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For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don't want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That's ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use "less" when they should use "fewer"

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[–] [email protected] 72 points 2 months ago (35 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (5 children)

It's the only way that makes sense to parse. Imagine if literally anything else worked with the minor amounts first.

This thing costs 25 cents and 3,000 dollars

The time is currently 45:9.

This program is v11.7.9 and the next release is v0.8.9

I don't like "mixed number" format, like 1/4 and 648,3. I'd much rather say "five hundredths, two tenths, six ones, four tens, 8 hundreds and 3 thousand"

I guess a lot less recipes would get overseasoned though.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

But everybody still writes addresses as person, street, place, country what is the reverse of the logical order with biggest geographical element first.

[–] asyncrosaurus 1 points 2 months ago

Address are written for humans.

For machines, the address line and postal code is the only important part, the rest is encoded in the postal code and can be left off.

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