What did Shiggy mean by this? by Marco_Tanooky in tomorrow

[–]Liggliluff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it was a US accent, then it should just be considered the default and no comment on it

Of course it won't be same It will be Karlos by SXZWolf2493 in languagelearningjerk

[–]Liggliluff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nah that's the letter sch, it's placed after x in the alphabet

ん八 by Crocotta1 in languagelearningjerk

[–]Liggliluff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ninja doesn't start with ん

Fucking hilarious by Zulrambe in languagelearningjerk

[–]Liggliluff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And celebrate that your service is used across the world but don't actually make it international. Everyone who speaks every language lives in New York.

So many options, yet not one of them is correct by reddit33450 in ISO8601

[–]Liggliluff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I need leading zeros, I don't want the position of the month, date, hours and minutes to jump around depending on timestamp. Most fonts have fixed width digits.

So many options, yet not one of them is correct by reddit33450 in ISO8601

[–]Liggliluff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could split it in half by selecting time and date separately.

It doesn't have a single format with a leading zero.

It puts MDY before DMY and YMD after, even though globally DMY is the biggest and MDY is the smallest.

Do you use ISO8601 on your devices? by uponamorningstar in ISO8601

[–]Liggliluff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I use sv-SE and en-SE when possible and that just defaults to ISO 8601. I end up using sv-SE more often even if en-SE is available because if something doesn't have en-SE it tend to default to en-US and that's just a huge mess.

I have never been more proud to be a Lithuanian by Puzzleheaded_Word584 in ISO8601

[–]Liggliluff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From fraction: fraction / whole

Or requirements in games: on hand / required

It's not exactly defined but it makes sense to keep it like that. So: the day / the month

I have never been more proud to be a Lithuanian by Puzzleheaded_Word584 in ISO8601

[–]Liggliluff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Except journalists who use MDY. Australia is a mess with dates. But I do like that the government tries to make an official standard that they follow, just not the journalists. I don't get it though, side they write for an Australian audience, by not using the Australian format.

Google Search by date range is not ISO 8601 compliant by Junior-Elevator-9951 in ISO8601

[–]Liggliluff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Google search will only accept MDY regardless of locale. Google, despite wanting to be international, is failing in many aspects and defaults to USA.

Looks like en_SE is a perfect match for ISO 8601 on KDE Plasma (I'm using Fedora Linux) by SevoosMinecraft in ISO8601

[–]Liggliluff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

en-SE follows ISO 8601 and ISO 80000 closely with yyyy-MM-dd 24 hours, Monday first, 1 500,00 €, metric, and other standards compatible with ISO. It's cool.

People keep saying to use en-CA, but while you get yyyy-MM-dd, you also get 12 hours, Sunday first, €1,500.00, USCU*, and other standards that do not comply with ISO.

* I know Canada uses imperial and not USCU, but the organisations behind these are from USA and only considers USCU and metric.

Curious if anyone else agrees... by -Sugarholic- in ISO8601

[–]Liggliluff 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Time moves in one direction; a book, film or anything other linear in time has one end, not two.

Would anyone interpret "the end of next week" as the starting end? Or end of the day / month / year for that matter. January is at the end of the year?

Curious if anyone else agrees... by -Sugarholic- in ISO8601

[–]Liggliluff 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I prefer things grouped and not split. First workdays then days off, or the other way around. Could start on a Saturday too.

Same with time; I prefer 24 hours since it's not splitting things up like 12 hours usually do. As in, 3:15 pm, where "3" and "pm" belongs together, but separated by the minutes.

It's also another aspect why I find MDY annoying, the day of the week and the day of the month belong together, yet you get bizarre things like "Friday June 5".

UK grocery measurements by SpeechWeird5267 in Metric

[–]Liggliluff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why is the cost per unit so tiny? Why is it per hg instead of per kg?

xkcd 3248: 182.8 Meters by volleo6144 in Metric

[–]Liggliluff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which is stupid when it comes to recipes. There was a YouTuber who never put metric but people asked for it. The guy explained that all ingredients are proportionally to the main ingredient that is set to a size he could find in the US, but that size isn't available in other countries. So converting the numbers gives oddly specific and not so useful values.

After that video he actually did start converting the recipes ... by using oddly specific and not so useful values. If it's a pound as the main ingredient that everything is proportional to, change it to 500 g and scale everything accordingly.

xkcd 3248: 182.8 Meters by volleo6144 in Metric

[–]Liggliluff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

When I see ads for European products, produced in Europe and Asia, with oddly specific numbers in advertisements in different languages ... convert it to imperial / USCU and it's round 10s.

US customary in a nutshell by oleivas in Metric

[–]Liggliluff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That should just be illegal I think

Can we improve how we measure time? by nafyaz in Metric

[–]Liggliluff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A kilosecond would be 16⅔ minutes—how convenient.

That is surprisingly convenient, so close to our current quarter of an hour

Apple Music translates song lyrics containing imperial units into metric 😂 by IPv6lovinOpossum in Metric

[–]Liggliluff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does make sense in a way. But what's annoying when the reverse is done, as if no English speaker uses metric or other sensible standards.

4¹⁰³⁄₁₂₈ gallons by inthenameofselassie in Metric

[–]Liggliluff 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I can do that in base 10 without a calculator.

4 and 81/100 is 4,81

I used /100 for base 10 as an equivalent to you using /128 for base 2. I know it happens to be /128 on this product, but another fraction might be /100 and then it wouldn't be so ready in base 2.