@lily Reminds me of that one toot saying that some color was some number of octaves above some musical note. (obviously by now I have forgotten all the specifics)

@lily@glaceon.social Any thing above G half sharp is a waste of CPU power.

@lily oh boy do we have a video for you https://youtu.be/KmfdeWd0RMk

@lily setting USB poll rate: 440hz

@lily @irenes if this is a coherent answer your types aren’t strong enough

(middle C isn’t 260-whatever Hz, it’s at best a longitudinal physical vibration at 260-whatever Hz, if not a value of distinct type altogether that happens to have that as one possible rendering)

@lily And, depending on the age of the electronics in question, valid!

@lily I have been known to describe the rate at which a problem has been occurring as "audible"

@lily I feel like this might be useful / funny in the same vein: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmfdeWd0RMk

@lily if it is a highly irregular phenomenon with a long-term average, you could use the Becquerel.

Props to https://two-wrongs.com/si-units-for-request-rate.html for informing me of this minor crime.

@lily My dad recommends tightening ratchet straps to middle C.

@lily i... I want to contend that 'middle C' is usually thought of as a _note_ / _tone_, which _has_ a frequency, but is itself better defined as the sound that results from a pressure wave _of that frequency_, and not just the frequency itself as an abstract unit?

If I play a middle C on a piano, the middle C isn't some frequency, it's what I _experience_ in response to a wave that _has_ a frequency as a property?

@lily this reminds me of my proposal to store coordinates in integer multiples of "red", defined for this purpose as 625nm .. https://emergent.unpythonic.net/01392844659

@lily Insert obligatory jan Misali

https://youtu.be/KmfdeWd0RMk

@lily C5 is only 40 octaves below green light I believe

@lily "The note C5 is 40 octaves below light green"
https://tacobelllabs.net/@nkizz/111994813271933242

@lily Agree that “local NPR affiliate” would be too often and “light green” would be waaaaaay too often.

@lily this thread slaps