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The Date Format Holy War

The Date Format Holy War
The eternal date format war rages on! While most of the world sensibly uses the pyramid of DD/MM/YY (small to big), and some Asian countries flip it upside-down (YY/MM/DD), the USA just... does whatever the hell it wants with MM/DD/YY. It's like they designed their date format the same way they designed their healthcare system – maximum confusion for everyone involved. The beautiful irony is that only the YY/MM/DD format is actually ISO-8601 compliant and makes perfect sense for sorting. Meanwhile, programmers everywhere silently weep when handling date inputs from international users. Nothing says "fun weekend project" like writing regex to figure out if 03/04/05 means March 4th, 2005 or April 3rd, 2005 or... wait... 1905?

Gibi A Break

Gibi A Break
Oh the eternal battle between measurement systems! 🍌 First dude's like "a foot is roughly two bananas" (peak American measurement energy). Then the reasonable guy suggests using metric like a normal human. BUT WAIT! The first guy hits back with "a KB is 1000 bytes" (which is technically metric), and the second guy loses his mind because in computing we've got this weird thing where a KB is actually 1024 bytes! The grand finale? Converting back to banana-metrics: "a KB is roughly 142 bananas in ASCII" which is just *chef's kiss* perfect nonsense. It's the chaotic energy of programmers trying to agree on standards while secretly making up their own ridiculous conversion rates!