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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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[-] 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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[-] 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!

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

This is just like the golf incident

[-] Zorsith 26 points 1 week ago

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

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

Blue Orange Green Brown Slate White Red Black Yellow Violet Pink Turquoise

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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.

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[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Negative negative
Positive positive right?

Sometimes a chassis connection?

[-] tuck182@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

The important thing is not to complete the circuit near a battery, since it can cause sparks which can ignite the flammable vapors that batteries tend to emit when discharging. This is especially important near the dead battery, which has potentially been discharging quite a lot recently.

So the usual sequence is:

  1. Dead positive
  2. Live positive
  3. Live negative
  4. Dead ground (to the metal chassis, ideally not right next to the battery)

I usually start by clipping the dead negative cable to something non-conductive to keep it out of the way and then move it to ground as the last step.

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[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 week ago
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[-] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

What do white glasses usually mean, wat is that convention?

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Oh its a reference to an anime trope. Characters will push up their glasses and the lenses become white from glare when they "have you". As in they've bested you in some way, usually intellectually.

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

U havent already? How many digits could it cost, 10?

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Nah I have, it just took me enough times of needing it and not having it to do so

[-] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

Tony Robbins says to embrace frustration cuz it means you've had enough and are ready to grow past whatever it is

[-] 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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[-] 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 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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.

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

When is it useful past the point of just looking it up as need be?

[-] racketlauncher831@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

It's not something you try to recite. You just do it so many times you became too good at it to look at the table.

Four bits can represent up to 15, from 0000 to 1111. Correspondingly, 0 to F in hex.

Binary from right to left is 1, 2, 4, 8.

One byte is eight bits. It takes eight digit places.
XXXX XXXX

0000 0000 to 1111 1111
00 to FF
0 to 255

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

I mean when would it be so necessary that it jystifies itself or the time cost to do so

[-] spittingimage@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

It's useful if you're a network engineer or a web designer.

[-] WhyAUsername_1@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Sub netting baby!

[-] 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

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[-] 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.

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

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

[-] sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago
[-] lime@feddit.nu 4 points 1 week ago

just developing an intuition, like how you don't do addition in your head by just doing 1+1+1+1+1+1....

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[-] 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?

[-] 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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