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The issue people have is with "straight". It's ambiguous. And the simplest, most intuitive interpretation of "straight" in the context of someone directing you
by cush 2y ago
The issue people have is with "straight". It's ambiguous. And the simplest, most intuitive interpretation of "straight" in the context of someone directing you to travel East, is to continue travelling East.
It's like handing someone a compass pointing East, then saying "walk in a straight line", and expecting them to slowly travel in a wandering arc. It's insane.
- dylan604 2y agoMaybe so, but that's not how geometry works. If geometry worked by my interpretation, then I would have skated through that class with an even higher grade than I got by following the rules. Also, the GGGGP that I replied to started by trying to walking a tangential line to a sphere resulting in a space walk. That's like THC induced levels of strained thinking of the subject.
- cush 2y agohttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40568527 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40568527 ^^ https://imgur.com/IiK6SPu https://imgur.com/IiK6SPu