Had Sunday dinner at the in-laws. Which was nice. Dash is a train wreck when napping.

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  • ominous ocelot@leminal.space
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    13 days ago

    Pictures of cats are always appreciated. Dash does it right. :)

    I always struggle with the date components sort order: month, day, year. They need to be in ascending or descending order. But that’s just me.

    And then I try to stop myself from thinking too much about years, months, days and hours having inconsistent lengths - forced by celestial mechanics. And the lack of a consistent number system: Sometimes it’s decimal - because that’s the way it was done in the 1800s and 1900s. Sometimes the base-60 system is used - which is rumoured to stem from the babylonian times or before (Sexagesimal). And someone put the 2*12 for 24h clock on top of it, because… I don’t know. And after all, where does the 7 day week come from? 7?

    To my surprise the 24h system is not a modern invention because of digital clocks. And in the medieval ages some people used to start their clock at sunrise not midnight. Huh. 24h clock.

    Let’s not start with the the AM/PM system where they start counting with 12, 1, 2,… because that’s how a clock face is built and there is no 0.

    Ah, let’s get back to cat pictures. Shall we? ;)