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