Nothing too serious, i want to hear your petty, your eccentric, your off beat takes.
YYYY-MM-DD is the only acceptable numeric date format and should be the standard taught in schools.
They said unimportant and inconsequential, both of which do not apply to date formatting.
OK, I’ll be the one: DD-MM-YYYY is the way to go.
That doesn’t sort well. If you read left to right, you can’t assume year so you have to read it in full, working backwards, to get the full meaning.
Year first means you get more specific while reading. Natural logic and hierarchy in reading direction.
I’m not sure if I can see your point. Is this a programming thing? I’ve seen this sentiment a couple of times on Lemmy and I don’t get it. For me it’s more logical to state a date the way you speak (I’m no English native speaker, though).
I would take it a step further by doing what the Japanese and Chinese languages do and possibly even making their characters for day, month, and year a worldwide symbol to be used for dates. That, or have the world come together to create worldwide usable symbols for all that. Really make sure nobody can be confused because they cannot tell whether it’s a European date or a states date.
Personally I’m a fan of MM-YY-DD
I discovered this format on 01-02-03.
ISO 8601 ftw
As good as ISO 8601 is its handling of time intervals is atrocious.
In most cases it’s more important to know the month first than the year. Also who says that in speech? It was 1994 January fourth… it’s wrong and I’ll die on this hill.
I will read 100200300 as two hundred thousand one hundred one hundred million from now on.
It’s not most cases. It’s entirely contextual. Even with your example, the year is significant because that is over 30 years ago, giving the entire statement historical context rather than leaving the recipient wondering if this was recent events. “It was January 4th…” (7 months ago?) “1994” (oh, a long time ago) “when I last saw Nirvana” (oh, obviously this is a historical event).
Had you said you saw them in 1994, the month and especially day are likely irrelevant unless the story involves the weather, association with an event, or your story has something to do with how close to was to the singer’s death. Kurt Cobain died April (“this year?” - someone unfamiliar) 5th (of??) 1994 (oh wow, right by the date you already read in this conversation, providing plenty of context).
It takes all 3 bits of information to make a complete statement. Any single bit can be used alone effectively to convey enough meaning. You could say you saw them in 1994, a few months before his death, and provide plenty of context to convey the meaning. You could say you saw them 1994 (oh wow, how close to his death?) January (3 months prior) 4th (I do not care about the 4th)
Ill die on this other 3rd hill
We should continue to gently correct spelling and grammar mistakes online.
We should continue to gently correct
spellingsmelling andgrammargamer mistakes online.FTFY :)
Language evolves. I say let it, as long as it isn’t ambiguous.
Whoever invented jetskis and didn’t call them boatorcycles seriously fucked up
I now can’t help but completely agree, that would have been so much better
They were originally called Water scooters
Why not wooter scooters?
Splashy vroom vrooms.
Isn’t JetSki a trademark? Like either Kawasaki or Yamaha’s brand name for them? Kind of like Polaris and Seadoo (and their snowmobile Skidoo, which my Alaskan college roommate insisted was pronounced “skiDOO” with a short i and not “SKEE do”
Whoever invented jetskis
and didn’t call them boatorcyclesseriously fucked upFTFY
That’sa valid concern, we’re here for the inconsequential stuff.
Fully agree though.
Dark mode should be the default on phones, websites, programs, apps, and all electronics.
My AMOLED screen draws less power this way.
I’ve hit an age where I’ve gone from Dark Mode Is Life to switching between them depending on lighting levels and display quality. There are times when dark mode is almost painful.
same here. I still prefer dark mode, provided it is designed with it in mind from the get go.
The dark reader Firefox extension is for you. It makes every website darkmode.
I don’t really care what’s default, but 10 years of prison to anyone who doesn’t offer both! And an easy way to switch between the two that doesn’t require digging through menus.
Most laptops and computer monitors are LCD (by an extremely large margin)
Dark mode draws MORE power that way because people turn their screen brightnesses up to see anything. Meanwhile I can use light mode on my computer during the day with screen brightness on 5% and see just fine. Less eye strain too with a soft cream background or even beige and black text.
Plus then my eyes don’t get burned up when browsing to an app or website that doesn’t have built in dark mode support.
Not inconsequential. Dark mode is unpleasant to read for people with astigmatism. That’s 1/3rd of the US.
I have that in both eyes and I still prefer dark mode.
Got both eye astigmatism and glasses for 20 years, dark mode forever.
What? I have astigmatism and never ever had this problem.
people with astigmatism
…and no proper glasses?
Astigmatic people can still have some issues with glasses, especially ones with more acute astigmatism
Eg:
It isn’t this strong for everyone, ofc
Night time without corrective lenses is so pretty. Every light is a wide star, cars ahead are two red stars overlapping
YouTube is driving young people toward accepting dystopian thinking
I think this too, along with other video and reel based content. It’s an addiction.
People who cannot return a shopping cart to a proper location should not be able to use said shopping cart.
People who use their blinkers only half the time should be penalized more than those who don’t at all.
I like to use tabs when I program. I like that I can be editing the same file in a network drive with my tiny screen and have my editor there show a tab as two spaces and my big screen where it shows as four. I like that when I’m screen sharing I can zoom in and bump my font size, then set the tabs to render as smaller so I don’t need to run reindent on the whole file. I like that when I’m using a boring IDE with no customization it just inserts an indentation.
I also hate auto-closing parentheses and brackets.
Absolutely. “With spaces, everyone sees it the same way”, yeah, no shit bro. That’s the whole problem!
Unfortunately, with modern tooling, space-based indentation has practically won. :(
More games, if not all games, should include cheats or extra sliders for both difficult but also gameplay options.
Let have infinite mana or slow mo or increase my speed or whatever. At the end of the day games are entertainment and you should be able to tweak things to better enjoy it.
(I know mods exist but those are a mixed bag in terms of if they exist and what they support)
I do miss cheat codes.
I totally support this. I’m also ok as long as games are structured to allow easy modding to do the same. It should be common enough that a specific warning on games that don’t have it on platforms like Steam.
Learning to use cheat engine is a game-changer. It can pretty much automatically single out a memory location for something like mana just by casting a spell a few times.
There’s a game I played last year, the name of which I now completely forget, which I never actually finished because the final boss was such a bitch that I ended up rage quitting. Even set to easy. I’d never been so angry at a game.
Watched the ending on YouTube instead.
edit: I just remembered, it was Bramble. Beautiful game, absolutely bitch hard.
I’m looking at you, Black Mesa.
How can that damn alien spider take 8.000 rockets and still kill me?
I have very suddenly started hearing a strange quirk of grammar that needs to die in a fire. I’m going to write it on an index card and burn the index card.
I swear I haven’t heard this before the 2020s: “My kitchen needs cleaned.” Not “My kitchen needs to be cleaned”, not “my kitchen needs cleaning.”
Explain to someone ESL that “My kitchen needs cleaned” has two verbs in it, one is present tense, one is past tense, combined they imply a future action. AAAH!
On the grammar subject, it’s “couple of whatevers”, not “couple whatevers”. The word “couple” is like the word “group”. It wouldn’t make sense to say “a group people walked in” (instead of “a group of people walked in”), and that’s why it doesn’t make sense to say “a couple people walked in”. It can be spoken slang, like “you gonna gimme a couple bucks?” “I would of if I had it.” All that makes sense to local speakers where I am, but it only fits in casual speech and written dialogue, and I believe that’s because it’s lazily dropping a sound when spoken, not because it’s not understood to mean a collection of something.
So I live in New Jersey. There’s North Jersey, where they say cawfee, which is fine. There’s Central Jersey, where were normal. And then, there’s south Jersey, where they have a stupid accent - I need to go hoom (home) because I forgot my phoon (phone) - and they also have this weird grammatical quirk where they say “I’m done my dinner,” and just ditch the word “with.”
New Jersey is basically a postage stamp, and not a collectible edition, just a regular ass postage stamp with a piece of the american flag on it, on the envelope that is the United States, yet somehow we have three dialects, essentially. And it’s gotten a bit more homogenous over time, as things tend to (except south Jersey is still fucking weird), but there’s still plenty of people who you can tell where they’re from by how they talk.
I’m in South Jersey and what the fuck is hoom. Or phoon. What boonies are you talking to???
Yeah, this is a prevalent phrasing in Pennsylvania and surrounding areas.
The calendar should be 13 4-week months that always end on Sunday.
The leftover day should be considered a worldwide holiday.
Any time there is a leap year situation, all that time gets added to this one day, like the injury time at the end of a soccer/football match.
If we’re okay with having a leftover day (or two), let’s just have 5-6 intercalary days and then we can divide the other 360 days as evenly as we want. I’m a big fan of 12 months with 30 days each, with 3 weeks of 10 days each. But 360 is so versatile you could do it however you want.
Since the days of the week originally get their names from the sun, moon, and planets, we could easily name days for the 3 planets that have been [relatively] recently discovered or recognized: Earth, Uranus, and Neptune.Basically I’m advocating for the same structure of the French revolutionary calendar, but I’d change it so that the year starts on the Gregorian calendar’s March 1 to line up the leap day, and also copy the Gregorian calendar’s leap year calculation.
And the 13th month shall be called Gormanuary.
We surrender language to scientific/other detail oriented pursuits too easily.
According to some, a raspberry is not a berry, but a pumpkin is. That’s dumb. The word berry existed before botanists tried (and failed) to determine exactly what it meant, and the original meaning is still way better/more useful than the botany one.
So here it is: a berry is a small fruit, which is usually sweet, and usually edible. Raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, cherries, grapes, gooseberries, currants, and blueberries are all berries. Pumpkins, watermelons, tomatoes, zucchini and bananas are not.
Other terms that have been co-opted this way include “work”, “salt”, and “rock”. I believe the fields stealing these terms should be forced to come up with their own, different words.
I like this take!
I cope by just being a little extra specific when I can find the words to do so, like calling out botanically squash are fruits and mushrooms are fungi, while culinarily they work as veggies.
Force them how?
And it’s not like the other meanings of those words have been erased. I don’t even think the scientific uses are used more commonly than the every day ones.
And if someone “corrects” you just say you weren’t using the scientific term and they can fuck off with their useless contribution. Or say “hmm” and continue what you were saying if the previous instructions would be destructive to your way of life.
If you live in a climate that needs air conditioning to be comfortable most of the year, your roof and walls should be as white as possible. I have seen black shingles on new construction in Texas…
Also, toilet paper direction is a personal preference and is often driven by needs like pets and toilet/wall distances.
The first one is just rational and practical thinking, but for the second one, you’re just wrong and nothing can be done to change my mind
Wait until you have your toilet paper being pawed at by a pet. Underhand means the roll just spins. Overhand has them unrolling all that paper onto the floor.
If you live in a climate that needs air conditioning to be comfortable most of the year, your roof and walls should be as white as possible. I have seen black shingles on new construction in Texas…
I mean, i wouldnt call this unimportant or inconsequential. This is legitimate fact.
Houses should also be built with concrete or masonry walls. You don’t even have to see it, you can totally hide it and make it look like a normal wood frame house, but that will provide more strength and protection during disaster, and more protection from thermal extremes outside.
I don’t know that I believe concrete walls is going to help protect from “thermal extremes”. My work building has concrete exterior walls and they are frigid in winter and boiling in the summer. I’m sure there may be ways to do it better, but solid concrete is not very insulative from my experiences. Also brick walls aren’t super strong against side to side forces so they do pretty badly in earthquakes and high wind situations like hurricanes or tornadoes. They could be reinforced, but at a point you are framing a house in steel and just using bricks to cover it up - what’s the point of the bricks?
I live in an old brick house with lath and plaster walls. It also was built before air conditioning was a thing.
It does amazingly well in summer. Cool downstairs on all but the absolute hottest days.
Definitely not earthquake proof. If there’s ever an earthquake they should just put a couple tombstones on top of the pile of rubble and leave it be, because there’s no way my wife and I will survive. Not worth someone risking tetanus trying to dig us out.
However, we’re also on the East Coast of the U.S. As I understand it, earthquakes here are on a kind of millennial cycle with lots of time to build up to an apocalyptic level of destruction, so if it happens to be time for one of those, it probably doesn’t matter what I’m living in.
Thermal mass, dude.
It slows thermal creep and helps stabilize internal temperatures.
Thermal mass is only going to be good if you live somewhere that is hot during the day and cold at night, because all of the heat still transfers inside because concrete is a terrible insulator. If it stays hot overnight, you’re in an oven that gets hotter every day until summer ends.
No thanks.
That’s why wood rules in cold climates. Traditionally, your (wood-fired) stove sits in the middle, holding your house’s thermal mass, and the walls are light and insulating so it doesn’t take forever to warm up the house.
You should look at rammed earth building. It’s extremely niche and not practical with modern construction, but it is amazing at thermal regulation.
Sadly most HOAs have that power not the homeowners. I hope one day we can get rid of HOAs or at least put limits on their power.
I feel that pets are extenuating circumstances. Everyone wants the roll facing outward, but in some cases they can’t because of an external reason. In the same way people don’t want child locks on their cabinets and wall outlets, but might need them anyway.
However, I didn’t really understand your point about wall distance? Even if the roll is quite far from the wall, you’d still want it facing you, no?
Horsepower is a stupid measurement of engine output what is this the 1800’s.
I mean, the point of horsepower was marketing
"look!! This has the power of 10 horses!!*
the inventor of the steam engine, rubbing his hands together with a evil grin knowing that it’s bullshit
Constellations don’t look anything like the things people say they look like with some rare exceptions.
Orion? Looks like a guy ok.
The Lizard? Little known one but actually looks like a lizard so ok.
Dippers? Look like big ladles ok.
Oh wait that’s supposed to be a BEAR? With a long tail for no reason? Fuck off Greeks.
THIS ONE IS A CRAB no it isn’t stfu
Have you seen them outside of light pollution? I’m not saying they’re draw-by-the-numbers, but there’s a ton of relevant stars that aren’t visible to 75% of the global population from home. You can count the stars of the little dipper to gauge your light pollution. It has 7 stars. If you can’t see at least 6, you’re missing most of the bears
Which would make sense if I also didn’t see pictures of the constellations and some of these formations still don’t look like the thing they say they are.
“Ignorant” does mean wilfully ignorant. It doesn’t just mean uninformed.
To be vacant is to have been vacated.
To be an applicant is to have applied.
To be a claimant is to have made a claim.
And to be ignorant is to have ignored something.
(Of course, not all “-ant” words seem to stand alone without their suffix–at least, not in today’s vernacular. Does an arrogant person arrog? Does a fragrant flower frag? Rob Words might have more to say about the vestigial origins of some of these.)
Can’t wait to learn how I might just be ignorant about this (by my definition or the “real” one).
You have described the difference between ignorant and willfully ignorant.
To ignore is always willful, isn’t it?
But I think one of the examples I picked has finally talked me out of this. I would happily use “vacant” to also describe a place that has never been occupied, so it didn’t require vacating to be vacant. In that case, vacate means to make vacant, not vice versa. I’ll apply that to ignore/ignorant, and I think I finally understand how people have been so comfortable with that definition.
I will also say that ‘to ignore something’ implies but doesn’t mean to be aware of something. If you’re not aware of something, you’re ignoring it by default, which is also the case with being ignorant.
The difference is that fragrant and arrogant relate to words that end with -ance, i.e. fragrance and arrogance. For that matter, so do ignorance and vacanc
ey (ish). Applicant and claimant are a separate category of -ant suffix.
