I actually think these are fine. If I can quickly recognise each on my homescreen (I don’t use labels) then it’s fine, and I’ve never had a problem with any of these.

I like it because each company each has its own set of apps, and they have somewhat unified app icons.

Proton is the same, which similar icons as google but with their own unified branding.

I like it, personally.

Oh neato, then all good!

It would make sooo much more sense for the ISO to set something up, and make governments each responsible for keeping it updated, since they’re the ones doing the changing.

Require all participants to amend their law/regulations, so there’s a note to prompt whoever is in power and changes it next.

I’m sure some places would still neglect to do it… Haha

Perhaps we’ll move to UTC+10¼, and then move forward 45 minutes in the summer.

If the day number is a prime, then we’ll go back π hours.

Hope that will help!

Upvoting, because while I don’t eat meat myself, I like people who are consistent.

If you’re okay with eating a pig, don’t judge those you eat a dog.

1066 is a very commonly referenced date, and follows this pattern also

The drawbacks are many and the benefits are few.

Watching foreign films would be a pain, where is this in the world again, what does 19:00 mean for them? More exposition, or you just have to guess based on languag and accent.

I need this work done by our team in XYZ country, what are their working hours? (wow, look at that, still using timezones?)

When you arrive somewhere on holiday, now you have to get a sense of the time there. Or continually be thinking “what’s that in my home time?/what’s that in solar time”, which is why solar time just makes more sense.

People aren’t going to stop thinking in solar time, ever. We’re hard-wired to be awake with the sun. It doesn’t matter what the numbers are, you will associate them with the sun. The question then becomes, would we rather all use roughly the same numbers (timezones, what we currently have), or different numbers (everyone using UTC).

Using UTC solves only 1 problem, you can say verbally to someone across the world, let’s make the meeting 15:00 - but this is already easily solved by using a calendar which converts for you…

There’s a reason we have never used a single non-solar time, it’s just worse and I think there’s a reason these posts always end up on programmer focused places on the internet. Yes, I’m sure their job is annoying, and it would be easier to not have to solve time conversion problems, but the time conversion problems wouldn’t even go away if you forced everyone to use UTC. You’d just start having to do conversions to solar time, or looking up waking hours (which is just timezones)

This is a solved problem.

Problems caught early are much easier to fix than problems caught later. This applies to any project (I’m not a programmer, but an engineer in the traditional sense).

Just “doing it” without coordination and review is a great way to waste a bunch of effort down the line with re-work.

Edit: typo

People’s right to their own personal joys ends at everyone else’s right to safety and not being killed on the road (especially as a pedestrian, like you wouldn’t be able to see shit in this thing).

Drive it only on private property and transport it in suitable truck? Fine

Physiotherapists use a form of acupuncture called dry needling, which can be used to trigger muscle twitching/relaxation (I’m not really super knowledgeable on it, I’ve just been to the physio, who use this in combination with massage, specific exercises etc)

It’s certainly not placebo

As for all the other claims made, I dunno.

Thank you. This is such a breath of fresh air. In all cases I prefer a simple answer, when organising an event with multiple people where I want to get ideas on numbers for planning.

• Yes - great! See you there

• No (with or without a reason) - fantastic! We’ve all got our own stuff going on or reasons why we don’t want to go!

• Maybe, with a reason why, or when you would be able to give an answer - cool!

• Maybe, with no further explanation - ugh. I’ll just assume you’re not coming and don’t care.

Maybe with no explanation is the cowards way out. Especially when “no sorry, I’m busy!” is the standard white lie.

“No because I don’t want to (don’t feel socially up to it)” is the hero’s response and I salute you 🫡

I’m an engineer (a non-IT engineer) and have 4. There is so much ensuring consistency between drawings and documents. I’d like 5 (including the inbuilt one) but graphics card on my high performance company laptop says no.

At least one for file explorer, then other three could be pdf editor, or word, or excel, or internet browser.

I regularly have 4 drawings open, plus another reference, plus windows explorer for file management.

It’s never enough. I could totally do with more than 4 screens, I’m already squeezing multiple drawings onto one monitor.

This comment made me realise I don’t really know where the border between particle and molecule is.

Pretty sure fragrances are mostly giving off volitle molecules, rather than particles.

¯_(ツ)_/¯

The place I work in, reply all is the standard, and you pick your recipients diligently.

It’s really annoying when you cc people and then the person only responds to you, and you have to forward it to everyone else cc’d.

Luckily it’s only external people who don’t reply all.

Meme template 😘👌

Jokes on no one if you get paid fortnightly

When will they finally increase it to something plausible, and then appoint some department to review and increase it in line with inflation every year according to XYZ rules.

Seems silly to need acts of congress to increase it every time.

When did they remove proof of age cards? (Vic or SA?)

Boo 🔽🔽🔽

If this is real, this is a tragedy and then lawsuit waiting to happen.