Fathoming airport wifi port tribbles
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You can do IM, or voice or video. Or even IM while voice or video.
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You can do IM, or voice or video. Or even IM while voice or video.
Sort of. I should have that message memorized; I've seen it often enough. "The quality of this call is not adequate for video. Would you like to disable your camera?" The wording isn't right, but that's the meaning.
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Yeah, we've had to make do with this sort of thing. Separate countries sucks.
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Separate countries sucks.
Even being in the same country sucks when my daughter's college dorm has the world's second worst WiFi. (My local public library has the worst; WiFi connects at >10Mb/s, but I get an actual throughput in low 10's of kB/s, if I'm lucky. It can take multiple 10's of seconds just for www.google.com to load.)
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Ugh
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Even being in the same country sucks when my daughter's college dorm has the world's second worst WiFi. (My local public library has the worst; WiFi connects at >10Mb/s, but I get an actual throughput in low 10's of kB/s, if I'm lucky. It can take multiple 10's of seconds just for www.google.com to load.)
That really does suck. It's a blessing for us that both @Arantor and I are technolically literate or the distance would be absolutely unbearable. Thankfully, it is just a temporary thing. With a bit of luck I should be moving to somewhere less geographically inaccessible very soon.
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Even being in the same country sucks when my daughter's college dorm has the world's second worst WiFi.
But remember, when euros say "separate country," think "separate state."
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when euros say "separate country," think "separate state."
True. My daughter lives about 200km farther from me than the distance between Paris and Berlin. However, the actual distance is really irrelevant; if it is large enough to prevent face-to-face communication, it sucks.
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My daughter lives about 200km farther from me than the distance between Paris and Berlin.
That sounds like a lot, but then I remember that 200km is only 120 real units of distance.
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That sounds like a lot, but then I remember that 200km is only 100 real units of distance.
SFTFY
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Discokilometers?
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I assumed it was "sort of fixed that for you." It had the correct number of digits.
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sig figs
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That sounds like a lot, but then I remember that 200km is only 120 real units of distance.
It's actually pretty much spot on 125.
Which is a nice number because it is 53, of course.
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Strange. I thought 200km was 200000 real units of distance.
walks away slowly
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nope. it's 1.237585470747e+40 units of real (measurable) distance.
you can't pack any more measurable distance units in 200km so that must be the true universal unit. there's nothing smaller than it
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Let's measure everything in inches, feet and yards; they are standardised.
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Are you going to make me walk the Planck?
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someone got it!
now tell me good sir, did you have to google that?
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base 12 from inches to feet, base 3 from feet to yards?
stanbdardized?
HEATHEN!
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someone got it!
now tell me good sir, did you have to google that?
Nope. Just assumed that's what it was, but yes, I do know that's the smallest measurable distance without looking it up.
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you i like. have a like!
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base 12 from inches to feet, base 3 from feet to yards?
stanbdardized?
HEATHEN!
Sure it is. An inch is the width of my thumb, a foot is the length of my foot, a yard is approximately the length of my stride.
Standard units
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except it isn't
my thumb is smaller than yours, so is my foot and my stride.
... "standardized"
i bet you measure temperature in..... fereignhight, or however you spell that word, rather than Kelvin as the goddess intended.
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except it isn't
my thumb is smaller than yours, so is my foot and my stride.
... "standardized"
i bet you measure temperature in..... fereignhight, or however you spell that word, rather than Kelvin as the goddess intended.
Standardised here in the UK and I just happen to exactly match the standards
I can measure temperature in Centigrade (YES I REFUSE TO CALL IT CELSIUS, DEAL WITH IT) or Fahrenheit. Kelvin seems too precise to me.
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hmm centigrade is acceptable i guess. it's the same unit width as kelvin and has a constant offset.
also working with smaller numbers is easier, even if it is a blasphemy unto the goddess.... a small one, but still.
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my thumb is smaller than yours, so is my foot and my stride.
That's a big buttumption.
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I can measure temperature in Centigrade (YES I REFUSE TO CALL IT CELSIUS, DEAL WITH IT) or Fahrenheit. Kelvin seems too precise to me.
What about Rankine?
...which is just absolute-zero based Fahrenheit.
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What about Rankine?
<sub>...which is just absolute-zero based Fahrenheit.</sub>
Same deal as Kelvin.
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my thumb is smaller than yours, so is my foot and my stride
That's why the canonical measurements are the King's thumb, foot and stride
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And some of us happen to have the same measurements.
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well he stated they are the standard units, and mine are all smaller than the units quoted so.....
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And the race is off to breed kings with smaller thumbs! (To increase the nobility's cock sizes, of course.)
I wonder if this explains all that interbreeding in the monarchy... hrm...
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wha.... bu/.....
DID NOT WANT THAT IMAGE!
kingly dongs are not..... kingly in this one's opinions!
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Thanks for that.
MIND_BLEACH_NOT_FOUND
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An inch is the width of my thumb, a foot is the length of my foot, a yard is approximately the length of my stride.
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I care not whether they are outdated, I can relate to them, dammit.
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Right; they were made by humans, not geeks.
Everything geeks make have terrible usability. That includes systems of measurement.
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Right; they were made by humans, not geeks.
Everything geeks make have terrible usability. That includes systems of measurement.
Yup.
mm and metres and whatnot have a place. Usually where some modicum of accuracy is expected and/or calculations are involved, but for human-centric matters, I'll continue to use imperial.
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and then you will continue to kindly convert it for your loving poet. I still don't do imperial.
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I still don't do imperial.
I would keep that stance if I where you. There are limits. Even to love.
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All is well.
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In the land of Arantor?
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Anything for my @Arantor, but he knows better than to ask such sacrifices of me.
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Anything for my @Arantor, but he knows better than to ask such sacrifices of me.
I'll still use imperial myself and will do so for some time to come, but I will gladly defer to use metric when needed.
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You are making the mistake (again) of assuming everybody sees the world the same as you, has the same experience as you, has the same knowledge as you, and if they have differing opinions it's because they're idiots, because of course any opinion isn't valid if you do not also hold that opinion.
I grew up with metric. I have no idea how far a mile is unless I convert to 1.6km. A yard is about a metre but not quite, which means over a number of yards that error adds up. Feet are too hard because who wants to divide by 3 and a bit? Who knows WTF a furlong or fathom is? Imperial measurements are useless measurements. How big is a gallon? US or English? What is the airspeed of a laden swallow? And temperature... jesus, don't get me started on the massive pile of WTF of Fahrenheit.
But I know how much timber to buy when I need to cut it up to make something because dividing by 1000 to get from mm to m is easy.
Metric is far more usable than any of the many and varied Imperial systems. That's the truth because I said so.
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You are making the mistake (again) of assuming everybody sees the world the same as you, has the same experience as you, has the same knowledge as you, and if they have differing opinions it's because they're idiots, because of course any opinion isn't valid if you do not also hold that opinion.
I grew up with metric. I have no idea how far a mile is unless I convert to 1.6km. A yard is about a metre but not quite, which means over a number of yards that error adds up. Feet are too hard because who wants to divide by 3 and a bit? Who knows WTF a furlong or fathom is? Imperial measurements are useless measurements. How big is a gallon? US or English? What is the airspeed of a laden swallow? And temperature... jesus, don't get me started on the massive pile of WTF of Fahrenheit.
But I know how much timber to buy when I need to cut it up to make something because dividing by 1000 to get from mm to m is easy.
Metric is far more usable than any of the many and varied Imperial systems. That's the truth because I said so.
You said that you have little to no experience with Imperial units.
You showcase this by including furlongs and fathoms, which we no longer use.
Anyone that has used both will side with Imperial, mostly.
Filed under: compared to Fahrenheit, Celsius is TRWTF
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I didn't say I have little experience. I'm saying Blakey's "Imperial is more usable" is viewpoint centric bullshit. He thinks it's easier because it's what he is accustomed to. I say metric is easier because it's what I'm accustomed to.
I know how far an inch is and how far a foot is, but measurements like how wide my garage needs to be to fit my car, how big my chook shed is, how far my commute is, are way more intuitive in metric because it's what I've always used. I mention furlongs and fathoms to highlight the ridiculousness of the Imperial systems (which one?!).
Also, I can convert units quickly and easily in my head.
I like how you think you are qualified to speak for everyone else.
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I mention furlongs and fathoms to highlight the ridiculousness of the Imperial systems (which one?!).
If we're going to do that, then I'll bring up the [kgm]ibi-prefixes, invented by humo[spoiler]u[/spoiler]rless pedants.
Also, I can convert units quickly and easily in my head.
How long is 1/3 foot? (You can substitute 1/3 meter if you'd like).