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For real. Everytime I get in the shower I end up having to point the showerhead away and cower from the cold water and I could have just turned it on first?

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[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 159 points 2 weeks ago (6 children)

"I'm working on my masters and I feel like such a dumbass..."

Never assume someone with an advanced degree knows anything outside of that degree because "they must be smart".

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 39 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

There is a difference between "intelligent" and "smart" is the way I like to describe myself.

I'm college educated. But I'm also the guy that took twelve years to realize that his stove had a cook-timer on it...

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[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I worked with someone who was working on his second PhD in computer science and the guy did not know how to print.

Literally couldn't figure out how to click the print button.

In computer science.

PhD.

Computers.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I've worked in tech for almost 20 years. A big misconception is confusing Computer Science and IT. Computer Science is generally more about logic, data structures, and programming paradigms across languages. IT is generally more about the configuration, deployment and usage of technology and operating systems for end users.

There's a ton of nuance in there, like Infrastructure or devops, where it's about the deployment of technology software and hardware to power large technology services, which sits in the middle.

That being said, I've generally found that the more specialized someone is in computer science, the less they know about the operating system they use and how it works. Especially if they spent the time to go for a PhD or something.

The smartest programmer I've ever met is my boss, our CTO. PhD from an Ivy League school. Can write haskell on a napkin, even though our stack doesn't touch haskell. Also doesn't know shit about how MacOS works even though he uses a Mac, and consistently asks me relatively simple questions regarding unix/linux differences, filesystem stuff, package managers, etc. It's very interesting to see the difference in knowledge.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can tell he is smart because he asks you about stuff outside of his domain.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Oh yeah he never has that Dunning Kruger setup I see from Junior people on the team. He knows (or finds out) who to ask and when, and always admits when he doesn’t know something. All super important qualities that some people learn earlier rather than later in probably every industry

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Absolutely. I'm a tech, hubs is a dev. Brilliant dev, one of the foremost specialists in my country.

Can't build a pc for shit, can't fix a network issue, screams for wifey when the printer's being a dick :D

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[–] Tamo240@programming.dev 15 points 2 weeks ago

'Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes'

  • Dijkstra, 1970
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[–] Zink@programming.dev 20 points 2 weeks ago

Honestly, speaking as somebody with two different masters degrees, it’s a good idea to not assume they know anything WITHIN their degree field too, until they prove otherwise.

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[–] TheAlbatross@lemmy.blahaj.zone 78 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I'm so thrown off by our current shower which legit heats up in 2 seconds. I was so used to waiting like a minute for it to warm up, I built my rituals around that. But this one... it's just hot, like right away. Bizarre

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

The distance from the heater to the shower is usually the biggest factor.

[–] Kualdir@piefed.social 18 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Same here! Moved to an appartement so everything is closer and now I don't need to turn on the shower 5 business days before I want to shower

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[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 69 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Parenting. You think you’re doing great and you realise at times that some of the thing a you take for granted, you haven’t taught your kids.

Just because they’ve seen you do something a thousand times doesn’t mean they understand why

[–] sbv@sh.itjust.works 45 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

As a parent, I was surprised at the amount of stuff kids need to be taught. Stuff that I assumed was obvious isn't - it's learned behaviour. And you don't realize that it's learned until you see your kid struggling with some trivial task.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago

As an ex kid, I only recently realised my parents taught me almost nothing. Even though I later learned a lot of very varied things, I could have started much better equipped for life. To people who chose to have kids, don't be like my parents. It's really crippling.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The fun part is watching your kids figure out complex and nuanced things that you never even thought about, much less understood, while struggling with those trivial tasks.

[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 14 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

OMG yes! One of my kids I have to micromanage to brush their teeth but is like Deanna Troi when it comes to their friends. (I’m more Data)

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[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 11 points 2 weeks ago

An interesting one that sums it all up - crawling babies aren't instinctively scared of cliffs or drops, they have to learn not to crawl off an edge. Which isn't all that surprising except for the fact that when they start walking, they don't carry this lesson forward and will happily walk off an edge. They need to learn it again.

[–] zurohki@aussie.zone 40 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I remember a story of a child watching their mother cook a roast, and asked why she cut the ends off before putting it in the oven.

The mother learned it from her mother, so they both went and asked the grandmother.

Turned out the grandmother used to have a small oven and did that to make it fit.

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[–] TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 61 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

when I was little I would wait for the water to warm up, then pull the thing to turn on the shower head. But there's like 2 seconds of freezing water in the tube to the shower head so I would have to really quickly pull it, run back to the edge of the shower, and block it with the shower curtain. It had a 50% chance of failure and I did it for years

[–] Fergie434@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I learnt that there’s a bit of cold water when switching to the shower head the hard way.

Pointed it at my wife and swapped it and she screamed. Whoops lol.

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[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 61 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I remember this thread. One of the responses was from someone who thought that the beep his car made when locking the doors got quieter when activated from further away.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Well...by the power of the inverse square law, they kinda do, I guess.

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 11 points 2 weeks ago

Also probably by the power of Grayskull

[–] scutiger@lemmy.world 21 points 2 weeks ago

We had a guy at work a couple years ago, nice guy but not too bright. He'd fill his bottle from the water cooler, and always got surprised by how fast it filled up at the top. He thought the water cooler's dispenser somehow got faster as the bottle filled up, not realizing that it's because the top of the bottle is narrower than the bottom.

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[–] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You're not supposed to just stand there and waste that warming-up water, you're supposed to collect it in a watering can and put it on your plants! It's got stuff from having sat in the water heater so it's not the best for drinking but plants don't mind.

[–] Bosht@lemmy.world 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

This legitimately is something I've been looking for as I hate just running a gallon of water out for no reason.

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[–] Skunk@jlai.lu 37 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

I lived the same "realization moment" last year talking to a friend.

I was saying that I need to go home to wash my white undershirts as I only got blacks left (small t-shirt to wear under a shirt and not freeze to death during winter).

He asked me why so I have several colors of undershirts.

Well, black and grey for black or dark colored shirts, white for white or clear colored shirts otherwise you’ll see it behind the fabric, duuuh, are you dumb?

The answer:

Or you can wear white ones under dark shirts as well and it won’t be visible…

🤔🤔🤔😧 FFS dude, why did I never thought of that?

[–] BlueLineBae@midwest.social 30 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I wish the same were true for bras. Women's shirts are often much thinner than men's, so a white bra might show through a dark shirt. It took me until this year to figure out that in order to make your bras less visible under light or white shirts, you should use a skin-tone bra instead of a white bra. Blew my mind when I figured that one out.

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You can sometimes see the white collar part, unless that's just it being weird how it sits on me.

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[–] Dremor@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

You gan also use light grey in most cases, except almost translucent clothes.

Why light grey ? Because you can wash it with dark or light clothes, worst case it get a bit darker or lighter. And as there is almost no color, it doesn't spill on other clothes. Moreover, unlike white clothes, you fon't have to worry about it getting a bit yellowish with time, the color is enough to mask it.

[–] tyler@programming.dev 15 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The majority of the clothes on the planet do not bleed color anymore.

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[–] voodooattack@lemmy.world 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

To be fair this is possibly the most relevant xkcd of all time

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[–] asg101@lemmy.blahaj.zone 32 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

And once again, we learn that common sense is actually not that common.

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[–] Redex68@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks ago (13 children)

I can understand the shower one, but who tf is insane enough to not use oven mitts or a rag? I'd imagine you'd take a moment to think about the possible solutions before doing something that painful

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 weeks ago

It's an analogy, not real life.

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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I didn’t learn until my 40s that if you exhale gently while getting water on your face, none of it goes in your nose.

[–] kazerniel@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I think I learnt this when I was taught swimming as a child. You always slowly exhale or at least keep the air in your nose slightly under pressure while you're underwater, so the water doesn't get in.

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[–] hOrni@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

So he's about to have shower sex and he is capable of thinking about anything else?

[–] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

why would they have shower sex, when they could have sex then shower

[–] Ethalis@jlai.lu 16 points 2 weeks ago (9 children)

Yeah, shower sex might be one of the most overrated things I know. It always feels like a good idea at first and then you quickly realize that the logistics of it are hell

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[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 17 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

No one mentioned (probably an assumed thing) to turn the water on full hot to let it warm up, then move it to the preferred mix position. Doesn't waste the cold water which will stay more or less the same temp, it's only flushing out the cold in the hot water line. And because you have it fully on hot, it takes less time.

Or get a tankless water heater to get it almost right away. I've seen debates on which is a better choice when factoring everything in, and I think it's a close tie with no clear winner, each having their caveats.

[–] Carcel@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (5 children)

The water in the pipes is still cold. Tankless heaters are endless, not instant. You still have to wait until the cold water is pushed out of the pipes, same as with a tank. Tankless heaters are still installed in the same central location as a tank and the hot water has to come from that point.

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[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

Yeah. Took me like 16, 17 years to realise I could put a bit of TP down first to stop the splash making such noise and firing back at my asshole.

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I am still baffled by how many people suffer from Poseidon's Kiss on a regular basis. Like I've had it happen once or twice ever, and I'm not a spring chicken.

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[–] chrislowles@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Love that for once we're mostly not mocking them and are actually sharing similar experiences, we've all had one of those moments.

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