For me, it may be that the toilet paper roll needs to have the open end away from the wall. I don’t want to reach under the roll to take a piece! That’s ludicrous!

That or my recent addiction to correcting people when they use “less” when they should use “fewer”

    • Dicska@lemmy.world
      1·
      21 days ago

      While we’re at it, make every name start with the surname. I understand why the majority of countries/languages start names with the forename, but finding people in a list of names is just so much easier when they are naturally called Swift Taylor and DeVito Danny.

    • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
      82·
      21 days ago

      It’s the only way that makes sense to parse. Imagine if literally anything else worked with the minor amounts first.

      This thing costs 25 cents and 3,000 dollars

      The time is currently 45:9.

      This program is v11.7.9 and the next release is v0.8.9

      I don’t like “mixed number” format, like 1/4 and 648,3. I’d much rather say “five hundredths, two tenths, six ones, four tens, 8 hundreds and 3 thousand”

      I guess a lot less recipes would get overseasoned though.

      • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
        13·
        21 days ago

        But everybody still writes addresses as person, street, place, country what is the reverse of the logical order with biggest geographical element first.

        • asyncrosaurus@programming.dev
          1·
          21 days ago

          Address are written for humans.

          For machines, the address line and postal code is the only important part, the rest is encoded in the postal code and can be left off.

      • Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        1·
        20 days ago

        What you’re saying makes s lot of sense, but how do you speak dates?

        When did you start working your current job? It was in 2022, Aprill 11th

        What’s your anniversary date? We were married on 2012, September the 9th.

        People don’t talk that way, which is how writing them down got to be the MMDDYYYY format in the first place. Technically, it was MMDDYY exclusively until mid 1999.

        • BaumGeist@lemmy.ml
          1·
          20 days ago

          But why do people put the year last when speaking? It’s no less arbitrary. We were just socialized to say it that way, so now it “sounds more natural,” but it’s not.

          Also, speech doesn’t dictate writing. Do British people say “11th April” out loud?

      • dufkm@lemmy.world
        2·
        21 days ago

        I sign papers with customers from all over the world, and if I get to sign first and need to add a date, I invariably go for YYYY-MM-DD from ISO-8601. If they go first it’s most often illegible to readers without any cultural context.

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        11·
        22 days ago

        Plus slashes are more likely to be blocked by arbitrary character set validation, and fail. Dashes more clearly distinguish the segments and are more compatible

      • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
        3·
        21 days ago

        I have (minor) beef with ISO 8601. It’s very wishy washy about fractional seconds. It’s like “eh, idc if you use a period or a comma to separate them”

      • DevOops@lemmy.eco.br
        1·
        20 days ago

        I agree. Plus, if you are naming files in your computer, using YYYY-MM-DD will keep them ordered chronologically by default.

    • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      611·
      22 days ago

      Good for computers and spreadsheets, bad for people in mundane use.

      Most of the time I know what year I’m dealing with so it goes in the back. Putting the day first doesn’t help until I know what month we mean, so the month goes first.

      Nightmare for file names and stuff though.

      • wallybeavis@lemmy.worldEnglish
        12·
        22 days ago

        I see you woke up and chose violence. Dueling pistols at dawn it is then

        For me, it’s actually much better for file name sorting - and just about everything else. It numerically orders items in a logical manner allowing for batch processing of large sets of data using wildcards or regex, but I understand that it may not fit everyone’s usecase…which is why, it seems everyday, there’s someone introducing a new date format

    • czl@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      122·
      22 days ago

      I’ll be honest, while YMD is best, I’ll take anything that isn’t MDY.

      • Redfox8@mander.xyz
        42·
        21 days ago

        MDY is just plain nuts, but has to be DMY for me, increasing length of time, left to right as that’s the direction of reading (plus what I was taught!).