On: Reasons not to reveal your DNA

[tantalor]

No, the cell has 23 pairs of chromosomes.

You don't keep your shoes in 2 different piles for lefts and rights; you pair them together.

[lanyard-textile → tantalor]

There's a joke here about C programmers and header files, but I don't have the wit to pull it together.

[oakpond → lanyard-textile]

C programmers are at the end of their wits anyway.

[athenot → tantalor]

> You don't keep your shoes in 2 different piles for lefts and rights; you pair them together.

My toddler actually came up with that very process. Box of left shoes and box of right shoes. It works pretty well for her.

[Steve44 → athenot]

I’d never considered that but it’s an interesting concept. When you’re deciding what to wear you only have half the number of shoes to look at so have a smaller physical area to search and compare. Once you’ve chosen it’s fairly straightforward to find the matching one in the second container.

One downside would be if you have a few very similar pairs of shoes, that would undoubtedly make finding the matching shoe much more difficult because you couldn’t immediately home in on it.

I don’t think I’ll try it, but certainly something new to ponder.

[athenot → Steve44]

FWIW, us adults haven't adopted her process. But it worked especially well for her as she optimized for her biggest issue at the time, which was figuring out which shoe goes on which foot. Now she can tell almost instantly but the 2 boxes remain. :)

[laythea → tantalor]

Then again, when I was growing up, we did boys and girls sports separately :)