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YSK February 2027 calendar will be compact (for monday-starting weeks) in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
[–] [S] 5 points 4 months ago

Hell yeah! And I'm confused af when Sunday happens to be on the left.

I live in Czechia (born in Slovakia) and you won't see Sunday-first calendars around here unless they are imported. (I bet lot of people even don't know that in some calendars in the world Monday is not the first!)

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    • YSK February 2027 calendar will be compact (for monday-starting weeks) in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
    [–] [S] 1 point 4 months ago

    I was thinking of Crystal systems which would be cool because there's 6 or 7 depending on convention. The only problem is that the "Monoclinic" would have 3-letter abbreviation of "Mon" which could be confused with abbreviation for Monday---I would challenge myself to find a way around it.

    The XKCD thing is also great start. Continents would be nice, main-stream way of going about it. (I'm hopeful that people of Antarctica would not feel ripped off if they got the 7th season.)

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    • YSK February 2027 calendar will be compact (for monday-starting weeks) in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
    YSK February 2027 calendar will be compact (for monday-starting weeks) in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
    [–] [S] 9 points 4 months ago (3 children)

    IMHO months add unnecessary complexity. In my own experimental calendar I use normal Gregorian year with ISO week numbers and then instead of months, I define seven "seasons" which are just 8-week periods (week 1 to 8, 9 to 16, etc.). Each season has 56 (8 x 7) days except for season 7, which is the only one that absorbs all the irregularities and typically has 29 days.

    It could be pretty similar to 13-month calendar you described, but I decided to use larger unit and also remove ambiguity about meaning of "month" (all other units means the same thing as in Gregorian + ISO-week-numbering)---by simply abandoning that unit entirely.

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    • YSK : If you feel sad, eat an Orange in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
    YSK : If you feel sad, eat an Orange in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
    YSK : If you feel sad, eat an Orange in c/youshouldknow@lemmy.world
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    YSK February 2027 calendar will be compact (for monday-starting weeks) (lemmy.world)
     

    You should know this ahead to fully enjoy that beauty of compact, mathematically sound week chart, and perhaps the accompanying momentary illusion that world makes sense again.

    The next opportunity to enjoy most compact possible calendar page will be in 2038, so don't miss it!

    (Bonus: if you notice that 1st week is week 5 so apparently January 2027 also has 4 weeks--what gives? That's because in ISO week numbering, first three days of January 2027 count as week 53 of 2026. In other words, week 1 of 2027 starts on January 4th.)

    If your calendar starts with Sunday, this past February of 2026 was actually compact, and the next one is in 2037.

    Calendar page for February 2027 showing
    What happened to us Pirates? We used to sail the web and never even thought about reprecussions just sharing. Now it seems like it costs to be a pirate like a VPN and such. WTH happened? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
    [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    or someone who flexes their "downloading skills" on everyone they meet.

    many years ago a colleague of mine tried to flex on me without really knowing my position on ethics of piracy.

    (i have no problem with as long as it's about enabling access to media and art that would be inaccessible rather than making money. on the other hand, if an artist decides to do Spotify instead of Bandcamp i generally tend to respect their wish and avoid them like the plague.)

    incidentally the same guy complained some months later that he got some notice from police.

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    • Why do people say "my taxes" in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
    [–] 1 point 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 child)

    TL;DR: for "simple" employees, pretty quick and simple. for freelancers / small businesses the complexity scales based on type and size of business: from pretty quick (for freelance licenses) to more involved (for high turnover or special corpo licenses etc. i don't really know).

    Generally if you are employee and all your income comes from single employer, your taxes are done by the employer and simply withheld from your paycheck. Some are paid continuously and then balanced (excess returned, never the opposite) some time in the spring, but as employee you don't have to fill any forms. (With small exceptions -- IIRC we had to sign one "pink" form every year, I don't recall what exactly it was for.)

    For long time when I was employee I also had income from stocks, so then my employer did not have to do taxes for me so I had to do it on my own (ie. I used advisor.)

    If you are self-employed then it depends on the type of business license / trade and turnover: you may need to track every expense and then compute & fill form in April (this term moves to June if you use accredited tax advisor).

    There are also license types where you don't need to keep expenses, you only need to report yearly income and tax based on that number. The license has a percentage number assigned and it's just assumed that your expenses was that % of your income. When I was freelancing as a programmer, I used this kind of license. It was pretty comfy for me, even though i still used advisor since I can't come close than 2m to a tax paperwork or I'll start panicking :D

    Once you get past some turnover (i think it's 2 million CZK per year--about $100k) you need to use more complex system which requires you to do extra papers/taxes related to VAT, plus there's more tracking. (You need to track expenses precisely and keep the invoices/bills for some amount of years.) The rules are probably also different for different kinds of corporations, for some regulated trades, etc. For even larger businesses some of these are done half-yearly or quarterly.

    Social & health insurance (both of these are mandatory, ie. they are basically taxes) is paid separately from the above (for businesses. for employees this is still done by employers) as advance payment and then balanced based on your reported income. (Then there are several small taxes like public broadcasting, land taxes or city taxes, but those are usually really easy to pay, they are either same per capita, or in case of land taxes you just report your land size and the burreau will compute it for you and send you the bill.

    Of course there are also deductions based on whether you have kids, spouse, mortgage, charity gifts, etc.

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    • What does uptime of a website mean ? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
    How many sexual partners have you had? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
    What does uptime of a website mean ? in c/nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
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    How many robots are there? (lemmy.world)
     

    The term "robot" is stretchy so maybe I want answer in separate definitions of the word, eg.

    • proper robots: industrial, manufacturing, research machines that can largely operate on complex (as in composed of multiple steps) tasks without constant human interaction
    • futuristic robots: humanoid or animal-like robots such as those made by Boston Dynamics or Tesla (you can include the dancing guy) or other companies
    • toy robots: things that look like (most likely humanoid) robots but are just for kids.

    But feel free to use another definition.

    My motivation is that was just sipping my coffee thinking if there are more robots than humans already. Since AFAIK we've already been outnumbered by Lego people, I was wondering if we've also lost that fictional race.)

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    How do they prepare "normal" people in quiz shows? (lemmy.world)
     

    I'm not native English speaker so just to be sure: I mean those shows where "random" (in quotes because I suppose not that many apply and the producers still have to do some vetting), not professional entertainers, just normal people go to TV and answer knowledge questions in some gamified way.

    People get nervous when speaking in front of audiences, right? I know that while in TV, the audience is not present, but the person realizes they are being seen, so some nervousness is in place right?

    How are they not just dying from being nervous? Is there some kind of coach or a program that prepares them for it? Or do they have twice or three times as many contestants and we only see those that made it without fainting? 🙃 Or is is tons of rehearsals?

    I've never been in TV or even saw how such a set would look/feel like from the perspective of the contestant. Is it that the set actually does not feel like a big deal? I imagine annoying lights and weird people in the shadows (some of them of authorities) looking towards the set with serious professional looks on their face.

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    Can people tell sex of a dog just by looking at the dog? (lemmy.world)
     

    I'm not pet owner and I don't spend much time around animals in general. (Don't get me wrong, I love them, It's just I know I would be a terrible pet owner.)

    How common it is for people to see, let's say, a dog and immediately just know whether it's "she" or "him"? If two dog owners meet in a park, would it be awkward for one of them to misgender the other's dog?

    Of course, I mean without looking at the "obvious" traits.

    Are there behaviors that are typical for male/female pets outside the one directly related to mating?

    I recognize that within the animal kingdom, the traits are not always clear, and I guess gender is quite more flexible than sex. I would be interested in both aspects.

    What about cats or other animals?

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    What's your favorite well-designed CLI and why? (lemmy.world)
     

    Regardless of what the app does and whether the thing that does is particularly useful, powerful or important for what you need to do (or even well implemented), what is a command-line interface that you had a particularly good experience both learning and working with?

    In other words, I'm thinking about command line interface design patterns that tend to correlate with good user experience.

    "Good user experience" being vague, what I mean is, including (but not limited to)

    • discoverability--learning what features are available),
    • usability--those features actually being useful,
    • and expressiveness--being able to do more with less words without losing clarity,

    but if there's a CLI that has none of those but you still like it, I'd be happy to hear about it.

    Edit: Trying to stress more that this post is not about the functionality behind the tool. Looks like most of first responders missed the nuance: whether app x is better than app y because it does x1 ad x2 differently or better does not matter; I'm purely interested in how the command line interface is designed (short/long flags, sub-commands, verbs, nouns, output behaviors)..

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    What should be emoji reaction for "me too" in the general sense? (lemmy.world)
     

    I'm not talking about #metoo stuff.

    Assuming we're using a sane IM app that lets us use standard emoji as a reaction to a comment.

    I just mean when someone tells you that they did something and the only information that you want to convey back is that you followed them and did the same.

    More concrete example that i encounter few times a week: my pal tells me he's reserved the gym slot at 17:00, so I reserve that time too and i just want to reply "me too" to let him know it worked for me. (The way it works between us is that we want to go together but since he's got family etc. i always let him pick the time first and just announce his slot reservation, and i just want to confirm it.)

    Another example is if someone says "i signed this petition to support our Czech president who is protecting our democracy" then I want to say "yes I did it too". Just a nod that we're standing on the same side.

    (Come to think about it, it could technically be used in a #metoo adjacent context, like, if a friend told me "i was abused by my boss" and i could just use the emoji but that would be sooooo wrong on so many levels... You get the point.)

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    When washing, should I turn garments inside out? (lemmy.world)
     

    At some point (in a galaxy, long long time ago) I learned to turn jeans, shorts and hoodies inside out when putting them into washing machine. For some reason, I don't do the same with smaller, simple things like T-shirts and underwear.

    I forgot what was the reasoning behind it, but when I think about it, can't seem to come to a conclusion which way is better.

    Is one way better than another and why?

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