MisterFrog

@MisterFrog@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About to turn the car to a flying car⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I should clarify, this is my personal preference, for ease of conversion. I wish we stuck to consistent intervals. They’re all valid, just that I find it very lovely that in industrial/construction we don’t use cm (in Australia)

  But there are so many various pressure units in use, which is a slight inconvenience. Pa, Bar, atm, cm-water, are the ones I’ve come across in actual use so far. (Metric engineering context, RIP US engineers)

  Makes it necessary for me to use a calculator to make sure I’m not messing something up. kPa to mbar: okay *bar/(100 kPa) * 1000 mbar/bar (which I’m now noticing is hPa)

  So in addition to my preference for consistent prefix intervals, let’s also stop using Bar, cm-water, and anything else that’s not Pa. That’d be nice ☺️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Lemmy Labour of Love⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just poking some fun because they’re so prolific, not complaining!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shitter's full, season's greetings.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  At least they can. So bummed stock android no longer has the option :(

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨About to turn the car to a flying car⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  As much as hPa is legitimate, in English speaking contexts I wish we kept to 10^3 prefixes. (Pa, kPa, MPa, GPa etc).

  Like how we keep to nm, μm, mm, m, km. Mostly.

  Or if one really must, atmospheres. Other units are just more of a pain to convert between, like yeah, it’s metric, so it’s not THAT hard, but just nicer in my opinion if it’s consistent intervals.

  Alas, at least I very rarely need to deal with PSI. Only with valve manufacturers using imperial valve coefficients (Cv values), grumble, grumble. They don’t even include the units usually, which to me is heresy. The units are US gallons/min of water at 60 °F per pressure drop of 1 PSI. Like, US engineers have this really stupid habit of not including units in constants and coefficients in some contexts, drives me up the wall.

  Thanks for being the convenient recipient of this metric engineer’s unit rant.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A scientific discovery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, seems I’m wrong, well that’s a bit incongruent if you ask me. Since the force of gravity from earlier isn’t that much lower in low earth orbit :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think in both cases (modern China, and the USSR), there is a genuine feeling/desire towards the ideals.

  In both cases though, it is co-opted for propaganda purposes, and falls pretty flat when inequality is off the charts.

  Which is a shame, if you have socialist beliefs

  I wish them the best though, and hope they figure things out to bring outcomes more in line with the ideals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A scientific discovery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe microgravity refers things like walking on the moon. Where the moon’s pull on you is far less than than if you were on earth

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Can’t say I’m terribly creative, the only community I mod I just copied when migrating from Reddit:

  lemmy.world/c/engineeringmemes

  So in terms of inventing one from scratch, I dunno haha

  For names (suggestions/spitballing) a play on words with the political compass? DueLeft NegativeX

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bad Ports⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I appreciate this so much, thank you for filling those blanks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A scientific discovery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Um acshually gravity in the international space station is not that much lower than on the surface of earth, just that they are weightless in orbit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s hard finding people with this opinion, sadly. I’m with you on this one comrade 🐱⚒️

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imperialism, authoritarianism and oppression is bad all around m'kay⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, there’s a notional aspiration to socialism at least, which is more than can be said about the US sphere of countries.

  In practice though? Yeah, China is hyper-captialist, without much of the social security present in wealthier countries.

  Why Leftist get a hard-on for the former USSR, Russia and China, or frankly any country, is beyond me.

  There are positive and negative outcomes in line or against socialist ideals everywhere (I think people are too black and white about China in both directions personally)

  I just do not understand simping for any country, just because they are “socialist”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It do be like that⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure all platforms support no break space, just that you have to go copy the unicode character if you don’t have a shortcut for it

  It’s U+00A0

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It do be like that⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My main point was leaving space between values and units. And know many of us have no choice but to use MS at work haha

  I better not catch you not leaving space between your values and units no matter the writing software

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It do be like that⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I like go in add spaces between the value and the unit in documents other people have prepared, when they write 50°C or something. The standard says there should be a space: 50 °C

  Non-breaking spaces, even better in my opinion 😘👌

  (Alt+0,1,6,0 on the numpad for all my homies using Windows at work)

  Don’t get me started on people using O’s with super script to get degrees, drives me nuts. (Alt+2,4,8, or find it in the MS Word symbols menu ffs)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Makes more sense than the Imperial system⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even more annoying, because there’s a bunch of software with bad localisation where we sane DD/MM/YYYY and YYYY.MM.DD users are forced to see the abomination that is MM/DD/YYY and it leads to errors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Makes more sense than the Imperial system⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I know this is a joke, but could help myself: you can’t always just cancel units like this.

  It’s more like 0.007 m^3^(fuel burned) / 100,000 m(travelled)

  Can’t really cancel those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Makes more sense than the Imperial system⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is my biggest complaint about SI, kg being the base mass unit with a heckin’ prefix.

  Bring back the grave 🥲

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨1+1=⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like the engineers set π = 3 meme is from like 50 years ago where you couldn’t just punch π into your calculator

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Percentages⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Why lying with maths is so easy, the average person, even in developed countries is practically innumerate (massive hyperbole, but the fact lying with numbers is easy, still stands)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fashion is cyclical⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I say strong, I mean that a trend is it dominates and defines as decade. All those things you mentioned are trends that you associate with different times, but there are far fewer things you can dress up as and people will think: ohhhh are you “from the 2000s”.

  They exist, just I’d argue it’s not as strong as the 90s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fashion is cyclical⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m only just now realising fads/trends seem to be way less strong these days.

  Like, there’s a 00’s vibe, sort of, 10’s vibe??? Maybe?

  But nowhere near as strong as practically every decade before that.

  Perhaps it’s just there’s way more variety to bandwagon now that every niche is connected around the globe.

  My random thoughts for your reading.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want a name for this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this an indicator or straight up ADHD specific? Because this is me constantly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just the essentials⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You lucky bastard. Where I live it’s basically monthly or fortnightly. I’ve never heard of anyone being paid weekly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I would personally just treat whatever direction I'm facing at the time as North and go from there.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It hurts me that people don’t realise you know where the sun rises and sets (roughly), anywhere, by looking up and roughly knowing what time it is. Other than midday, then fair enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Git good, son⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t like the overall message society gives that men need to be “good at sex” instead of people mutually enjoying the experience.

  To me it’s akin to someone calling you boring to talk with, while they contribute nothing to the conversation other than showing up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Git good, son⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Please think of your family haha: wikihow.com/Enable-the-Double-Tap-Period-Shortcut… Or www.techbone.net/…/double-space-full-stop

  If you use a different keyboard, then you’re on your own.

  Or just don’t double tap space!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Git good, son⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Funnily enough, this is the case for men too. Hence all the “this has never happened to me before” memes on TV shows in the 90s and 00s.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black owner here.... without context that sounds really bad⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “just as many”? Press X to doubt. I don’t doubt you’ve heard some, but people just don’t care about cat breeds in the same way people care about dog breeds.

  Hence the meme