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

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[–] 29 points 8 months ago (2 children)
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    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.

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  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    White-orange, orange, white-green, blue, white-blue, green, white-brown, brown.

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    [–] 18 points 8 months ago

    First aid procedures.

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    P Sherman 42 wallaby Way Sydney

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  • [–] 15 points 8 months ago (4 children)
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    [–] 15 points 8 months ago (6 children)

    Proper sequence of attaching jumper cables.

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  • [–] 16 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    That one is easy positive, negative, nipple, nipple.

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    [–] 12 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    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.

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    [–] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

    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. :)

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    [–] 8 points 8 months ago (7 children)

    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

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    If you're 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. "Hat is 48 61 7a. The first six bits are 010010 which in base64 is an S. The next six bits would be 000110 which in base64 is G." 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.

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    [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    The dimensions of the doorways in my house.

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    The general knowledge of prefixes, suffixes and sentence structure of the language families/subgroups, in order to better grasp a basic understanding of a common language when I encounter it, and be more respective - for example knowing when to use -kun, Fraulein, seΓ±ora, and courteous actions native to the locale

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    knowing when to use [...] FrΓ€ulein

    That's an easy one: never.

    It's outdated and no longer used as a title. And mildly derogatory as a standalone word.

    At least in Germany. Not sure about Austria or Switzerland, tbh, they might well be more traditional about it.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago

    Your wife's birthday?

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    how to navigate whatever town or city you live in without GPS

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    how to division in your head. i always have to go the long way round.

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    [–] 4 points 8 months ago

    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.

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    Fa Do Sol RΓ© 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 takes 4 sharps- take the last one (RΓ©/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 RΓ© Sol Do Fa). Take the next-to-last flat, that is your tonality.

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    [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (5 children)

    My credit card number and associated details.

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    [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

    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, and I have a few ideas about how to compile a list of the rest.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    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.

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