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[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Boneless wings are just chicken nuggets.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Nuggets are minced, no?

Wings are dark meat only, and taste different.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 61 points 2 days ago (3 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

or put them at the end of the year, that would fix it for me ๐Ÿ˜… July can be the 11th month and August the 12th month!

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[โ€“] [email protected] 23 points 1 day 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

It would just be much easier to use UTC as the standard for all cross-timezone activities. The small portion of the population who needs to think about timezones would just have to add another timezone to their digital tools and the others won't have to do anything.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Found the britain /s

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[โ€“] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

It would just work.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's a cool thought experiment on what we do with that extra day. Like super ball out cookout?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

We could make it a national holiday or something. Like New Year's Eve.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Day off for everyone, election day

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Lousy Smarch weather..

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (8 children)

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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 2 days 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 36 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

My stairs are pretty steep does that count?

[โ€“] [email protected] 21 points 2 days ago (6 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 :(

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Fish is superior to Bash and ZSH, I dont care that you can have auto completion on both its a pain to set up.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

I just looked up fish, looks very interesting, I have not heard about it before. Thanks!

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