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> This is where I usually insert that 3,000 year old Gandalf meme.

Elrond?


Yes, correct. Elrond reminded Gandalf. I remembered Gandalf better.

Copying my comment from the other recent thread:

The authority on the definition of SI units is very clear:

> The hertz shall only be used for periodic phenomena and the becquerel shall only be used for stochastic processes in activity referred to a radionuclide

Usually, no radionuclides are involved in web requests.

https://www.bipm.org/documents/d/guest/si-brochure-9-en-pdf


Keep in mind that our current instruments are not really sensitive to most exoplanets that would be interesting for a sci-fi setting.

Current instruments are mostly good at finding large planets around small stars, we are basically blind to earth-like planets around sun-like stars.

See e.g. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/2019/queloz/lectur...


That's a very good point! And an opportunity for game worlds; extrapolate those blind spots by assuming small planets and planets further out from their stars are more common than what's been confirmed so far.

Please don't.

The authority on the definition of SI units is very clear:

> The hertz shall only be used for periodic phenomena and the becquerel shall only be used for stochastic processes in activity referred to a radionuclide

Neither is usually the case for requests.

https://www.bipm.org/documents/d/guest/si-brochure-9-en-pdf


There’s an even stronger reason not to given in the same document:

"The special names becquerel, gray and sievert were specifically introduced because of the dangers to human health that might arise from mistakes involving the units reciprocal second… "


Clearly, we should place a radioactive source, a Geiger counter, and a computer in a sealed box. Every time the counter registers a decay, the computer performs a HTTP GET. Thus, we end up with Schrödinger's webserver...

Yes, the year has pi * 1e7 seconds

1e5 / 3.14e7 ≈ 3e-3, milli, not micro


Or as Stephen Fry put it: "Nature, Nurture and Nietzsche", very fitting here.


There is a section in the GitHub Readme of Eurooffice with a justification of the fork:

https://github.com/Euro-Office#euro-office-liberates-the-onl...


"Most companies still do not publish Linux builds for creative software"

There, fixed it for you.

It's not like Linux is the blocker here.


Doesn't matter, the end result is the same.


Absolutely not. You could argue this for entry level lectures, but not at the PhD level. PhD is learning how to do original research, how could you separate teaching that from doing that?


Ever tried latexmk for the automation?


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