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When I count things (in the real world), I now have a bad habit of starting a zero. "How many floors on that building?" "Let's see, 0, 1, 2... oh wait..."
Wait, that's what some countries do--ground floor != first floor.
Whenever I pay for something in cash, I'm trying to make it so that the change I get back requires the least notes or is simpler. For example, if I owe $7.84, I might give $13.09 so that I get $5.25. I sometimes get confused looks. Related to that, I don't like having more than 4 $1 bills. I feel like, at some point, I didn't give the cash I should have.
Wife: Have you seen my handbag? Me: 404 not found Wife: Can I take £10 out of your wallet? Me: 403 forbidden
Two stick out: 1. Answering questions fairly literally. a. "Did you like the salad?" "No, I did not." b. "Would you like to go to the fine art museum with me and 4 of my friends on Friday night?" "No, I would not like that." c. Note that I can escape from this pattern only when it's extremely obvious the truthful answer is a bad one. "Do these jeans make my ass look fat?" "I don't think it's the jeans..." I can avoid…
From the top of my head: dishes, picking clothes, paying bills and banking in general (I would be willing to pay $100/month for a bank that provided me a good API instead of forcing me to use their crappy stupid websites), organizing physical stuff (why the fuck can't I have "garbage collection" for what is in my room?) and dealing with my car (I have to fill it in with gas every time).
Pedantry and a penchant for terse and obtuse responses. Wife: Have you seen my handbag? Me: 404 not found Wife: Can I take £10 out of your wallet? Me: 403 forbidden
That should come in handy if you don't already know about it. :)
Constantly wondering if people mean `or' or `xor' (I mean xor)
Here are two unambiguous examples:
"Are you a US citizen or permanent resident? Yes [ ] No [ ]"
versus:
"Would you like coffee or tea?"
In some settings, when they ask "A or B", it's hard to know which of the following set are valid answers: {{}, {A}, {B}, {A,B}}
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The "and/or" thing actually sort of makes sense if you take "or" to mean "xor", since (A XOR B) OR (A AND B) equals (A OR B)
So, slash is really 'or'? Oh, my head.
english logic
------- -----
and AND
or XOR
/ OR
Maybe it's the correct thing to do, but it also annoys the shit out of people when I ask them if its possible that their single data point could have been an outlier or just a complete misinterpretation.
When I count things (in the real world), I now have a bad habit of starting a zero. "How many floors on that building?" "Let's see, 0, 1, 2... oh wait..."