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Let's Settle This
- jeppesen-io 5y agoLove it
- fastaguy88 5y agoNo vi vs emacs???
- klyrs 5y agoNano won, get over it. ducks
- praxulus 5y agoEd is the standard text editor.
- throw0101a 5y agoMichael W. Lucas would probably agree: * https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/39697206-ed-mastery https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/39697206-ed-mastery * https://mwl.io/nonfiction/tools#ed https://mwl.io/nonfiction/tools#ed
- xigoi 5y agoToday it's Vim&Emacs versus IDEs.
- bee_rider 5y agoIt is Vim vs IDEs now and we think Emacs might be on the good side.
- ddlutz 5y agoIDEs with vim bindings is the way to go
- School-Cotton 5y agoEmacs is more like IDEs than it is like vim.
- jabbany 5y agoWhen it comes to "trying to exit after you accidentally open it", they're both equally terrible...
- RosanaAnaDana 5y agoI disagree
- h2odragon 5y ago"the internet has decided.." wrong, in many cases. That's OK. There's a refreshing freedom in being the only sane person around. And the edge brownies are shunned by the herd so there's plenty for us.
- allendoerfer 5y ago> There's a refreshing freedom in being the only sane person around That's why I started having vivid conversations with myself.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoThe bigger and more square the brownie pan (total surface area), the worse the ratio of edge to center pieces. If the brownie making evolves to larger and larger square-ish pans, it is imperative that the ratio of center to edge preferrers adjusts similarly, otherwise you edge folk will find yourself hungry.
- pottertheotter 5y agoPerhaps this will lead to evolutionary changes where edge folk eventually die off?
- bargle0 5y agoThere are serpentine pans that optimize for perimeter, specifically marketed to edge people. They will be fine.
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoWow. Now that is capitalism at work.
- Traster 5y agoGif vs jif? Isn't that like asking "Do you pronounce it like it's pronounced or like a different word is pronounced"
- jffry 5y agoYeah a better option would be "like Gift" or "like Jiffy"
- xdennis 5y agoOr, "Do you pronounce 'GIF' like 'giant/ginger/gibbon' or incorrectly?
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> Or, "Do you pronounce 'GIF' like 'giant/ginger/gibbon' or incorrectly? ...you are aware that "gibbon" isn't pronounced with /dʒ/?
- bee_rider 5y agoI think a better option would be, "Like Gila or like dagga?"
- BugsJustFindMe 5y agoA more better option would be "like Gin or like Ginkgo" because it makes it obvious that the "gift has a hard G, therefore..." people have made a mistake. So many people come up with so many fake rules for why it should have a hard G, but there are only two real rules for names, and, yes, GIF is a name (of a format). 1) If the named thing can't speak for itself, the people who named it dictate how the name is pronounced. 2) If it can speak for itself, it dictates. Nobody who isn't the named thing or its namer(s) gets to say how its name is pronounced regardless of what they think of the spelling.
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> because it makes it obvious that the "gift has a hard G, therefore..." people have made a mistake. That's obvious anyway; gift is one word (well, also give) swamped in a sea of other gi- words. And gift is a very strange one. What is it, a loan from Norse? You'd think, if it were a native word, that it would have turned into something more like "yift", the way we see in e.g. day, I, or yard.
- Andugal 5y agoThis was really funny! But is the majority always right...?
- xwdv 5y agoIt’s not over. The whole reason we fight in debates is to convince people to join our side or make sure people on our side stay convinced. It is a never ending battle and only the dead have seen the end of wars.
- newobj 5y agoUnlike all the other questions which are subjective or philosophical, it’s gif with a J for f*s sake. It’s what we called it in the 80s, it’s what the creator called it, it’s Jif goddamnit.
- strombofulous 5y agoIt's true that the creator pronounces it with a J, but take a look at the slide he used to announce his thoughts on the matter https://www.chicagonow.com/lists-that-actually-matter/files/2013/05/BK1FZkMCMAAItrF.jpg-large.jpeg https://www.chicagonow.com/lists-that-actually-matter/files/... (what letters are used to describe how the word "gif" should not be pronounced?)
- throwaway38917 5y agoGDPR countries: https://archive.fo/ng3KR https://archive.fo/ng3KR
- Minor49er 5y agoAre you aware that GNU rhymes with "canoe" and is not pronounced like the animal gnu?
- jamesgreenleaf 5y agoThere's another one that could be added to the OP's site. The internet decided to call it Linux and not GNU/Linux.
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> (what letters are used to describe how the word "gif" should not be pronounced?) You could pretty easily update the sign to say "it's pronounced gif, not ghif".
- spicyusername 5y agoNothing is static, life is a moving river. Doesn't matter what it was, "G"if is what it is. Who knows what it will be.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoHow can the Internet both simultaneously be so wrong and so correct?
- scanr 5y agoEggs existed long before chickens. A whole 51% the internet currently appears to agree. Phew.
- technothrasher 5y agoThe question obviously doesn't mean any egg, it is asking about chicken eggs. But the question still always seemed ambiguous to me only because the terms are vague. If you define a chicken egg as an egg that was laid by a chicken, then it is the chicken first. If you define it as an egg that a chicken was hatched from, then it was the egg first. Define your terms and the question is simple to answer.
- aahortwwy 5y agoThen the question just becomes which definition is correct.
- Supermancho 5y agoBut it's not about the definition, because the definition mentioned is not correct anymore than saying the definition is if the egg was laid on a Sunday. > If you define a chicken egg as an egg that was laid by a chicken Species are assumed to produce eggs of the same species. Like many convenient turns of phrase, this isn't strictly true. What the egg contains (unless the egg casing is a relevant attribute) is how it is characterized. A mutation exists in the developing embryo, so a non-chicken had a chicken-containing egg. This is a chicken egg, which necessarily came first. Looking at any given xenopregnancy (a hybrid Liger, or panda fetus in a cat, et al). The carrying species does not make the result of that species. eg If there was a non-chicken species (say, a turkey) which produced eggs that were genetically and practically identical to chicken-containing eggs, they would be called chicken eggs.
- crdrost 5y agoI mean that's a bit over-simplistic... It's not that a nonchicken lays a chicken egg, that implies an either/orness of chickenhood that would be radically unique. What actually happened was that at around 10,000 years ago a group of birds similar to modern red junglefowl either migrated or was forcibly taken from northern Thailand to the Indian subcontinent, where they started mating with the local birds similar to grey junglefowl with whom they were still able to interbreed. If you call those each 99%-chickens each then you had a steady meeting of two 99%-chicken lines interbreeding until they formed something steadily closer to our 100%-chicken lines, but presumably also creating 98%-chickens etc. in their breeding population. The variation inside the breeding population is larger than the distance of the progenitor populations to the final result. Viewed this way, what actually caused chickens to happen was the migration, not the genetics. It was the part where the two red junglefowl groups came out of genetic contact and started to diverge. On the assumption that these red junglefowl were adults (which is obvious if it was a migration, but merely likely if it was forced by humans), this means that a population of non-chickens was divided into two subpopulations, one of which was chickens, one of which wasn't. So even agreeing that we should categorize the egg by the creature it produced immediately after hatching, you still get by this argument that a nonchicken egg hatched into a nonchicken which by circumstance became a chicken... Chickens came first, and then their chicken eggs.
- ScaleneTriangle 5y agoThe g is silent. It's pronounced "if".
- jabbany 5y agoIt's more like an "h" https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gif https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gif
- jrochkind1 5y agoNot exactly silent, it's like the `j` in the Spanish `jefe`.
- teddyfrozevelt 5y agoWe should pronounce it `yif` just to be different.
- scollet 5y agoI know a community you might like.
- mgarfias 5y agoForgot .45 vs 9mm, and eMacs vs vim
- bryanlarsen 5y agoAnd we find out that the internet is mostly wrong. Confirming what we already knew.
- account-5 5y agoThat site only got a couple wrong.
- tzs 5y ago> Does a straw have one hole or two? Is your answer the same if the question is about a person instead of straw? Both possible answers are technically correct, because "hole" has at least two relevant definitions: (1) a hollow space inside something, (2) an aperture connecting two spaces. A straw has one #1 type hole, and two #2 type holes. #2 is probably more practically correct, because most of the time when one wants to talk about a straw's holes, it will be the apertures that one wants to talk about not the hollow interior.
- gremlinsinc 5y agoWhen I learned that the entire digestive system is external....my mind exploded... because it's basically an open hole straight through a person and is considered an externality.
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- DeRock 5y agoVsauce has a video all about this, well worth a watch: https://youtu.be/egEraZP9yXQ https://youtu.be/egEraZP9yXQ
- friedman23 5y agoI'm unreasonably frustrated by the hotdog one. How is that not a sandwich?
- bagacrap 5y agoit's at best an open face sandwich
- KiranRao0 5y agoIt is not based on the cube rule of food. A food can be classified by which faces of a cube the outer layer of carbs populate. In the case of a hot dog, it is a taco, since the bottom and two sides are the carb structure. https://cuberule.com/ https://cuberule.com/
- pottertheotter 5y agoThere are a lot of inconsistencies in the examples. For example, pumpkin pie is toast, but cheesecake, deep dish pizza, and key like pie are quiche.
- larschdk 5y agoSimply, the cake is a quiche, but a slice is a toast.
- Dylan16807 5y agoAn entire pumpkin pie or cheescake or deep dish pizza or key lime pie are all quiches. A slice of any of them is a toast. No inconsistency there. Though I prefer "pizza" to "toast".
- bee_rider 5y agoI like that they provide a set of examples that show why their system does not work.
- dalmo3 5y agoThe toast sandwich was pure genius.
- zivkovicp 5y agoThis just makes it worse!
- newbie789 5y ago
- drenvuk 5y agostraws have two holes. let's say you had a y split straw. does that have one hole or two holes or three?
- ddlutz 5y agoHow many holes does a donut have? What if you keep stretching the donut making it taller?
- grenoire 5y agoThree. A hole is a distinct pathway from one open end to another. A regular cylindrical straw is a torus at heart, it has only one way through. A Y-straw would have three paths from its three openings.
- karmakaze 5y agoThat's a question answered by the field of topology: genus 2. | | | +-- | +-- | | Look at it end on: __ //\\__ || ||_ \\// Now shorten the shaft of the right-facing hole so that it becomes a ring-hole on the right side of the end-on hole, then rotate it also so that it's an end-on view: //\\//\\ || || || \\//\\//
- drenvuk 5y agomade me go on a wikipedia dive. Thanks, I learned something.
- karmakaze 5y agoThe Vsauce video in sibling comment at 12:59 shows an animation from the two-rings to the T-shaped pipe, or even a better animation at 15:59. 12:59 https://youtu.be/egEraZP9yXQ?t=779 https://youtu.be/egEraZP9yXQ?t=779 15:59 https://youtu.be/egEraZP9yXQ?t=959 https://youtu.be/egEraZP9yXQ?t=959
- bee_rider 5y agoThe correct why to pronounce gif out loud is "image," because who asks for a particular file format, and if you do care about the format of the image, it should be something other than gif.
- kevincox 5y agoIt is very rare to see GIF images these days. 99.9% of the time I hear GIF people are talking about videos (usually short and automatically looping). The fact that GIF videos are considered an image is really just a quirk of evolution of the image format to support videos and browsers supporting these videos in an <img> tag (and nowhere else).
- jchw 5y agoGif became part of the vernacular to describe a short looping video clip or animation with no audio that can be easily shared. Nowadays people are often actually sharing mp4s or webms even when they think it’s gif. It’s just a bit of internet heritage, and causes little harm.
- jamesgreenleaf 5y agoSimilar to how the term "podcast" became part of the language even though almost nobody uses an iPod to listen to them anymore.
- bee_rider 5y agoHuh. I always called those "animated gifs." I guess soon they'll be known as "silent ticktocks" though.
- aendruk 5y agoI’d be okay with using the new pronunciation for this new meaning. - GIF /dʒɪf/: Graphics Interchange Format - gif /ɡɪf/: short looping silent video
- alar44 5y agoWho asks for a particular file format? Uh, literally anyone who works with graphics?
- uvdn7 5y agoExcept a majority doesn't mean too much, and even less so without the demographics. It's entertaining though – just like everything nowadays.
- throw7 5y agoYou can pronounce any word any way you like to. The only reason to pronounce some word a certain way is out of respect. The creators of the gif format called it "jif" as a riff on jif peanut butter. End.
- Scarblac 5y agoI pronounce it with a guttural "g" as normal in Dutch, and that option is missing :(
- yesenadam 5y agoSince learning spanish I've pronounced it with a slightly throaty H sound (and GIMP that way also), closer to yours I guess than hard-g gif or jiff.
- alexfromapex 5y agoAnyone who says gif must also maintain consistency when saying giraffe. Otherwise, you are living too dangerously for me. Edit: I think a lot of people thought I was serious. Just joking around.
- sjburt 5y agogin, gift, giraffe, giggle
- ruph123 5y agogit
- throwaway56ss7 5y agoI frequently work with some people in Argentina and they pronounce git as an English speaker might say “jit” We never discus image formats tho. I’ll have to ask them about GIF next time.
- kwertyoowiyop 5y agoWhat about Tabs vs. Spaces? :-)
- denismi 5y agoIt's so obviously tabs that it isn't even worth discussing.
- feupan 5y agoI obviously agree with you, but setting 3 spaces is so tempting.
- FredFS456 5y agoTabs are better for two reasons: - accessibility[0] - customization - not everyone wants the same tab-width [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/c8drjo/nobody_talks_about_the_real_reason_to_use_tabs/ https://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/c8drjo/nobody_t...
- greggman3 5y agomajor tech companies disagree with you tabs don't work for customization code // comment code code // comment If there are tabs between the code and the comments they won't align if you customize their length. If you use spaces there then you're just hypocritical. There are just as many arguments pro tabs as there are con tabs Many could be solved with smart tools. Have your editor reformat the text to your preference. Have it put it back to the project's preference when you check it in.
- codesections 5y agoDoes this site accept suggestions for new questions? I'd like to see a question on which end to open a banana
- LugarOS 5y agoI just crack 'em in half.
- vmception 5y agoTwist them like monkeys do, it is far superior and doesn't need opposable thumbs, so, why are we using our thumbs to open them from the stem and risking the top getting smushed?
- jabbany 5y agoIn my experience neither end has been consistently more successful than the other...
- jollybean 5y agoWe need another, fake HN for those 'J'-iff people so we don't have to tolerate them and so they don't infect us. I mean, 'politely' see them off please.
- dchasson 5y agoThis is a fun product
- allenu 5y agoThat was fun. I'm genuinely shocked pineapple on pizza is in a dead heat. I'm a fan and I thought it would be less popular, but this makes me realize why debates rage on about it.
- tomcam 5y agoIt's so difficult when we learn people aren't naturally good ;) Pineapple with cashews & onions on a pizza is da bomb
- jabbany 5y agoDefinitely an acquired taste. I used to hate "Hawaiian pizza" with a passion as a kid but nowadays I'd be OK with it.
- vmception 5y agoOne time I was in a small US town making conversation with a hotel clerk, and she couldnt stand Chinese food, and I’m confused how her experience was not pleasant and am trying to convince otherwise with a tasting date like at the restuarant across street, to no avail. I went to that restuarant a few days later and it was horrible food, but similar to the other cuisine experiences possible in that town, region. So, now I understand. Maybe their pineapple on pizza experience has been bad because of the way it was prepared.
- tigershark 5y agoNo.
- andreareina 5y agoI've had pineapple in a number of cooked preparations, the only one I enjoy is sweet and sour. For me it's definitely the kind of preparation and not a lack in execution.
- Stratoscope 5y agoA more recent example of "how the heck do I pronounce this word" is Bazel, the build system. I've always pronounced it like "hazel", but many of my colleagues rhyme it with "dazzle". The Bazel website even has an FAQ entry about it, but they managed to completely confuse the issue: > How do you pronounce “Bazel”? > The same way as “basil” (the herb) in US English: “BAY-zel”. It rhymes with “hazel”. IPA: /ˈbeɪzˌəl/ https://bazel.build/faq.html https://bazel.build/faq.html Little problem here... Basil, the herb, can be pronounced either like hazel or like dazzle. Or even rhymed with hassle! So naturally I opened a PR attempting to clarify this. It led to an interesting discussion, and in the end I wrote a bad poem acknowledging both pronunciations: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-website/pull/323 https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-website/pull/323
- nostromo 5y agoI know MS Azure is Aah-zhur, but I hear it called uh-Zhur more often than not. Don’t even get me started on the fourteen incorrect ways to say Omicron…
- Stratoscope 5y ago> Aah-zhur So do you pronounce the "Aah" like the "o" in "otter", or like the "a" in "apple"? Isn't it fun trying to describe pronunciation with contrived spelling? :-)
- harrylove 5y agoEmphasis on the first syllable. Short A as in apple. [0] [0] https://youtu.be/AmP11EgEM4g https://youtu.be/AmP11EgEM4g
- ineedtosleep 5y agoIndeed. Much easier to use IPA here, but the likelihood people can write/read it is pretty low. I'm out of practice, but should be /æʒər/. Could also copy-paste that into here: http://ipa-reader.xyz/ http://ipa-reader.xyz/
- silisili 5y agoCool idea, but 50% said pineapple on pizza is good, which clearly indicates at least half the respondents are psychopaths or trolls.
- pottertheotter 5y agoRight? Definitely a lot of trolls out there claiming they don’t like pineapple on pizza.
- silisili 5y agoI always knew I had an arch nemisis, I just never knew his name.
- junon 5y agoWtf, that dress is not black and blue. What are people smoking?
- jabbany 5y agoFrom wikipedia: The dress itself was confirmed as a royal blue "Lace Bodycon Dress" from the retailer Roman Originals,[26] which was actually black and blue in colour;[1][2] although available in three other colours (red, pink, and ivory, each with black lace), a white and gold version was not available at the time. So objectively it is black and blue. Of course, our eyes tricking us about color is hardly anything new... (brown is just orange with context!)
- srl 5y agoI see the dress as blue and gold, which was never even an option. But, I'm color blind.
- dvnguyen 5y agoSame here. Do I need to get my eyes checked?
- oehpr 5y agoA podcast on this subject that I found a particularly nice listen: https://youarenotsosmart.com/2020/03/09/yanss-175-how-a-divisive-photograph-of-a-perceptually-ambiguous-dress-lead-one-scientist-to-build-the-nuclear-bomb-of-cognitive-science-out-of-socks-and-crocs-part-one/ https://youarenotsosmart.com/2020/03/09/yanss-175-how-a-divi... Gist of it is this: The dress is under a harsh sodium lamp, If you spent your formative years around those (a night owl in the years when lots of sodium lights were present), you would pick up the subtle cues in the photo that would tell you that the dress is black and blue. Those with less fun histories lack the ability to pick those cues out, and misidentify as white and gold (me included).
- junon 5y agoInteresting, so if sodium lights were more prevalent decades ago, is there a correlation between age and those who can discern the black/blue?
- logandavis 5y agoThe most stunning outcome here is the apparent internet consensus that Star Wars is better than Star Trek. This is indefensible. A Star Wars fan will tell you there are, at most, four good Star Wars movies. A Star Trek fan will tell you there are 6-7 good Star Trek movies, depending on whether you count Galaxy Quest. This might leave us with some room for debate about whether the cultural impact of Star Wars episodes 4 and 5 outweigh Star Trek's larger amount of quality material. Except that Star Trek is a TV show. For the movie franchise to not even be the better movie franchise is just... there's... it's not even a question.
- laristine 5y agoThis is easy. At least for me and I bet many people believe the same thing as me. I'm a diehard fan of BOTH Star Wars and Star Trek. And I can say Star Trek has better influence, especially to the fandom who understand accurately what its messages are.
- rtkaratekid 5y agoPrior to the Disney takeover I would’ve argued with you, but now? :(
- vmception 5y agolol, now listen to this alternative perspective that may match an actual objective crowd Despite the better and more coherent world of star trek, the original show is preachy. Its too preachy. Almost every episode was to be an allegory to a real world issue at that time and its slow, and awkward. Die hards appreciate it more so for the “bold exploration” than what actually happened! Later on the themes began self referencing and evolving into their own lore, while largely retaining a self-contained episodic format. The movie are just fan service or the dream conflict. But remember the human in the audience. They dont want to be preached to, they dont want the origin story of a particular character to be anything more than scifi, instead of the plot piece for now contrived bigotry. Star Wars provides this desired entertainment. A heros tale, over and over again. The classic formula for the acceptance of the masses. Star Wars is not a satisfactory chronicle when completed, but the world building in all of its other shows and actual tv series is more engaging. The original lore in star wars is fantasy and audiences want that. The original lore in star trek is allegories to a real world social issue, and audiences dont always want that.
- _448 5y agoWhat, no Vim v/s Emacs?!? I am so disappointed :)
- _448 5y agoOkay, after posting the original comment I fell asleep, and an angel whispered in my ear, "You forgot about: - static v/s dynamic typing - compiled v/s interpreted - functional v/s imperative - VM v/s non-VM languages - SPA v/s non-SPA web apps - "native" v/s cross-platform mobile apps " Now I am doubly disappointed :)
- sbuk 5y agoReal men use ed.
- krinchan 5y agoI am mildly horrified at how upset I am that: * The Internet thinks Star Wars is better. * How close the voting is for pineapple on pizza * Sock shoe sock shoe is even a possible answer. * I’ve now been introduced to the question, “Does a straw have one hole or two?” This will haunt me until I die. OP and whoever made this: Joking aside, this was a really cute link. It really helped my mood today.
- tempestn 5y agoI too thought sock shoe sock shoe was absurd, but I just now realized there is one circumstance when I would do this, which is when getting dressed after swimming at a public pool. Generally not much dry floor to stand on, so makes sense to get the shoe over the sock asap. Perhaps folks who wear shoes inside their house all day would feel the same way about their own floors!
- jabbany 5y agoMaybe the sock-shoe could instead be like "what's the right way to eat a steak": cut off a piece and eat it or cut everything first before eating.
- FredFS456 5y agoTopologically, there is one hole in a straw.
- SuchAnonMuchWow 5y agoTopologically, your mouth and anus are the same hole. Yet everybody count them as two holes.
- alister 5y ago> Are we living in a simulation? 45% voted yes (of 14,463 votes so far). Whether we're living in a computer simulation is an absolutely fascinating subject to think about, and I do not dismiss the idea, but do a significant number of people really believe it?
- ALittleLight 5y agoHow do you answer the simulation argument? https://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html https://www.simulation-argument.com/simulation.html
- xscott 5y agoDoesn't Planck's constant seem like using integers in fixed point? Doesn't the speed of light feel like a sneaky limit on the maximum size of those integers? :-) I humbly suggest the reason the universe we live in does not use Real numbers is because you couldn't simulate that with a Turing machine.
- tooltower 5y agoQuantum Turing Machine!
- mewse 5y agoYes, but only because of a silly off-by-one bug Steve left in the human credulity AI subsystem. Again. We've been trying to roll out a patch to address that along with several other, related issues (you can probably guess which ones those are), but we don't have an ETA yet; you wouldn't believe how long it takes for this thing's unit tests to complete.
- seventhtiger 5y agoIt's a sort of post-modern nihilism. Just one more of the tens of thousands of unprovable and undeniable ideas that humans have adopted. The science fiction aesthetic makes it and easier pill to swallow. When people are living their daily lives and interacting, but in the backs of their minds they have a loose grip on reality, to me it's a new low in spiritual degradation. Not only is reality meaningless, as a classical nihilist might affirm. Whether it has meaning or not is irrelevant because reality isn't real. Aside from the philosophical argument, I think computer science has a good line of argument against simulation theory. Unless the metaverse transcends logic/computation itself, then computer science actually has a lot to say about the topic. Even universe size computers can't bend some rules.
- gorgoiler 5y agovim
- mikewarot 5y agoWhat I want to know are who are the 29% who think daylight savings time is a good idea? There are zero good arguments for it.
- providedotemacs 5y agoI don't like DST, but what I would like even less is staying on DST permanently (which is what most proposals for the US West Coast are calling for). Staying on UTC-7 in winter will make the darkness stretch too long into the morning.
- Scarblac 5y agoSimple: in summer, summer time is much better than winter time, and in winter, winter time is much better than summer time.p Using summer time means you get the light in the evenings. Things like doing sports activities that need daylight after work become possible about a month earlier than without time, and you gain another month at the end. Long evenings are glorious for all sorts of activities. The alternative puts the light in the early morning when people sleep. In winter, winter time here means it's at least a bit twilighty during the morning commute; without it it would still be pitch dark, and it would still get dark before the end of the work day. (I'm in the Netherlands, which is actually already on a bit too summer timey timezone compared to its location). Yes, some people can change their schedule instead. Most people are tied to fixed times of work, their kids' school etc.
- frogulis 5y agoMelbourne, Australia here -- I wonder if the negative attitudes to DST relate to something specifically American. Perhaps school starting earlier in the US than here? Can't say I've ever wanted to stop daylight savings. Never-ending afternoon evenings every day in summer, delightful!
- Scarblac 5y agoMost of the US is to the south of my country. I guess that the closer to the equator you are, the less sense it makes. But also in the Netherlands, there are many people who want to abolish it. In my view, they're only thinking of the weekends when the switch is made. At that time, it doesn't seem to make a huge difference, and the switch is annoying, it takes some days to get into the new rhythm. But ask them, at the start of summer you have X hours of sunlight -- what times during the day would you like them to fall? And the same question for the darkest months of winter. I wouldn't be surprised if it needed a switch of two whole timezones to make both answers true.
- honkycat 5y agoI have always felt that the Chicken/Egg question was obvious. We have to assume there is a line between "creature that is almost exactly like a chicken" and "a chicken." A proto-chicken laid an egg. That egg after fertilization contained a mutation that pushed the proto-chicken INTO chicken territory. Thus, the (chicken) egg came first because a chicken cannot exist without mutating as a part of reproduction.
- kk6mrp 5y agoIf you believe in creation/intelligent design then you might feel different about that.
- Seb-C 5y agoExcept that chickens (as well as most cattle and pets) have been created by mankind over thousands of years of genetic selection.
- honkycat 5y agoEvolution is proven to exist outside of a benevolent creator, whereas there is zero basis for intelligent design. In fact, I posit that evolution isn't really incompatible with christianity. The exception is for an absurdist literal interpretation of a single simile translated multiple times, from a non-original copy of the bible of which the original was written down from oral tradition several hundred years after the stories first originated. Christians still enjoy their pork though. And shellfish. Strange how nobody seems to cherry-pick that passage anymore... almost like it is more about anti-intellectualism than it is about following a code of ethics.
- thenoblesunfish 5y ago100% agree. I was surprised that the population of people who would take such a quiz are actually 50/50 on this! I agree that the best basis for chickenhood is the genetic one you present, which implies that the egg came first. Further, I think that the second-best argument is that the first chicken was the first animal to be called "chicken" by someone. In that case, that first chicken came from an egg, which was laid by something which was never called a chicken, hence not a chicken. The egg still came first. Writing this now, it occurs that perhaps almost any satisfying definition of chicken implies that the egg came first. If you can define what a chicken is and you assume that chickens have not always existed, then it follows that there must have been a first chicken. If you assume that the first chicken hatched from an egg (if not, your definition of chicken is quite broad!), and that at the time it hatched, it was a chicken, then the egg came first. As above, there are reasonable ways for a non-chicken to lay an egg which hatches a chicken. I don't see any good ways around "egg came first" other than a definition of chicken that allows a non-chicken to become a chicken after it hatches. You could argue that the first chicken became one the first time someone called it that. Okay, but that seems pretty slippery, because if, today, a chicken is born in the woods and no human is aware of it, it's actually not a chicken, merely a bird that might one day become a chicken.
- pjerem 5y agoWow, TIL that some people puts their shoe before even putting the second sock ? And that they are the majority ? Where is that ? Is the civilization finally collapsing ? How do you do that ? Your socks are near your shoes ? Near the door ? What do you wear inside your house ? Am I an alien on this planet ? So much questions it broke my brain.
- masklinn 5y agoBeing in the “socks drawer is nowhere near the shoes” camp, there is one situation where that happens: in summer I’ll walk around my house in sandals, without socks. The only situation I’ll put socks on is when I’m going outside in closed shoes, and in that case I’ll bring a pair of socks to the front door because why bother removing the sandal, putting on the sock, putting the sandal back on, walking to the front door, removing the sandal, putting on the shoe? Instead I’ll usually go “foot at a time” so remove sandal, put on sock, put on shoe, repeat for next foot.
- edanm 5y agoThey aren't they majority actually, according to the website they're like at 10% of all answerers.
- pjerem 5y agoOh yes, i misread the result. You can't imagine the relief right now. No more civilization collapse (as long as we tackle this little climate thing, that is)
- Youden 5y agoAs someone who is doing that at the moment, the reason for me is because I treat the floor as dirty (due to cats) and want to avoid touching it with bare feet or socks. When I'm in the apartment, I wear slippers. My socks are stored inside my boots (merino wool, so doesn't need cleaning often). When I leave, my process is: remove foot from slipper, put on the sock while standing on one leg, put sock into shoe or boot, repeat for other foot. I'd be surprised if my process is common though.
- BossingAround 5y ago> Sock shoe sock shoe or sock sock shoe shoe? This is an amusing question. I was thoroughly confused by what this meant. In my country, I keep my socks in a completely different room from my shoes. So when I put on clothes, I first have to put on socks, then leave the room, and then put on the shoes. I've observed the same in Germany, France, Austria, Poland, and Spain (off the top of my head). As a separate issue, the habit of walking in shoes within your house is still utterly baffling to me. I've seen people not walk in shoes even at the office (because it's uncomfortable). Can't imagine the smell of feet after walking in shoes the whole day.
- shrimpx 5y agoSock shoe sock shoe means you get dressed but hold off putting on your socks until you're about to put your shoes on and get out the door. The advantage is you don't put dirt/dust, and whatever else you drag off your floors, inside your shoes.
- jrib 5y ago> The advantage is you don't put dirt/dust, and whatever else you drag off your floors, inside your shoes. You put the dirt inside your sock instead though.
- Stratoscope 5y agoAgreed, I can't imagine wearing shoes all day. The most pleasant footwear for me is Birkenstock Arizonas with socks, at home or office or when driving or running errands. This is the classic model with two straps over your foot and no back strap. I only switch to shoes when I will be walking some distance. With the Birkenstocks, most of your foot is ventilated even while standing or sitting, and every time you take a step the bottom of your foot gets some air. Don't over-tighten the straps. You should be able to slip your feet in and out of them without reaching down. Have at least two pair on hand, so you can easily slip out of one pair and into another. In the summer I may leave off the socks to stay cooler, so it is especially nice to switch to another pair of sandals to let them dry out. With socks in cool weather, I'm comfortable wearing the same pair all day. If you get these, be sure to get the "soft footbed" version. They are much more comfortable than the originals. And I like the suede version for the softer straps. You may look geeky wearing them, but face it, you're already a geek!
- Mikepicker 5y agoAs an Italian, I stopped after I saw the internet has decided that pineapple on pizza is ok. Illegal.
- legutierr 5y agoHave you tried it?
- Ostrogodsky 5y agoYeah and it is disgusting.
- jacobmischka 5y agoStop yucking people's yums.
- legutierr 5y agoHam is a necessary component. I wouldn't eat a pizza with only pineapple...but the Hawaiian! It's so good, if it's made right.
- Hir0ki 5y agoIf you are a vegetarian you can suplement Ham with Feta cheese. It's also very good.
- notapenny 5y agoI'm one of the wretched sinners, but I was honestly surprised at the results.
- chupchap 5y agoTomato is a fruit too, so why not pineapple? :)
- probably_wrong 5y ago
- Ekaros 5y agoMisses which weights more kilogram of feathers or kilogram of steel? Then again that has three answers, one correct and two wrong...
- alex_duf 5y agoSimilar to the egg/chicken question. The answer is neither, they both evolved at the same time.
- huhtenberg 5y ago> Is pineapple on pizza good? Generally - no, but there was a superb execution by one place in Vancouver whereby they used partially dehydrated pineapples. That was really good, because you got the pineapple taste but without any of that pesky sogginess. That's the place - https://www.stevestonpizza.com/menu https://www.stevestonpizza.com/menu The rest of the menu is equally wonderful, absolutely fantastic flavour combinations, really well executed. The place was started 10-15 years ago (?) by a former chef of one of 5 star hotels in the city. It has always been a bit quirky, first with the foie gras pizza and then with the $800 caviar and truffle one, but their main menu was super solid. I am no longer in Vancouver, but I'd order from them again in a heartbeat.
- saviomartin 5y agoThis is fun tbh
- drakonka 5y agoWell, at least now we know what percentage of the visiting population are monsters who put their toilet paper the wrong way.
- femto113 5y ago> Should a sandwich be cut diagonally or horizontally This very much depends on the sandwich. Cheese? Diagonally. Peanut Butter and Jelly? Horizontally (or really what I would think of as vertically, since bread usually has more symmetry left right than top bottom). A pointy PB&J is just wrong.
- savolai 5y agoWhy would you cut a sandwich? Did you make it a wrong size in the first place? I'm from Finland. I mostly eat rye bread sandwiches. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ruispala+puikula&t=fpas&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=ruispala+puikula&t=fpas&iax=images... https://duckduckgo.com/?q=puikula&t=fpas&iar=images&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?q=puikula&t=fpas&iar=images&iax=imag...
- tromp 5y agoAt first I thought: No vi versus emacs? Seriously? Then I realized this was targeted at a general audience...
- hardlianotion 5y agoThis would work better for me if you had to sign a solemn pledge at the beginning to undertake to abide by polling outcomes.
- spoid 5y agojack on the door alone, or together with rose?
- hooby 5y ago> What came first, the chicken or the egg? This one does actually have a definitive answer! Evolutionary, there has to be an ancestor to the chicken that is not a chicken itself. It doesn't even matter where exactly you draw the line - it just has to exist. At some point in time, a genetic mutation occurred during fertilization, resulting in the very first chicken ever. Which of course started out as an egg. So there you have it - the very first chicken of all time started as an egg, laid by an animal that was not a chicken. Thus the egg came first.
- lavela 5y agoUnless of course you are someone who argues, that a fertilized ovum is already a new life. In that case you need to start to argue about what makes an egg an egg, as the fertilization happens while the rest of the egg is forming(or so I just read). So depending on your egg definition, there might be a brief period where there is a chicken which will become an egg and then becomes a chicken again.
- hooby 5y agoElementary, my dear Watson. While the question seems to strongly imply that "chicken" is meant to refer to the hatched animal (which is also the most commonly accepted interpretation) - it does not spell that out. Thus it's not perfectly clear which interpretations may be used. Now, if we do allow alternate interpretations of the premise, then the egg still came first. Because dinosaurs laid eggs - and that was a long time before the first chicken ovum ever got fertilized. But if we disallow alternate interpretations and clarify that within the context of this question "chicken" has to refer to the hatched animal - then your answer is simply no longer valid. Well, let's ignore all that. Let's define our premise such, that: A) fertilized ovums ARE chickens B) fertilized ovums are NOT eggs and answer the question based on those assumptions. The first problem with your argument is, that it's impossible to find a logical, internally consistent definition of "chicken", that does INCLUDE the fertilized ovum, while at the same time EXCLUDING the egg. There's no way, the ovum is a chicken - stops being a chicken while an egg - and becomes a chicken again. Every definition that does include the fertilized ovum will also include the egg. So, based on our assumptions A) and B), we can deduce: C) eggs ARE chickens But if eggs are chickens, then the question "the egg OR the chicken" no longer makes any sense - and no correct answer can exist. Therefore, your provided answer cannot possibly be correct either. Thus, within this set of assumptions A) and B) - the question becomes meaningless, and can't be answered either way. P.S.: you are aware, that the "ovum" is more commonly called "egg cell"? ;)
- _kk_331 5y agoThat was fun.
- shimonabi 5y agoI have never eaten peanut butter in my life. I swear to God.
- pacoverdi 5y ago> Toilet paper over or under This problem has its own website and wikipedia entry :) http://toiletpaperorientation.org/ http://toiletpaperorientation.org/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_roll_holder#Orientation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_roll_holder#Orientation
- sbmthakur 5y agoReptiles have been laying eggs long before birds were around. Not sure why that question is still a matter of debate.
- joshka 5y agoMissing: - Vi / Emacs - Tabs / Spaces
- xtat 5y agotitle kinda clickbait
- b__d 5y agonutella with or without butter is missing (though the answer is pretty obvious, ofcourse without :D).