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[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Pi day is a fake holiday created by people who don't know how to format dates. Also, relevant xkcd.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

YYYY.MM.DD (or similar) is the best (I just think dots look better and keeps the date together in many word processors, where hyphens do not)

DD/MM/YYYY is acceptable.

MM/DD/YYYY needs to be put out of its misery.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Interesting. I prefer hyphens to improve readability

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Luckily for you that's the iso standard haha

I wouldn't mind if it could be kept on the same line, but I don't believe there is a non-breaking hyphen in unicode.

You can insert non-breaking hyphens into MS Office programs like word though. Very useful if you're an engineer and writing out tags in reports all the time (and dislike when they get broken across lines).

The actual print character is a normal hyphen, though.

Thanks for reading my pedantic preferences haha

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

TIL XKCD has a mobile site

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

ISO format is the only correct way to format dates.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Aw yeah! UTC gang!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

If you want a computer to sort dates in a sane manner, year-month-day is the only option. Anything else is madness.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (12 children)

Biggest to smallest - makes it easy to sort by date for things like folders of photos. And other things, I’m sure.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

I think this joke has gone full circle.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I’m American, but observe on July 22nd.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Far from it, but I like that 22/7 is numerically closer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And all this time, I thought it was the cake that was a lie...

while sly PI stole my mind into infinite cries

of WHY CAN'T IT JUST BE 3.1415???!?!!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

I guess I did it wrong, I drove out to a country diner and bought a slice of foot-high chocolate meringue pie.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago

Shit and I just ordered a new order of operations

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Loved the joke, but I'm distracted. There are cabinets below the white board and storage space above. What is done with the extra space behind the whiteboard? I'm picturing like storage or cubbies in the next classroom over or something?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

The whiteboards are on sliders or hinges to access shelving behind.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

It'd be wild if the staff can store stuff behind the whiteboards.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pie are squared? No, pie are circled!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Pie are round. Cornbread are square!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Pi=4

they have taken us for absolute fools

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

We should just call it four, or pi? One two three pi

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Jesse, we need to calculate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

You can never trust Big Number.

They keep trying to make laws without going through Congress or the Senate.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We celebrate tau day in this household

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

The version I like better for some reason: Pi day is just a fake holiday created by big math to sell more formulas.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Pie was never meant to be commercialised!

(Also come on guys, please stop shortening it to 'pi'. We're not restricted by '90s SMS length any more!)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The only real pi day was in 1592. Everything else is just temporal appropriation

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This doesn't work with the DMY format and cannot be accepted.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Well DMY format is no fun, then!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (2 children)

If you think this is bad, how about the fact that Americans only have one math!

The time has come to stop the greedy hoarding of maths by Europeans. Let's open up our hearts and donate another math or two to these poor unfortunate souls.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We tried coming up with some new math so that we'd have more than one, but it was met with significant pushback.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Lehrer explained it so poorly it put people off.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

It was starting to change under Biden, but Trump put tariffs on importing math.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

It's mathmagic!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

"One math, please!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

developed in a math lab

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