Comment on America

Mac@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• hOrni@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Like the old truth “America does everything the wrong way”. 24h is superior, metric is superior, dd.mm.yyyy format is superior, etc…

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  • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    A4 is superior.

    Yes US doesn’t use A4 paper for printing.

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    • ytg@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      The superiority of ISO paper sizes isn’t obvious at all if you don’t know how US paper is different. Seems like different countries just use different sizes. But as anyone accustomed to using A- or B-series papers knows, A4 is made of exactly 2 A5s, and the pattern holds up to A10 and down to A0, whereas the US paper sizes are completely unrelated to each other.
      So good!

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  • Jakule17@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    dd.mm.yyyy

    I believe in ISO 8601 supremacy

    (I’m not saying its not better than American one thougn)

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    • elucubra@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I have for years named files that have a chronological component ymd , and if hours are relevant, hm. A few ymdhm.

      Makes a lot of sense when ordering directories.

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    • protogen420@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      2026-04-13 rule

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    • criscodisco@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      This is the way.

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  • GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    One of my favourite examples of this is road sign lettering.

    Instead of just using the same style as Europe.

    They created their own, which caused its own problems.

    Then created a replacement, which didn’t help.

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• imjustmsk@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  too lazy to learn. 

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