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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.blahaj.zone 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.

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[–] CaptainAmeristan@lemmy.zip 22 points 2 days ago (3 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 :(

[–] PeacfulForest@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Okay I believe you and all, but I genuinely don’t understand. My partner has even criticized this in my language but I don’t get it.

Sincerely someone who wants to understand and was unfortunately homeschooled by dumb fucks

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[–] BubbaGumpsBackLumps@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

February should only have 1 r

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[–] starman2112@sh.itjust.works 66 points 2 days ago (9 children)

Anyone who puts always-on blue LEDs in electronics deserve the oubliette. People who put such LEDs in electronics meant for the bedroom deserve an oubliette that'a slowly filling with water.

[–] zenforyen@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That sucks, but you can put some isolation tape on LEDs.

But I wish something horrible to those who thought it's a great idea to make every goddamn electronic device make beeping noises.

My water boiler, fan, washing machine. In my childhood I don't remember everything beeping at every interaction. It makes me furious and you often cannot fully disable it.

Once I tried to solder the beeper out but my soldering iron was probably not suitable so I failed :(

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[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 days ago

Or just excessively bright LEDs. Just because LEDs are super efficient, doesn't mean they should take them as bright as they can go.

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[–] superkret@feddit.org 11 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Single-speed bicycles suck.
They combine the drawbacks of a geared bike with the drawbacks of a fixed gear bike.

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I live in a pretty mountainous area, but I can think of a couple blind corners on small hills near me. So probably the one on the way to the bakery while running or biking.

But I do a lot of ski touring so I'd rather die on one of the big ones.

[–] Darleys_Brew@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 days ago (6 children)

The Office means the British version. The American office refers to the American version.

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[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 88 points 2 days ago (11 children)
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[–] Ebber@lemmings.world 11 points 2 days ago (9 children)
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[–] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The word Himalayan is pronounced like Him-a-lay-an, NOT Him-all-ee-an.....

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