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It doesn't really address why one plugs it in wrong more than 50% of the time. John Siracusa had a great analysis on this on the ATP podcast a few months ago: E
by chkaloon 7y ago
It doesn't really address why one plugs it in wrong more than 50% of the time. John Siracusa had a great analysis on this on the ATP podcast a few months ago: Even if you have it in the correct orientation the first try, it inevitably catches a bit and you think you've done it wrong. You don't want to break anything, so you flip it to try the other way. That is now the wrong way and won't fit at all. So you flip it again and it goes in. So, 3 tries if you had it right the first time, 2 tries if you had it wrong the first time.
- ses1984 7y agoI thought it was because you had to rotate the usb plug through 4d space to get it into the correct orientation.
- tantalor 7y agoIt's really because of timecube. "Life is pulsing opposite mirror Pairs, Death is ONEness of Godism." https://timecube.2enp.com/ https://timecube.2enp.com/
- SAI_Peregrinus 7y agoNaw, they're just 4-dimensional. So 540 degrees of rotation are needed to flip them 180 degrees in 3 spatial dimensions.
- ryall 7y agoMy (non-technical) friend solved this ten years ago: "holes up"
- Jaruzel 7y agoGo through your drawer of USB cables. You'll see that a lot of Type-A connectors now have the holes on both sides!
- djmips 7y agoThere are several ways to tell visually which way it goes. Holes up and the fat plastic part (look into the connector on the cable) down. On top of that there is often a USB logo on the 'top'. Finally you can remember. heheh. With a bit of effort I've managed to get my USB plugging in to be about 90% accurate but I'm still caught out by that factor they mention in the OP - when it catches, you doubt and reverse.
- nkrisc 7y agoI go by the seam on the metal shroud. Seam down. Port is vertical? Well shit.