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.
It unlocks your screen rotation settings and links screen orientation to the phones gyroscopic sensor to maintain orientation perpendicular to the horizon.
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.
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.
19 Comments
cron@feddit.de · 96 pts · 2y
I just noticed this info on the xkcd website for the first time:
Randall is such a genius.
kurwa@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 2y
Boat Mode needs to be a thing, I don't know what it does but I want it.
JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
Yeah, now I want boat mode too!
Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
2024, make it happen!
Phoenix3875@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
But then you yourself have to be in Boat mode to browse it.
Ultragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
Must be a new addition. I haven’t seen it either until now.
usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml · 7 pts · 2y
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/
randomaccount43543@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 2y
https://explainxkcd.com/2880
peopleproblems@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 2y
That
is one mother fucking cursed connector
it's brilliant because it's so hazardous yet still creates a contact between two double core wires.
runeko@programming.dev · 4 pts · 2y
Additionally, the next "wire" would be connected reversed polarity so you would never know if grey or yellow were hot.
yetiftw@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
why would it be connected with reversed polarity?
Crackhappy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 2y
Fuck everything about that.
pelya@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
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.
uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 2y
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.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 2y
A sheet bend is more secure for cords of two different types/diameters. A square knot is for cords of the same diameter.