Niche pronounced with a "ch" sound is wrong and dumb and I hate you
this post was submitted on 01 May 2025
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Those people who pronounce it 'nitch'? The word for that is WRONG. Those people deserve ridicule.
How else would you say it?
I've only heard /niʃ/
Do some people say /nit͡ʃ/ ?
Rhymes with "sheesh"
Omg, I always pronounced it niche. Then slowly over the years I've gaslit myself into believing it's nitch because that's all I ever hear
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If a motorcycle has to be ear-splittingly loud for "safety", then it's too dangerous to be road legal.
It's explicitly the opposite, scientifically, according to my safety class
The deep rumble being loud overwhelms anyone's ability to properly locate the bike quickly, and they demonstrated this live. It's definitely harder to locate a LOUDER bike
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Using tabs for document management (f.e. Browsers, Text-Editors, ...) was a mistake. It would be way better if every document (website, text-file, image, console, ..) was in its own window, centrally managed by an intelligent window manager of the OS that allows quick and easy search between all documents like with a full-text searchable exposè-like view.
Using tabs for document-management was a bad but necessary workaround because Windows is a horrible window manager (despite its name, ironically).
Tabs work best when there is a fixed amount of them (Like with game settings: Controls, Audio, Video, Gameplay).
I could go on for quite a while on this, but I think this is where I stop.
so basically GNU/Linux Window Managers also GNU/Emacs
That sounds like tabs with extra steps.
linux has tiling windows managers that allow you to do this
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Pineapple on pizza is delicious, that is all
As long as it's small chunks, not whole rings
There is a letter G in the word recognise. Bloody use it. What people all say is "reckonise" which is not the same word. Also driving on the left just makes way more sense.
IMO right is better.
So who wins the argument now?
Seems to be unanimous. I'll call the prime minister.
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Time units are just as cursed as American units.
Conversion between days, hours, minutes and seconds is a total mess. If you never have to do anything with those numbers, you don’t need to worry about it. The moment you need to do calculations or compare devices you run into completely unnecessary problems that would have been easy to avoid. Just think of pumps and fans with units given in l/min or m^3/h.
Just pick the standard time unit and stick with it. Use prefixes to deal with big or small numbers.
This is why I kinda wish we had metric time as standard, but absolutely nobody would adopt it now unless they actually find t useful
Using seconds as the base unit of time would work in various situations, but not all. For example, kiloseconds (ks) would be handy for measuring the runtime of a movie or the length of a workday. In that regard, it’s just a matter of getting used to it. However the length of a solar day is about 86.4 ks and a year is about 31.54 Ms, which would be annoying numbers to memorize. Then again, remembering numbers like 60, 24, 52, 365 is about as annoying too, so that’s a problem for another day.
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