Admit your ignorance - things you've only just realised/learned

[ebikeerwidnes]

I can't help wondering what happens if it goes too fast; is that the end of the galaxy or will we just see a million mile long "Error" message across the night sky.

The galaxy turns blue with a message to contact IT support who will then get someone to turn the galaxy off and on again

obviously


View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn2FB1P_Mn8

 

[figbat]

Not a great fan of decaf anything as the decaffeination process can be a bit sketchy depending on the method used. I now drink quite strong coffee without the same issue so tend to think it's more a natural component of green tea that is causing it.

Perhaps counterintuitively, stronger roasted coffee has less caffeine.

 

[presta]

That sausages taste better fried than grilled.

In practice, skimmed milk is vile. Semi-skimmed is tolerable at best.

That's what I used to think, but now I'm used to skimmed milk it's whole milk that tastes revolting.

 

[Reynard]

You shouldn't be giving your cat milk. See https://www.pdsa.org.uk/what-we-do/blog/vet-qa-can-cats-drink-milk

It's an occasional treat, not a regular thing. She normally gets proper cat milk, but the problem I have is that the moment my back is turned, Madam has her mush jammed in the milk jug.

 

[Chris S]

 

[albion]

Perhaps counterintuitively, stronger roasted coffee has less caffeine.

Counter reporting says the mass of dark roast is less and as such contains more caffeine weight for weight.
Of course using less coffee means you still can get less caffeine.

 

[Seevio]

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Only if you are under the misapprehension that mmddyy is in any way a sensible date format. We will however allow 231231.

 

[Beebo]

Only if you are under the misapprehension that mmddyy is in any way a sensible date format. We will however allow 231231.

311223 isnt as good

 

[Dogtrousers]

311223 isnt as good

Far more sensible 231231 (least significant on the right, sorts properly) isn't much better.

 

[richardfm]

Far more sensible 231231 (least significant on the right, sorts properly) isn't much better.

20231231 yyyymmdd is reliable for sorting

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

20231231 yyyymmdd is reliable for sorting

Yes - and it will also prevent a repeat of the Year2000 problem in 2999!

remember - I won;t be around to sort it all out next time so you need to think early!!

 

[DaveReading]

20231231 yyyymmdd is reliable for sorting

Unsurprisingly, that's the ISO standard for date presentation (2023-12-31 being an acceptable alternative).

 

[richardfm]

Unsurprisingly, that's the ISO standard for date presentation (2023-12-31 being an acceptable alternative).

I got fed up at work, explaining to people that it makes it much easier to find saved Word documents of meeting minutes etc if they began the file name with the date in that format e.g. yyyymmdd-subject-of-meeting.docx

 

[ColinJ]

I realised to my shame that I didn't know what the units for area were equivalent to (apart from the obvious - square metres, square feet etc.) so I thought it was about time that I looked them up...

The logical metric units:

• I are = 100 square metres
• 1 hectare = 100 ares = 10,000 square metres

The illogical imperial units:

• 1 square yard = 9 square feet
• 1 perch = 30.25 square yards (!!!)
• 1 rood = 40 perches
• 1 acre = 4 roods = 4,840 square yards = 43,560 square feet

Fairly accurate conversion factors...

• 1 acre -> 0.4047 hectare
• 1 hectare -> 2.4711 acres

Reasonable approximate conversion factors...

• 1 acre -> 0.4 hectare
• 1 hectare -> 2.5 acres

 

[Tenkaykev]

I realised to my shame that I didn't know what the units for area were equivalent to (apart from the obvious - square metres, square feet etc.) so I thought it was about time that I looked them up...

The logical metric units:

• I are = 100 square metres
• 1 hectare = 100 ares = 10,000 square metres

The illogical imperial units:

• 1 square yard = 9 square feet
• 1 perch = 30.25 square yards (!!!)
• 1 rood = 40 perches
• 1 acre = 4 roods = 4,840 square yards = 43,560 square feet

Fairly accurate conversion factors...

• 1 acre -> 0.4047 hectare
• 1 hectare -> 2.4711 acres

Reasonable approximate conversion factors...

• 1 acre -> 0.4 hectare
• 1 hectare -> 2.5 acres

Or for those af a certain age: 1 hectare = " 247 Radio One - BBC