I've wondered how those work, so you say the fan blades are positioned in the trunk beneath the circle?
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Always wanted one of those but my Rowenta something-something is chugging along nicely. Overengineered though is a major selling point to me though.
Fascinating! I've seen them at a distance but just put it down to "possibly magnets".
Here cutting desktop space to less than half probably classifies as an upgrade. After all it's not really SFF if you can fit more than three computers on one table.
That's a truly compact Oak tabletop + adjustable chrome legs + some oil, all for 33€. Waste space, hell no.
That's a truly compact Oak tabletop + adjustable chrome legs + some oil, all for 33€. Waste space, hell no.
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mphSpot the measurement unit that doesn't belong
I wish we could properly finish the job of metrication (and abandon that bastardised half-unit of 'centimetres' while we're at it).
They have reason to exist. Every other SI unit works perfectly well with order-of-magnitude separation between them (kilo, mega, giga, etc, and milli, micro, nano, etc), and other countries (e.g. Australia) have managed without it entirely. Having one unit that happens to be 100x rather than 1000x just makes it awkward to use with everything else for no benefit whatsoever.
Yeah, but unlike the others, centimeters are within human scale, and saying something is 10cm groks better with most people than 100 mm because the human brain likes smaller numbers. Specifying, say, the height of a person in mm is awkward, and is also likely to lead to false precision.
It does beg the question, though, why does nobody use decimeters?
It does beg the question, though, why does nobody use decimeters?
Decimeter is also a thing, along with deciliter, but I've never heard of centigram or decigram.
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I guess because it's rarely used actively. Though it makes a lot of sense to say people are 18 decimeters tall instead of 180 centimeters. Or 1800 millimeters.
I am 1.83m tall, which is approximately 6 feet (6 feet and 0.0472 inches).
Decimeters are handy for volume calculations (1dm3 = 1 liter)
(1dm3 = 1 liter)
The 'false precision' argument only works if you ignore how Significant Figures work. Nobody writes 9 decimetres after all, they put 90cm. 90cm no more confers false precision than 900mm.
Long numbers are not in any way more awkward than decimal points. Australia again gives a good example in construction: all dimensions are in millimetres. No cm, no metres, all mm. You have a 12m long wall, it's 12 000mm. Want to get an exact bit between two studs avoiding a pipe attached to the side of one? 11 952mm. 11.952m is awkward, as is 119.52cm.
There are plenty of daily use cases where you need measurement precision finer than available with a cm, so inevitable you end up having to put a decimal point in there.
Rather than continuing to rant, I'll defer to existing ranting.
Nobody writes "9 dm"? Where are you from where people don't? At least in Sweden we use the whole spectrum regularly depending on the situation.
And unless you note the number of significant figures I'd say you certainly fall into the trap of false precision with 90cm or 900mm. In your examples you specifically need mm precision, so using mm is appropriate.
And unless you note the number of significant figures I'd say you certainly fall into the trap of false precision with 90cm or 900mm. In your examples you specifically need mm precision, so using mm is appropriate.
