> water freezes at 0, boils at 100. this is an excellent and intuitive scale for a human that is 70% water.
This is a stretch. How is being 70% water relevant? It’s not like I’m routinely measuring the water in my body to make sure I don’t let it boil or freeze.
Re:Freedom Clock
by fnordpiglet on Saturday March 25, 2023 @11:35AM
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That’s why I say 11rd Street and set my hot pot to 1100100 degrees. The added benefit is I can now do math on my fingers with a 100x greater range! Bring in toes and it gets insane.
I feel like people like you should be required to use | and O instead of 0 and 1. You don't get to spoil our perfect arabic numerals for your numerical travesty. begone, you wasters of bytes
Re:Freedom Clock
by fnordpiglet on Saturday March 25, 2023 @11:45AM
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In reality I encode everything in raw bits but for these Europeans I convert to their hippy Unicode whatever. Why use 7 bits for a character when you can use UTF-8/16/32 - the “metric system” of encodings.
You will love this: https://www.earthdate.org/episodes/how-10-fingers-became-12-...
Re:Freedom Clock
by fnordpiglet on Saturday March 25, 2023 @12:51PM
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I guess it’s good they didn’t use base 2 finger counting or we would have 1024 hours
Re:Freedom Clock
by chordalkeyboard on Saturday March 25, 2023 @11:32AM
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> But it's time for humans to quit our nonsense and give way to machines , which require universal standards.
I think we should arrange our society to favor humans and program computers in such a way to accommodate humans rather than the other way around.
Arguably human imperfections are already deeply reflected in computer design and programming.
> The SI units, like kg or m are characteristic of the human scale
Of course kilogram is a mess in itself, being base unit with a prefix. While SI is mostly okay system, lets not forget that it has its own warts.
and you say 3rd street, not Street 3. and 4th of july
i do prefer the american decimal point 1,000.00 , it makes more sense. But it's time for humans to quit our nonsense and give way to machines , which require universal standards.