I remember magazines from the 80s where you could find code in BASIC for some little game. It's how I learned how to program as a kid.
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Oh yeah! I still have one of those from the days when our son still lived with us and started crypto mining on my dime.
The nice thing about a foot is that it divides into 12 inches, which gives you many options for measuring portions of a foot compared to metric units. But the problem is not with the metric system. It is with our base 10 numerals.
It's actually not that hard to count to 12 on your fingers. You can even do it on one hand by pointing your thumb at the sections (phalanges) of your fingers. If you bring your other hand into it, you can even reach 144!
Regarding the τ = 2π thing, I brought this up with my mathematician/classical Greek enthusiast brother. He said "Tau? Why tau? I would've gone with Ϡ (sampi). It's not used for much anymore. Would be great to bring it back…"
Doesn't ISO8601 prefer the comma over the decimal point for fractional seconds? I kind of remember being appalled about that some years back when I was looking into it.
Ooh, I sense the presence of another hill! The vernacular use of "kilo" as short for "kilogram" must stop?
I love that in the US media, you only ever hear about kilos in the context of drug seizures. Those evil drug lords poisoning the youth with bastardized metric jargon…
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I've tried it a couple of times, but it's a little hard to find.
Now that I think of it, I'm pretty sure I did hear an American say altimeter once? I suppose if you were consistent in reversing all the rules, it could be chalked up to a dialect variation? I'll let it go in that case. :)
The kilometre—with the accent on the ki and the re ending—is a unit of distance. A kilometer—with the accent on the lo and the er ending—would be a device that measures kilos, like perhaps a bathroom scale? centimetre, millimetre, speedometer, altimeter.
I'm actually fairly forgiving about people saying it the wrong way, but when Siri gives me GPS directions, it really grinds my gears. She should know better!
Have you tried ruby chocolate yet? I'm guessing you won't be impressed.
I got to tour Bruce Nuclear. I still remember entering that building and feeling like I was on the Death Star with so much machinery stretching on and on.
Your music player pops up and says that you are the #1 listener to a certain song, which song is it?
Oh man I have that same problem in Apple Music! I make a playlist out of my set list and have it repeat all week until I have everything down, and then the algorithm picks from it for months after that.
I'm starting to think maybe I should use one streaming service for learning and another for enjoyment?
To me, it seems the right have been getting ever more extreme in the ugliest ways imaginable. The left, then, has to decide whether to become more inclusive of those who lean somewhat right but are feeling alienated at this point. Do they take in the refugees, or do they stick to their principles and leave a void in the middle? In short, it's an identity crisis and people are taking sides.
As a Canadian, I look at US politics and see only a centrist and right party. In some ways, the Democratic Party is further right than our Conservative Party, though the latter would certainly want to change that if we let them. There are some Democrats who are uncompromisingly left like say Bernie Sanders, but they are in the minority.