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Show HN: There are over a thousand possible finger arrangements for your hands
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- maccam912 3y agoWe're on HN! People might find it more interesting to find out it's not just over 1000, but 1024 exactly. And I'll leave it for curious minds to think on it why that becomes obvious when seeing the problem from the right perspective.
- ledauphin 3y agoyou're actually blurring some of these images, huh? :D
- xk4rim 3y agoNot anymore
- p1mrx 3y agoIt's actually 1021, after subtracting the 3 censored arrangements.
- LegitShady 3y agowhat I'm curious about is the account who submitted this, a 3 month old account with no comments and only submissions from that particular website. Are you affiliated with the website? Is the submitter affiliated with the website?
- extraduder_ire 3y agoBased on the "Show HN:" in the title, I would assume so.
- LegitShady 3y agoI don't remember seeing "show hn" in the title when I posted.
- xk4rim 3y agoHi. OP here. I'm the developer of the website. Don't worry. I'm not a bot. I'm just very new here; this is my first comment (and this is my first submission to get that many comments). I've decided to start engaging with HN from today. You'll see me post other links from other websites soon.
- spencerchubb 3y agoYep 2^10 = 1024
- rini17 3y agoLet's think about UTF-HANDS. Unicode needs 21 bits that means every code points needs two gestures plus 1 additional bit. Rotating the palm of each hand toward body/away from body allows us 2 additional bits per gesture. So we could actually have variable length encoding: 0x000 - 0x3FF one gesture, the rest two gestures.
- nick-of-time 3y agoYou haven't accounted for endianness yet. After all, your left is my right when we're facing each other. Perhaps orient hands vertically and the upper one is the more significant set of bits. Also, for cases when one hand is unavailable, I propose a companion 6-bit encoding UTF-HAND where the multi-gesture sequences begin at 0x20. This should be adopted into sign languages, it would make a more culturally diverse alternative to standard single-alphabet finger spelling :)
- rini17 3y agoJust use trusty BOM first to announce whether you're left or right handed XD
- mcdonje 3y agoShape ID 0010000100 is blurry. I enjoy how the IDs are descriptive. I don't like the nanny filter. It's culturally insensitive because it only blocks a hand symbol that's considered rude in one cultural context but not another. For instance, shape ID 0011000110 would be considered rude in England, but it's not filtered. It also reinforces the cultural power of the symbol, which is the opposite of what is probably intended. See: Streisand Effect.
- tetris11 3y agohttps://students.tools/weight-to-objects/ https://students.tools/weight-to-objects/ This is a very handy tool. I have actively searched for something similar via google for a while now but never came close to anything good. This "toy" of yours is excellent
- xk4rim 3y agoThank you very much! Glad that you liked it! :)
- SushiHippie 3y ago"The piano's black and white keys were reversed into what we know today in Mozart's days." Wow TIL, this looked way much cooler
- xk4rim 3y agoYeah, it's like a dark-mode piano. They still exist today but for the harpsichord.
- litoE 3y agoI find the contortions needed to do base 2 with my fingers too cumbersome. On the other hand, base 6 is really easy. Each hand only needs to do the usual 0-1-2-3-4-5 arrangement and you get to count from 0 to 35(6^2-1).
- aio2 3y agoWas it intentional that when I clicked until I get two the first time, the hands greeted me with middles fingers?
- xk4rim 3y agoThe odds of this happening is ~2.23%
- Stevvo 3y agoYet somehow most of us still need two hands to count to ten.
- xk4rim 3y agoYou can additionally use your toes to count to 20. That will be 1,048,576 possible finger arrangements.
- frrlpp 3y agoI can count to 21...
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 3y agoThose must be some flexible toes!
- karmakaze 3y agoIt's also how Taco Bell can keep coming up with new menu items reusing the same set of ingredients. I just discovered the Beefy 5-Layer Wrap.
- xk4rim 3y agoInteresting. So if a restaurant has 10 customizable ingredients, they can mix them up to make 1024 meals.
- skaushik92 3y agoBasically what Chipotle kind of is
- tehwebguy 3y agoNeeds “blood”
- quickthrower2 3y agoTry 0010000100
- xk4rim 3y agoYeah, this is my favorite shape. #133
- chillbill 3y agoThanks, just like respect, are not requested but are given…
- tedchs 3y agoIt's a fun party trick, counting to 2^10-1 (1023) using your fingers! Kids counting 1-10 use, effectively, "unary notation". One could count even higher if willing to put each finger into an intermediate state, as base-3 or base-4.