|
gonna keep a close eye on this thread
|
#
¿
Dec 8, 2023 05:02
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 15, 2024 06:09 |
|
|
How does "sure" turn into "emphatically no?" Are they interpreting it as a sarcastic dismissal? Were they raised in a really toxic household where people talked like that all the time?
|
|
#
¿
Dec 10, 2023 00:29
|
|
|
Salt Fish posted:A gigabyte is 1024^3 bytes and its not up to hard drive manufacturers to make up new units. gotta agree
|
|
#
¿
Dec 10, 2023 18:54
|
|
|
bytes are an archaic concept anyway. we don't use 8-bit computers anymore so there's no particular reason to group data that way. everything should just be measured in bits.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 10, 2023 20:18
|
|
|
well if you changed the default unit to be the gram then you'd also have to change the default volume unit to the millilitre. it's just hosed.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 10, 2023 20:30
|
|
|
i am reminded of how marie curie was upset that the original value of the Curie, the unit for radioactive emission, would be defined by the radiation emitted by a infinitesimally small amount of radium (radium being extraordinarily radioactive). so she insisted that it be the amount of radiation emitted by one gram of radium instead, an extremely dangerous quantity, and because she was so famous they agreed. so we now commonly speak of fractions of microcuries, and if you ever see a whole Curie you're probably going to die
|
|
#
¿
Dec 10, 2023 20:37
|
|
|
when mega is not referring to one million, it refers to four (unreal tournament, 2004, "mega kill").
|
|
#
¿
Dec 10, 2023 20:40
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 15, 2024 06:09 |
|
|
echinopsis posted:lol reminder: doctors aren't scientists. they use the accoutrements of science for respectability but they don't necessarily understand why scientists do certain things, or have the grounding to think about it theoretically. your example is probably the result of doctors working out some method based on arithmetic or cooking or whatever and then trying to turn it into a scientific definition. another example https://fliptomato.wordpress.com/2007/03/19/medical-researcher-discovers-integration-gets-75-citations/ Sagebrush fucked around with this message at 20:52 on Dec 10, 2023 |
|
#
¿
Dec 10, 2023 20:50
|
|