Octavio

@Octavio@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone NOT steaming their Music?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah it keeps the wrinkles out, but I’m in a damp climate. I don’t want mildew.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, honestly I’m not going to celebrate a murder. But nothing can stop me from appreciating the heck out of the irony.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 tomatoes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, what’s interesting about a nautical mile is that it wasn’t originally even based on a number of feet or meters or whatever. It represented one minute of latitude (60 minutes in a degree type of minutes). Since the earth is an oblate spheroid instead of a perfect sphere, that meant that traditional nautical miles varied based on your position until they were standardized it in 1929.

  I think it’s about 1.85 kilometers, but I wouldn’t have occasion to do the conversion because I’m a landlubber.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 tomatoes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, absolutely, I’m not arguing in favor of making everyone do the memorization, I just think it’s interesting that it occurs after enough exposure.

  I’ve often thought that if we’d have evolved to have 6 digits instead of 5, we might have adopted a base 12 system and made fractional calculations a lot easier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 tomatoes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know glitchdx from Adam, but I say with confidence that they were being sarcastic, and laying it on pretty thick.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 tomatoes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Most people who deal in imperial units know off the top of their head that 1/3 of a mile is 1760 feet. They don’t have to calculate it. After a while you see that number come up often enough and it’s committed to memory.

  I’m not saying that metric isn’t better, it is, and I wish we would hurry up and switch to it. I’m just saying that the numbers involved aren’t a handicap once you have worked with the imperial system for a while. If you have a set of sockets that you work with every day, you know instantly that 3/8” is bigger than 19/64”. Hell, even 5/16” is bigger than 19/64”.

  And, you must admit, 333 meters is not one third of a kilometer. It is one third of 999 meters. The number 5280, for all its awkwardness, is beautiful in the sense that it is evenly divisible by 12, Meaning that it can be exactly divided into quarters, thirds, or halves without a fractional part.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 tomatoes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Management has no incentive to field a competitive team. They are the worst team in baseball, haven’t been any good since 2007, and they are currently 9th in attendance, in a not-so-huge market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 tomatoes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So many businesses and shops are named 5280. Breweries, coffee shops, bars, transmission shops, interior design shops, animal hospitals, dry cleaners, bakeries…that number is plastered on signs and advertisements everywhere. 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨5 tomatoes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair, but I lived in Denver for 26 years. I will never forget the number of feet in a mile. 😂

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Y'ALL GOT ANY OF THEM HALLOPINERS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, right. Came here to say this. Although of course it’s not the correct word. 🤣