MisterFrog
@MisterFrog@lemmy.world
- Comment on Murphy's law 3 weeks ago:
This is why you always copy something innocuous immediately after
- Comment on Accused killer of US insurance CEO pleads not guilty to 'terrorist' murder 5 weeks ago:
Maybe a couple more assassinations of CEOs and the only country where this repeatedly happens will finally start looking into ways to prevent this.
Yeah by hiring private armies and getting special provision to hire police directly.
RoboCop here we come
- Comment on Fashion is cyclical 1 month 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 1 month 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 Election Simulations 2 months ago:
Whoops :(
- Comment on Calcrelatable 2 months 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 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
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- Comment on Half as Hot 2 months 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 months ago:
How is this not a warrantless search?
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 3 months 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 months 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 months ago:
Stay strong friend 🫡, and don’t you let them take your numerals from you
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 3 months ago:
1.852 all the way in every single context. I will die on this hill haha
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 3 months 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 months 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 months 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 3 months ago:
Oh damn, that is some nails on a chalkboard level stuff.
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months ago:
Hahaha, of course, it makes so much sense now
- Comment on Literally Nineteen Eighty-Four 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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 3 months 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.
