• agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
    8·
    2 days ago

    I still remember the term “dihedral synchro-helix” from when I got really into non-standard car doors for an afternoon like 20 years ago

  • auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    2 days ago

    🫡

    Never start your ancestry guys it’s like an impossible jigsaw.

    Do deep dive on RCCX though, it does not disappoint.

    I’m accepting applications for new hyper fixations please apply below.

    • agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      2 days ago

      What frustrates me the most is that I can trace parts of it back like 400 years, and others no more than a few generations. Like I understand it, but I’m still upset after literal days of chasing loose ends.

      • auraithx@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        My surname is fairly uncommon, all male descendants so far have the same YDNA results from a common ancestor circa 13th-16th C

        So I’ve had the luxury of being able to catalogue every recorded person with my surname and then I can slot people in based on location, naming patterns, etc. ^^

        But yes it’s wild how we have undoubtedly lost so much of our past. And how one guy being in the right place at the right time a few hundred years ago has resulted in tens of thousands of living descendants across the world.

        OpenAIs new ‘thinking in images’ tool can almost one-shot very hard to transcribe old documents in secretary hand, etc. So that should open up a wealth of hidden information very soon!