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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Or we could do metric time⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are right! English is not my first language and I thought I was talking about the pads. My bad! Yours is the best way!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Or we could do metric time⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  AFAIK the system goes back to the old Babylonians who had a base-60 system subdivided into 5 times 12. 5 times 12 could easily be counted using your thumb to count the 12 knuckles on the other fingers and the 5 fingers of the other hand.

  I mean, how amazing is counting like that! I only learned to count to 10 with my fingers. I love the base-10 for its simplicity but base-60, subbase-12 is the shit :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Or we could do metric time⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  IMHO especially in a setting like time where fractions are very common (like “half an hour”), being able to represent fractions with whole numbers is very convenient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Or we could do metric time⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate the idea of metric time (for a lot of use cases metric is still awesome).

  12 and 60 can be easily divided by 2, 3, 4, 6. 60 also by 5 and 10. Even for 8 it’s still kind of easy.

  For 10 or 100 division is easy for 2, 5 and 10 and okay-ish for 4.

  The 12/60 (and 360 degrees of a circle) are such an elegant system!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spotify plans to raise prices this year and introduce new plans - GSMArena.com news⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  https://www.tunemymusic.com is a great service for migrating libraries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quest 1 becomes near-E-waste Apr 30⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s the Pico 4 - but the company behind it is ByteDance. You might know ByteDance from their other product: TikTok…

  So in the end it would be out of the frying pan and into the fire, I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ask RPS: what is your favorite co-op gaming memory?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Around the beginning of the 00s I used to play coop NHL with a friend of mine. We used to play hours on hours over night together as one team trying for the Stanley Cup. I still remember it every time I hear “Heroes” because it was the intro song for one of the NHL games at that time.