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TIL the Hairy Ball theorem (wikipedia.org)

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The theorem has been expressed colloquially as "you can't comb a hairy ball flat without creating a cowlick" or "you can't comb the hair on a coconut".

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The problem is that the site tries to detect the device type. If you let the user choose it and make it sticky by domain, you dont have that issue.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

But your users have the problem that they go to the wrong site if someone on a mobile device shares a link when you’re on desktop.

It just seems inconsistent for them to detect mobile devices but not desktop devices.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

That doesn't sound like a problem. It sounds like a feature.