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It wont’t turn the image upside down, but the depth will be inverted, so what is meant to jut out at you will become a trough away from you.

Also, if I’m seeing this correctly, it only recognises ASCII “words” (a–z, A–Z, 0–9, _), so it’s not even accurate and will over-count words with accents, umlauts, etc.

IMO, here’s a lot of room for improvement for German, because it’s a real dice roll whether a compound noun will be recognised or not. You can try swiping the components individual…

I completely agree. This is what I check every time there’s news about Thunderbird before I consider switching.

ArsTechnica did an in-depth review last year [1] which was also discussed on HN [2]. [1] https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/06/a-decidedly-non-linu... [2] https://news.ycombinato…

There is some (incredibly slow) turning in their “Automotive Visualisation”: https://www.fovotec.com/automotive

Something similar was posted on HN before [1], seems to be offline though. There’s an archived copy here: [2] [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17617675 [2] https://web.arch…

Looking at the links in the Wikipedia article I discovered this wonderfully “old web”-style page with various envelope folding guides[1]. I found it so endearing that I sat down an…

I’ve tried out Apple’s Look Around recently and was impressed with the transition animation compared to Google Maps. If you have an Apple device, try it out in London for instance:…

Sadly, the new PDF viewer still doesn’t support smooth two-finger zooming on macOS. The new theme is kind of neat though.

I know exactly what you mean! This is even more annoying in German, where every noun is capitalised.

The problem with scientific terminology is widely recognised in communication science. The issue is that while terms used by disciplines such as physics, law or medicine are suffic…

You raise some points that were also raised by a sibling commenter, but I’ll try to reply to them. You are correct that FB and EC are different concepts that are unfortunately ofte…

You raise very valid points. The case you describe would be characterised as “oppositional reading” of mainstream media by those believing in a conspiracy. However, this is unrelat…

This echo chamber concept is cited time and time again in mainstream discussions, so much so that communication researchers argue that it has created “its own discursive reality”[1…

I used Anki extensively a few years ago when studying a new language at uni and it helped me a lot, but I just installed it again and not much has changed. It was clunky then and i…

There’s a classic theory in communication science by the German researcher Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann called the “spiral of silence”[1]. It basically says that people have an idea of…

The author's point about "dumb" ligatures doesn't really hold up: While the "fi" ligature will always mean "f followed by i" its use is not always correct. For example, in German c…