MisterFrog
@MisterFrog@lemmy.world
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 20 hours ago:
It’s not cursed, it’s just a different way of grouping. Nothing about grouping in multiples of 10³ is a more natural grouping, were just more used to it.
And I’m pointing out how metric prefixes are actually euro-centric, and that’s annoying for them. But there’s nothing fundamentally worse about breaking digits in groups of 4, rather than 3
1,000,000,000,000 = 1,0000,0000,0000 (10^12^) [Meme of black and white muscular arms embracing.]
Look up the indian system, now that’s actually cursed.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 1 day ago:
Absolutely, mm > cm all the way. Other than you putting s at the end of mm, we don’t take the Lord’s (metric) name in vain around here.
I do feel kind of sorry for East Asia though, since their languages seperate at intervals of 10⁴, rather than 10³. The giga and mega prefixes just make no sense there. 1 GW = 10,0000,0000 W and 1 MW = 100,0000.
Language strikes again
Not sure, but perhaps they would prefer a prefix of 10^-4^ rather than mm (10^-3^).
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 1 day ago:
Stay strong friend 🫡, and don’t you let them take your numerals from you
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 1 day ago:
1.852 all the way in every single context. I will die on this hill haha
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 1 day ago:
You do you, but this is a big no-no from my point of view.
For example separating the prefix m from mm would be rather confusing, and look like another unit.
You can, however, put 10^x wherever you like 👍
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 1 day ago:
Can I ask why, though? I’m also an engineer and I just never spell it out, if I can avoid it (so far, luckily, haven’t had push back since I’m on delivery and not proposals or anything like that.)
To me, it’s just more annoying to read it as words, and no matter what you do, mistakes can still happen, including when it’s spelled out.
Just my 2 cents.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 1 day ago:
Touche, yeah, I’d totally be on board if everyone just uses $3.5*10⁹ or $3.5e9. Good luck getting it catch on outside eng/science circles though haha
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 2 days ago:
Oh damn, that is some nails on a chalkboard level stuff.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 2 days ago:
Yeah that’s fair. I personally prefer the first one, but I can see how it makes sense to not use digits there.
+1 ∆ for you (change my view points, a thing from r/changemyview)
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 2 days ago:
I’ll allow billion, but personally my preference is using powers of 10 or unit prefixes.
Just I’m not gonna be mad about the newspaper writing 3.5 billion dollars.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 2 days ago:
Only if you have a unit.
273 GW 👍
Else, looks kind weird, to my eyes anyway. But fair point haha
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 2 days ago:
Yeah I’m with you on this. I’m not sure if this was clear in the meme (I am an engineer), but I think the style guides can go shove it. I’m always going to write the symbols, not spell it out.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 2 days ago:
Hahaha, of course, it makes so much sense now
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 2 days ago:
Yeah haha, this is why it came to my mind. In this case it’s a title, so not really for the purpose of being used as a number.
Though, I suppose I didn’t specify this
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- Comment on The Holy? bible 6 days ago:
When I was around 14 I tried listening to the bible on audio book, couldn’t even make it past genesis (or the one after?) because of how terrible the writing was.
Like, bible, I don’t want to hear the entire fucking lineage of every single character you’re introducing. Appendices would have been much appreciated.
Never tried again because I was an edgy 14 year old atheist who was only doing it to be able to “win” arguments on the topic.
Ahh to be a hormonal teenager…
- Comment on OC, my dreams coming true 1 week ago:
“it’s like, they only took the best ideas, and then only improved on those ideas after adding them into their society!”
Yikes 💀 I wonder if they really paid attention to all the slavery, patriarchy, oligarchy, incest (the whole, you’re not related unless it’s on your father’s side thing), genocide, etc lol
I find it interesting because there is a lot about Roman society that’s more recognisable today than in the middle ages, the politics is exciting, and yeah, the organisation of the military is also fascinating.
But I’m glad to not have yet met anyone who actually admires the Roman Empire. They were barbaric and cruel, often by ancient standards.
- Comment on OC, my dreams coming true 1 week ago:
It did, kind internet stranger
- Comment on OC, my dreams coming true 1 week ago:
Hopefully it’s understood that the “how often do you think of the Roman Empire per day” about men is a meme, it just so happens that I’ve quite enjoyed Roman history, and also happen to be a man.
I wouldn’t say interest Roman history is a “man thing”, just that my own personal experience happened to be meme-able haha
- Comment on OC, my dreams coming true 1 week ago:
It’s got continuity of Roman institutions/conventions/culture, I’d personally count it
- Comment on OC, my dreams coming true 1 week ago:
Hence my utter surprise
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- Comment on Google now requires JavaScript 2 weeks ago:
Got about half way through this, yikes. I thought their pricing was already a bit steep per search, but considering the company decisions, it does not fill you with confidence.
- Comment on Had to read it 3 times to make sure 3 weeks ago:
Not a lawyer, but something makes me doubt all the courts around the world would hold to this.
- Comment on Nap game 3 weeks ago:
Naps are not recommended by sleep psychologists if you are someone who has trouble falling asleep at night anyway, unless you are extremely fatigued, and in those cases, the earlier in the day the better so you can recharge your sleep drive before night.
But yeah, I too wish I could give myself an actual refresh during the day with a siesta, but alas no.
I am not a sleep psychologist and this isn’t medical advice, second-hand info.
- Comment on Let me at 'em!! 3 weeks ago:
I don’t like Tyson because I feel he preaches an inaccurate version of the scientific philosophy. So many times I hear him saying things along the lines of absolute certainty, because it’s SCIENCE.
Where, we of the true faith, preach: the evidence indicates that this is the most likely to be true, or at least, this model makes predictions about the world more reliably than any other we currently have.
Amen.
- Comment on Trams are expensive here 5 weeks ago:
Unpopular option, but the free tram zone is worthless, and subsidising people who live in the city.
Either let’s make PT entirely free, or get rid of it.
Such a pain when you’re trying to get your team home at night (and they only run every 20 mins or so), and it’s chokablock with people taking the tram 1 or 2 stops within the CBD.
Or they really ought to do something about frequency into the evening, maybe get some teams just for shuttling within the CBD, and give trams priority at lights.
You can almost walk as fast as you can tram in the CBD (not quite, but still).
Current set up kinda sucks.
- Comment on One of my daily 5 5 weeks ago:
Eating your offspring seems terribly energy inefficient
- Comment on Is "disk" just a different spelling of "disc" or are they actually different words? 5 weeks ago:
Bloody English spelling… There’s a reason spelling bees don’t exist in some other languages.
We have a competition for spelling because English spelling is so bad at its job.
- Comment on Nature is blunt. 5 weeks ago:
Chiming in with barely any knowledge on the topic.
Universities are massive institutions, with serious cash behind them. What the hell is stopping, say, all the public Australian universities just setting up their own journal, running it at cost for all the universities in Australia?
Make it make sense.