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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago

I unironically love this. Of course it isn't practical in the least, but I love it.

[–] [email protected] 172 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Ask your doctor if Moctopril™ is right for you!

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My insurance won't cover it so I have to take Novemugust...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

Novemugust is what I’ve been feeling since last November.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Wake me up when Septempril ends

[–] [email protected] 1 points 19 hours ago

Like my father's come and past, 1900 years has gone so fast!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

Sounds like a medicine I shouldn't take before asking my doctor if it's right for me.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

october

j'octobe
tu octobes
il/elle/on octobe
nous octobons
vous octobez
ils/elles octobent

[–] [email protected] 104 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 87 points 2 days ago (4 children)

This is disgusting. Who enters dates in month/day/year order?

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago

That’s just adding salt to the would

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago

Managust, the manliest of months.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 66 points 2 days ago

Decay is my favourite month

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

"Lousy Smarch Weather"

'Do Not Touch -Willie'

"Hey, good advice!"

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I’ll take “le tits now” for 300, Trebek ~HEH~ ~HEH~

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Genuine Question:

if you could split the month names into 3, how would you split them to maximise their choice overlap?

  • "em" is a good overlap for nov/sept/dec
  • "uar" is good for jan/febr
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I assume the post is the maximum. I wonder if there is an algorithm for that

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

hierarchical letter clustering would be my guess, or graph-based clustering using ngrams of 2-4 as nodes and maximising for connections.

Or using an optimized Regex and printing out the DFA?

Edit: Quick N-gram analysis (min=3, max=num letters in that month)

R-code

library(ngram)

tmonths = c("january", "february", "march",
           "april", "may", "june", "july",
           "august", "september", "october",
           "november", "december")

zzz = lapply(tmonths, function(mon){
  ng = ngram::ngram_asweka(paste(unlist(strsplit(mon, split="")), collapse=" "), min=3, max=nchar(mon))
  return(gsub(" ", "", ng))
})
res = sort(table(unlist(zzz)))
res[res > 1]

This gives the following 9 ngram frequencies greater than 1:

  ary   uar  uary   emb  embe ember   mbe  mber   ber 
    2     2     2     3     3     3     3     3     4 

As you can see two longest most common motifs are "em-ber" and "uar-y"

Using this I propose the following graph

Mermaid

stateDiagram
    direction LR
    sept --> em
    nov --> em
    dec --> em
    em --> ber
    oc --> to
    to --> ber
    feb --> uar
    uar --> y
    jan --> uar
    ju --> ne
    ju --> l
    l --> y
    ma --> r
    ma --> y
    r --> ch
    
    a --> p 
    p --> r
    r --> il
    a --> u
    u --> gust

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Thanks for saving me time, my head was already spinning on the previous comment but you made it stop.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

My wife and I always wanted a joctober baby...

[–] [email protected] 34 points 2 days ago

I was born in _arch, btw.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Might be a decent way to sort out bots, actually.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

at least no bot will solve this

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

I, too, was born in Septulyber.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I understand that bad ui is a fun meme and all, but how did this one even cross their mind as an idea for a bad UI? This is a new level of convoluted I would not have even considered.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

My guess: someone messed up trying to split an array and split a string from it and hilarity ensued.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Hmm. A bit redundant.

[ j ] [ uly ] [ y ]

Shoulda just been [ ul ].

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The blank options solve that

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago

Febroctobus

[–] Deathray5 13 points 2 days ago

12 options as 21. At least it counts as lines of code for a performance review

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I love the month of Jay

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

For a truly peak UI make the text very light gray on a white background, in the thinnest font possible.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 days ago

Best CAPTCHA ever!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 days ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

They should have included an option for BC and AD.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago (4 children)

Funny month names are all well and good, but the only ones you can actually spell here are:

January, March, May, September, November, and December.

Otherwise, it's

Febranuary, Japril, Juney, Julyber, Maugust, and Moctober

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

I think you can use the white space so it's "[ ]april"

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Decoctorch sounds kind of cool though. Anyone up for some calendar reform?

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago

Novemy showers bring Septanugust flowers.

At least that's what my grandma would say.

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