What is the smallest hill you would die on?

Time zones shouldn't exist. There should just be UTC time and you would go to work at the equivalent of your morning time.
- Calm down, China.

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.

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.
- 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.

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?
- Why is it better ?
  I don't have a strong opinion, taking the style of the team I work with but why do you feel it is better?
  It's not like putting it on the other line causes any issue.
  
  Both are usable, but I just don't understand why you'd choose the separate line style if you were starting a new codebase. I can't see the benefit of it, but that could also be me not having enough experience with the separate line style to see it's advantages.
  On the other hand, having the brace on the next line means that the parent statement and the code in the braces are further from each other, also more lines in the source file is more scrolling in general. You can fit less lines of code on the same vertical screen height if you have a lot of nested blocks or just generally use a lot of blocks. Especially for things like many small functions or many if blocks, being able to fit a few more on your screen is really convenient IMO.
- void main() { //code }
  No, all in one line baby!! I haven't done JavaScript in a while but I think that will work. After coming from python I thought it was funny you could just put everything in one line.
  
  For Javascript it's () => { }. Lamba functions! Because at least it's more readable than Perl.

February should only have 1 r
- Februay feels weird to say

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 :(
- 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
- I've also noticed an increase in using "had [done]" instead of [did] in places I wouldn't expect. I'm sure a linguist could break that down more thoroughly.

Water is wet
- I had and endless argument with some someone about this a while ago here's how it works (in my opinion) wetness is not a fundamental property of water instead wetness is having water on or inside something so a towel is wet when it has water in it. But a singular water particle by itself is not wet because it is not surrounded by water but most water is wet because they are all surrounded by other water particles.
  
  A particle of water may be surrounded by water but when we talk about water we're usually referring to a body of water like that in a glass or pot rather than one particle thereof.
  Is the water in that glass wet? No. The glass is wet.
  A room can be "airy" but the air in that room is not "airy".
  A car can be painted but paint is not painted.
  ... and so on and so forth.

Probably a slightly higher stair in a staircase one day

There is a letter G in the word recognise. Bloody use it. What people all say is "reckonise" which is not the same word. Also driving on the left just makes way more sense.
- driving on the left just makes way more sense.
  Only because it's what you're used to. Also I know there are countries (Sweden, or was it Norway?) that have switched which side they drive on, and as far as I know no one has switched from right to left.
  
  I have a reason. Most people are right handed. In a Right hand drive car with manual gears your preferred hand remains on the steering wheel when you change gears. Also messing with the stereo or climate controls also leaves your preferred hand on the wheel.

Single-speed bicycles suck.
They combine the drawbacks of a geared bike with the drawbacks of a fixed gear bike.
- Whaaat.
  I'm not necessarily challenging your opinion because aparently you're going to die on this hill, but ...
  This is not a tiny hill.
  But most people would say that single speed has none of the disadvantages of fixed.
  As an aside, I have 3 bikes. I've never ridden a fixie but holy fuck I would love to have one.

The word Himalayan is pronounced like Him-a-lay-an, NOT Him-all-ee-an.....
- I've never heard it pronounced like that, and I live somewhere notorious for bad pronunciation. Is there another similar word pronounced like him-all-ee-an in your local accent?
- You got room on that hill for one more?

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

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.

None. I rather change myself than wasting time on changing something that won't last forever anyway.

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.
- "Because fuck your sleep cycle that's why"
- Or just excessively bright LEDs. Just because LEDs are super efficient, doesn't mean they should take them as bright as they can go.
- Allow me to try and persuade you. The problem is bright blue LEDs. It's still stupid that they make them so bright, but the problem isn't the color. A hypothetical bright red, green, or amber LED would also be a problem.
  
  Shorter wavelengths hit different though. That's why we have blue light filtering glasses, Redshift, etc.
  
  This is fair. I have had to put tape over a red alarm clock because it was too bright before. Those manufacturers also get the oubliette

Oxford Comma.
- *Serial comma[^1]
  [^1]: The even smaller hill I’ll die on.
- My company has standardized document templates and none of them have Oxford commas. I will go through and add them any time I have to use one.
- I reject, protest and censure your endorsement of the Oxford Comma.
  
  Ending a case that electrified punctuation pedants, grammar goons and comma connoisseurs, Oakhurst Dairy settled an overtime dispute with its drivers that hinged entirely on the lack of an Oxford comma in state law.
  Oxford Comma Dispute Is Settled as Maine Drivers Get $5 Million
- To this day I use it and refuse any other option.
- Fuck yeah.
  Also missing from sub-clauses, at least in America, is the trailing delimiter comma.
  
  I’m a comma-crazed Burgerstani, and I use those as well as the serial comma.
  
  Took me a minute of googling to be vaguely sure you meant what I think you mean: the comma marking the end of your dependant interjectory clause there?
  at least in America**,**
  If so: I have no idea what you are talking about, that's drilled into us in school. Maybe people get lazy on the Internet but it is part of the rules and gets taught and used here
  If I've misunderstood: what are you talking about, then?
- Are you for or against it? I mean, it does have it's uses.
  
  For it. Its lack of use in a union contract was a factor in a court ruling some years back. That's when it went from pedantry to real-world consequence for me. Something was ruled similar to A and B rather than A or B.

Pedestrians have the right of way. Most of the other hills are survivable.
- I had someone speed up to scare me and call me a bitch when I was using a zebra crossing… he wouldn’t have even been close if he was going the posted speed.

There absolutely was a cornucopia in the fruit of the loom logo. That is the sole reason I know what a cornucopia is. It wasn't on any table or in any thanksgiving decoration in my childhood, it isn't a popular thing to exist in media, it was an obscure item that was a main part of an underwear logo.
Anyone that says differently is objectively wrong. I don't know why the logo changed and why besides a patent entry even the company itself denies it. I don't really care if this is an alternate earth or aliens or time travellers or an entirely natural quirk of existing in a quantum universe, but I know for an absolute fact the sole reason I know what a cornucopia is is because of my underwear, and not because my dick is coincidentally called the horn of plenty.
- I honestly believe this one is a gorilla marketing gimmick. Like they purposely went back and removed references to it so any time someone brings up the Mandela Effect their name gets mentioned.
- There absolutely wasn't. Snopes did a good piece on this in 2024.
  
  Yeah, snopes isn't a trustworthy source, and more importantly, there absolutely was. I know that for an absolute certainty, and gaslighting isnt going to work.
- 100%
- Denying that the logo used to have a cornucopia is a thing? Sheesh, TIL.
  
  Unfortunately it is the truth, weird as it feels
- I remember this as well, just like I remember Mandela dying in prison. Felt like I was Looney Tunes when I found out as an adult he was still alive.
  
  Nobody thought Mandela died in prison. He was one of the most high-profile people in the world in the 1990s, constantly in the papers after his release from prison. How could you believe he died in prison?

Appliances and cars should never have an internet connection for any reason.
Also fuck touch screens give me buttons.
- touch screens can be justified IMO, IF the company let it function as a diagnostic computer but the auto industry seem terrified of actually making something resembling a competent configurable UI. Internet could be nice if the appliance just used SNMP or similar protocols that have been around for decades, but the companies seem to love that shitty malware they call an App.
- Though as a kind of "exception", I think that charging poles for electric cars should have modbus or Ethernet and a local protocol (matter maybe?) to use with smart home systems for automation and cars should have a standard affordable way to check errors and status of sensors.
- I fucking love my wifi enabled heat pump. Turn that shit on half an hour before I get home. Comfy shit.
  
  That does sound nice. Is it a proprietary system?
- Pretty big hill if you ask me
  
  Im dying on it either way.
- The EU hears you.
  https://etsc.eu/cars-will-need-buttons-not-just-touchscreens-to-get-a-5-star-euro-ncap-safety-rating/
- Agree with this. With cars it makes them vulnerable to hacking unless safety critical systems are isolated. Fly-by-wire airplanes specifically isolate the flight control computers from anything that could connect to the internet for this reason

Niche pronounced with a "ch" sound is wrong and dumb and I hate you
- On that note: cache
- Omg, I always pronounced it niche. Then slowly over the years I've gaslit myself into believing it's nitch because that's all I ever hear
- How else would you say it?
  I've only heard /niʃ/
  Do some people say /nit͡ʃ/ ?
- Those people who pronounce it 'nitch'? The word for that is WRONG. Those people deserve ridicule.
- Rhymes with "sheesh"
- So what sound should we use instead of "ch"? What about "ch"?
  English spelling is so silly
  
  It originates from French
  
  niche is french
  
  "sh"
  Don't you dare ask questions.
  
  Microfiche.

Using tabs for document management (f.e. Browsers, Text-Editors, ...) was a mistake. It would be way better if every document (website, text-file, image, console, ..) was in its own window, centrally managed by an intelligent window manager of the OS that allows quick and easy search between all documents like with a full-text searchable exposè-like view.
Using tabs for document-management was a bad but necessary workaround because Windows is a horrible window manager (despite its name, ironically).
Tabs work best when there is a fixed amount of them (Like with game settings: Controls, Audio, Video, Gameplay).
I could go on for quite a while on this, but I think this is where I stop.
- That sounds like tabs with extra steps.
- linux has tiling windows managers that allow you to do this
- I'm sure there's some Linux configuration to enable that

Pineapple on pizza is delicious, that is all

Cloud-based. If a product won't work if my internet dies, or I can't access my data without internet or a subscription, I won't buy it.

Chocolate soda needs to make a comeback.
- How about no
- It never went away for me, I just make it myself!
  I'll have like 1/4 glass of milk and add chocolate syrup then as I mix that I add seltzer and if stirring correctly it won't fizz up. I know people say adding the acidity of seltzer spoils the milk, but I've never noticed it when I make it.
- how do you feel about Coca Cola Blāk?
  
  Wait what
- What does that taste like anyways?
  
  Delicious. Canfield chocolate fudge soda was bliss.

It is NOT "habañero." If you pronounce a "y" in the word, you're commiting what's called a "hyper-foreignism" where you over apply something you learned a foreign culture does.
It's just an N sound. Habanero.
It's not even my culture/language but damn this gets under my collar.
- I have never heard someone say "habañero", that's hilarious. I live like 20 miles from the Mexico border though so most people speak at least a little Spanish.
- Likely due to jalapeño, no? Chile pepper = ñ to non Spanish speakers
- I think part of the problem is that it's hit or miss whether or not it's spelled/spoken with ñ or n, in advertising and labels. Here in the US anyway.
  What's funny is that the ñ spelling and pronunciation has bled over into native spanish speakers. My friend's husband is from Nicaragua, and his entire family pronounces it ñ. One of my neighbors though, from Guadalajara originally, it's n only.
  I'd also say that habanero is ñ friendly. It looks like it should be pronounced habañero, unlike a fairly similar word, Enero. It's easier to say habañero than eñero as well. The a leading into the n does that for some reason I can't figure out.
  However! Pero and perro blows people's minds. While I don't hear it with native speakers, damn near everyone else I've run into pronounces them the same. I do, and I know better, because I can't make my tongue work right.
  
  That is how languages grow and change: by the native speakers collectively changing their minds. I'll leave them to be the gate keepers. I feel strongly because I knew a family from a El Salvador that lived down the street from me growing up. They corrected me and I did not want to be wrong in front of them again. I wanted them to feel accepted. I still do.
- hãbanero
- Strong take, and new to me
- I hear this as often as I hear "jalapeno" (missing the eñe) 😑
  
  Jallapeeno

Search engines should not use locational data including IP address to provide "more relevant" results. Checking for restaurants or weather forecast? You should have to manually add the relevant search terms. Want results in a specific language? You should have to manually apply this filter.
Convenience is not worth the potential harm of locationally biased search results.
For example, where I live is like White Nationalist Central Station. My search results are thus far more likely to net me results with a pro-US/nationalist skew, thus potentially entrenching or normalizing harmful beliefs.
Whenever I've tried bringing this up with Techlords, I get a feeble, "B-but then you couldn't say 'restaurants near me' UnU" and like ... good? It's not like it's hard to type city and state in the search field.
I've never found a search engine that even has this as an option. Even Sear XNG instances net results that are clearly aligned with the location of the instances server.
A Kagi dev even lied to me when I was looking into that as an alternative, saying they don't use location, when it's pretty easy to determine that they do.
I also don't want a "good" algorithm. I also don't want to see big corporate sites prioritized either. If some backwoods nobody has a site that's more relevant, show it to me. I feel like pre-Google search engines were better, but that's another vent for another day.
Now where did I put my false teeth and walker???
- Not a small hill and I could not agree more. This is relevant to Noam Chomsky “manufacturing consent”.
- ip adress only gives the nearest big city. information like this is pretty useful to show you info based on your state/province.
- With duckduckgo you can disable the country filter thingo to get international results
  
  Oh believe me, I know. DDG was the first one I tried, and I tested it with every configuration possible. Like many other search engines such as startpage and kagi, you sure can do this in the settings, but it will do absolutely nothing to stop it from using your IP address to net locationally biased results specific to your current location. You may assume it would function like this, but it doesn't.
  I even tried their html and lite versions, but although it was less cluttered and much more pleasant to use, it still provided results that were very clearly based on my IP address.
  I'm not even sure what those settings do because they appear to have no function. Maybe they change language and currency on some sites for convenience, but again, that's not what I'm talking about in my comment! I'm saying a search engine should not use any locational data whatsoever to adjust results. And if you reply "well, good luck finding one because it doesn't exist," then congratulations, you understand my comment! They don't exist because we've all sacrificed our societal wellbeing for the sake of the smallest convenience.
  Even if changing it to another country/region worked (it doesn't), we'd still have the problem of netting biased results based on what country I switch it to. That would be akin to searching while using my VPN, which once again, does not solve the problem of search engines using IP address to provide locationally biased results.
  
  Just tried setting no country, then ducked "wine".
  Results were definitely still from my country first.
  When I set display language to US English, results came up from the US, instead.
  When I set it to French, it shows French websites at the top.
  So the language you set affects what websites you are shown in the results. That sucks.
  But you can actually just turn off ads in the settings. That's pretty fucking neat!
- 100% agree.
  To add to this, when I'm looking up something online I want info provided by the internet in general, not just by my next door hillbilly.
  EDIT: Downvoted by my next door hillbilly

Using the term ‘assless chaps’ infuriates me and I will not let that aggression stand, man.
All chaps are assless. Chaps with asses are pants.
Fight me.
- what if I use the term to describe a group of unfortunate chaps who lost their asses in tragic accidents?
  
  You must be referring to the great ass-fire of 2016, that was a terrible tragedy.
  
  I will organize the poor souls into a vocal group and go on tour as The Assless Chaps, naturally.
- There's always this guy. Lol

The split between "Today" and "Tomorrow" is at midnight, not when one sleeps/wakes up.
This comes up often after midnight when my girlfriend asks me about "tomorrow". Why discuss breakfast for tomorrow when we still haven't had breakfast today??
- I guess my hill is to fight you on this.
  They current day isnt over until you wake up, or the sun comes up
- If someone says "last night" when talking at 12:01AM, do you consider them to be talking about 1 minute ago?
  
  I will know what they mean, but if I notice it is 12:01 I will absolutely take the opportunity to respond as if they meant 1 minute ago
- The Baha'is use sundown as the end/start point of the day, do with that information what you will
- Must disagree. If today ended at midnight, then my streak of watching at least one episode of a TV show every single day would have been broken years ago. No, today ends when I go to sleep, even if it's at noon on what is your tomorrow
- Some people think more in formal systems, some people think more in lived experience.
- Some computer nerd friends and I came up with a solution for this:
  Computer architectures typically provide separate instructions for "logical" and "arithmetic" bit-shifts. The details as to why aren't important, but we can borrow the nomenclature.
  When referring to "tomorrow" in the sense of "when I wake up from my next sleep cycle", use "logical tomorrow". When referring to "tomorrow" in the sense of "after midnight tonight", use "arithmetic tomorrow" (or "chronological tomorrow", if you really want to be pedantic).
- You'll love TV advertising schedules. You can buy slots all the way up through 29:59:59
- ngl, that's a very shitty hill to die on
- Perish
- I love that you argue about this
  
  Our relationship is built on tiny hills to die on. Of course, it is always playful 😜
  She will use a common grammatical construction in Spanish ("a por") that became technically correct in Spain (where she is from) long after the conquest. I am from Mexico, where that construction is not used (we don't insert the "a" before "por"). So, when she uses "a por" I act like I don't understand and argue that it is not in the spanish her ancestors taught mine.
- You may want to ask a member of the cult of the subgenius the difference between "real" midnight and "conspiracy" midnight.

Pineapple is a legitimate pizza topping lol
- I used to hate on it before I tried it at a friend's house. Man, Hawaiian pizza is one of my favourite ones now and I will happily join you on dying on this hill.
- Never tried it but it sounds good !
- Sweet and savory is a god tier class of food IMHO. Pineapple on pizza is just the tip of the delicious iceberg. Have you tried peaches with rice and curry? Or raisins in rice? I also like sweet and sour sauce, especially with little pieces of assorted fruits.
  My girlfriend hates it, in her opinion the only way to go with savory is salt, although she tolerates pork and pineapple on pizza, since the salty pork overpowers the sweet of the pineapple. But I love it!
  
  I'm with your girlfriend. I don't find pineapple on pizza disgusting, but for some reason it just doesn't gel for me. Same with sausage and jam on a biscuit... One or the other, please!
  But anchovies on pizza..... yessssss. Get them salty, grimy fuckers in there.
  
  Sweet and savory is an amazing combination, I'm also a fan of sweet and salty. I loveeeee me some dark chocolate covered pretzels
- Add hot sauce, seriously. Cheese + Sweet + Hot = Epic
  
  Or hot honey with some spiced sausage.
- Pineapple, banana and curry, optionally with peanuts. Now that's a real pizza!
  
  Username checks out?
  
  That sounds very interesting!. Do you mean curry leaves, or a particular curry sauce? I know e.g. masaman often includes peanuts.
- Pineapple with green olives! Sweet and salty!
  
  Ew, I've given olives an honest shot but I just can't even. Feta is great for a salty pairing with pineapple though!

People who don’t eat the pizza crust have no backbone and won’t survive the zombie apocalypse. And even if they do, they won’t be let into my post apocalyptic fortress, because they have no backbone which they have proven by not eating their pizza crusts.
In every job there is pleasure and pain. If you cannot stomach some doughy stumps or find a way to interleave the crust of your slice with the center of your next slice, you and I won’t be friends.
- I eat crust, but I never thought to include crust in my next slices activities.
  
  It’s always been my philosophy that if crust really is such a chore, put it orthogonally on top of the next slice - there’s always too much cheese and tomato in the first mouthfuls of a new slice anyway.

If a motorcycle has to be ear-splittingly loud for "safety", then it's too dangerous to be road legal.
- It's explicitly the opposite, scientifically, according to my safety class
  The deep rumble being loud overwhelms anyone's ability to properly locate the bike quickly, and they demonstrated this live. It's definitely harder to locate a LOUDER bike
- I used to ride. People who say that know it’s just a bullshit excuse to be a dick. Just roll your eyes and/or flip them the bird. Actually, most of them get off on you flipping them the bird, because they’re dicks 🤷

Time units are just as cursed as American units.
Conversion between days, hours, minutes and seconds is a total mess. If you never have to do anything with those numbers, you don’t need to worry about it. The moment you need to do calculations or compare devices you run into completely unnecessary problems that would have been easy to avoid. Just think of pumps and fans with units given in l/min or m^3/h.
Just pick the standard time unit and stick with it. Use prefixes to deal with big or small numbers.
- This is why I kinda wish we had metric time as standard, but absolutely nobody would adopt it now unless they actually find t useful
- This also reminds me of something I realized recently: 24 hours is NOT the amount of time it takes for the Earth to rotate 360°. Because the Earth (assuming North is "up") rotates counterclockwise and orbits counterclockwise, each day is slightly more than 360°, probably close to 361°.
  So if we assume a year is about 365.25 days, Earth actually spins 366.25 times. One rotation is just kinda "eaten" by orbiting counterclockwise.
  
  Also known as a sidereal day. Check the animation. It’s pretty cool.
  This topic also touches upon the concept of reference frames. When people say that the earth takes 24 h to make a full revolution, it’s in relation to the sun. From a universal perspective, the heliocentric reference frame moves and rotates. From the heliocentric perspective, the usual earth based reference frame also moves and rotates. Nothing is truly stationary, and measuring revolutions is impossible unless you define your frame of reference.
  If you say a full revolution takes 24 h, it’s not wrong, but it’s only true in one reference frame.
- And the icing on the cake? If we had 13 months, essentially every month could have the same number of days, 28.
  
  That's not true.
  The moon cycle and the sun cycle aren't in an integer ratio.
  
  That only gives you 364 daya per year and we need just fractionally less than 365.25. You end up needing an extra day every year, and if we want to keep midnight in the middle of the night, and extra full day every four years (except when we don't). Adding those sorts of bodges onto an otherwise elegant system would be awful to work with.
  Instead, I propose we build giant rocket engines pointing straight up on the equator, and adjust the Earth's orbit until one orbit around the sun takes exactly 364 days.
- Why not just pick a starting time, then count the seconds that have passed since then?
  
  That addresses the calendar problem, which is another pet peeve of mine. Oh, where do I even begin. The calendar system is just the next level of curses and barrels of rotting worms.
  At least time units have fixed, but inconvenient conversion multipliers. Months and years involve numbers that aren’t even constants!
  Just when you thought it couldn’t possibly get any worse, someone reminds you about time zones. That’s just pure cosmic horror.
  It’s a miracle we don’t trigger a nuclear meltdown every week while using a system like this.

The Shambler from Quake is covered in fur
- Feathers*, just like modern dinosaurs
  
  What's heavier: A kilogramme of steel, or a kilogramme of shambler feathers?

A steel ball is not a ball bearing. A bearing is something that bears load and allows for motion, usually rotation. There are sleeve bearings which are just one material or journal bearings which have pressurized oil to separate the spinning shaft. A ball bearing is an assembly with rolling elements (balls, rather than rollers). Those steel balls are just called balls. The whole assembly is called a ball bearing. I used to work in bearing manufacturing and they were just called balls.
- Would it be better if I clarified by calling them "ball bearing balls"? Or would that lead to my unpleasant pummeling by steel balls?
  
  Yeah that's accurate. Or just "bearing balls".

Having devices require a USB-C charger might be great for small devices, but it's awful for laptops. That thing is so flimsy it's only a matter of time until it starts having faulty contacts. I've had one for a year and now it connects/disconnects everytime I touch the cable. Gimme back my huge Dell barrel jacks 😭 😭 😭
- barrel jacks were great until you lost them and had to buy a new one for way too much money. but, I'd rather have a standardized barrel jack than usb c
  
  yeah my problem is not with having a standard, but with choosing USB-C for it instead of something better.
  I get that USB-C was probably the more pragmatic choice since it already existed and a lot of devices were already using it. But I'm still team "Let's make a new good standard rather than use one that's just okayish"
- Grab a thin needle or piece of wire, thin enough to easily insert into the USB-C port, and scratch all of the dirt and lint out of it. Always point the needle towards the outer surface so you don't scratch the electrical contacts in the middle.
  There is often a surprising amount of junk inside even if you can't see it from the outside, and that can greatly affect the connection quality.
  My phone recently had a similar issue where it would only charge if the cable was inserted in a specific way, and any movement would cause it to stop charging. The cable also wasn't really held well even though it looked like it was fully inserted. I cleaned out the port even though I couldn't see anything inside, and managed to pull out a bit of dust anyway. And now my phone no longer has charging issues and holds on to the cable much better.
  USB-C unfortunately just seems to have a design that makes it very easy for dust to get stuck in it, while also having a relatively low tolerance for foreign material buildup before the connection quality gets affected, making this a quite common issue.
  
  Thanks for the tip I'll try that ! I've had the same problem on a tablet, but there it was definitely caused by the port being bend out of shape (it won't be horizontal) so I had assumed it was the same problem on the laptop. But I'll try cleaning it to see if it fixes it ! I assume a toothpick or something else or wood or plastic would be better than metal ?
- Every barrel jack a different size and voltage.
  
  After further reflection, the hill I'll die on is that we should replace ALL types of USB by barrel jacks, not only USB-C. Cause circular connectors rule! Make a standard one, I don't care, as long as I never have to plug a USB-A three times to find the right way.
- The main problem I have with USB-C is that the "U" is a lie. Always has been to some extent, but seems like it's particularly true with USB-C. This is closer to that meme that's like "There are 12 competing standards. We created a new universal standard to replace them all." Except instead of there now being 13 competing standards, USB-C is a fractured mess so instead it's like there's now 20 competing standards. This cord supports passthrough power, this one doesn't, but even the one that does only supports 20W so you have to have a special one to deliver 65, and that USB-C power brick only gives 15W, so you have to buy a special one that does 80W, and this USB-C port on my phone doesn't support the USB-C to Aux jack adapter I bought, so now I have to buy a different adapter. It goes on and on and on and frankly I'm old and tired.
  
  True but at least you can buy replacement cables if they break and you know the spec.
- I have also had issues with type C connection reliability, but every single time so far it has been an issue with the cable. I thought that the port on my phone of 4+ years was dying, the connection felt loose and it would charge unreliably, but changing out the cable has completely removed all issues.

If a company has a bad interface on their electronic item I’ll not buy it. To me it’s a big hill but I guess it’s how you want to look at it. I’ll stop buying anything from that company if they keep doing it
- If i need wifi, bluetooth, or an app to use a product that shouldn’t need it (eg a toaster, toothbrush) i will not buy it. i also won’t buy a wireless device (say a bluetooth speaker) if it requires an app. I would be willing to pay $500 more to have a tv with no smart features than a ‘smart’ tv. corporations: keep your shitty malware. my phone is a temple.
- My new corollary: If your online e-commerce site asks customers to add a tip, even if $0 / no tip is an option, I'm not buying shit from you.
- I would agree with you, but I still want to own a microwave. There are none with reasonable UI behavior as far as I can tell.
  (Edit) For example: Opening the door a few seconds early always leaves time on the display which should just automatically clear after a minute or two. Obviously if the user doesn't use that leftover time immediately then they aren't going to.
  
  Peak microwave
  One dial is power level, the other is time.

No year zero. Meaning: year 2000 is in the 20th c. and year 2100 is in the 21st c.
M:I-3, 4, 5, and 6 are excellent movies. Each in their own right. I know, Tom Cruise. But, plug and play any action star, and these are still great movies. He just happened to land the role of Ethan Hunt back in '96.
- what century was year 0-100 then?
- Tom Cruise. But, plug
  Ohhh, okay. I see how it is.
  
  Phrasing.
- Tim Cruise has something besides luck, you have to admit that by now. He landed that thing because he WANTED to land that thing.
  TC, he's just like you and me. He puts his pants on one leg at a time.
  But after his pants are on he makes hit movies.
  
  I mean, Com Truise defo had more than luck. He had pull even then. And, yes, he is just a person. He is dedicated to his art, which, I think, is running hard and making memorable movies.
  Top Gun (1986, Dir. Tony Scott, Budget $15M),
  Rain Man (1988, Dir. Barry Levinson, Budget $25M),
  Days of Thunder (1990, Dir. Tony Scott, Wri. Robert Towne, Budget $60M),
  A Few Good Men (1992, Dir. Rob Reiner, wri. Aaron Sorkin, Budget $40M),
  the Firm (1993, Dir. Syndey Pollack, Budget $42M),
  Interview with the Vampire (Dir. Neil Jordan, Wri. Anne Rice, Budget $60M),
  Big directors, writers, and big hit films. Then, he became Ethan Hunt.
  Mission: Impossible 1 (Dir. Brian DePalma, Wri. Robert Towne, Budget $80M)
  M:I-2 (Dir. John Woo, Wri. Robert Towne) was thoroughly forgettable. That said, I just discovered that the writers of Star Trek: DS-9 and Voyager — Ronald D. Moore and Brannon Braga — wrote the story. Wild. Still, no quarter given. Until, maybe, I watch it again.
  The next 4 are great.
  M:I-3 (Wri./Dir. J.J. Abrams with Alex Kurtzman (latter-day Star Trek writers and executive producers))
  M:I-4, Ghost Protocol (Dir. Brad Bird (the Iron Giant and the Incredibles))
  M:I-5, Rogue Nation (Wri./Dir. Christopher MacQuarrie (the Usual Suspects and the Way of the Gun))
  M:I-6, Fallout (Wri./Dir. Christopher MacQuarrie)
  Jury is still out on M:I-7, Dead Reckoning Part 1, and Final Reckoning. Full disclosure, I did not really feel Part 1.
  Tron Cubes does attract/demand talent. And, his collaboration with Christopher MacQuarrie is long-standing.
- Or just start ordinals with 0th for years 0-99

Mole
- Ant

There are no bad pizza toppings, and any pizza with only cheese and sauce is a wasted opportunity.
- I usually feel this way, but I was at a pizza place a, while back, and the cheese on the cheese pizza just looked so much gooier than on the others... I still wonder how much better my life would be if I'd had the gooey cheese instead of the goo-less supreme...
- Pizza is primarily a bread first. Toppings are only an enhancement of said bread. And if the bread sucks, the whole pizza sucks and no combination of toppings will save it.
  
  As someone who got really into making pizza for a while:
  Season the crust more than the sauce and you'll be able to use a cheap premade sauce with a tiny bit of work without anyone ever noticing
  
  If the bread sucks, flip it, peel away the crust. Boom. Keto pizza.
- I was heavily on your side untill the comma, man. Margherita is delicious and the ultimate test of the chef as there is nowhere to hide mistakes.
  Does it qualify if I add basil after the cook?
  
  Fresh basil absolutely counts. I love margherita, but the thing with margherita is that you need an amazing crust for it to be a good pizza. That’s not really a surprise at all, but even a terrible crust can be redeemed with a mountain of good toppings.
  And my statement is not about gatekeeping a pizza, in fact quite the opposite. Pizza is such a low bar that, yes, even Chuck E. Cheese’s pizza is better than no pizza. Great pizzas will have great crust and a wise combination of toppings, but a good pizza can be a mediocre crust with a kitchen sink on top. That’s basically what I order at MOD pizza everytime I go; just put everything on there, chief.

Star Trek TOS is the best series and always will be.

"catsup" is the better spelling; "ketchup" looks about as proper as "nite lite"
- Anything with cats is inherently superior

Code indentation should never use tabs, only spaces.
- I don’t understand why this is such a big deal for anyone. With all the UI utilities available it would be incredibly easy to have a setting to interpret 5 consecutive spaces as a tab or a tab as 5 consecutive spaces and just let whoever prefers what to choose how they are going to interface with the code. Hell, you could even make it so 5 is the default and have custom consecutive values as an advanced option in the interpreter for edge cases. So many incredibly more challenging issues have been resolved in IDEs, I just don’t get it.
  
  Reading a tab as however many spaces is trivial, and the point of tabs.
  Reading however many spaces as a tab is a gross hack that has to be dialed-in for whatever standard the document chose.
  Just use tabs in the first place. God damn. That's what they're for.
- I would die on the opposite hill. No spaces, only tabs.
  What's your reasoning for liking spaces?
  
  My big reason would be "it hurts readability". That is, when writing code, readibility for others who aren't familiar with it (including future me) is my top-priority, and that means indentation and alignment are HIGHLY important, and if I spend the time to write code with specific indentation and alignment, to make it readable at a glance, I want to be certain that it's always going to display exactly that way. Tabs specifically break that guarantee, because they're subject to editor settings, which means shit like the below example can occur:
  I write the following code with an editor that uses a tab size of 4.
  cs
  
  myObject.DoSomething( someParameter: "A", someOtherParameter: "B", value: "C");
  If someone pulls this up in an editor that uses a tab size of 8, they get...
  cs
  
  myObject.DoSomething( someParameter: "A", someOtherParameter: "B", value: "C");
  Not really a big deal, in this simple case, but it illustrates the point.
  My second reason would be that it makes code more difficult to WRITE, I.E. it's not that hard to insert spaces when you mean to insert tabs, considering that you're not LITERALLY using only tabs just only tabs for indentation and alignment. And if you do accidentally have spaces mixed in, you're not going to be able to tell. The guy on another machine with different editor settings will, though.
  I'm aware there are fonts that can make spaces and tabs visible and distinct, but that sounds like a NIGHTMARE to write and read code with. I mentioned above, my top priority is easy readability, and introducing more visual noise to make tabs and spaces distinct can only hurt readability.
  
  Because when I move left in tabs, the cursor isn't clear which tab I'm on. It also tried to sit off the left edge of a terminal in some editors because it aligns with the right side of the character (the tab), instead of the left.
  I do see how tabs are a better option : they allow the one editing the file to decide how wide the indentation is. That's actually good User Interface design, by separating the data from the rendering layout.
  I can see the argument both ways, but I like to use spaces so the visual and editing interfaces are more standard.
- Richard Hendricks would like a word.

Punctuation goes inside quotes at the end of a sentence unless the quote has its own non-period punctuation. I call this out on every paper I grade.
- Allowing the quote to be affected by the punctuation around it seems to undermine the "verbatim"-ness of a quote. If the period goes outside of the quote, then the quote is always a discrete unit of text that can be moved around the sentence as needed.
  Example:
  He said, "It's fine".
  "It's fine", he said.
  I would accept always including the period inside the quote for that case, but it causes other problems. If you put the period inside the quote, how do you indicate a quote that must end in a period, but does not end the sentence?
  Example:
  The spec sheet read "88 m.p.h." on the back.
- It looks so cursed
  
  int main() { printf("Hello, World!);" return 0; }
- Is this really a debate?
  
  I was a beta reader once and the guy rejected all my alterations where I fixed the quote punctuation. So maybe?
- This drove me nuts back in high school. Somehow the yearbook comittee never got it right. Senior year I went through with red pen and circled all the punctuation mistakes for fun.
- I know it, but i don't do it.