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  • Agree.

    I think people’s ability to effectively Google varies though. There are people who will write full questions in, or fail to iteratively improve their search terms based on the results, and ignoring the fact that bard is actually pretty good if they start using that, googling is much more effective if you stick to relevant keywords and search using operators.



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    Americans use PEMDAS, in the UK we use BODMAS, and I assume other English speaking countries use one or the other, but there is no difference between them in terms of order of operations, because it’s:

    1. brackets (parenthesis)

    2. orders (exponentials)

    3. division & multiplication (multiplication & division), performed left to right

    4. addition & subtraction, performed left to right

    People who choose to divide or multiply first because of the acronym have just forgotten that they go together left to right.


  • Because it’s easier, and is more likely to “just work” using only the GUI. That makes it more accessible to people new to it, and as it is perfectly capable once you’re no longer new to it there isn’t much incentive to move away.

    Same reason many people choose iPhones, they can just turn it on and use it without thinking or needing to configure it. Meanwhile those with more knowledge who might actively be looking for customisation may prefer another option.





  • I’ve driven around the Western side of Germany a few times and there really weren’t many sections that were unrestricted, and those that were unrestricted were not that long, and often very busy. Anecdotally, I did ask about it the first time I went and the advice I got was that while it is technically unrestricted you should be going at a similar speed to the traffic around you. If there are people in the middle lane and you blast past them at double their speed, that could be seen as unsafe by police and get you in trouble.




  • Interesting, did not know this. Do you also have different licence classifications? One of the reasons I think manuals are common here in the UK (or atleast cheaper* cars tend to be manual) is because you have to pass your test in a manual to be able to drive a manual car - if you pass in an automatic you can only drive those, so naturally everyone’s first car is a manual so you’re not restricted later in life on what you can buy or rent, or if you just need to drive a friend’s car or something.

    *Cheaper here means small hatchbacks. Once you get into the price range of more luxury cars the price difference between manual and automatic is either negligible or automatics become cheaper depending on the model.


  • It makes no difference, kids will be kids and if there is nothing to make fun out of your real name they’ll come up with nicknames until they find one you don’t like. Whatever it is they come up with, you just have to own it.

    “Hey eye-key-ya shame you flat packed your chest” “Actually, it’s ih-kay-ya” swish hair and walk away




  • Welsh has a Vigesimal and Decimal counting system and both are used for different purposes. The decimal one is very logical eg ten, one ten one, one ten two, one ten three … two ten, two ten one etc etc

    The Vigesimal system is different…

    • Ten
    • One on ten
    • Two on ten
    • Three on ten
    • Four on ten
    • Fifteen
    • One on fifteen
    • Two on fifteen
    • Two nines
    • Four on fifteen
    • Twenty

    Add to that that numbers can be gendered, mutate at the start or drop the end depending on a number of rules, or just randomly throw in an extra option eg 50 is “ten and two twenty” Vigesimal or “five ten” Decimal… but often you’d use “half hundred”…

    My understanding is that this is surprisingly common, but has died out in many languages.