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Cake day: July 23rd, 2023

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  • What? The US military uses 24 for just one minute? Seems so unnecessary. Why would they do that?

    World     US military
    
    HH:MM:SS  HH:MM:SS
    23:59:59  23:59:59
    00:00:00  24:00:00
    00:00:01  24:00:01
    00:00:02  24:00:02
    ...         ...
    00:00:59  24:00:59
    00:01:00  00:01:00
    00:01:01  00:01:01
    

    Really? Do they order custom clocks for this etc? Do they have custom settings on their computers to add that extra minute?

    Edit: It says in the time chart on the site you linked that 00:00 = 12 am. What are you on about?








  • Well … the box is just a remenant of the search web pages.

    I think it does make sense to have a separate search box for web-only searches tough. Say you’re sitting next to a coworker and you’re talking about Anna Karenina and you want to look something up, but typing “an…” in the address bar will pull up “Anastasia likes it big and hard” from your bookmarks because you forgot to disable bookmark search


  • I was looking for a mouse recently. My priorities were:

    • Comfortable (i.e. vertical; after getting used to it I’m not looking back)
    • Standard format replaceable battery, since built-ins always end up depleting or swelling and being hard to replace
    • Nice scroll wheel (highly subjective though)
    • Easy switching between Linux and Windows systems
    • Small-ish, portable

    I got the Logitech Lift. I am pleasantly surprised by how nice it is.

    Granted I mostly use my mouse for browsing, scrolling and navigating UIs. The rest is all keyboard. For games I prefer controllers and game pads so precision/high performance wasn’t an issue for me at all.