DanielLC comments on Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality discussion thread, part 20, chapter 90

DanielLC 2 Jul 2013 5:54 UTC
15 points
Does anyone else here use dictionary of numbers (recommended on the xkcd blag)?

Hermione’s body should now be at almost exactly five degrees Celsius [≈ recommended for keeping food cool].
- Solvent 2 Jul 2013 10:49 UTC
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  Parent
  Not only do I use that, it means that your comment renders as:
  
  Hermione’s body should now be at almost exactly five degrees Celsius [≈ recommended for keeping food cool] [≈ recommended for keeping food cool].
  
  to me.
  - DanielLC 2 Jul 2013 18:53 UTC
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    You forgot that I use it too. That means that your comment looks like
    
    Hermione’s body should now be at almost exactly five degrees Celsius [≈ recommended for keeping food cool] [≈ recommended for keeping food cool].
    
    For everyone not using dictionary of numbers, that looks like
    
    Hermione’s body should now be at almost exactly five degrees Celsius [≈ recommended for keeping food cool] [≈ recommended for keeping food cool] [≈ recommended for keeping food cool].
    - TrE 2 Jul 2013 21:03 UTC
      6 points
      Parent
      Now, I think the line is crossed where it gets less and less funny each further iteration.
      - DanielLC 3 Jul 2013 0:34 UTC
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        Don’t worry. If we repeat it long enough, it will be funny again (Warning: TV Tropes).
        
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        MalcolmOcean 3 Jul 2013 18:26 UTC
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        I wouldn’t have believed you, but I actually laughed out loud at this. Empirical evidence = it’s funny, to me at least.
    - Decius 2 Jul 2013 21:17 UTC
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      Parent
      Sounds like an update to the plugin is in order: render both
      
      five degrees Celsius
      
      and
      
      five degrees Celsius [≈ recommended for keeping food cool]
      
      as
      
      five degrees Celsius [≈ recommended for keeping food cool]
      - Alsadius 3 Jul 2013 4:35 UTC
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        Possibly the latter should have [sic] as well, just because the presence of it in the original could be relevant.
        Decius 3 Jul 2013 5:38 UTC
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        That’s just pushing the problem one more down the line; you end up with … [sic] [sic].
        
        Color code it?
        Alsadius 3 Jul 2013 6:29 UTC
        0 points
        Parent
        [sic] [sic x2] [sic x3] etc.
- Alsadius 2 Jul 2013 6:30 UTC
  5 points
  Parent
  You don’t want the meat to spoil, after all.
- Sabiola 2 Jul 2013 14:57 UTC
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  I’m switching from Firefox to Chrome, just so I can use this extension.
  - Sabiola 11 Jul 2013 17:06 UTC
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    Switching back to FF. I download a lot of .zip files, and sometimes I need to save them and other times I just want to extract the contents quickly. FF asks me what I want to do every time, but in Chrome I have to download a .zip first before I can extract it, then delete it afterwards. (The same sort of thing goes for other file types, but the .zip thing is the most annoying.)