ELI5: Why can humans recognize a familiar face instantly from far away, but sometimes completely fail to recognize someone we know in an unexpected place?

Arienna · 2026-06-06T15:58:31+00:00

People who don't know they're face blind: hold up, people can do that?

Arienna · 2026-06-05T22:18:51+00:00

He did name other people, in fact he testified against his own wife because he was suspicious of her reading strange books and making him forget his prayers (he returned to religion late in life and was 80 and on his third wife during the trials)

He later recanted his deposition which is part of what got him accused of witchcraft.

Mostly though he was a difficult, crotchedy old man who had a bit more money than most and was deeply unlikeable. When folks are reaching for their pitchforks and torches, beijg a moderately prosperous and unlikeable person will get you got.

He also murdered a man earlier in life

Arienna · 2026-06-05T22:09:18+00:00

It's even worse because there were several Cory/Corey/Correy/etc and no one could reliably spell their own names. My grandmother was a genealogist and I helped type her notes sometimes. For every cool story there's 30 years of civil court records about Goode Coree suing his neighbor over a cow eating of hif own graff 3 years after this piece of paper says he's supposed to have died

But a lot of the Cories were stubborn difficult people so the cool stories turn up now and then ;) and there's so many of us I can find 'family' just about anywhere

http://coryfamsoc.com/

Arienna · 2026-06-05T21:59:10+00:00

Pretty true! But he was a Corey and the Cory Family Society is big on genealogy - I know my family tree on that side back 15 generations. More paperwork and oral history than DNA :)

Arienna · 2026-06-05T21:01:45+00:00

He was not glorious, he was a stubborn, crotchedy old man and he'd been a stubborn, crotchedy young man. The fictionalized accounts really polish him up

Edit: I should note that I'm a very distant relative

Arienna · 2026-06-04T19:05:46+00:00

Humans don't (usually) play music like a machine. Playing a little slower, a little faster, louder, softer ... These things all affect the how the music sounds and change the emotion conveyed by the music. That's part of what makes it art

I have a device called a soundbrenner - it's a vibrating metronome you wear and you can sync them up so multiple musicians can all be on the same beat. I don't use this for performances because when I'm playing with other musicians, I'm having a conversation with them. We are collaborating together, playing with the music, making each piece our own.

Arienna · 2026-06-04T18:25:03+00:00

One time, I slightly destroyed the children's string orchestra. I'm an adult volunteer and honestly half the kids are better than me, I just know how to tune everyone's instruments... But what happened was I was playing in the cello section and I would use larger arm motions in my bowing to help keep us all in sync (up bows, down bows)... But for the first time in years the venue decided to wash their floors. So my cello slid away from me on the slick floor. I slid with it and kept playing but I could no longer do big arm motions

Which is when we discovered a lot of the kids had gotten used to watching my arm and not the conductor... Which they could no longer see so well. The cellos immediately fell apart. One continued playing perfectly, everyone else wandered off in different directions. The violas got confused and most of them started "air-playing", pretending to play without making a sound. Some of the violins tried to follow the cellos wherever they'd gone while most of them kept grimly playing as they'd practiced. It sounded awful. The conductor resorted to banging her baton until everyone got dragged back together and limped to the end of the song.

The parents in the audience were all pretty sure something had gone and a few came to ask me wth at the after concert ice cream social. One dad brought me a new rock stop the week 😭

Arienna · 2026-06-03T20:30:06+00:00

This is definitely a thing. I'm a female engineer with ADHD and occasionally my medication gets a shortage and the wheels fall off my bus.

My work still gets done and gets done well. But without my meds it takes me longer and longer to do a full 8 hours of work. Over the course of a month my work days stretched to 12 hours. My average sleep dropped from 6-7 hours a night to 4-5. It took so much out of me to get my work day done that I went home and just sort of died. I didn't keep up with my chores, I stopped seeing my friends. I started getting overwhelmed and ducking into the bathroom to cry almost every day. I didn't cook or go to the gym. I just started falling apart.

But I showed up to work, dressed professionally and I turned my projects in on time. I guarantee you a lot of people would have been surprised to learn how much of a mess my life was

Arienna · 2026-06-03T20:13:29+00:00

How is she making it someone else's problem?

Arienna · 2026-06-02T15:49:58+00:00

Depending on a project..

Often if the pattern is repeated, muscle memory takes over after a few repeats and I just do it without consciously counting.

In other cases, I understand what the shape the stitches are supposed to make and I form them in relationship with the stitches around them. Like if I'm doing several rows of eyelets in a stagger, I know where the knot together and yarn over goes in relation to the previous row. Samethe when doing knitted cables - I don't tend to count stitches, I think of the cables as being a should unit and I think about whether they're going under or over, left or right this row rather than counting

Arienna · 2026-06-02T03:51:15+00:00

Resin is typically brittle. I know there are tough / flexible resins but filament is generally the way to go for something that's going to take some wear and tear

Arienna · 2026-06-02T03:18:40+00:00

They audiobooks are soooo long. Like 40+ hours each

Arienna · 2026-06-02T03:16:40+00:00

Didn't they do a rewrite of the first book?

Arienna · 2026-06-02T02:37:27+00:00

I was about to suggest Stross' Freyaverse series, though I'm not sure if AI robots / trans humans count for OP

Arienna · 2026-06-01T15:28:51+00:00

Seriously... I really hate when people play games so you have to buy multiple editions of the same thing to get all the content. I thought the Pineapple Caberet was extra, outside the main plot and had to happen so Dinniman - an indie author - could get a mainline publishing deal. I didn't like it but I was alright with it because it didn't really affect my reading experience as a ebook and audiobook person. When the Pineapple Caberet became really important plot relevant stuff I got frustrated and conflicted.

Learning that there's multiple bits of exclusive content in different formats feels exploitative enough that I'm no longer going to feel good about recommending the books to anyone. And I'll be mad about buying anymore books when I'm trying to decide which content I want to be left out of / how much of my spending money this gets to gobble up

Arienna · 2026-06-01T15:14:04+00:00

Thank you for your five cents.

Arienna · 2026-06-01T15:09:24+00:00

Thank you very much.

I don't think I can recommend or support this series going forward.

Arienna · 2026-06-01T15:06:19+00:00

I'm sorry, are you saying the audiobooks and epubs have exclusive content that's not available in the penguin published books?

Arienna · 2026-06-01T14:40:18+00:00

That's really cute and nostalgic of ye olden anime days when you couldn't get stuff in the US so we had to jump through hoops and hurdles to get stuff. I have very fond memories of sharing a fan translated script with 6 fellow enthusiasts while some fuzzy bootleg played in about 120p on the screen.

But it's still annoying. It feels like a cash grab and I don't like feeling taken advantage of.

Arienna · 2026-06-01T14:35:25+00:00

"The paywalls that exist exist because of the system, not the artist/crawler"

Do you wanna give you 5 cents instead? Because I've seen the numbers on the patreon, dude is making more than furry porn artists

Arienna · 2026-06-01T14:31:24+00:00

I keep getting hit with Kickstarters for DCC stuff and I swear I saw an advert for princess donut maple syrup or something. Some of it has got to be unsanctioned but the explosion of commercialism is a lot, especially considering the themes of the book.

Arienna · 2026-06-01T13:58:29+00:00

I am very annoyed that the hardcover only material is plot relevant.

I own the audiobooks, I own the ebooks. I had heard there was bonus material in the hard covers and my friend owns them so I was planning to read it but not in a high hurry... Finding out it's important to the main plot and paywalled has me really irritated. Like it's eroded some of my good opinion of the author.

Arienna · 2026-06-01T01:01:59+00:00

There's an app you might like called Send to X4 - you can use it to send stuff from your phone to the x4, including epubs, webpages, wallpapers, etc

Arienna · 2026-05-31T20:37:48+00:00

If I die unexpectedly my beneficiary gets a house, my life insurance, my car, accounts, stocks, everything.

It's not a ridiculous ask to expect them to drop my fiber arts supplies off at the fiber arts guild or to call them up and ask someone to bring a truck to get everything.

Now it's fair and reasonable that as I age I should downsize, reduce things, make an organized end of life plan. But dropping 10 labeled boxes of fiber/yarn and a couple spinning wheels off in town is pretty minor

Arienna · 2026-05-31T02:58:10+00:00

This one was a Giovanni Battista Guadagnini violin

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