MisterFrog
@MisterFrog@lemmy.world
- Comment on Election Simulations 1 week ago:
Whoops :(
- Comment on Calcrelatable 1 week ago:
Let’s be honest, if you are doing serious math, you’ll have a graphing calculator to do way more stuff, and the controls are much more like a mini computer (with a backspace key, and being able to delete individual lines of history, or all of the history with menus)
- Comment on my boss hates this one simple trick 2 weeks ago:
HCl is already in your stomach, what’s the big deal of a little in the lungs?!?
- Comment on Of course telecom companies are suing the FTC to block the new 'click-to-cancel' rule 3 weeks ago:
Legal layman here, why is it I keep hearing of American companies suing regulators? I can’t recall that ever being the case in Australia, unless they’re claiming some law/regulation is unconstitutional or something.
Am I just ill informed? Seems weird.
Regulator is empowered by the law, law is made by legislators, unless it’s against the constitution of your country, surely the answer to any of these cases is: tough shit, company? No? How do they sue a regulator for regulating? Seems weird.
- Comment on Advertising 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on Half as Hot 3 weeks ago:
I would be willing to bet there are more people in the US using Kelvin in their jobs than Rankine.
Lb-mole? That one I’m not sure.
To me, these wanna-be scientific units are weird, like, just use metric at that point 😅
Also 1000th of an inch. Like, come on! You’re just teasing us
- Comment on Inside the U.S. Government-Bought Tool That Can Track Phones at Abortion Clinics 3 weeks ago:
How is this not a warrantless search?
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago:
Stay strong friend 🫡, and don’t you let them take your numerals from you
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 3 weeks ago:
1.852 all the way in every single context. I will die on this hill haha
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Oh damn, that is some nails on a chalkboard level stuff.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago:
Hahaha, of course, it makes so much sense now
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 4 weeks 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 New data reveals thousands of Australians who own 10 rentals or more 4 weeks ago:
our landlord decides to jack the rent up for our current place every 12 months by absurd amounts because “its what the market says”. Bull fucking shit you greedy fucks.
This is how I found out the “rental reviews” the department of justice does in Victoria are an absolute joke. If everyone colludes to raise rents by 20-30% 2 years in a row (as they did), then you’re shit out of luck.
They even use advertised listings in their calculations, which is an even bigger joke.
Canberra are the only ones (that I know of) who have something vaguely okay. 2% above inflation per year. No more.
Absolute joke of a “strong” housing market we find ourselves…
- Comment on Had to read it 3 times to make sure 1 month ago:
Not a lawyer, but something makes me doubt all the courts around the world would hold to this.
- Comment on California will force companies to admit you don't own digital content 1 month ago:
What country are you in? You may be entitled to a refund/replacement since you have the receipts
- Comment on Man-in-the-Middle PCB Unlocks HP Ink Cartridges 1 month ago:
Luckily/unluckily (because effort), in Australia, consumer guarantees on length of time you can get a refund are vague.
E.g. it doesn’t matter that a fridge’s manufacturer warranty is only 2 years, you expect that to last longer.
With effort, you could probably get a fridge fixed like 5 years after purchase with some badgering / threatening small claims.
Bricking your product would probably fall under that category.
This is wild speculation, not a lawyer.
- Comment on Nap game 1 month 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!! 1 month 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 'Global Oligarchy' Reigns as Top 1% Controls More Wealth Than Bottom 95% of Humanity 1 month ago:
Pretty soon that devine right of kings and thing is going to look laughable by comparison.
Kings were nowhere near this rich, or powerful.
- Comment on YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads 1 month ago:
They’ve started serving ads when you skip backwards. Drives me fucking nuts.
I was willing to use the mobile app with ads because the interface is slightly less buggy.
Ad blocking on mobile web it is for me now 👍
