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[–] dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 4 months ago (9 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.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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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[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 32 points 4 months ago (8 children)

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

Also fuck touch screens give me buttons.

[–] PurpleGameBoy@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Pretty big hill if you ask me

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[–] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 24 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months 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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[–] recall519@lemm.ee 23 points 4 months 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.

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[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 22 points 4 months ago (8 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.

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 12 points 4 months ago

Or just excessively bright LEDs. Just because LEDs are super efficient, doesn't mean they should take them as bright as they can go.

[–] zenforyen@feddit.org 5 points 4 months 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 :(

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 4 months ago (11 children)
[–] Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

To this day I use it and refuse any other option.

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[–] Darkonion@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Pedestrians have the right of way. Most of the other hills are survivable.

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[–] RacerX@lemm.ee 18 points 4 months ago (4 children)

Boneless wings are just chicken nuggets.

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[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 18 points 4 months 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.

[–] yaroto98@lemmy.org 17 points 4 months ago

Cloud-based. If a product won't work if my internet dies, or I can't access my data without internet or a subscription, I won't buy it.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 16 points 4 months ago (3 children)

If a motorcycle has to be ear-splittingly loud for "safety", then it's too dangerous to be road legal.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 months ago

It's explicitly the opposite, scientifically, according to my safety class

The deep rumble being loud overwhelms anyone's ability to properly locate the bike quickly, and they demonstrated this live. It's definitely harder to locate a LOUDER bike

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[–] VitabytesDev@feddit.nl 16 points 4 months ago (4 children)

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

It would just work.

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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 4 months ago (18 children)

Search engines should not use locational data including IP address to provide "more relevant" results. Checking for restaurants or weather forecast? You should have to manually add the relevant search terms. Want results in a specific language? You should have to manually apply this filter.

Convenience is not worth the potential harm of locationally biased search results.

For example, where I live is like White Nationalist Central Station. My search results are thus far more likely to net me results with a pro-US/nationalist skew, thus potentially entrenching or normalizing harmful beliefs.

Whenever I've tried bringing this up with Techlords, I get a feeble, "B-but then you couldn't say 'restaurants near me' UnU" and like ... good? It's not like it's hard to type city and state in the search field.

I've never found a search engine that even has this as an option. Even Sear XNG instances net results that are clearly aligned with the location of the instances server.

A Kagi dev even lied to me when I was looking into that as an alternative, saying they don't use location, when it's pretty easy to determine that they do.

I also don't want a "good" algorithm. I also don't want to see big corporate sites prioritized either. If some backwoods nobody has a site that's more relevant, show it to me. I feel like pre-Google search engines were better, but that's another vent for another day.

Now where did I put my false teeth and walker???

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[–] noxypaws@pawb.social 13 points 4 months ago (8 children)

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

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[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 12 points 4 months ago

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

[–] meyotch@slrpnk.net 11 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Using the term β€˜assless chaps’ infuriates me and I will not let that aggression stand, man.

All chaps are assless. Chaps with asses are pants.

Fight me.

[–] qisope@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago (4 children)

what if I use the term to describe a group of unfortunate chaps who lost their asses in tragic accidents?

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[–] FryHyde@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 months ago (3 children)

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

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[–] Astrophage@lemy.lol 10 points 4 months ago (6 children)

It is NOT "habaΓ±ero." If you pronounce a "y" in the word, you're commiting what's called a "hyper-foreignism" where you over apply something you learned a foreign culture does.

It's just an N sound. Habanero.

It's not even my culture/language but damn this gets under my collar.

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[–] CaptainAmeristan@lemmy.zip 10 points 4 months ago (3 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 :(

[–] PeacfulForest@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Okay I believe you and all, but I genuinely don’t understand. My partner has even criticized this in my language but I don’t get it.

Sincerely someone who wants to understand and was unfortunately homeschooled by dumb fucks

[–] CaptainAmeristan@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Thanks for asking--I'll try to keep it brief (so as not to bore), and my apologies if I am retreading stuff you already know, but I'll have to do some lead-in to explain why I care about this at all.

Why past participles?--and why I love them:

Starting with a couple of example sentences that could help differentiate the "simple past" form versus the "present perfect" form that uses the past participle:

  • I saw a shooting star last night.
  • I have not seen a shooting star.

In the first example, the time mentioned is "last night"-- a time period that in the mind of the speaker is finished or closed.

In the second, there is no time frame mentioned, but we intuitively understand that it is making reference to a period of time that is unfinished or still open--in this case that period is "in my life."

I really appreciate the nuance that a change in verb form can impart, and so elegantly done!

Participles in telling stories

When it comes to telling stories to each other we almost exclusively keep the main actions in the sequence of events in simple past forms, eg.:

  • I woke up.
  • I got a shower.
  • I ate breakfast.
  • I couldn't find my car keys.
  • I had to take the bus to work.

But what if I wanted to have a little twist in the story where I make reference to stuff that happened before my narrative? In English we've got this great trick up our sleeves. I could use the past perfect, formed by had + past participle, eg:

  1. I couldn't find my car keys. Little did I know that my wife had accidentally dropped them into the laundry basket. So I had to take the bus...

Simple, clean, elegant, and provides a satisfying twist :) Otherwise I would have to tell it like:

  1. My wife accidentally dropped my keys into the laundry basket. I woke up. I got a shower....

Or like this:

  1. ...I couldn't find my car keys. Earlier my wife accidentally dropped my keys in the laundry basket, but I didn't know that at the time. I had to take the bus to work.

I guess all are valid, but I certainly find option 1 the nicest. Option 2 has spoilers. Option 3 is what many other languages do.

Verbs and simplification in languages

If I recall from my dabbling in linguistics, there's a tendency among most languages to become simpler in terms of their grammar over time. Most English verbs are now "regular," and you can make the simple past and past participle just by adding -ed to the end of the verb, eg.:

  • yell - yelled - yelled
  • ask - asked - asked
  • smile - smiled - smiled

But among our oldest and most common verbs we've got bunches of "strong/irregular" verbs, eg.:

  • go - went - gone
  • take - took - taken
  • see - saw -seen

These are the verbs that people are changing in spoken American English at present. People are "regularizing" the past perfect forms by dropping the past participle and using had + simple past. I know it mainly comes down to linguistics drift and personal choice, but I appreciate that these irregular participles have purpose (by being a part of the perfect tenses, and the nuance they can create), and history. Moreover, I think having greater mastery of these forms in your speech and writing helps make reading texts written in English before the end of the 20th century so much easier.

Long story short: people can and will speak English however they want. No big deal. But in the case of excising the irregular past participles from English, I'll hold on to what I was taught and grew to love about English grammar.

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[–] superniceperson@sh.itjust.works 9 points 4 months ago (14 children)

There absolutely was a cornucopia in the fruit of the loom logo. That is the sole reason I know what a cornucopia is. It wasn't on any table or in any thanksgiving decoration in my childhood, it isn't a popular thing to exist in media, it was an obscure item that was a main part of an underwear logo.

Anyone that says differently is objectively wrong. I don't know why the logo changed and why besides a patent entry even the company itself denies it. I don't really care if this is an alternate earth or aliens or time travellers or an entirely natural quirk of existing in a quantum universe, but I know for an absolute fact the sole reason I know what a cornucopia is is because of my underwear, and not because my dick is coincidentally called the horn of plenty.

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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 9 points 4 months ago (14 children)

Pineapple is a legitimate pizza topping lol

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[–] addiks@feddit.org 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (5 children)

Using tabs for document management (f.e. Browsers, Text-Editors, ...) was a mistake. It would be way better if every document (website, text-file, image, console, ..) was in its own window, centrally managed by an intelligent window manager of the OS that allows quick and easy search between all documents like with a full-text searchable exposè-like view.

Using tabs for document-management was a bad but necessary workaround because Windows is a horrible window manager (despite its name, ironically).

Tabs work best when there is a fixed amount of them (Like with game settings: Controls, Audio, Video, Gameplay).

I could go on for quite a while on this, but I think this is where I stop.

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[–] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 8 points 4 months ago (17 children)

Time units are just as cursed as American units.

Conversion between days, hours, minutes and seconds is a total mess. If you never have to do anything with those numbers, you don’t need to worry about it. The moment you need to do calculations or compare devices you run into completely unnecessary problems that would have been easy to avoid. Just think of pumps and fans with units given in l/min or m^3/h.

Just pick the standard time unit and stick with it. Use prefixes to deal with big or small numbers.

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[–] Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 7 points 4 months ago (6 children)

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

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 7 points 4 months ago (6 children)

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

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[–] BubbaGumpsBackLumps@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

February should only have 1 r

[–] Karjalan@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Februay feels weird to say

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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.

[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

The word Himalayan is pronounced like Him-a-lay-an, NOT Him-all-ee-an.....

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[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 5 points 4 months ago (14 children)

Niche pronounced with a "ch" sound is wrong and dumb and I hate you

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago

Those people who pronounce it 'nitch'? The word for that is WRONG. Those people deserve ridicule.

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 months ago

How else would you say it?

I've only heard /niʃ/

Do some people say /nitΝ‘Κƒ/ ?

[–] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 4 months ago

Rhymes with "sheesh"

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