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[–] [email protected] 32 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (5 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 4 days ago (13 children)

Niche pronounced with a "ch" sound is wrong and dumb and I hate you

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

Those people who pronounce it 'nitch'? The word for that is WRONG. Those people deserve ridicule.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago

Rhymes with "sheesh"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

On that note: cache

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 days ago

How else would you say it?

I've only heard /niʃ/

Do some people say /nit͡ʃ/ ?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

My stairs are pretty steep does that count?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 days ago

Probably a slightly higher stair in a staircase one day

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 5 days ago (19 children)

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.

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