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Try to keep it practical (like something that would be fairly doable, you just havent gotten around to it...yet)

There are apps that you can input text into and they can replace the characters in each word incrementally to help learn them. Wanna get into that

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[-] daannii@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Multiplication table.... One day I'll get those 7s and 8s.

(I'm 40).

[-] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 2 points 6 days ago
[-] daannii@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

Why the 7s and 8s? Right? Like that's the two that people struggle with.

It's Strange.

[-] ValiantDust@feddit.org 28 points 1 week ago
[-] prex@aussie.zone 7 points 1 week ago

I've taken a bit of a tumble.

[-] SkellyMonstera@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago

Four! I mean Five! I mean Fire!

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[-] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 28 points 1 week ago

If you're involved in any kind of protest, the phone number of a lawyer. Hell, generalize this. Make sure you memorize numbers of at least the first few of your emergency contacts. You never know when you will be separated from your phone.

[-] chaosCruiser@futurology.today 7 points 1 week ago

You know, you are allowed to cheat in this test. Just write those numbers on your arm with a permanent marker or whatever. Get a fake tattoo, if you want.

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[-] Zorsith 26 points 1 week ago

White-orange, orange, white-green, blue, white-blue, green, white-brown, brown.

[-] promitheas@programming.dev 12 points 1 week ago

Is... Is this the order for wiring rj45 connectors?

[-] Zorsith 13 points 1 week ago

Specifically, T568... B.

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[-] Iheartcheese@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

P Sherman 42 wallaby Way Sydney

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago

First aid procedures.

[-] ptychodus@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago

Proper sequence of attaching jumper cables.

[-] olbaidiablo@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago

That one is easy positive, negative, nipple, nipple.

[-] troybot@midwest.social 6 points 1 week ago

Which one is the positive nipple?

[-] SupremeDonut@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

The one that's red.

Wait... they're both... hmm

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[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago
[-] Mighty@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Basically any song on guitar that I like. I can sing the entire song back to front, but I can't for the life of me remember the chord sequences. And I've been playing for many years.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Why should I memorize songs that you like?

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[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

How to convert various units of measurement. (Including between imperial and metric.)

2.54 centimeters in an inch. Degrees Fahrenheit is nine fifths of degrees Celsius plus 32. Stuff like that.

[-] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The standardized NATO phonetic alphabet

...for when you need to read alpha numeric codes or clarify spellings.

Especially with, how, inexplicably, phone connections seem to have gotten more garbly in recent years.

This code was invented to be reasonably understood as much as possible in less-than-ideal communication conditions.

As time goes on, civilian life is full of situations where you'll need to read off serial numbers, codes, or even spelling your own name, to somebody seemingly connected to you from a million miles away via coconuts and twine.

So, learn it, and you never need to go "M as in...uh...'Mancy'?" ever again! Your IT department might thank you.

...and let's be honest, it sounds kinda cool. :)

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[-] vaionko@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago

Converting between hexadecimal and binary. It's not that hard and it would've been useful many times, but I still haven't memorised it

[-] TootSweet@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If you're a software engineer, memorizing an ASCII table (particularly the hex numbers of each character code) is definitely helpful. If for no other reason than so that you can read things that are randomly written in binary without having to consult a table.

Something not really otherwise terribly useful that nonetheless helped me keep my sanity: learn how to convert to base64 in your head. At work, we had really boring 8-hours-a-day training for a couple of weeks. To pass the time, I came up with random strings to base64 encode in my head. "Hat is 48 61 7a. The first six bits are 010010 which in base64 is an S. The next six bits would be 000110 which in base64 is G." Etc. I'd write down the base64 strings character by character as I derived them and then check my results for errors when I got back to my desk.

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[-] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 week ago

The dimensions of the doorways in my house.

[-] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago
[-] Lyra_Lycan 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The general knowledge of prefixes, suffixes and sentence structure of the language families/subgroups, in order to better grasp a basic understanding of a common language when I encounter it, and be more respective - for example knowing when to use -kun, Fraulein, señora, and courteous actions native to the locale

[-] bob_lemon@feddit.org 9 points 1 week ago

knowing when to use [...] Fräulein

That's an easy one: never.

It's outdated and no longer used as a title. And mildly derogatory as a standalone word.

At least in Germany. Not sure about Austria or Switzerland, tbh, they might well be more traditional about it.

[-] trbeach@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Your wife's birthday?

[-] Knossos@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago
[-] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 week ago

Do Germans care a ton if you get the wrong article? That must be a common thjng for even native speakers to get the article wrong on millions of individual words

[-] Knossos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

They learn the article with the word. So they never really have a problem. The biggest problem is that the article is necessary to know how other words need to be written.

Also, in English you can have one word that is written the same but can be the name of two entirely different things. We use the context of the sentence to determine which word is actually intended. Germans know through different articles, which word is intended.

[-] Knossos@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Also no German really gets upset by it if you get it wrong. They know that German is complicated in that regard. They are usually just happy that you are trying.

The only person that has ever said anything at all about it, is a colleague that I asked to correct me. It helps with the learning process.

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[-] Ephera@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 week ago

I find that it's mainly frustrating to those learning German at an advanced level, since using a wrong article immediately exposes you as a non-native speaker. Because yeah, as the others said, it hardly ever happens that native speakers use a wrong article...

[-] gustofwind@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

how to navigate whatever town or city you live in without GPS

[-] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 week ago

How long d'ya reckon 'twould take?

[-] lime@feddit.nu 5 points 1 week ago

how to division in your head. i always have to go the long way round.

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[-] LawBodilyAutonomy@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago

Your state's mental hygiene/commitment laws and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities treaty that U.S.A. is the only country not to ratify.

[-] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Fa Do Sol Ré La Mi Si
(F....C....G....D...A...E...B)

this is the order in which sharps go. Gives you the tonality of a given song. Let's say the song takes 4 sharps- take the last one (Ré/D), add a half-tone to it (Mi/E), there it is, your song is in E major

It works with flats as well, in the reverse order (Si Mi La Ré Sol Do Fa). Take the next-to-last flat, that is your tonality.

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[-] greenbelt@lemy.lol 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The first 100 digits of pi lol. On a more serious note, it is very useful to remember how you should react to certain comments you know others will make in the future.

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[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Keeping it practical, I'd like to know the basics about every regionally important city in the world. Capitals should be easy, I probably have most of them down already, and I have a few ideas about how to compile a list of the rest.

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