I was reminded of the old gamedev saw about how nobody's 3D math is actually correct, they just have the right number of multiplications by -1 in the stack to cancel out.
Today, for work, I realized I need to reverse sorting in a strange place, to achieve the right "polarity" 
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take solace in the fact that you'll never be out of work, fixing things like this
Perhaps, but I also get the really ugly problems. My personal favorite was I had a friend who’s solution to math issues was to just shuffle the matrix order till things worked. Column major, row? Meh it’ll eventually work!
