[-] judooochp@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks ago

The No-Longer-Supported LG G7 ThinQ. Not upgrading until it blows up in my pocket.

[-] judooochp@lemmy.world 29 points 3 weeks ago

Only With the 3.5 mm audio jack. Bluetooth devices always have some delay, never are immune from connection problems or intermittent readback (especially if you have other devices you switch between), and don't last as long as they advertise. The delay thing is particularly irksome on the phone and watching videos. Much less important for music, but I'm not the kinda guy who plays music a lot. The battery thing is probably less of an issue these days, and could maybe be discarded, but I also forget to charge important devices, so that's a me thing and party of the reason.

[-] judooochp@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago

GPIB users and instrumentation automating folks know the problem is very modern.

[-] judooochp@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Gage Insite, by IndySoft. I don't currently have time to get into it.

[-] judooochp@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Lol. Nah, my brother woke me up in crisis to have a conversation in text instead of over the phone, so my wife left to sleep in her own bed in a huff, and I just started new meds ...

[-] judooochp@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

His name was Terry Davis.

[-] judooochp@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Particularly with leftover adhesive, post-its....

[-] judooochp@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

You mean you wouldn't expect a software engineer to understand the coefficient of thermal expansion of tungsten carbide in a gas lubricated piston/cylinder pneumatic deadweight calibration system?

Yeah, me either. But I would expect one to know how to research the documentation to find out what it meant.

[-] judooochp@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

You are doing it right.

[-] judooochp@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

[Edited because of weird auto-formatting. Edit 2 added more pedantry. Edit 3+ is because I lost the plot and had to bring it back.]

Because the SI unit for temperature is the Kelvin, which has already been stated. It has also been mentioned that K and °C are the same but with different offsets. It has not been mentioned that °C is to K as Degrees Fahrenheit (°F) is to Rankine ( R). It would be similarly inappropriate to say "millidegrees Fahrenheit" or "kilofahrenheit". I have no idea if mR or kR would be appropriate, though.

I would offer that there are two ways to look at SI ("metric") prefixes, and these can be thought of similarly with the multipliers they represent: as a prefix to the unit, by definition; or as a suffix to the value. Let me illustrate with an example.

38,000 K could be expressed 38 kK, or "thirty-eight kiloKelvin". It could also be spoken "thirty-eight thousand Kelvin" (or Kelvins, idfk). This isn't normally important for the layperson, but suppose you have a temperature meter (and, literally, I do not mean "thermometer") that has only 4 digits of resolution. 38.00 k ("38,00 k" for the Europeans?) would be how it reads out the value in question. This would be 38 kK, certainly, due to the position of the decimal.

Now suppose that temperature meter read out in °C. 38.00 k °C would, in fact, denote "thirty-eight thousand degrees Celsius" for the reasons mentioned above.

So, because Degrees Celsius is not an SI unit, in the technical sense...

Btw, I have been explicitly using upper case letters when spelling out the units. This is incorrect. The symbols for SI (International System of Units) units should be capitalized when they respect a person (K, A). The names of the units should be all lower case because you are not naming the person, but the unit named after them (kelvin after Lord Kelvin, and ampere after Andre-Marie Ampere).

Yeah, I know. I'm being pedantic. It's literally my job. I really should be sleeping right now. Here's a source: https://www.bipm.org/en/measurement-units/si-base-units

judooochp

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