Microwave UIs suck so bad. I've yet to find an improvement on the classic two analog knobs system, where one controls power and the other sets time.
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Mine has a button to cycle between 5 power levels, a knob for time, and the start button is also a 30 second button. It's perfect
That actually sounds lit I didn't know that existed
Jokes on you, my 6 button doesn't work so 160 gets me 10 seconds
Because 2:00 = 1:60
Or are we going to implement metric time?
The French tried to, briefly.
I get the 2:00, but shouldn't it be 120? Or am I dumber than I thought? 60+60 still = 120, right?
It's not 160 (seconds) it's 1 (minutes) **:**60 (seconds). My microwave always keeps the : when I input time.
1:60 = one minute and 60 seconds, or two minutes.
120 would be parsed as one minute and 20 seconds, or 80 seconds.
Took me a bit to get too.
You can also punch in 90 to get 1:30. I may have been extra lazy a few times to learn that.
It's not really lazy until you're putting in "88" to save a keystroke and extra finger movement.
I'm not sure 160 is 2 minutes on my microwave.
What happens when you type "1-6-0" on the time?
I've absolutely done it before because I'm weird. Entering 1:90 (on my Kenmore microwave) ticks down 1:89... 1:88... etc. until it hits 1:00 at which point it will continue as normal to 0:59.
1:60 behaves similarly.
I have a feeling the "add 30 seconds" button will correct it to proper time format, but I'll test it for science.
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It probably becomes 1m 60s. I've had microwaves do it both ways, either having it only be in seconds or having seconds for two digits.
Edit: I'm dumb and very tired from Holidays, I'm leaving this up anyways though.
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Clearly shows that hours and minutes are messy units. The French Revolution fixed a lot of stupid problems, but decimal time just didn’t stick for some reason.
Cannot say why decimal time didn't stick, but a similarly-proposed semi-decimal calendar with 12 months of 3 weeks each of 10 days was abandoned in France solely because Napoleon didn't like it.
It was also designed to frustrate Sunday church attendance because Sundays being every seven days would usually fall on a weekday on a workweek based on a ten-day week. While Revolutionary France experimented with state atheism and then deism, it eventually returned to Catholicism.
France spread its decimal measurements (the metre, gram, and litre) to the countries that Napoleon conquered or tried to conquer, but by that time, France was well beyond the "stamp out all semblance of religion" phase of its revolution, so a calendar designed with the intent to stifle religious attendance in mind was never going to stick very long once the French had left those territories. Besides, doing maths on length, volume, and mass is something that people do far more often than performing those calculations on dates. Sure, it would have made some things more convenient, but I'm guessing that for most people, the ten-day weeks just stuck out like a sore thumb.
In normal everyday life, you rarely need to involve time in your calculations. In science and engineering you do, and that’s when you run into problems.
When comparing two pumps, you run into issues like this. Which one is bigger: 29 m^3/h or 410 l/min. Doing calculations like that once or twice is recreational mathematics, but in a professional setting, these conversions are speed bumps standing in the way of getting stuff done.
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my microwave has a wheel
They all do, you put the food on it and it spins while its cooking.
Mine has special patterns on the walls to distribute the waves so there's no need for a turntable. It's nice because there's extra space inside, plus no mechanism so it's super easy to clean.
For like a full year after getting it, my brain would perceive a phantom rotation of whatever was in there, just because it had never seen a microwave without it.
I used to have one like that as well, most baffling design decision I've ever seen
Edit: Clarification:
I'm not down with all this fancy technology.
My microwave has a dial and some cogs and that's about as far as I'm prepared to go. An added bonus is that I don't get blinded whenever walking into the kitchen in the middle of the night
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Your microwave does math funny
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