If a company has a bad interface on their electronic item Iβll not buy it. To me itβs a big hill but I guess itβs how you want to look at it. Iβll stop buying anything from that company if they keep doing it
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A steel ball is not a ball bearing. A bearing is something that bears load and allows for motion, usually rotation. There are sleeve bearings which are just one material or journal bearings which have pressurized oil to separate the spinning shaft. A ball bearing is an assembly with rolling elements (balls, rather than rollers). Those steel balls are just called balls. The whole assembly is called a ball bearing. I used to work in bearing manufacturing and they were just called balls.
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The split between "Today" and "Tomorrow" is at midnight, not when one sleeps/wakes up.
This comes up often after midnight when my girlfriend asks me about "tomorrow". Why discuss breakfast for tomorrow when we still haven't had breakfast today??
Some computer nerd friends and I came up with a solution for this:
Computer architectures typically provide separate instructions for "logical" and "arithmetic" bit-shifts. The details as to why aren't important, but we can borrow the nomenclature.
When referring to "tomorrow" in the sense of "when I wake up from my next sleep cycle", use "logical tomorrow". When referring to "tomorrow" in the sense of "after midnight tonight", use "arithmetic tomorrow" (or "chronological tomorrow", if you really want to be pedantic).
You'll love TV advertising schedules. You can buy slots all the way up through 29:59:59
ngl, that's a very shitty hill to die on
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Thirteen months, 28 days each + one day. (Plus another day when there is a leap year).
It would just work.
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The word Himalayan is pronounced like Him-a-lay-an, NOT Him-all-ee-an.....
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People who donβt eat the pizza crust have no backbone and wonβt survive the zombie apocalypse. And even if they do, they wonβt be let into my post apocalyptic fortress, because they have no backbone which they have proven by not eating their pizza crusts.
In every job there is pleasure and pain. If you cannot stomach some doughy stumps or find a way to interleave the crust of your slice with the center of your next slice, you and I wonβt be friends.
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Having devices require a USB-C charger might be great for small devices, but it's awful for laptops. That thing is so flimsy it's only a matter of time until it starts having faulty contacts. I've had one for a year and now it connects/disconnects everytime I touch the cable. Gimme back my huge Dell barrel jacks π π π
The main problem I have with USB-C is that the "U" is a lie. Always has been to some extent, but seems like it's particularly true with USB-C. This is closer to that meme that's like "There are 12 competing standards. We created a new universal standard to replace them all." Except instead of there now being 13 competing standards, USB-C is a fractured mess so instead it's like there's now 20 competing standards. This cord supports passthrough power, this one doesn't, but even the one that does only supports 20W so you have to have a special one to deliver 65, and that USB-C power brick only gives 15W, so you have to buy a special one that does 80W, and this USB-C port on my phone doesn't support the USB-C to Aux jack adapter I bought, so now I have to buy a different adapter. It goes on and on and on and frankly I'm old and tired.
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Single-speed bicycles suck.
They combine the drawbacks of a geared bike with the drawbacks of a fixed gear bike.
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Carmel should be the hard version and caramel is the soft kind.
Star Trek TOS is the best series and always will be.
"catsup" is the better spelling; "ketchup" looks about as proper as "nite lite"
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Punctuation goes inside quotes at the end of a sentence unless the quote has its own non-period punctuation. I call this out on every paper I grade.
Allowing the quote to be affected by the punctuation around it seems to undermine the "verbatim"-ness of a quote. If the period goes outside of the quote, then the quote is always a discrete unit of text that can be moved around the sentence as needed.
Example:
He said, "It's fine".
"It's fine", he said.
I would accept always including the period inside the quote for that case, but it causes other problems. If you put the period inside the quote, how do you indicate a quote that must end in a period, but does not end the sentence?
Example:
The spec sheet read "88 m.p.h." on the back.
Edit: It's been two days, and no reply. I think they might have actually died on this hill.
It looks so cursed
int main() {
printf("Hello, World!);"
return 0;
}
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