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  • going straight into a display case marked "most treasured possession".

  • There are some outlandish rumours that it's possible for a device to have... both Bluetooth and a headphone jack.

  • there's a very believable anecdote about an early p2p file sharing system, i think audiogalaxy - "just downloaded an mp3, then see that the uploader is connected and getting the same file. send a message asking why, replies "getting my song back, dick""

  • big fan of "bring a bag of moths to the cinema" (p.30)

  • Kiki and Bouba.

  • unfortunately, opening the door changes the temperature, so in practice instruments are calibrated from copies of the room built at other metrology institutions around the world.

  • you mean a computing pool, like SETI@home since the late 90s?

    absolutely no need to make this idea stink of a crypto scam.

  • is that to avoid using liquid vinegar?

  • collective nouns are like "team" or "group", they're happy to be "a team" or "one group"

    data doesn't work like that, people say "a data point", or "one piece/item of data". (because datum is almost a dead word)

    it's more accurate to say data is a mass noun, a. k.a. an uncountable noun, like air, sand, rice.

  • adding to abnorc's excellent answer - circuit diagrams are all drawn as if charge carriers are positive (this is called "conventional current"), but because electrons are negative, this can get very confusing when you're dealing with components where the flow of charge is one-way only (diodes, transistors, batteries, photometers...)

  • that's not arbitrary - the hour hand of a clock mimics the shadow of a sundial.

    it makes sense, in the northern hemisphere, where 90% of people live.

  • It's not more precise, it becomes inaccurate.

    A man says he's 6'6". Sure. If he's anywhere between 6'5½" and 6'6½", that's true.

    You say he's 198.12cm tall. The range of this being true is now thinner than a needle. It has gone far beyond what anyone actually measures. In over 99% of cases, it's not true, and if it is, it won't be for long, because the human body isn't nearly that consistent from breath to breath.

    The conversion with spurious false precision has made the number go from true to not true.

    The man is six foot six, yes, true. The man is 198.12cm - no he isn't.

  • so many researchers toasting their bagels and yet never using your dedicated bagel button will wear you down.

  • When the original value is only precise to plus or minus half an inch, it makes no sense whatsoever to do a conversion that's a hundred times more precise.

  • nobody is measuring people to a tenth of a millimeter.

  • No, that's not why.