No year zero. Meaning: year 2000 is in the 20th c. and year 2100 is in the 21st c.
M:I-3, 4, 5, and 6 are excellent movies. Each in their own right. I know, Tom Cruise. But, plug and play any action star, and these are still great movies. He just happened to land the role of Ethan Hunt back in '96.
Tim Cruise has something besides luck, you have to admit that by now. He landed that thing because he WANTED to land that thing.
TC, he’s just like you and me. He puts his pants on one leg at a time.
But after his pants are on he makes hit movies.
Tom Cruise. But, plug
Ohhh, okay. I see how it is.
Phrasing.
Or just start ordinals with 0th for years 0-99
what century was year 0-100 then?
There are 101 years in your question. So, no year zero then?
Still fighting for command of this very small hill.
Pineapple is a legitimate pizza topping lol
Sweet and savory is a god tier class of food IMHO. Pineapple on pizza is just the tip of the delicious iceberg. Have you tried peaches with rice and curry? Or raisins in rice? I also like sweet and sour sauce, especially with little pieces of assorted fruits.
My girlfriend hates it, in her opinion the only way to go with savory is salt, although she tolerates pork and pineapple on pizza, since the salty pork overpowers the sweet of the pineapple. But I love it!
Sweet and savory is an amazing combination, I’m also a fan of sweet and salty. I loveeeee me some dark chocolate covered pretzels
I used to hate on it before I tried it at a friend’s house. Man, Hawaiian pizza is one of my favourite ones now and I will happily join you on dying on this hill.
Amen, brother. Scoot over.
Pineapple with green olives! Sweet and salty!
Ew, I’ve given olives an honest shot but I just can’t even. Feta is great for a salty pairing with pineapple though!
Add hot sauce, seriously. Cheese + Sweet + Hot = Epic
Or hot honey with some spiced sausage.
Pineapple, banana and curry, optionally with peanuts. Now that’s a real pizza!
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That sounds very interesting!. Do you mean curry leaves, or a particular curry sauce? I know e.g. masaman often includes peanuts.
Curry powder! I’ve never tried curry leaves or curry sauce, but those sound delicious too. Whichever way you add the curry, I highly recommend trying it!
I discovered that combo when I was living in Sweden where it’s a fairly common one that most pizza places offer. I believe the pizzas are usually called Bahamas, Afrikana or Tropicana and they always feature pineapple, banana and curry, and usually either ham, shrimp or peanuts.
Oh cool. So is the banana added before cooking or after? Is image it could get rather mushy if cooked.
You add it before cooking! It actually doesn’t get mushy at all, and brings out the banana’s sweetness.
Who hurt you?
Never tried it but it sounds good !
“catsup” is the better spelling; “ketchup” looks about as proper as “nite lite”
Anything with cats is inherently superior
Star Trek TOS is the best series and always will be.
If a motorcycle has to be ear-splittingly loud for “safety”, then it’s too dangerous to be road legal.
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
I used to ride. People who say that know it’s just a bullshit excuse to be a dick. Just roll your eyes and/or flip them the bird.
No, it’s morphed into one of those pearls of wisdom that people pass down and truly believe. They all have their ‘true story’ of blipping the throttle and “suddenly the car that was moving over to smush me stopped!!!” The assholes who know it isn’t true can be discerned from the true believers by the humor they find in their tales of blasting people with sounds.
Appliances and cars should never have an internet connection for any reason.
Also fuck touch screens give me buttons.
I fucking love my wifi enabled heat pump. Turn that shit on half an hour before I get home. Comfy shit.
That does sound nice. Is it a proprietary system?
It does not connect to any of the smart home systems, it’s a system by the manufacturer of the unit (Mitsubishi)
Pretty big hill if you ask me
Im dying on it either way.
Im dying on it either way.
To a self-driving car, no less!
touch screens can be justified IMO, IF the company let it function as a diagnostic computer but the auto industry seem terrified of actually making something resembling a competent configurable UI. Internet could be nice if the appliance just used SNMP or similar protocols that have been around for decades, but the companies seem to love that shitty malware they call an App.
Agree with this. With cars it makes them vulnerable to hacking unless safety critical systems are isolated. Fly-by-wire airplanes specifically isolate the flight control computers from anything that could connect to the internet for this reason
Though as a kind of “exception”, I think that charging poles for electric cars should have modbus or Ethernet and a local protocol (matter maybe?) to use with smart home systems for automation and cars should have a standard affordable way to check errors and status of sensors.
Realistically, fire ant
In the battle for Make vs CMake, I would die for Make probably.
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.
That addresses the calendar problem, which is another pet peeve of mine. Oh, where do I even begin. The calendar system is just the next level of curses and barrels of rotting worms.
At least time units have fixed, but inconvenient conversion multipliers. Months and years involve numbers that aren’t even constants!
Just when you thought it couldn’t possibly get any worse, someone reminds you about time zones. That’s just pure cosmic horror.
It’s a miracle we don’t trigger a nuclear meltdown every week while using a system like this.
This will either sooth you because it’s so nice comparatively, or enrage you that it’s not the standard everywhere already but
The Ethiopian calendar has twelve months, all thirty days long, and five or six epagomenal days, which form a thirteenth month. A sixth epagomenal day is added every four years, without exception.
Ethiopians are clearly very smart people. Take that white supremacists!
Ancient Romans just loved convoluted systems, which were later inherited by the rest of Europe. The French revolution fixed most of that mess by simplifying it and getting rid of the quirky designs. They also tried to fix time units and the calendar, but that just didn’t stick for some reason. Meanwhile, Ethiopians were already using a sensible calendar that has a good way to mitigate the messy properties of Earth.
This is why I kinda wish we had metric time as standard, but absolutely nobody would adopt it now unless they actually find t useful
Using seconds as the base unit of time would work in various situations, but not all. For example, kiloseconds (ks) would be handy for measuring the runtime of a movie or the length of a workday. In that regard, it’s just a matter of getting used to it. However the length of a solar day is about 86.4 ks and a year is about 31.54 Ms, which would be annoying numbers to memorize. Then again, remembering numbers like 60, 24, 52, 365 is about as annoying too, so that’s a problem for another day.
And the icing on the cake? If we had 13 months, essentially every month could have the same number of days, 28.
That’s not true.
The moon cycle and the sun cycle aren’t in an integer ratio.
That only gives you 364 daya per year and we need just fractionally less than 365.25. You end up needing an extra day every year, and if we want to keep midnight in the middle of the night, and extra full day every four years (except when we don’t). Adding those sorts of bodges onto an otherwise elegant system would be awful to work with.
Instead, I propose we build giant rocket engines pointing straight up on the equator, and adjust the Earth’s orbit until one orbit around the sun takes exactly 364 days.
Best of all, that funny fraction isn’t even constant. The earth is a bit wonky.
We fix it with rockets. Circularize the orbit and set it to an integer number of days that’s divisible by 28.
Now that’s the kind of thinking we need more of! Mathematical precision is the way we run things around here. Screw whatever nature had intended for orbits and such. It’s our planet.
There’s an easier solution. Just make New Year’s Day it’s own thing, not attached to any month. Then every 4 years, you’d have 2 New Year’s Days. Or something.
I have been extolling the virtues of this for years.
A global day off on NYD and every four years two days off. Really nice!
23:59 28/13/xxxx -> 00:00 NYD -> 23:59 NYD -> 00:00 01/01/xxx(x+1)
or 23:59 28/13/xxxx -> 00:00 NYD -> 23:59 NYD -> 00:00 ENYD -> 23:59 ENYD -> 00:00 01/01/xxx(x+1)I approve of this system. It should make calendars nice and simple for the most part. For example, salaries would be pretty simple since the period wouldn’t fluctuate wildly.
It’s just that not all things respect global holidays, so calculating energy production, water consumption and other things like that would still have to deal with weird inconsistencies. Regardless, this would still be far superior to our current train wreck of a calendar.
This also reminds me of something I realized recently: 24 hours is NOT the amount of time it takes for the Earth to rotate 360°. Because the Earth (assuming North is “up”) rotates counterclockwise and orbits counterclockwise, each day is slightly more than 360°, probably close to 361°.
So if we assume a year is about 365.25 days, Earth actually spins 366.25 times. One rotation is just kinda “eaten” by orbiting counterclockwise.Also known as a sidereal day. Check the animation. It’s pretty cool.
This topic also touches upon the concept of reference frames. When people say that the earth takes 24 h to make a full revolution, it’s in relation to the sun. From a universal perspective, the heliocentric reference frame moves and rotates. From the heliocentric perspective, the usual earth based reference frame also moves and rotates. Nothing is truly stationary, and measuring revolutions is impossible unless you define your frame of reference.
If you say a full revolution takes 24 h, it’s not wrong, but it’s only true in one reference frame.
Star Trek V is a good movie.
Pikmin 3 is better than Pikmin 4 (I love both)
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.
Is this really a debate?
I was a beta reader once and the guy rejected all my alterations where I fixed the quote punctuation. So maybe?
It looks so cursed
int main() { printf("Hello, World!);" return 0; }This drove me nuts back in high school. Somehow the yearbook comittee never got it right. Senior year I went through with red pen and circled all the punctuation mistakes for fun.
Completely agree with you, which is why I find myself tearing my hair out when a quote has punctuation inside of it that is necessary to convey the original meaning, but ALSO the outside text is being presented in a certain manner that needs punctuation to be read/understood correctly. For example, if the person who is doing the quote is yelling. Putting the exclamation point inside the quote makes it seem like the original quote was doing the yelling, but putting the quote earlier so you can put the speaker’s words last, and thus together with the exclamation point, sometimes makes the phrasing awkward.
I know it, but i don’t do it.
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It is NOT “habañero.” 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.
I hear this as often as I hear “jalapeno” (missing the eñe) 😑
Jallapeeno
hãbanero
Likely due to jalapeño, no? Chile pepper = ñ to non Spanish speakers
I think part of the problem is that it’s hit or miss whether or not it’s spelled/spoken with ñ or n, in advertising and labels. Here in the US anyway.
What’s funny is that the ñ spelling and pronunciation has bled over into native spanish speakers. My friend’s husband is from Nicaragua, and his entire family pronounces it ñ. One of my neighbors though, from Guadalajara originally, it’s n only.
I’d also say that habanero is ñ friendly. It looks like it should be pronounced habañero, unlike a fairly similar word, Enero. It’s easier to say habañero than eñero as well. The a leading into the n does that for some reason I can’t figure out.
However! Pero and perro blows people’s minds. While I don’t hear it with native speakers, damn near everyone else I’ve run into pronounces them the same. I do, and I know better, because I can’t make my tongue work right.
That is how languages grow and change: by the native speakers collectively changing their minds. I’ll leave them to be the gate keepers. I feel strongly because I knew a family from a El Salvador that lived down the street from me growing up. They corrected me and I did not want to be wrong in front of them again. I wanted them to feel accepted. I still do.
Strong take, and new to me
Fish is superior to Bash and ZSH, I dont care that you can have auto completion on both its a pain to set up.
If a company has a bad interface on their electronic item I’ll not buy it. To me it’s a big hill but I guess it’s how you want to look at it. I’ll stop buying anything from that company if they keep doing it
My new corollary: If your online e-commerce site asks customers to add a tip, even if $0 / no tip is an option, I’m not buying shit from you.
If i need wifi, bluetooth, or an app to use a product that shouldn’t need it (eg a toaster, toothbrush) i will not buy it. i also won’t buy a wireless device (say a bluetooth speaker) if it requires an app. I would be willing to pay $500 more to have a tv with no smart features than a ‘smart’ tv. corporations: keep your shitty malware. my phone is a temple.
I would agree with you, but I still want to own a microwave. There are none with reasonable UI behavior as far as I can tell.
One dial is power level, the other is time.
Looks good actually.
But how does it handle the door opening early? Does it still leave unused time sitting on the time dial?
Yeah, it doesn’t clear the dials, and if you want to manually reduce the time you do need to adjust the time dial, but you get a delightful bell sound when you do so. The door does stop the magnetron when open though.
Neat! I’ve only ever seen commercial-grade ones like that.
