Brave browser can inject headers in HTTP requests

Re:Brave browser can inject headers in HTTP requests by falcor84 on Sunday February 10, 2019 @08:59PM (#19131512)

>not even orthogonal

Sorry for nitpicking, but I just couldn't get this to leave my mind. I understand that you were going for a wordplay with "not even wrong", but I'm still trying to imagine whether there's a geometric interpretation to make sense of this.

Would this imply that the angle between the two things cannot be defined? If so, what would be a possible situation here?

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Re:Brave browser can inject headers in HTTP requests by Pharmakon on Sunday February 10, 2019 @09:26PM (#19131609)

I have to admit that it was just a play on words, and except for dragonwriter’s formulation I have nothing to offer on this one. On the other hand I enjoyed your comment, and didn’t find it nitpicky at all.

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Re:Brave browser can inject headers in HTTP requests by dragonwriter on Sunday February 10, 2019 @09:03PM (#19131541)

> but I'm still trying to imagine whether there's a geometric interpretation to make sense of this.

Well, I suppose there's a framework in which orthogonal could imply coplanar and so skew lines would.be “not even orthogonal”; particularly they'd have no contact at all irrespective of relative alignment.

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Re:Brave browser can inject headers in HTTP requests by zenpeace on Sunday February 10, 2019 @11:31PM (#19132077)

This is actually quite possible in non-Euclidean geometries even for things that usually have angles in real world [1].

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_geometry

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