Adams seemed to think it is a comparatively rare condition, but particularly tragic when it happens to a photographer.

Because you really cannot fix it in your wetware.

I didn't think it was that rare, but maybe because I have vestibular problems as well.

I’m sure he wouldn’t’ve bothered mentioning it if were too rare to actually come up much in photographers.

Is it astigmatism? That can result in horizontal lines looking sharpest at an angle.

@AndrewLeach I don’t think so.

I wonder if you could correct it with glasses

It is not a matter of sharpness. It is a matter of what one perceives as level, or perpendicular to level.

Is there a lens that can rotate an image?

The last time I asked them to delete my accounts, they did not really delete them. So I shall stop asking them to delete my accounts and just rename the account to "please delete me" next time.

the eye lens rotates the image 180 degrees

It rotates it?

This method has the advantage that the people I vote for get to keep their points.

@MattЭллен clockwise or counter-clockwise?

@RegDwigнt yes

It also saves me the trouble and embarrassment to ask them to delete it each time.

@JasperLoy You could save yourself the trouble by not deleting the account in the first place, since you're just going to come back.

I wonder whether it has anything to do with my problem of always remembering physical left–right directions in mirror orientation.

> "People with learning disabilities (LD) and/or Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (AD/HD) often have difficulty getting from one location to another. They frequently lose their way, have trouble using public transportation, and struggle with driving-related issues. Contributing factors may include poor time management, problems with spatial and visual perception, and difficulties with eye-hand coordination."

Sigh.

Prisms could correct the angular difference, but they might make him sick.

I have left-right discrimination issues.

@tchrist Sounds like me.

I always have to check my hands.

I can do port-starboard and east-west though.

I’ve spent a lifetime of hours wondering around cities trying to get back to where I was just a block-and-a-half away. Like Munich. Five hours to get back to my hotel on the same street 1.5 blocks away.

And in tears, by then.

That sucks.

I will always step the wrong direction out of a door or elevator.

Bristol was another bad one.

There are also elevators that open on both sides.

But really, I simply can’t get there from here.

This is not a problem in the wilderness, only with human-made stuff.

In the wilderness, I can see where I want to go. I have landmarks.

I also cannot ride a bicycle.

@tchrist whoa dude.

Next time just gimme a call, willya.

I have driven around in circles in central Denver trying to escape, or to get somewhere, and giving up in frustration called local friends begging them to rescue me.

I can be in Munich in under five hours.

@KitFox I have prism glasses to correct the double vision. The problem is that since my vision isn't ALWAYS double, they mostly just make me dependent on them, so that when I take them off my vision is TOTALLY double.

I am now wondering if the plane that went missing months ago was also shot down.

@JasperLoy that people have been wondering forever.

@JasperLoy No.

@RegDwigнt I can be in Germany next life.

@JasperLoy No. There is no evidence to suggest that anything unusual happened, beyond the unusuallness of an airplane crashing.

As if the military would be going around spitting out evidence.

I thought there was switching off of devices and stuff.

There are plenty of mundane theories that fit the facts, no need to invent extraordinary theories.

That makes me feel ill.

I think the Bermuda triangle has to do with this.

@KitFox Yes. It was the flight crew.

@KitFox yes, which would be standard procedure if there was an electrical fire on the plane.

We just don’t know why.

I see. I stopped paying attention. Well, didn't pay attention in the first place.

Where?

Huh?

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 I believe there was a voice sign-off saying all is well after some of the stuff was being shut off.

@KitFox How much?

@RegDwigнt I ... wait. Who are you?

That is worse than XKCD on many levels. Though not all.

@KitFox yes, a cucumber will do.

@tchrist I don't recall that. But I'm just regurgitating what I read from a supposed pilot on G+, who posited that an electrical fire would explain all the actions of the pilot.

@RegDwigнt omg you have a rhino avatar!

@skullpatrol Not into bald chicks much.

@KitFox not possible in version 31.4.516

@KitFox I will now show you a pic of someone who looks like you. cims.nyu.edu/~holmes

@JasperLoy Remarkable. Thank you.

I'm surprised it was not Matt Smith, though.

@skullpatrol Nonono, you are thinking of a pic of someone who looks like you.

That's not going to work.

original post followup posts

There. I mean, dead ringer, right?

almost exactly different, yes

@KitFox who?

@RegDwigнt It is not a pleasant thing to realize that one belongs more to the idiot savant set than to either one of those two things exclusive of the other.

Look, I went through a great deal of trouble here.

@RegDwigнt exactly

@tchrist Better to be an idiot savant than no kind of savant at all.

So... I guess that means take BA or Air France next time.

KLM is Dutch, too.

I'm glad my daily commute doesn't take me over Ukraine.

@RegDwigнt Also responsible for the worst airline disaster in history.

@Robusto So you're with the British and the French, after all.

@RegDwigнt They were our allies in WWII, so I guess I have to be.

@KitFox yeah, that was the previous, um, "record" by the number of Dutch people killed.

All caused by a pilot being a dick.

@Robusto so were the Russians.

If you are Dick, you cannot be a pilot.

@Robusto How about Moscow?

@RegDwigнt Come on, you know we weren't really allies with Russia. I mean, they're commies, right? You can't be allies with commies.

@Zoe Nope. Moscow neither.

Looking for a quote. Clapton said something like a canceled gig still counts as a gig.

In fact, I have no plans to fly over any eastern European countries, ever.

@Robusto oh, I thought that's what "com" meant. Took too much Romance in school.

@RegDwigнt It's a slippery slope from community to communal to communism.

@Robusto you have enough Eastern states of your own to fly over.

I'm not sure Rob knows what "comrade" means.

It's an anagram for "dear MOC".

Also Mr. A Code.

@RegDwigнt I'm in an eastern state. But I mostly drive and bike over it. I hate flying. Too much chance of getting shot down.

@Robusto It’s some form of topographic amnesia, but not sudden-onset; I’ve always had it. It may be related to the vestibulo-ocular reflex thing, or to some “differently attented syndrome” (ADHDish/OCDish) or to some social miscuing thing (Asperger’s). In all likelihood those are all connected to produce a brain that is far from the neurotypical norm. But there is just nothing to be done about it now.

@Robusto last I heard your constitution specifically allowed shooting down people walking by foot.

So take care.

Shit. Using two keyboards is more than I can handle.

Har.

Tis okay. Perfectly fit the context here.

@RegDwigнt You had another preferred way of walking?

@tchrist last I heard your constitution specifically requested for all walking to be done by Segway.

@RegDwigнt Ah, that follows.

Yeah the math checks out in here, just not the language.

Cf the room description.

Who is (stereo) and how do I go about walking in there?

@RegDwigнt If you have to ask, you can't afford it. Use the mono entrance, please.

@Robusto after that oss

that too

@Robusto "use the mono entrance" is some gay code I don't quite understand.

> Developmental Topographical Disorientation (DTD) is a cognitive disorder characterized by the inability to segregate landmarks and derive navigational information from them, navigate through a non-verbal process, or generate cognitive maps. This is a newly discovered cognitive disorder in which patients do not have apparent brain structural abnormalities, such as lesions, and exhibit symptoms since childhood.

@RegDwigнt Yeah, right. Like you don't understand gay code.

@Robusto no, only some of it.

> i just recently answered a question which was two third but the answer was wrong because in the key answer book it was two-thirds?

Twice I have drawn maps for people that were utterly left–right reversed. One of those times the person even later returned and dragged me to the bathroom mirror, held my “map” before it, and pointed to the mirror and said That’s what you should have drawn!

I don't know, did you?

Tweened by a wall of techrist.

Speaking of idiots savants, Einstein had this same problem. Without his wife, he could never get anywhere.

@tchrist next time drag him to the mirror, held him before it, point to it and say "That's what you should have used to read it".

@RegDwigнt Oh good one. It’s not like his car has no mirrors.

@tchrist But if he had drawn it like that it wouldn't have looked right in the mirror.

I have a friend with a documented IQ of 190 who has the problem, too. She and I are just basket-cases for getting anywhere.

Well, anywhere rectilinearly.

Again, I’m fine in my local surrounding. Because like mountains.

@tchrist What's reptiles got to do with this?

@RegDwigнt It’s a pain in the butt.

Whoa!

Community♦ has begun protecting things again!

Yeah a couple weeks back in fact.

@RegDwigнt He's talking about ereptile disfunction.

@RegDwigнt It had stopped, right?

:16656709 The point is that Community protected that one, and I dunno quite how/why.

It must be using a different algorithm now.

@Matt: That's what I was going to say.

@tchrist yeah it had, I think even officially announced as such.

@Robusto I thought better of it. No need to go down that road again!

@tchrist that user seems to have a history of, um, SWRs...

@tchrist I see

@tchrist Didn't we already have this question? I seem to think we did.

Seriously, if you can't think of any of the suggestions on that page, perhaps the question is too basic after all.

@RegDwigнt Bletchèd ones, too, but that nearly goes without saying.

The weird thing about my orienteering disorder is that you would think it would impact my ability to visualize data structures, but in fact I am very good at data structures.

Similarly, polyphony.

Data structures don't care about dexterity.

Ah.

Well, some do, but I never make those ones.

@tchrist How are you at mental pointer arithmetic?

@Robusto In my sleep.

Me, I dream of unicorns.

Unicorns live a pointer-arithmetic-free life.

I am also very good at simultaneously envisioning different levels of abstraction of data or of code alike, much better than most people I normally encounter at $joblike places.

So it does not manifest there where I might have imagined it occurring.

do you have a documented iq?

Yes, but that would be telling.

Anybody here know anything about Shazam Power Query?

HLSL?

@JohanLarsson 3 sigma < tchrist-IQ < 6 sigma; all else I leave to your own observations.

134 then.

@JohanLarsson 3 sigma is 145.

@KitFox I dunno, but is sounds AWESOME!

@tchrist ah, did not think of that

@JohanLarsson I did. Thinking is my blessing and my curse.

IQ is a meaningless number. As I learned when I was accepted into Mensa back when I was young and stupid.

@Robusto Yeppers.

I would like to work with people with high IQs

I am genuinely crippled in some areas and genuinely gifted in others. It is difficult to assign a number to that sort of mélange.

Really smart people somehow never worry about whether their IQ scores are high enough.

Of course not. That’s meaningless.

But there are times I forget how stupid the average person is, and pay for it the hard way.

I seldom forget how stupid most people are. And if I do, they make sure to remind me.

@Robusto do they worry about the score of their peers?

starred first

Looks like Malaysia does suffer from bad luck, after all.

@JohanLarsson Why would one?

cos it sucks the life out of one?

@RegDwigнt Wuzzat?

@JohanLarsson The Byzantines are like that.

@tchrist an insultingly bad way of visualizing the number of flights over Donetsk, from 10th to 18th this month.

out of battery soon, gonna be tablet pain from now on

@RegDwigнt Insultingly bad? You have refined sensibilities.

did he ever make it clear with his edit! wowza

@RegDwigнt Looks like the arc of water balloons dropped from altitude.

@tchrist well you did have to ask what it was.

@MattЭллен I already declined the reöpen.

I don't think it's closed yet

@RegDwigнt I understand why you would be especially refined in that arena, but not what a better rep might be.

If the whole purpose of a chart is to explain something but you don't so much as understand what the something is, that's an insultingly bad chart in my book.

but that answer's on -7

and I don't think it's going to get better

@MattЭллен Oh wait, that was another; I’ll show you.

Anyway, the point is, Malaysia are barely in the top 5 and there's a long tail.

Even five FedEx flights.

@MattЭллен It was this one, which has improved since last I didn’t cast a reöpen vote on a recent edit.

@RegDwigнt The area of those circles does not correspond to the numbers represented in any straightforward fashion.

@MattЭллен Oh. Hahaha. Well then, it should be deleted, I think, since it doesn't answer the question.

@tchrist I see.

@tchrist What did you expect from an insultingly bad chart?

That's what i get for being on the phone.

@RegDwigнt Reminds me of pizza pricing.

There's a whole thing about areal weighting for stats.