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Sentient Data posted:God drat it, and i bet that's just based on how circles pack instead of any kind of direct measurement. I figured it at least worked like how the metric A4/A5/etc size progression goes Shotgun gauge works similarly. How many lead balls of this bore diameter to make a pound? *except for .410 lol
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Is gak measured in solid or liquid kg?
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The real measurement gently caress-up was when the French revolutionaries decided to go with decimal for their new units of measure. They should have just moved everyone over to base 12, which is way easier to do math with because 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6, instead of just 2 and 5 for 10. A lot of customary units are vaguely 12-based for easy divisibility, so you can even keep those units mostly intact as you do the conversion. And a metric calendar would have gone over better, because they could have just shortened the work week by one day (for 6 total days = half of 12), which would likely be broadly popular.
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I've mentioned before that my neighbors all have obnoxious home security systems that yell YOU ARE BEING RECORDED at you any time someone or something moves past the house on the sidewalk, but the person next door has now "upgraded" theirs so that it loudly and repeatedly beeps when their front door is open. Sounds like a smoke alarm going off and sometimes they leave it going for an hour.
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Sentient Data posted:Any time i work on a recipe, i convert everything to grams. Surprise banana bread muffin recipe time!  When I bake I'm using a food scale and therefore doing science, so everything is metric. Plus I don't want to gently caress with fractions.
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Dip Viscous posted:I've mentioned before that my neighbors all have obnoxious home security systems that yell YOU ARE BEING RECORDED at you any time someone or something moves past the house on the sidewalk, but the person next door has now "upgraded" theirs so that it loudly and repeatedly beeps when their front door is open. Sounds like a smoke alarm going off and sometimes they leave it going for an hour. I barely remember anything from David Brin's Earth novel (except that I didn't really like it), but of the few things I do remember, it's aged GenXers/Millenials being festooned with recording gear and constantly annoying teenagers by recording them at all times. That whole "willing and enthusiastic participant in the surveillance corporation/state" thing was a good call. doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 18:17 on Apr 4, 2024 |
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VikingofRock posted:The real measurement gently caress-up was when the French revolutionaries decided to go with decimal for their new units of measure. They should have just moved everyone over to base 12, which is way easier to do math with because 12 is divisible by 2, 3, 4, and 6, instead of just 2 and 5 for 10. I'm personally a proponent of base 16, but keep in mind that people have 10 fingats. Don't kid yourself, that's why we use base 10
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base 12 is inferior to base 60, the ultimate gigachad number system
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more divisors = better. and thats just simple math
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My annoyance with this discussion has hit 7.1 parsecs.
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hot cocoa on the couch posted:base 12 is inferior to base 60, the ultimate gigachad number system Sexagesimal. The Sumerians used it back in 3500 BC and passed it to the Babylonians and that's why there's 60 minutes in an hour and 60 seconds in a minute and all that poo poo with coordinates and angles.
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this is why i let alexa do my taxes
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The irs does your taxes for you if you just consider the penalties to be their processing fee
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carrionman posted:Because I'm in a mood, I swear loving autocorrect is getting worse. Every time I write "home" it changes it to "hone" It's definitely getting worse. One time, I was trying to write the word "history," and the only two words it offered were the n-word and the n-word pluralized. I've never written or said those words ever, but yeah, when I write "histor" it's pretty obvious that I mean to use a slur.
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I know self checkout comes up a lot in this thread, but -- something else that sucks about them. Most of them have a volume icon you can push to mute it, so the entire store doesn't have to hear your business. But some self-checkouts, the "mute" button is a trick, and it in fact DOUBLES your volume! So now everyone can hear ONE. VEGETARIAN BEANS. TWO FORTY-NINE.
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Your checkout actually narrates your shopping? That's nightmarish Mine stays quiet unless it complains about something
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every self-checkout i've seen does that by defaultcredburn posted:I know self checkout comes up a lot in this thread, but -- unexpected quote in posting area
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Dip Viscous posted:I've mentioned before that my neighbors all have obnoxious home security systems that yell YOU ARE BEING RECORDED at you any time someone or something moves past the house on the sidewalk, but the person next door has now "upgraded" theirs so that it loudly and repeatedly beeps when their front door is open. Sounds like a smoke alarm going off and sometimes they leave it going for an hour. Call the fire department Then call the cops (if they're not minorities/not at risk of being poo poo when they open the door)
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Zamujasa posted:every self-checkout i've seen does that by default The one at my local store will say the price of each scanned item, but not what it is.
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Dip Viscous posted:I've mentioned before that my neighbors all have obnoxious home security systems that yell YOU ARE BEING RECORDED at you any time someone or something moves past the house on the sidewalk, but the person next door has now "upgraded" theirs so that it loudly and repeatedly beeps when their front door is open. Sounds like a smoke alarm going off and sometimes they leave it going for an hour. There's a couple of these by me and these neighbors all have pics of some random guy lifting his shirt and pointing at his dick. Spoiler it's me I'm the dickpointer
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Outrail posted:Call the fire department Cops won't come to this neighborhood, making the whole thing even stupider.
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Dip Viscous posted:Cops won't come to this neighborhood, making the whole thing even stupider. In that case, go gently caress it up yourself
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Can't say I've ever seen a self-checkout yell your purchases to everyone. I mean, I must have used 50 different ones in my life and not once has one ever shouted "ONE..... EXTRA SMALL CONDOM." That kinds seems insane to me. They always say the price though. And it doesn't make any sense anyway because some products have very long names so a human would actually have to program the voice to say something like "RED... HARVEST... LOW... CALORIE... LOW... SUGAR.... LOW... FAT.... SUSTAINABLY... HARVESTED... SOUTH... AMERICAN... JELLY... BEANS... 16... OUNCES..." or rather that's probably what it's listed as in their internal poo poo so someone would have to go back and change only the voice to say "Jelly beans" or something. like, wtf? Never seen that in my life. No, you scan and it says the price and you move on. I've never been able to scan anything while the thing is still talking so that would take for loving ever.
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ProperCauldron posted:There's a couple of these by me and these neighbors all have pics of some random guy lifting his shirt and pointing at his dick. I was never this sort of person growing up, but I make a point of flipping off the surveillance camera whenever I use self-checkout. Here I am, trying to pay for poo poo, and they're taking what is essentially a contingency mugshot.
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Dip Viscous posted:Cops won't come to this neighborhood, making the whole thing even stupider. Sounds like resolving this issue just became a lot simpler E:fb
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MikeJF posted:Retroreflective panels. They're very common, I'm surprised their use is limited enough in the US you identify them with Seattle. We don't use those in the north cause they'll just get scraped off by plows every winter
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Pennywise the Frown posted:Can't say I've ever seen a self-checkout yell your purchases to everyone. I mean, I must have used 50 different ones in my life and not once has one ever shouted "ONE..... EXTRA SMALL CONDOM." The ones at my store only announces the names of manually keyed stuff like produce, presumably to make it easier for employees to notice when someone is shoplifting by keying in everything as bananas.
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My dog rolled in fresh green deer poo poo today. This made him much shittier, but he probably had a good reason.
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cat botherer posted:My dog rolled in fresh green deer poo poo today. This made him much shittier, but he probably had a good reason. Reason: is dog.
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cat botherer posted:My dog rolled in fresh green deer poo poo today. This made him much shittier, but he probably had a good reason. he could have ate some instead, and then throw it up in the house later CitizenKain posted:Reason: is dog.
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CitizenKain posted:Reason: is dog. Checks out...
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Dip Viscous posted:I've mentioned before that my neighbors all have obnoxious home security systems that yell YOU ARE BEING RECORDED at you any time someone or something moves past the house on the sidewalk, but the person next door has now "upgraded" theirs so that it loudly and repeatedly beeps when their front door is open. Sounds like a smoke alarm going off and sometimes they leave it going for an hour. I might have posted ITT about this before but I have lived on my current street for 5 years and I have not had a single day where there isn't an alarm going off for no loving reason. This is one of the lowest crime areas for miles around, too. The main culprit is a luxury custom-built car. The alarm goes off on this thing for no loving reason almost every day. The owner apparently can't turn it off without getting in and driving round the block, which he only sometimes does. Seriously, he gets in the car with the alarm still blaring and drives around until it stops. One time it was going off from 10pm at night until 11am the next morning and I did not get a moment's sleep. Me and my neighbours called the police about it, they turned up the next day shortly after it had been turned off. We've complained to the council but the owners are very rich so this goes completely ignored. Why he won't just get the loving thing fixed is beyond me. There's also an empty building a few doors down which has an alarm. It's not as loud, it's quiet enough for me to sleep through it when it goes off, but again it goes off for apparently no reason at least once every couple of weeks. The police have never found any signs of forced entry or squatters living there or anything, it just goes off. It usually takes the owners at least three hours to turn up and turn it off. And on top of that there are a few other cars that go off all the loving time. Nobody in this area pays attention to any alarms any more, because we're so used to them being false alarms. If anyone on this street was actually getting robbed, we'd all just put earplugs in until the alarm stopped. Your alarms are making the neighbourhood LESS safe, and this poo poo should be banned.
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sounds like a license to commit some crimes, op
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TrashMammal posted:sounds like a license to commit some crimes, op
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TrashMammal posted:sounds like a license to commit some crimes, op I have had friends physically restrain me from taking a hammer to that loving car because I would show up on everyone's loving Ring cameras even though I am totally justified to smash the poo poo out of that car. edit: it just started going off moments after I posted this.
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TrashMammal posted:sounds like a license to commit some crimes, op Surprised noone's already done crimes. I don't think I'd last a week without doing something. Get the neighbors to sign a petition, maybe deliver it via a brick if that's legal in your region.
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Get them a 20 dollar gift certificate for a car repair place. The one thing a rich person cannot tolerate is the implication that they aren't rich and that's the reason the car has problems.
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A fascinating display of electromagnetism can be observed from the use of a magnetron from an old microwave in a metal tube, as long as care is taken to pick a time and place where no people or animals are nearby. Depending on the specifics of the setup, might do something, might do nothing, could be funny.
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