Thanks, I hate it
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renzev@lemmy.world 10 months agorockerface@lemm.ee 10 months ago
0x0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
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🖖125 millibits
JackbyDev@programming.dev 10 months ago
mbps, milli bits per second
perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Saw a video using mHz recently and it took way too long to realise the readout was correct and nort a misspelling of MHz …
stupidcasey@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Metre hertz? Lol
lauha@lemmy.one 10 months ago
Millihertz
skulblaka@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
That’s interesting. Obviously, you’d put a center dot to disambiguate millihertz from meter-hertz, but I can’t recall ever having learned a rule about that. So some combinations of units are inherently ambiguous?
renzev@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I can’t tell which unit is more cursed: millihertz or meter hertz. Surely, anything that could be measured in millihertz is more natural to measure as a period, or as revolutions per minute or something, right?
Technus@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
Something that occurs once a hour has a frequency of 277.777… μHz
Technus@lemmy.zip 10 months ago
You know, I always figured optometry involved like, super complicated math and shit.
Turns out it’s just basic arithmetic.
Kinda like programming, in a way.
rockerface@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Yeah, from my experience ordering glasses, it’s mostly about making sure the lenses are aligned with my retinas to focus the light in the right spots. All the numbers are just a way to formalize those measurements so that the lens maker gets it right
bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
Tell me you don’t glasses without telling me you don’t need glasses :D
renzev@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I actually do have glasses, I just never bothered learning about any of the technical details behind my lenses. Optometrist measured my eyes, I chose the cheapest frame the store offered, came back a week later to pick up the glasses and that’s about it.
Eheran@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Speed as meter per hertz is a rather odd case, like with a machine that goes in discrete steps.
In any case, I never use implied multiplication (and others) and always simply put everything where it should be.