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  1. Am I the only person who is bothered by the fact that the centi- in centimeter means 1/100, while the centi- in centimillionaire means 100?

    More bothersome: they seem to use the correct deka- prefix for millionaires who have 10 million.

    They mean hectomillionaires.

    WTF?

    #prefixes #scientificunits #wtf #idiocy #money #eatthebillionaires

  2. Am I the only person who is bothered by the fact that the centi- in centimeter means 1/100, while the centi- in centimillionaire means 100?

    More bothersome: they seem to use the correct deka- prefix for millionaires who have 10 million.

    They mean hectomillionaires.

    WTF?

    #prefixes #scientificunits #wtf #idiocy #money #eatthebillionaires

  3. Am I the only person who is bothered by the fact that the centi- in centimeter means 1/100, while the centi- in centimillionaire means 100?

    More bothersome: they seem to use the correct deka- prefix for millionaires who have 10 million.

    They mean hectomillionaires.

    WTF?

    #prefixes #scientificunits #wtf #idiocy #money #eatthebillionaires

  4. Am I the only person who is bothered by the fact that the centi- in centimeter means 1/100, while the centi- in centimillionaire means 100?

    More bothersome: they seem to use the correct deka- prefix for millionaires who have 10 million.

    They mean hectomillionaires.

    WTF?

    #prefixes #scientificunits #wtf #idiocy #money #eatthebillionaires

  5. Am I the only person who is bothered by the fact that the centi- in centimeter means 1/100, while the centi- in centimillionaire means 100?

    More bothersome: they seem to use the correct deka- prefix for millionaires who have 10 million.

    They mean hectomillionaires.

    WTF?

    #prefixes #scientificunits #wtf #idiocy #money #eatthebillionaires

  6. This is a niche one but it might help someone in the future:

    How to include multiple directories from different places in the file system hierarchy in an archive without including the whole directory structure for any of them.

    codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/br

    TL; DR: use symlinks.

    #NodeTar #NodeJS #tar #prefixes #directory #hierarchy #flat #archive

  7. This is a niche one but it might help someone in the future:

    How to include multiple directories from different places in the file system hierarchy in an archive without including the whole directory structure for any of them.

    codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/br

    TL; DR: use symlinks.

    #NodeTar #NodeJS #tar #prefixes #directory #hierarchy #flat #archive

  8. This is a niche one but it might help someone in the future:

    How to include multiple directories from different places in the file system hierarchy in an archive without including the whole directory structure for any of them.

    codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/br

    TL; DR: use symlinks.

    #NodeTar #NodeJS #tar #prefixes #directory #hierarchy #flat #archive

  9. This is a niche one but it might help someone in the future:

    How to include multiple directories from different places in the file system hierarchy in an archive without including the whole directory structure for any of them.

    codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/br

    TL; DR: use symlinks.

    #NodeTar #NodeJS #tar #prefixes #directory #hierarchy #flat #archive

  10. This is a niche one but it might help someone in the future:

    How to include multiple directories from different places in the file system hierarchy in an archive without including the whole directory structure for any of them.

    codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/br

    TL; DR: use symlinks.

    #NodeTar #NodeJS #tar #prefixes #directory #hierarchy #flat #archive

  11. submarine, marine, supermarine
    antechamber, chamber, postchamber
    proclivities, clivities, conclivities
    premonition, monition, postmonition
    forewarn, warn, aftwarn
    endometrium, metrium, ectometrium

    #wordplay #words #prefixes

  12. submarine, marine, supermarine
    antechamber, chamber, postchamber
    proclivities, clivities, conclivities
    premonition, monition, postmonition
    forewarn, warn, aftwarn
    endometrium, metrium, ectometrium

    #wordplay #words #prefixes

  13. submarine, marine, supermarine
    antechamber, chamber, postchamber
    proclivities, clivities, conclivities
    premonition, monition, postmonition
    forewarn, warn, aftwarn
    endometrium, metrium, ectometrium

    #wordplay #words #prefixes

  14. submarine, marine, supermarine
    antechamber, chamber, postchamber
    proclivities, clivities, conclivities
    premonition, monition, postmonition
    forewarn, warn, aftwarn
    endometrium, metrium, ectometrium

    #wordplay #words #prefixes

  15. #Astuce #Vivaldi :

    Les #commandes #rapides de Vivaldi :vivaldi_red: (F2) peuvent faire plein de choses en utilisant exclusivement le clavier ⌨️ , mais vous pouvez les utiliser en #ciblant directement ce que vous voulez #faire ou #trouver 👇

    💡 Utilisez les #prefixes : signet, historique, note, commande, action…

    Source : tips.vivaldi.net/tip-323/

  16. #Astuce #Vivaldi :

    Les #commandes #rapides de Vivaldi :vivaldi_red: (F2) peuvent faire plein de choses en utilisant exclusivement le clavier ⌨️ , mais vous pouvez les utiliser en #ciblant directement ce que vous voulez #faire ou #trouver 👇

    💡 Utilisez les #prefixes : signet, historique, note, commande, action…

    Source : tips.vivaldi.net/tip-323/

  17. #Astuce #Vivaldi :

    Les #commandes #rapides de Vivaldi :vivaldi_red: (F2) peuvent faire plein de choses en utilisant exclusivement le clavier ⌨️ , mais vous pouvez les utiliser en #ciblant directement ce que vous voulez #faire ou #trouver 👇

    💡 Utilisez les #prefixes : signet, historique, note, commande, action…

    Source : tips.vivaldi.net/tip-323/

  18. #Astuce #Vivaldi :

    Les #commandes #rapides de Vivaldi :vivaldi_red: (F2) peuvent faire plein de choses en utilisant exclusivement le clavier ⌨️ , mais vous pouvez les utiliser en #ciblant directement ce que vous voulez #faire ou #trouver 👇

    💡 Utilisez les #prefixes : signet, historique, note, commande, action…

    Source : tips.vivaldi.net/tip-323/

  19. The General Conference on #Weights and #Measures (CGPM, the acronym in French) met in mid-November “to introduce four new #prefixes to the International System of Units (SI) with immediate effect.”
    The new SI prefixes to be used for #multiples and submultiples of #units are the ronna, quetta, ronto and quecto.
    Now we can say the Earth’s mass is approximately six ronnagrams (5.975 trillion tons), and an electron’s mass is one quectogram.
    english.elpais.com/science-tec

  20. The General Conference on #Weights and #Measures (CGPM, the acronym in French) met in mid-November “to introduce four new #prefixes to the International System of Units (SI) with immediate effect.”
    The new SI prefixes to be used for #multiples and submultiples of #units are the ronna, quetta, ronto and quecto.
    Now we can say the Earth’s mass is approximately six ronnagrams (5.975 trillion tons), and an electron’s mass is one quectogram.
    english.elpais.com/science-tec

  21. The General Conference on #Weights and #Measures (CGPM, the acronym in French) met in mid-November “to introduce four new #prefixes to the International System of Units (SI) with immediate effect.”
    The new SI prefixes to be used for #multiples and submultiples of #units are the ronna, quetta, ronto and quecto.
    Now we can say the Earth’s mass is approximately six ronnagrams (5.975 trillion tons), and an electron’s mass is one quectogram.
    english.elpais.com/science-tec

  22. The General Conference on #Weights and #Measures (CGPM, the acronym in French) met in mid-November “to introduce four new #prefixes to the International System of Units (SI) with immediate effect.”
    The new SI prefixes to be used for #multiples and submultiples of #units are the ronna, quetta, ronto and quecto.
    Now we can say the Earth’s mass is approximately six ronnagrams (5.975 trillion tons), and an electron’s mass is one quectogram.
    english.elpais.com/science-tec

  23. The General Conference on #Weights and #Measures (CGPM, the acronym in French) met in mid-November “to introduce four new #prefixes to the International System of Units (SI) with immediate effect.”
    The new SI prefixes to be used for #multiples and submultiples of #units are the ronna, quetta, ronto and quecto.
    Now we can say the Earth’s mass is approximately six ronnagrams (5.975 trillion tons), and an electron’s mass is one quectogram.
    english.elpais.com/science-tec

  24. CW: SI prefixes, naming conventions, press pressure, and the need to avoid obscenities.

    "A further short history of the #SI #prefixes" by Richard J C Brown in Metrologia, musing about #naming conventions, the recently adopted 10^27 (#Ronna; R) and 10^30 (#Quetta; Q) - and the need to avoid obscenities in Portuguese with that one - as well as naming pressure exuded by popular #science #writing (and likely #sciencefiction ).

    Interesting & entertaining #OpenAccess LttE.

    iopscience.iop.org/article/10.

  25. CW: SI prefixes, naming conventions, press pressure, and the need to avoid obscenities.

    "A further short history of the #SI #prefixes" by Richard J C Brown in Metrologia, musing about #naming conventions, the recently adopted 10^27 (#Ronna; R) and 10^30 (#Quetta; Q) - and the need to avoid obscenities in Portuguese with that one - as well as naming pressure exuded by popular #science #writing (and likely #sciencefiction ).

    Interesting & entertaining #OpenAccess LttE.

    iopscience.iop.org/article/10.

  26. CW: SI prefixes, naming conventions, press pressure, and the need to avoid obscenities.

    "A further short history of the #SI #prefixes" by Richard J C Brown in Metrologia, musing about #naming conventions, the recently adopted 10^27 (#Ronna; R) and 10^30 (#Quetta; Q) - and the need to avoid obscenities in Portuguese with that one - as well as naming pressure exuded by popular #science #writing (and likely #sciencefiction ).

    Interesting & entertaining #OpenAccess LttE.

    iopscience.iop.org/article/10.