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
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.
Your SSN
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
You want to memorise @[email protected]’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.
First aid procedures.
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.
Your wife’s birthday?
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
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!
If your 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.
The dimensions of the doorways in my house.
No excuse
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. I have a few ideas about how to compile a list of the rest.
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.
Like a hose? What is non conductive?
I wouldn’t clip onto a hose, but maybe some plastic flashing or a plastic bracket. Most cars have something near the battery that would work. It’s not essential; just can make it a little easier.
P Sherman 42 wallaby Way Sydney
how to navigate whatever town or city you live in without GPS
How long d’ya reckon 'twould take?
0118999881999119725… 3
I’ve taken a bit of a tumble.
Four! I mean Five! I mean Fire!
This is just like the golf incident
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
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?
What? Why do you understand my comment like that? This is about me.
That’s the joke, sweetie.
how to division in your head. i always have to go the long way round.
Wats the "non-long- way?
just developing an intuition, like how you don’t do addition in your head by just doing 1+1+1+1+1+1…
I do 5+7 = 12 without much thinking . But 123912+987696 uhhh
right, and 23/7?
Approximate 3. I do not want to think past whole number division lol. Wtf is 2/7, that is what remains as the fraction I guess
i think my problem is i can’t think in fractions :(
