Kolanaki@yiffit.net
on 28 Jun 2024 16:08
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He done shown me shorned sheared sheep!
LostAndSmelly@lemmy.world
on 28 Jun 2024 17:24
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I just checked and every single textbook I own that contains a reference to this transformation uses an image of a sheep. Sadly all of my textbooks are in English. If I had any relevant texts in German or Spanish I doubt that they would makes this connection.
On an less relevant note one of the books introduces the idea of change of basis with a joke about labeling axes and has several different types of ax with corresponding labels attached and I find that to be a much worse joke.
dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
on 28 Jun 2024 18:53
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I guess because itâs absurd youâll remember it easier.
Kind of how people can recall a deck of cards by placing a person doing an action to an object (PAO) in familiar places. Itâs the absurdity that makes you remember.
FordBeeblebrox@lemmy.world
on 28 Jun 2024 22:52
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embed_me@programming.dev
on 29 Jun 2024 02:30
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The reason itâs easier to remember for humans is a double edged sword. If you accidentally type in text fields which donât mask input, itâs easier to memorize for someone paying attention.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
on 29 Jun 2024 14:45
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In English the tool for chopping down trees is spelled axe. Just letting you know since youâre multilingual and I assume English isnât your first language.
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz
on 02 Jul 2024 19:21
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English is my first language. Ax and axe are used interchangeably. Theyâre both correct.
catsdoingcatstuff@lemmy.nz
on 29 Jun 2024 09:10
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Hey, itâs the only thing I remember from linear algebra! Thatâs the longest living sheep ever.
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Holy shit, I did my equivalent of this class over 2 decades ago and I remember this bloody joke.
Whoever wrote that book has got a lot of mileage from it
Edit: oh the screencap is older than a decade lol
Thatâs a fine transformation.
âAs verbs the difference between sheared and shorn is that sheared is past tense of shear while shorn is past tense of shear.â
Thanks, internet, youâre very useful.
A sheer waste of time, you say?
At least its not read and read
Potato potato.
There once was a comment I read
it made me get up out of bed
In the toilet I peed
Til my bits startâ to bleed
And from that day I no longer read
Shiela sheared sheep by the sheep shorn.
Sheep: đ
Sheared Sheep: đ
Huh. TIL that italic emoji are a thing.
âŠI donât know why thatâs surprising to me, since theyâre just Unicode, but it is.
đđ»
How did you italisize an emoji?
<img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/d494a098-4da2-4aa3-bf8c-f17332dcda59.jpeg">
Needs more frying
just for you! <img alt="" src="https://lemmy.ca/pictrs/image/74fda0d1-00ae-4722-9ee9-f475bf06616a.jpeg">
He done shown me shorned sheared sheep!
I just checked and every single textbook I own that contains a reference to this transformation uses an image of a sheep. Sadly all of my textbooks are in English. If I had any relevant texts in German or Spanish I doubt that they would makes this connection.
On an less relevant note one of the books introduces the idea of change of basis with a joke about labeling axes and has several different types of ax with corresponding labels attached and I find that to be a much worse joke.
I guess because itâs absurd youâll remember it easier.
Kind of how people can recall a deck of cards by placing a person doing an action to an object (PAO) in familiar places. Itâs the absurdity that makes you remember.
xkcd.com/936/
The reason itâs easier to remember for humans is a double edged sword. If you accidentally type in text fields which donât mask input, itâs easier to memorize for someone paying attention.
In English the tool for chopping down trees is spelled axe. Just letting you know since youâre multilingual and I assume English isnât your first language.
English is my first language. Ax and axe are used interchangeably. Theyâre both correct.
Hey, itâs the only thing I remember from linear algebra! Thatâs the longest living sheep ever.