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If you are having snags with dimensionless ratios in chemistry, why not talk to any half competent cook/chef? They don't piss about like that!

The reason your quantities (LMT etc) are dimensionless is because you need to bake a decent cake or mix a cocktail and get a grip 8)

I am being flippant but I don't think that mixing kilos and meters in any unlikely ratio is likely to end well. They tend to become quite forceful if not mixed carefully.




> If you are having snags with dimensionless ratios in chemistry, why not talk to any half competent cook/chef? They don't piss about like that!

I don't! Also, doing this would go against my belief that I already mentioned on HN several times - that the difference between process chemistry and cooking is that the former actually cares about the quality of outcome ;).


Well done. Jokes and puns aren't appreciated on HN, but I see what you did there.


"Jokes and puns aren't appreciated on HN"

You have to pick your time(zone) when deploying them. I generally find that GMT/UTC >=+6 is when a sense of humour failure generally kicks in. At +8 it relents a bit when en_AU kicks in and is reinforced at +11 by en_NZ.


Worst downvotes I ever got, in response to a fellow from Google expressing a very uncontroversial opinion and then making it clear it was only his own opinion, I wrote: "Hi Jim, this is Chet from HR. Let's have a chat on Monday." Even my "Sorry, bad joke. I'm not 'Chet' and I don't work at 'Google HR'" response got downvotes. Many, many responses hating on Google HR in particular and HR in general.


What were the jokes and puns?


OP was being silly, and kg m / s^2 is a measure of force, so you have to mix them carefully or they might act forcefully.




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