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[โ€“] RacerX@lemm.ee 18 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Boneless wings are just chicken nuggets.

Nuggets are minced, no?

Wings are dark meat only, and taste different.

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[โ€“] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 62 points 2 days ago (3 children)

All dates should be formatted according to ISO 8601 standard (YYYY-MM-DD).

Months should be adjusted so September, October, November, and December are the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th month respectively (so the literally meaning of the names accords with their actual meaning).

Not cleaning your kitchen knife after sharpening is trashy and contaminates your food with metal shavings.

[โ€“] davel@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Months should be adjusted so September, October, November, and December are the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th month respectively

Back of the line, Julius and Augustus.

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[โ€“] recall519@lemm.ee 23 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Time zones shouldn't exist. There should just be UTC time and you would go to work at the equivalent of your morning time.

[โ€“] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 days ago

Found the britain /s

[โ€“] chobeat@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 days ago

It would just be much easier to use UTC as the standard for all cross-timezone activities. The small portion of the population who needs to think about timezones would just have to add another timezone to their digital tools and the others won't have to do anything.

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[โ€“] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 12 points 2 days ago

Carmel should be the hard version and caramel is the soft kind.

[โ€“] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 16 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Thirteen months, 28 days each + one day. (Plus another day when there is a leap year).

It would just work.

[โ€“] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That's a cool thought experiment on what we do with that extra day. Like super ball out cookout?

[โ€“] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 1 points 1 day ago

We could make it a national holiday or something. Like New Year's Eve.

Day off for everyone, election day

[โ€“] mkhopper@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Lousy Smarch weather..

[โ€“] FryHyde@lemmy.zip 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

It's "different from", not "different than", goddammit.

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[โ€“] noxypaws@pawb.social 13 points 2 days ago (8 children)

"an historic" is wrong and terrible if you pronounce the "h"

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[โ€“] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (6 children)
void main() {
    //code
}

Is better than

void main()
{
    //code
}

Why would you want to put it on a separate line? Are you paid by the height of the source file or something?

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[โ€“] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 22 points 2 days ago

Tabs, not spaces.

I don't give a shit if your arguments perfectly align to the function. It's only semantic indication. Use the goddamn special character that has its own dedicated key.

[โ€“] CaptainAmeristan@lemmy.zip 21 points 2 days ago (6 children)

English verbs have historically had present form, past form, and past participle form, eg. go / went / gone. I'm sad to see the past participle form being phased out of American English. People I went to school with and who I'm sure were taught differently (not to mention innumerable podcasters and public radio personalities), now say things like: "By the time I got home I found he'd already went," eliminating the past participle and instead using the past form. Had saw is not uncommon either. I am old enough I refuse to incorporate this development in the language. If I ever encounter had was/were in the wild I might blow a gasket. Now entering my fuddy-duddy years :(

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[โ€“] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 66 points 3 days ago (9 children)

Anyone who puts always-on blue LEDs in electronics deserve the oubliette. People who put such LEDs in electronics meant for the bedroom deserve an oubliette that'a slowly filling with water.

[โ€“] zenforyen@feddit.org 5 points 2 days ago (2 children)

That sucks, but you can put some isolation tape on LEDs.

But I wish something horrible to those who thought it's a great idea to make every goddamn electronic device make beeping noises.

My water boiler, fan, washing machine. In my childhood I don't remember everything beeping at every interaction. It makes me furious and you often cannot fully disable it.

Once I tried to solder the beeper out but my soldering iron was probably not suitable so I failed :(

[โ€“] morbidcactus@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago

You can muffle the beeper pretty effectively with some tape, the old air fryer we had terrified one of the dogs because of the incessant beeping. My coffee scale by default beeps whenever you touch it, thankfully that's 100% mutable.

I also hate this.

The beeping! My damn air fryer has to let everyone in the neighborhood know that I'm making food at 3:00 am, I hate it so much

Gonna ignore the fire alarm someday because I'll just assume someone is air frying something

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[โ€“] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 87 points 3 days ago (11 children)
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[โ€“] BubbaGumpsBackLumps@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

February should only have 1 r

[โ€“] Karjalan@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago

Februay feels weird to say

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[โ€“] Enzy@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

My stairs are pretty steep does that count?

[โ€“] Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 26 points 3 days ago (4 children)

The Office means the British version. The American office refers to the American version.

[โ€“] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As an American, this disagrees with my worldview. But I also don't know enough about the British version to say your wrong ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™‚๏ธ

I never watched the British one, and I don't care for the American one, too cringey. Makes me sympathetic cringe.

[โ€“] Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

lol. I get that. I say what I say cause the British one came first.

Also, if you feel like that about The American Office, you will not like the British one.

Good to know lol, thanks

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I live in a pretty mountainous area, but I can think of a couple blind corners on small hills near me. So probably the one on the way to the bakery while running or biking.

But I do a lot of ski touring so I'd rather die on one of the big ones.

[โ€“] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 127 points 3 days ago (11 children)

Appliances and cars should never have an internet connection for any reason.

Also fuck touch screens give me buttons.

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[โ€“] superkret@feddit.org 12 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Single-speed bicycles suck.
They combine the drawbacks of a geared bike with the drawbacks of a fixed gear bike.

[โ€“] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm so confused. Drawbacks of a geared bike? As opposed to what? Flintstoning it?

I must just not be understanding what you mean.

I've ridden bikes with no derailer or gears, when you backpedal, you brake.

And I've ridden mountain bikes with front and rear gear changing.

I know there are super exotic driveshaft bikes, and electric etc, but besides that, what could you be talking about?

[โ€“] superkret@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fixed Gear advantages:

  • can slow down by pushing back on pedals -> almost no brake pad wear
  • almost no maintenance
  • can do trackstands and ride backwards
  • unique, fun riding style
  • completely quiet drivetrain
  • less interesting to thieves

Drawback:

  • can't switch gears

Geared Bike advantage:

  • can switch gears

Drawbacks:

  • basically the inverse of everything above

Single-Speed bikes can do none of the things fixed gear bikes can do, and also can't switch gears.

[โ€“] beastlykings@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks for this, but I apologize, I'm still confused.

You've described fixed gear, and geared, I think we now agree as to what these are.

But what is a single speed bike? I've never heard of it. Is it a geared bike, with only one gear, but still has a tensioner? So it can't have hub brakes? Why would such a thing exist?

[โ€“] superkret@feddit.org 1 points 1 day ago

It's a bike with only one gear with a freewheel. Lets you coast without pedaling.
They're more popular than fixed gear where I live, cause you can ride them like a normal bicycle.
The reason is less maintenance and fewer things to break. I guess they work well for utility cycling in flat areas, but some people are crazy enough to compete in Mountainbike races with them.

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