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Showerthoughts @lemmy.world

Denying uniqueness is both a compliment and an insult.

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The Westminster Chime is mostly played on crappy speakers.

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In natural languages¹, the word 'and' can be used to denote the union operation. The confusion over (logical) 'and' &² 'or' stems from that.

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Mouse pointers with drop shadows have their visual click zones and actual ones misaligned.

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Handheld showerheads look like moving tails.

  • Now I'm wondering whether corporations would use 6-hour shifts (2.5 dec) instead of 8-hour shifts (3.33... dec) when switching to decimal time.

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    Using 24-hour format and 12-hour format together is worse than using either of those alone.

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    Most people want immediate feedback on helping things they like, while disliking immediate feedback on harming things they hate.

  • I assumed that lunar months are delimited by full moons, but I was wrong.

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    The use of lunar calendar might be the reason why days start at midnight.

  • mm⁻¹ would be unintuitive since that kind of micro adjustments are uncommon in my opinion.

  • This is actually a good idea. I have considered "/cm", "pcm" (per centimeter) and "cpcm" (counts per centimeter), but they don't look right in my opinion.

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    The metric counterpart to mouse DPI would likely be cm⁻¹.

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    Glass ceilings are not necessary see-through.