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xkcd #2880: Sheet Bend (imgs.xkcd.com)
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https://xkcd.com/2880

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A left-handed sheet bend creates a much weaker connection, especially under moderate loads.

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[–] cron@feddit.de 96 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

I just noticed this info on 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.

[–] kurwa@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 50 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

[–] Funwayguy@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

It'd be like the phone equivalent of Linux's diagonal monitor orientation, only now the touch screen experience is beyond fucked.

Strangely enough this might work for round smart watches though.

[–] Cocodapuf@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, now I want boat mode too!

[–] Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

2024, make it happen!

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But then you yourself have to be in Boat mode to browse it.

[–] Ultragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

In my experience, the human form of “Boat Mode” means drunk. A drunk person with a wobbly mobile device sounds like sad fail tiktok content.

[–] sgt_hulka@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

Brilliant! I'd use that as Carsick Mode myself. Maybe then I could read a map in the passenger seat without hurling into the driver's lap.

[–] magic_lobster_party@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 7 points 2 years 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 https://web.archive.org/web/20161005090723/http://xkcd.com/