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382 points DamonHD | 10 comments | 15 Apr 25 17:12 UTC | HN request time: 0.238s | source | bottom
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JKCalhoun ◴[15 Apr 25 19:32 UTC] No.43697402[source]▶
Yeah, that is pretty wild.

I recall a co-worker doing something related(?) for a kind of fun tech demo some ten years or so ago. If I recall it was shooting video while passing a slightly ajar office door. His code reconstructed the full image of the office from the "traveling slit".

I think about that all the time when I find myself in a public bathroom stall.... :-/

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1. nkrisc ◴[15 Apr 25 20:15 UTC] No.43697859[source]▶
> I think about that all the time when I find myself in a public bathroom stall.... :-/

Walk past a closed bathroom stall fast enough and you can essentially do that with your own eyes. Or stand there and quickly shift your head side to side. Just don't do it on one that's occupied, that's not cool.

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2. donatj ◴[15 Apr 25 20:20 UTC] No.43697909[source]▶
"Sir, why do you keep running back and forth in the bathroom?"
3. altruios ◴[15 Apr 25 21:03 UTC] No.43698349[source]▶
The dither effect. Same as seeing through splayed fingers on a franticly oscillating hand.
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4. Benjammer ◴[15 Apr 25 21:31 UTC] No.43698639[source]▶
This is the nerdiest way I've ever seen someone talk about John Cena
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5. whycome ◴[15 Apr 25 21:40 UTC] No.43698728{3}[source]▶
What's funny is that the described action didn't click until your comment.
6. messe ◴[15 Apr 25 21:49 UTC] No.43698829[source]▶
> Walk past a closed bathroom stall fast enough and you can essentially do that with your own eyes

Only in the US. The rest of the world has doors without a gap at the sides.

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7. freddie_mercury ◴[15 Apr 25 22:09 UTC] No.43699036[source]▶
Doors in Vietnam are exactly the same as in the US.

You clearly haven't traveled much so you should refrain from sweeping generalisations.

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8. nkrisc ◴[15 Apr 25 23:08 UTC] No.43699488[source]▶
Well duh it won’t work if there’s no gap, no matter what country you’re in. It doesn’t get around the laws of physics.

Not every bathroom stall in the US has gaps either.

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9. messe ◴[15 Apr 25 23:10 UTC] No.43699503{3}[source]▶
I don't quite know how to respond to that.
10. messe ◴[15 Apr 25 23:20 UTC] No.43699592{3}[source]▶
I'm sorry, but what point are you trying to make? Aside from: "Yeah, duh, you can't see through a fucking wall".

Mine was that, typically, people from outside the US, only ever experience toilet stalls with gaps when they visit the US.

Not every stall has gaps there, but I don't recall ever encountering it here in the EU.