Nothing too serious, i want to hear your petty, your eccentric, your off beat takes.
Whoever invented jetskis and didn’t call them boatorcycles seriously fucked up
walruses should be called saber-toothed seals
Only if sabre tooth tigers are renamed walrus tigers also.
This sounds reasonable
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YYYY-MM-DD is the only acceptable numeric date format and should be the standard taught in schools.
ISO 8601 ftw
As good as ISO 8601 is its handling of time intervals is atrocious.
They said unimportant and inconsequential, both of which do not apply to date formatting.
Agreed. And at this point people should say all recent years as “twenty-twenty-six”, etc. The few people who still insist on saying “two-thousand and” make me grind my teeth.
Twenty-nine.
Wdym 2009 doesn’t count as a recent year? :'(
2009 = “two thousand nine” (or “twenty oh-nine” if you’re a time traveler from a previous century).
2026 = “twenty twenty-six”.
If you say “two thousand AND twenty-six”…I assume you probably write your name in your underwear.
I would take it a step further by doing what the Japanese and Chinese languages do and possibly even making their characters for day, month, and year a worldwide symbol to be used for dates. That, or have the world come together to create worldwide usable symbols for all that. Really make sure nobody can be confused because they cannot tell whether it’s a European date or a states date.
Personally I’m a fan of MM-YY-DD
I discovered this format on 01-02-03.
…why?
OK, I’ll be the one: DD-MM-YYYY is the way to go.
That doesn’t sort well. If you read left to right, you can’t assume year so you have to read it in full, working backwards, to get the full meaning.
Year first means you get more specific while reading. Natural logic and hierarchy in reading direction.
I’m not sure if I can see your point. Is this a programming thing? I’ve seen this sentiment a couple of times on Lemmy and I don’t get it. For me it’s more logical to state a date the way you speak (I’m no English native speaker, though).
Not just programming. e.g. if you create a bunch of files or folders on your computer and they’re sorted by name, then if you do d/m/y they’ll all be out of order. y/m/d will be in order.
But yeah, for human contexts usually day is more important.
Does human context include record-keeping? Quickly sorting and searching (not just with a computer) is very important for that
It’s a prominent concern in programming, but not only relevant there.
In my native language German, we do dd.mm.yyyy, which is the order you seem to use as well.
Other languages speak it as month, day, year. A different commenter suggested using that.
If you read left to right, is putting the date first purely because you’re used to it, or is there a different reason you can give for it?
Someone mentioned “relevance”, but where do you draw the line? You can only skip month and year if you know they’re the current month and year. But you can only know that after reading them.
When we read 123, we read it as one hundred twenty three, not three twenty one hundred. It’s the same hierarchical structure, from bigger increments and scope to smaller, higher specificity. If you care only about 10k vs 20k, you can skip the rest of the numbers.
The same goes for dates. It makes sense to go from broad to specific, in the reading direction. When reading left to right, that’s YYYY-MM-DD. I’m familiar with the current year and month, and so I can categorize at a glance. For dates further away, I can read as deep as the specificity is relevant to me - in reading order.
This, for me, is the logical hierarchical argument.
As for the sorting, simple alphabetical sorting sorts YYYY-MM-DD into time order, but not DD.MM.YYYY.
This applies not just to programming, but to all forms of text or date formatting.
If you’re sorting by date in DD.MM.YYYY, you’re reading and parsing it right to left. If it’s a date within text or pre-text, you switch the reading direction for a part of the text/title/whatever it is.
Which is kind useless for everthing but storing files and data, i want to know the day and maybe the month not the year since it doesn’t change often
In most cases it’s more important to know the month first than the year. Also who says that in speech? It was 1994 January fourth… it’s wrong and I’ll die on this hill.
It’s not most cases. It’s entirely contextual. Even with your example, the year is significant because that is over 30 years ago, giving the entire statement historical context rather than leaving the recipient wondering if this was recent events. “It was January 4th…” (7 months ago?) “1994” (oh, a long time ago) “when I last saw Nirvana” (oh, obviously this is a historical event).
Had you said you saw them in 1994, the month and especially day are likely irrelevant unless the story involves the weather, association with an event, or your story has something to do with how close to was to the singer’s death. Kurt Cobain died April (“this year?” - someone unfamiliar) 5th (of??) 1994 (oh wow, right by the date you already read in this conversation, providing plenty of context).
It takes all 3 bits of information to make a complete statement. Any single bit can be used alone effectively to convey enough meaning. You could say you saw them in 1994, a few months before his death, and provide plenty of context to convey the meaning. You could say you saw them 1994 (oh wow, how close to his death?) January (3 months prior) 4th (I do not care about the 4th)
Ill die on this other 3rd hill
RIP
Omg pick an endian! I prefer big-endian (year, month, day), since it will naturally sort into chronological order. One might argue that little-endian (day, month, year) has merit in some situations where you want to see the most variable component first. But this mixed up month, day, year order is just confusing nonsense.
Advertising destroys everything nice (communities, websites, roads, clothes, architecture, privacy, quality of life, etc.).
Coldest Take ever.
Advertising is literally a major reason our planet and our society is where it’s at as it induces unnecessary consumption and materialism.
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If Thanos snapped his fingers and sent all of the marketing MBAs to “Planet Marketing”…nobody would fucking miss them. Nobody.
My related hot take: If I’m going to be subjected to Ads, I’d actually prefer to see relevant Ads (generally demographically, geographically, etc. while retaining some anonymity) than ads for products and services I’m never going to care about.
Semi-related, on my language learning journey I’ve discovered that as I watch more things in the language I’m learning via YouTube, Netflix, and other ad supported streaming services I see more and more ads in the language I’m trying to learn. And surprisingly (even to myself) I genuinely enjoy these ads because the language is usually simple and without much idiomatic use, it’s all clearly enunciated, and it’s directly related to the action on screen. Of course, everyone else in my household is now also getting those kinds of ads and I can’t help but be amused.
Ads in real life spaces though? Unless it’s telling me about some specific local thing or place, it is just ugly clutter on the scenery and architecture.
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The low effort, saturation advertising we get, yes. Advertising can be interesting or inventive, but not the way it’s done now.
I’d quite to see a return how it was 100+ years ago; an image of the product with several paragraphs extolling the virtues. Though perhaps not on billboards by roads.
I generally agree that the world would be a better place without them but there are cases of genius advertisers. The KFC team on Twitter, for example, who followed only 11 other accounts, the 5 spice girls and 6 random dudes named herb.
The real thing the US fast food market is missing is Indian food and it could be a serious game changer in terms of providing healthier / vegetarian options.
healthier
Fast food and mall food court Indian restaurants are common in Berlin, and I wouldn’t call any of them healthy. Every single one leans heavily on deep-fried everything, covered in flavoured oil disguised as a sauce.
The “fast” in fast food often works against the carefully prepared, fresh ingredients required for a truly healthy and tasty meal.
In lots of ways, it’s the same dichotomy as Italian cuisine, where you can get amazing Mediterranean food at a sit-down restaurant, but the fast food variety is usually just greasy pizza or oil with a side of pasta.
We have three Indian restaurants in the neighbourhood - tiny provincial town in Markgräflerland - and they’re surprisingly good. But I did notice when I lived in Brandenburg that they have the Scottish attitude towards food. Deep fry everything. Including sushi.
There’s an indian place by my work that has a tikka masala wrap, thought it was genius as a takeaway item. Super delicious, but an extreme mess… the idea that it would be portable was a big miss.
My area has a really high Indian population, which means our local restaurants have a lot of Indian fusion. There is a sports bar near me that sells a chicken tikka masala thin-crust pizza that is amazing. It’s basically like eating crispy naan with chicken and tikka masala drizzled over the top. I wouldn’t have thought of combining the two, but it works so well.
Now, a biryani wrap could be a goer. Though you would be wrapping starch in starch. But man, it’d be good.
I want a fast soup restaurant. Very healthy vegan soup, which may take a while to make, but it’s already made in the morning so it’s fast.
it’s called Panera :3
Upvoted, but I only partly agree. The way things are now you can order takeout from local small businesses, and there won’t be consistent quality or speed or prices, but they’re not a huge corporate machine. (At least at the endpoints). A big conglomerate moving into the space may put most of the local ones under.
Please spell and punctuate correctly, and don’t use “common use” as an excuse to hide your egotistical unwillingness to learn.
“Lgbtq+ rights” is a mouthfull. We should call it rainbow-rights instead.
It’s pronounced “gif”
I guess this hot take depends on the audience… But if you don’t have bay leaves on hand for a recipe, your family and friends aren’t going to notice the difference. When push comes to shove, it’s probably the least important part of any recipe. If you’re making soup or a stock, it’s gonna be fine without it.
Bay leaves are kind of like bass in music. It adds an earthy undertone to everything. Whatever you’re making won’t necessarily be bad without it, but it’ll be thin and less impactful.
Nah. A lot of music sounds much worse without bass, you’re just missing an entire frequency spectrum.
I agree. They’re obviously not mandatory but I really like them being there
You can notice the difference, its just that you probably won’t know what is missing.
I’m partial to kombu over bay leaves, though it’s hard to source where I am. It is at least edible after you cook it to death, and it has some additional merit as a folk cure for flatulence.
Bay leaves are so stupid
Yeah, it’s not as important as professionals make it out to be. Like, if you under-salt a dish, people will notice that the meal doesn’t taste as good as the last time you made it, even if they can’t identify why. But the “depth” that bay leaves are supposed to add to a dish, probably won’t even register for most people. I don’t think bay leaves are entirely useless, but I do think it’s safe for home cooks to consider it an optional ingredient. If you have them, use them. If you don’t this time? Don’t worry about it.
I was about to go off about who didn’t have bay, laurel (and rosemary and the third thing I forgot what is called. It’s yellow.) grow like weeds up here.
What do you mean y’all don’t live where I live
Turmeric, cumin, mustard?
More games, if not all games, should include cheats or extra sliders for both difficult but also gameplay options.
Let have infinite mana or slow mo or increase my speed or whatever. At the end of the day games are entertainment and you should be able to tweak things to better enjoy it.
(I know mods exist but those are a mixed bag in terms of if they exist and what they support)
I like the way Pacific Drive did it.
- Here’s the way we intended it.
- Here’s an easier and a harder mode.
- Here’s a bunch of difficulty settings in detail, select what you like.
I understand from a resources perspective why it’s not always done. But from a player’s perspective, I totally get you.
There’s a game I played last year, the name of which I now completely forget, which I never actually finished because the final boss was such a bitch that I ended up rage quitting. Even set to easy. I’d never been so angry at a game.
Watched the ending on YouTube instead.
edit: I just remembered, it was Bramble. Beautiful game, absolutely bitch hard.
I’m looking at you, Black Mesa.
How can that damn alien spider take 8.000 rockets and still kill me?
I do miss cheat codes.
A lot of games have a dev console with where you can type in a “cheat code” for pretty much anything
Learning to use cheat engine is a game-changer. It can pretty much automatically single out a memory location for something like mana just by casting a spell a few times.
Making your bed every day is useless.
Nobody’s gonna see it and you can’t use it without messing it up.
Dark mode should be the default on phones, websites, programs, apps, and all electronics.
My AMOLED screen draws less power this way.
I’ve hit an age where I’ve gone from Dark Mode Is Life to switching between them depending on lighting levels and display quality. There are times when dark mode is almost painful.
Yeah. And it probably depends on how much time you spend outside
As little as possible thank you very much. Outside has people!
shudder
same here. I still prefer dark mode, provided it is designed with it in mind from the get go.
Most laptops and computer monitors are LCD (by an extremely large margin)
Dark mode draws MORE power that way because people turn their screen brightnesses up to see anything. Meanwhile I can use light mode on my computer during the day with screen brightness on 5% and see just fine. Less eye strain too with a soft cream background or even beige and black text.
Plus then my eyes don’t get burned up when browsing to an app or website that doesn’t have built in dark mode support.
The dark reader Firefox extension is for you. It makes every website darkmode.
I don’t really care what’s default, but 10 years of prison to anyone who doesn’t offer both! And an easy way to switch between the two that doesn’t require digging through menus.
Not inconsequential. Dark mode is unpleasant to read for people with astigmatism. That’s 1/3rd of the US.
people with astigmatism
…and no proper glasses?
Astigmatic people can still have some issues with glasses, especially ones with more acute astigmatism
Eg:
It isn’t this strong for everyone, ofc
I literally can’t read white on black text.
I don’t know why anyone likes it.
as a dark mode enjoyer, as I grow older I found that I prefer not pure black for the background, and not pure white for the text. sometimes google did well in the case of material UI guideline in the beginning. they set that the background is almost black gray and the text some kind of offwhite IIRC. Back then I disliked it but now I understand the decision.
if a website or app is designed with dark mode in the first place I found that it is a lot more calming to me to look at it a long time. although for eink and similar technology displays, I still prefer traditional black text In white.
Microphone is shorted to “mic” not “mike”.
Despite the risks, raw cookie dough is better in every other way than the cookie it makes. Stop baking cookies and just give me the dough 😋
The riskiest part of cookie dough is the flour.
even better, Brownie Batter is FAR SUPERIOR to brownies. Warm that shit in a microwave for 30 seconds, drizzle it over another dessert. Thank me later.
Upvoted because I vehemently disagree which is the hallmark of a good hot take.
The risk in a modern context is essentially 0. You can make it even lower by pasteurizing the eggs
It will help one build their immunity, it’s fine. /s
Understanding an argument doesn’t mean you agree with it.
Why would you ever think it would?
I think it’s actually a major problem in society that people are afraid to understand the opposing viewpoint. They’re afraid of being seen as agreeing with it or defending it. It actually helps make a constructive argument if you understand the opposing argument. You need to understand the opposition’s reasoning to help them understand your reasoning.
It’s the essential rule in the book called A Rulebook for Arguments. You can’t refute an argument you don’t understand.