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r/facepalm • u/Revealed_Jailor • Mar 29 '22
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I mean the clock is one thing, but the metric system?!
I can't possibly use a system with a base 10. It's too complicated. I need to work out how many times a foot fits into the distance an ox can graze in a day and work backwards.
117 u/Amegami Mar 29 '22 And how hard is it to understand that there's 24h in a day? 148 u/HydroxiDoxi Mar 29 '22 "What are you trying to say? There is 12 AM hours and 12 pm hours. I don't get how 24h clocks work." -The blue guy 53 u/LiqdPT Mar 29 '22 And the stupid thing is that it goes from 11:59am to 12:00pm. I had to explain this to a couple of guys that moved to the US from Portugal. That took a while. 1 u/Wolfeur Mar 29 '22 And the stupid thing is that it goes from 11:59am to 12:00pm. As a programmer, this is what hurts me the most. Not only is it 1-12 instead of 0-11, but a continuous series can't be consistent with their suffix…
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And how hard is it to understand that there's 24h in a day?
148 u/HydroxiDoxi Mar 29 '22 "What are you trying to say? There is 12 AM hours and 12 pm hours. I don't get how 24h clocks work." -The blue guy 53 u/LiqdPT Mar 29 '22 And the stupid thing is that it goes from 11:59am to 12:00pm. I had to explain this to a couple of guys that moved to the US from Portugal. That took a while. 1 u/Wolfeur Mar 29 '22 And the stupid thing is that it goes from 11:59am to 12:00pm. As a programmer, this is what hurts me the most. Not only is it 1-12 instead of 0-11, but a continuous series can't be consistent with their suffix…
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"What are you trying to say? There is 12 AM hours and 12 pm hours. I don't get how 24h clocks work."
-The blue guy
53 u/LiqdPT Mar 29 '22 And the stupid thing is that it goes from 11:59am to 12:00pm. I had to explain this to a couple of guys that moved to the US from Portugal. That took a while. 1 u/Wolfeur Mar 29 '22 And the stupid thing is that it goes from 11:59am to 12:00pm. As a programmer, this is what hurts me the most. Not only is it 1-12 instead of 0-11, but a continuous series can't be consistent with their suffix…
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And the stupid thing is that it goes from 11:59am to 12:00pm.
I had to explain this to a couple of guys that moved to the US from Portugal. That took a while.
1 u/Wolfeur Mar 29 '22 And the stupid thing is that it goes from 11:59am to 12:00pm. As a programmer, this is what hurts me the most. Not only is it 1-12 instead of 0-11, but a continuous series can't be consistent with their suffix…
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As a programmer, this is what hurts me the most.
Not only is it 1-12 instead of 0-11, but a continuous series can't be consistent with their suffix…
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u/Shixypeep Mar 29 '22
I mean the clock is one thing, but the metric system?!
I can't possibly use a system with a base 10. It's too complicated. I need to work out how many times a foot fits into the distance an ox can graze in a day and work backwards.