These pictures make my teeth itch
Discussion
motco said:
Not a picture but the habit of using '12pm' or '12am' instead of noon and midnight or vice versa. It's ambiguous. Is 12pm 12 hours post meridian or is 12 am 12 hours before noon? Even writing this I cannot be sure which means noon, etc.
The trick to remember is that 12:01pm is a minute after 12:00pm (midday). And 12:01am is a minute after 12:00am (midnight).
Monkeylegend said:
Apparantly Lidl should have been called Lild, but somebody cocked up the minutes of a board meeting.
For many years, the web site for "Digi International" who made multiport serial cards was www.dgii.com - I always wondered if they'd made a mistake or if someone else had registered 'digi' for it's generic use.yellowjack said:
LordGrover said:
Zero hours or 00:00 and twelve hundred or 12:00 is preferred by me at least. I can't explain or understand how you find a.m. and p.m. confusing though, plain as day to must. 
Don't know how 'official' it was, but certainly in practice 0000hrs was NEVER written in the military.If you wanted something to happen at midnight, the written order would state either 2359hrs OR 0001hrs. Don't ask me why, it's just the way it was. Come to think of it, maybe it was to avoid any confusion with the phrase 'zero hour'.
It's fine in conversation to say things like 4pm, or 'meet at 4 0'clock' when it's obvious that it wouldn't mean the dark hours of the morning, but when you need to be absolutely sure of the what/where/when of an order, then the 24 hour clock is the ONLY sure method of avoiding ambiguity.
toerag said:
The ratchet? the comment is wrong, the vid is correct, it ratchets as she goes anti-clockwise and doesn't (therefore turning the bolt if it wasn't a dubbed over soundtrack) when she goes clockwise.Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey and all that.
There must be a perfectly rational explanation thinks I. They convert into round 'KPH' figures, and the heavy plant has speedos calibrated in KPH?
Errr? Nope...
9.5 Miles per Hour = 15.288768000000001 Kilometers per Hour
14.5 Miles per Hour = 23.335488 Kilometers per Hour
...not that either.
Anyone got any ideas where I can buy a vehicle that'll display it's speed digitally to the first decimal place? It needs to be accurate, too, mind. No over/under reading, as I think it needs to be absolutely spot on
yellowjack said:
There must be a perfectly rational explanation thinks I. They convert into round 'KPH' figures, and the heavy plant has speedos calibrated in KPH?
Errr? Nope...
9.5 Miles per Hour = 15.288768000000001 Kilometers per Hour
14.5 Miles per Hour = 23.335488 Kilometers per Hour
...not that either.
Anyone got any ideas where I can buy a vehicle that'll display it's speed digitally to the first decimal place? It needs to be accurate, too, mind. No over/under reading, as I think it needs to be absolutely spot on
stackmonkey said:
yellowjack said:
There must be a perfectly rational explanation thinks I. They convert into round 'KPH' figures, and the heavy plant has speedos calibrated in KPH?
Errr? Nope...
9.5 Miles per Hour = 15.288768000000001 Kilometers per Hour
14.5 Miles per Hour = 23.335488 Kilometers per Hour
...not that either.
Anyone got any ideas where I can buy a vehicle that'll display it's speed digitally to the first decimal place? It needs to be accurate, too, mind. No over/under reading, as I think it needs to be absolutely spot on
(They still make my teeth itch, though
)stackmonkey said:
It's done for contractors who tend to work on lots of different sites, and tend to forget (and ignore) regular 10mph or 15mph site speed limits. The 9.5 and 14.5 are unusual and hence will be more easily remembered.
Yup, Like starting a meeting at 09:11. Seems to work for similar reasons.yellowjack said:
There must be a perfectly rational explanation thinks I. They convert into round 'KPH' figures, and the heavy plant has speedos calibrated in KPH?
Errr? Nope...
9.5 Miles per Hour = 15.288768000000001 Kilometers per Hour
14.5 Miles per Hour = 23.335488 Kilometers per Hour
...not that either.
Anyone got any ideas where I can buy a vehicle that'll display it's speed digitally to the first decimal place? It needs to be accurate, too, mind. No over/under reading, as I think it needs to be absolutely spot on
Jayfish said:
toerag said:
The ratchet? the comment is wrong, the vid is correct, it ratchets as she goes anti-clockwise and doesn't (therefore turning the bolt if it wasn't a dubbed over soundtrack) when she goes clockwise.Righty-tighty, lefty-loosey and all that.
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