• dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    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.

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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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    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.

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    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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    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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    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.

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      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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        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.

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        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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      Allow me to try and persuade you. The problem is bright blue LEDs. It’s still stupid that they make them so bright, but the problem isn’t the color. A hypothetical bright red, green, or amber LED would also be a problem.

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        Shorter wavelengths hit different though. That’s why we have blue light filtering glasses, Redshift, etc.

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          a non-diffused, bright, monocromatic red led would still be painful to look at in the dark, it’s just that blue LEDs tend to be brighter + our eyes are more sensitive to blueish green light at night + the damn companies don’t bother putting a diffuser in front of the diode.

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        This is fair. I have had to put tape over a red alarm clock because it was too bright before. Those manufacturers also get the oubliette

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

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      My company has standardized document templates and none of them have Oxford commas. I will go through and add them any time I have to use one.

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      Fuck yeah.

      Also missing from sub-clauses, at least in America, is the trailing delimiter comma.

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        Took me a minute of googling to be vaguely sure you meant what I think you mean: the comma marking the end of your dependant interjectory clause there?

        at least in America**,**

        If so: I have no idea what you are talking about, that’s drilled into us in school. Maybe people get lazy on the Internet but it is part of the rules and gets taught and used here

        If I’ve misunderstood: what are you talking about, then?

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        I’m a comma-crazed Burgerstani, and I use those as well as the serial comma.

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      I reject, protest and censure your endorsement of the Oxford Comma.

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      Are you for or against it? I mean, it does have it’s uses.

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        For it. Its lack of use in a union contract was a factor in a court ruling some years back. That’s when it went from pedantry to real-world consequence for me. Something was ruled similar to A and B rather than A or B.

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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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    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.

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      As an American, this disagrees with my worldview. But I also don’t know enough about the British version to say your wrong 🤷‍♂️

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

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      You can also say “the British office” and “the one that’s actually fun and doesn’t make me die inside when I watch it”