Try to keep it practical (like something that would be fairly doable, you just havent gotten around to it…yet)
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. :)
More garbly? That’s those hosers using built in laptop microphones or speakerphones. Terrible.
Your wife’s birthday?
0118999881999119725… 3
I’ve taken a bit of a tumble.
Four! I mean Five! I mean Fire!
This is just like the golf incident
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.
White-orange, orange, white-green, blue, white-blue, green, white-brown, brown.
Blue Orange Green Brown Slate White Red Black Yellow Violet Pink Turquoise
Is… Is this the order for wiring rj45 connectors?
Specifically, T568… B.
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.
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.
P Sherman 42 wallaby Way Sydney
First aid procedures.
Proper sequence of attaching jumper cables.
That one is easy positive, negative, nipple, nipple.
Which one is the positive nipple?
The one that’s red.
Wait… they’re both… hmm
Negative negative
Positive positive right?Sometimes a chassis connection?
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:
- Dead positive
- Live positive
- Live negative
- Dead ground (to the metal chassis, ideally not right next to the battery)
I usually start by clipping the dead negative wire to something non-conductive to keep it out of the way and then move it to ground as the last step.
Morse code.
Y?
-.–
Ah mores code
I dont know wat that is
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The dimensions of the doorways in my house.
No excuse
Your SSN
You want to memorise @sopularity_fax@sopuli.xyz’s SSN? Power move
What do white glasses usually mean, wat is that convention?
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.
U havent already? How many digits could it cost, 10?
Nah I have, it just took me enough times of needing it and not having it to do so
Tony Robbins says to embrace frustration cuz it means you’ve had enough and are ready to grow past whatever it is
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
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. “
Hatis48 61 7a. The first six bits are010010which in base64 is anS. The next six bits would be000110which in base64 isG.” 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.What is there to memorize about it? The 16 binary values? What is that useful for?
When is it useful past the point of just looking it up as need be?
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 XXXX0000 0000 to 1111 1111
00 to FF
0 to 255I mean when would it be so necessary that it jystifies itself or the time cost to do so
It’s useful if you’re a network engineer or a web designer.
Sub netting baby!
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.
Why should I memorize songs that you like?
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
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.
