<whitequark>
then there is the second format, like 1/4-20. it goes up in fractions, like 1-8, 1 1/8-7, and so on
<whitequark>
the second number is also tpi
<whitequark>
threads per inch that is
<whitequark>
and the former number is, uhhhhh
<whitequark>
...
<whitequark>
...
<whitequark>
the height of the cap
<ec>
what
<ec>
like, thicknessa?
<ec>
thickness*?
<ec>
for fucking real? not diameter? you're sure?
<whitequark>
oh it's both.
<ec>
whitequark: IRC isn't less effort *typing* than Twitter; it's just less effort *splitting*. Trying to break sentences down into 140-character chunks is more arduous than, idk, 512 chars
<whitequark>
regarding gauge
<whitequark>
no, it's not used anywhere else except for screws
<ec>
all I want in the world right now is to figure out how to hook my bluetooth headphones up to my tv ಠ_ಠ
<whitequark>
"#4" just means "screw number four defined in this long boring paper"
<ec>
well gauge is obviously a generic term. it's like Olde English for ‘unit.’
<whitequark>
I know.
<whitequark>
I mean, there's wire gauge. AWG. it's given parametrically.
<ec>
saying ‘5 unit’ means nothing without context, so I guess it vaguely makes sense that 12-gauge gun barrel and 12-gauge screw are different?
<whitequark>
there's "mesh" which is a sort of gauge, you can also calculate that
<ec>
idk. not defending the idiocy of the system, I just kind of get it.
<ec>
parametrically?
<whitequark>
diameter = 0.005 * 92 ^ ((36-n)/39)
<ec>
maybe it'd all make more sense if we used ordinals instead of cardinals :P
<ec>
‘12th gauge’
<whitequark>
where N is the AWG number
<ec>
what unit? mm?
<whitequark>
in
<ec>
and: did you really know that off the top of your head? if so, I love you.
<whitequark>
no
<whitequark>
I mean, not the exact formula
<ec>
I cut my fingernails, and now the tips of my fingers hurt from typing.
<whitequark>
thankfully I very rarely work with AWG, and in non-backwards countries the wire diameter is given by cross section in millimeters square
<whitequark>
anyway let me see your thing
<ec>
okay. so, on the original topic … what fucking gauge is 0.134in
<whitequark>
0.134" dia is probably #6-32
<ec>
… 1/
<whitequark>
wha?
<ec>
lol wolfram alpha
<ec>
purr needs a wolfram alpha search
<ec>
also, purr needs to exist again …
<ec>
!comeback
<whitequark>
integrate units(7) into purr
<whitequark>
would be ossm
<ec>
holy crap @ `units`
<ec>
this is awesome
<ec>
ossm. lol.
<whitequark>
I picked that up from meadhbh or something
<ec>
dunnot know what that is
<ec>
purr i miss you come back
<ec>
anyway. back to paws.
<whitequark>
meadhbh hamrick. it's an ... irish last name, apparently
<whitequark>
she surprised me with unexpectedly awesome coincidences at least thrice.
<whitequark>
she worked at borland. borland is THE fucking reason why i program right now
<whitequark>
in more than one way
<ec>
how so
<whitequark>
i started with borland c++ builder. i learned english by c++ builder manuals. i did... more things with turbo c, /after/ i got bored with c++ builder
<whitequark>
(yes, my first language was c++)
<Temur>
I tried learning C++ when I was around 7
<Temur>
Int, Float and everything went over my head
<whitequark>
i mainly never figured out what the hell __fastcall was
<ec>
O_O
<ec>
what's __fastcall
<ec>
or do you mean you still don't know
<whitequark>
I do know
<whitequark>
it took, uh, looking into how LLVM x86 backend works to figure it out
<whitequark>
__fastcall is a particular calling convention on windows that stashes a few values into registers instead of putting them all on stack, like __stdcall or cdecl would do
<whitequark>
I think the time interval between learning that __fastcall exists and understanding how it works was about uhhh
<whitequark>
14 years?
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<ec>
oh hey is it true that microwaves are illegal in russia? or something like that?
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<ec>
all I really want out of life: a country to call home where there's lots of mountains and snow, guns are legal and accepted, and they use the goddamn metric system.
<whitequark>
lol what?
<ec>
they don't even have to speak english! I'll learn whatever their magical mountain language is!
<whitequark>
microwaves?
<whitequark>
what are you smoking
<whitequark>
(gimme some it sounds good)
<ec>
I swear I heard somewhere that Russia illegalized microwaves in the '70s
<whitequark>
there's a shitton of microwaves
<whitequark>
maybe you meant like some obscure particularly unsafe kind of microwave
<whitequark>
or particularly safe
<whitequark>
idk
<whitequark>
but common household microwaves are pretty much everywhere
<ec>
oh holy crap
<ec>
it's a real thing, commonly talked about, but it's a *myth*