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
The NATO alphabet comes in handy sometimes
Pretty much how to do any task without electricity or a device that depends on it. It can be really useful to know how people did every day stuff 200 years ago.
Do you know how to do your laundry without a machine? Use a map? Send mail via post?
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.
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.
Can you talk more about that last part
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 take 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.
My credit card number and associated details.
Nah thats what password managers and physical custody of the cards are for
It came in handy when paying for parking today.
You didnt have your phone or the physical card on you? If not I agree, if you did its seems little redundant, huh? Never gonna recommend ignorance over knowing for the most part, I just dont think it outweighs the fact you pretty much need to use a password manager anyway so why not batch everything in that way, where do you draw the lines?
well, give it then
7569… Wait a minute!
If you cook, bake, brew, anything with food and drink.
Common volume conversions: 3 teaspoons in a tablespoon, 4 tablespoons/2 fluid ounces in a quarter cup, 8 fluid ounces in a cup, 2 cups in a pint, 2 pints in a quart, 4 quarts in a gallon.
Common weight conversions: 28 grams in an ounce, 16 ounces in a pound, 2 pounds and 3(ish) ounces in a kilo.
And common volume to weight conversions based on ingredients you use. For me: 200 grams in a cup of sugar, 125 grams in a cup of AP flour, 6 grams in a tablespoon of cocoa powder.
Makes it a lot easier to halve/double recipes, or use a scale for a volume written recipe.
What a headache, as a non-American just reading this makes my frontal lobe hurt.
Not my choice for sure, but since I have to live in it, committing it to memory seemed worth it.
Thank you but as the solar system as my witness that is such an absolutely terrible way to keep track of quantities
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. :)
First names still haven’t let me down to this date, and I’ve done phone work in the past.
I agree that this has been very useful for me. Initially taught it to myself when I was working in IT, and it has come in handy a lot.
More garbly? That’s those hosers using built in laptop microphones or speakerphones. Terrible.
Oh definitely! If there’s one thing I’m done with, it’s people calling on speakerphone while their phone is like, seemingly, in their gym bag in the trunk LOL.
Like bro, you’re not Jack Bauer and I’m not your handler, it can wait until you’re done going 75 on the freeway.
Maybe my work’s phone network service is just awful, even landline to landline, but yeah, for how much faster data connections have gotten, I feel like I got clearer voice quality on my cordless Vtech in 2004 LOL.
Maybe it’s me and I should get my hearing checked. 😅
Phone numbers of your life partner, parents, children, siblings and a lawyer.
Your national ID number (if your country has it)
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
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.
Good to know a few phone numbers even if you aren’t at a protest, though. Everyone should memorize the phone number of at least one partner/family member/friend who lives local to them in case of an emergency. Lawyer is a bonus.
White-orange, orange, white-green, blue, white-blue, green, white-brown, brown.
Is… Is this the order for wiring rj45 connectors?
Specifically, T568… B.
Blue Orange Green Brown Slate White Red Black Yellow Violet Pink Turquoise
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.
