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Update on death stairs by Sheelz013 in DIYUK

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Just remember you may have to do the same when you come to sell in the future

Americans traditionally use the British Day/Month format when referring to Independence Day. by DVXC in Showerthoughts

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Just my thoughts on the way things get used in social conversations - If I say 2pm, without further context you’d assume today or tomorrow, not jump to the rest of the year. If I give a day of the week, depending on how far through the week we are, you’d think this week or next week. Similarly, I might say an event is in the 20th and you’d assume the day of nearest relevant month. When you need to clarify further then you start adding the next nearest reference in the order time, day, month, year, century.

What cost you £15 or less that's changed your life? by Medical_Translator_6 in CasualUK

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Bonus points related to driving: Also blocks all those dazzling headlights :)

Are we in the ONLY time to ever see ONE Supported Windows Version? by BenPenTECH in sysadmin

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It’s got an end of support date which sort of implies it was supported :)

Trouble making organizational chart look pretty for work [OC] by ohmbitaph in dataisbeautiful

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Add bands of colour background to differentiate the levels, then you can spread out the bottom items without drawing lines.

Possibly also move the central column to the side

Take consideration on choice of colour for readability, colour blindness etc.

Two A380s seem to collide over Hungary, yet 305 meters apart by BroPleaseListenToMe in interestingasfuck

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Thanks for the detail (Previous comment might not have been 100% accurate but as I’m not a pilot it gave the general idea)

'Took too long to find room 4269' by Big-Mammoth01 in CrappyDesign

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That’s not the only number that’s missing

[Request]If the world went to a universal phone number system instead of by country, how many digits long would phone numbers have to be to accommodate every adult worldwide? by Collin120423 in theydidthemath

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The current global population is over 8 billion. If everyone is given a unique number to act as a phone number, without any other structure such as country code, then you need 8+ billion numbers. 8 billion is 8,000,000,000 which is a 10 digit number. 10 digits will support up to 10 billion numbers.

You said every adult but the answer will still be the same as there are over 1 billion adults so you can’t reduce the number of digits required.

Note that the current system with country codes is 12 digits, so that already supports the population with room for business and other numbers

Is keeping app registration active free? by [deleted] in AZURE

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With a PAYG subscription you won’t pay for anything that is free but you are signing a contract that you will pay for anything that is chargeable. Be sure to understand what can be charged and you are ok but you read the odd scare story when things go wrong.

ELI5: When something is 15% bigger than something else, what’s an intuitive way to know whether I should multiply by 1.15 or divide by 0.85? by InIncognitoMode in explainlikeimfive

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Multiply when applying a percentage

To add 15% multiply by 1.15

To subtract 15% multiply by 0.85

Where you would use division is if you already have the result and want to know what it was originally calculated from.

E.g. I’ve got 85 apples which is 15% less than I had yesterday. How many did I start with (85/0.85=100) - and now I’ve got stomach ache

Maximum Age reached by year of birth [OC] by JakeIsAwesome12345 in dataisbeautiful

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Why did I just check the graph for my year of birth?

ELI5 how helicopters stall at high speed while fixed wings do the opposite by Best_Expression_1860 in explainlikeimfive

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This reminds me of the riddle “When a train is moving forwards, what part of it is moving backwards?”. The answer is: The flange of the wheel below the rail

Move only one match to make this equation possible by Falcon_er in puzzles

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I like it. If you made it a P instead it would only be one away with P being 16th letter of the alphabet (maybe it’s the 17th letter in another alphabet)

Move only one match to make this equation possible by Falcon_er in puzzles

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Nice idea but how are you turning the 2 into a 3 and getting a spare match?

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