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I've acquired a new superpower
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can’t parse your second sentence.
a counterparty is the other person you're signing a contract with who sometimes lies to you and says they changed things when they didn't
It was the grammar I had trouble with, not the vocabulary. A comma before “within” would have helped a bit.
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#143I tried crossing my eyes, but it’s not working for me; I keep seeing things blurry. Maybe I’m doing it wrong. However, I solved the first two puzzles. For the last one, I just guessed randomly. My guess wasn’t exactly correct, but it was close, just a little distance away.
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#144Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you crossing your eyes (focusing nearer than the object) or diverging them (focusing past it)? Diverging is a harder skill to learn.
Is diverging harder? I find it easier. Maybe it is from long ago practice on stereograms, but I'm curious if it could be due to neurological/physiological differences.
Crossing is easier because you can simply hold your finger in front of your eyes and look at that for practice.
Diverging requires you to look past the image, meaning you have nothing to really look at, which makes it difficult to figure out what your eyes are even supposed to do.
Those stereograms aren't helping much either, since they look like nothing until you get it right. With cross-eye you have instant double-vision that you just need to align.
Cross-eye also works across much larger distances, diverging fails when the images are too far apart.
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#145Who's been doing this since they we're maybe 7 years old :)
Checking in! I’m frequently baffled by how unaware most people seem to be about the absolute basics of how their eyes work. Like, people don’t even seem to be aware of how their stereo perception is largely made from two images, or any of the implications that has. I actively think about the two images maybe dozens of times per day.
Chill out, that's a bit of hyperbole isn't it? This is just a trick for doing a spot the difference puzzle. It's not exactly a daily task most people are thinking about.
Most people at least understand that stereographic vision has something to do with 3D perception because we've all closed 1 eye before.
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#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can't overlap the images to save my life - they get like halfway there and that's it...
Are you crossing your eyes (focusing nearer than the object) or diverging them (focusing past it)? Diverging is a harder skill to learn.
My whole life I've been doing stereograms by diverging, but I couldn't get the three images in the post (the pairs would get closer but never fully overlap), so I tried crossing based on your comment. It was way easier than diverging (obviously, since I couldn't do it otherwise), but it took me a few tries, because I think it's actually /too/ easy to cross your eyes compared to diverging - I was way overshooting when I crossed my eyes. The trick was to notice this, and then control the un-crossing until they lined up.
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#147I've used this to quickly read through a few hundred page documents given to us only as a scanned pdf which was too low quality to run ocr (at the time) on. The sleazy counter party was very upset when I came back with notes on them not adding the changes we asked for on the drafts they sent back within minutes of them sending them back.
I can’t parse your second sentence.
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#148Front page of HN. Funny to imagine thousands of people sitting in the office crossing their eyes at their computer screen right now.
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#149At a local bar they had a game machine, and if you got a high score on any of the games, your tab for the evening was free. One of the games was a "spot the differences" between two pictures with an ever decreasing timer for each round. Using this trick I was able to easily surpass the high score, and garner a crowd watching me perform this mind numbing feat. Probably my peak fame right there.
I can't overlap the images to save my life - they get like halfway there and that's it...
Don’t CROSS them. Relax them, like you’re tired and can’t focus on a computer screen.
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#150Come on, I've been doing this since I was like 4 years old, this can't be news for anyone, Am i right???