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

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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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 11 months ago

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

[-] JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 50 points 11 months ago

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 11 months 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 11 months ago

Yeah, now I want boat mode too!

[-] Qwaffle_waffle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

2024, make it happen!

[-] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Ultragramps@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months 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 2 points 11 months 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 11 months ago

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

[-] usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml 7 points 11 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 https://web.archive.org/web/20161005090723/http://xkcd.com/

[-] randomaccount43543@lemmy.world 25 points 11 months ago
[-] peopleproblems@lemmy.world 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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 points 11 months ago

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

[-] yetiftw@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

why would it be connected with reversed polarity?

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago

Fuck everything about that.

[-] pelya@lemmy.world 5 points 11 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.

[-] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 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.

[-] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 11 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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