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vlc, tor, brave, firefox… are apps that I cannot download. Neither can I use mac’s app store, because software is too old.
What would be the point of not nuking this OS X?
What’s wrong with metric?
Who cares. He was using metric wrenches as an analogy. The topic isn’t the value of metric literally.
I do that’s why I asked
how long is this “foot” measure?
oh, it’s about as long as a persons foot. there’s a ruler if you need to get precise.
thanks, that’s useful and easy to understand, what about the meter one over there?
it’s the distance light travels in a vacuum over the span of 1/299,792,458 of a second. you’ll want to use the meterstick, but it’s too long for practical measurements at the same scale as the foot.
wow, who came up with that?
the french.
e: also, long detailed helpful post explaing exactly how to resolve a problem that happens to use measurement systems as a point of comparison the only response: “motherfucker what’d you say about metric?!”
I’m American and our standard measurements drive me bugnuts. Especially at smaller scales. Me and fractions never did get along.
A meter is approximately the length of my arm which is approximately 3 feet in American. A foot is roughly 33 centimeters, also as you pointed out, the length of my foot. A centimeter is roughly the width of my pinky nail. A centimeter is 10 millimeters. A millimeter is small enough I’m breaking out the micrometer.
How far is it from my home to work? About an hour and a half going in to work, roughly an hour coming back. It’s roughly 50 miles, but expressing it as time makes more sense.
@StrawberryPigtails @bloodfart just use the new american scale system
1 atom
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i agree with you. people should be able to use whatever measurements work best for what they’re doing!
of course, that’s how we got the hogshead…
I mean it’s not really about as big of a persons foot though is it. It’s just it’s name, measurements are meant to portable and precise with a real definition. Not just about the size of someones foot who’s foot? Your foot? My foot? Those are probably off by several inches. Plus conversions are huge pain in the imperial measurement system which can lead to huge issues.
e: your opinion on measurement systems lowers my trust in your other opinions
How portable? How precise?
The foot, as I explicitly referenced in my reply, has a definition that can be easily referenced to increase its precision: a ruler.
Error of several inches would fall into the realm of “about as long”.
What conversions are a pain under sae measurements?
Very precise so when you measure something you get it’s length so that it’s length can be compared to other objects. And portable so that other people who don’t have access to your specific ruler can fashion a ruler of their own that will give measurements that are the same length as yours
An error of several inches in any real world use case for a measurement system could very well end in disasted.
And from inches to foot, foot to yard and foot to mile.
Metric is easier to remember conversations, easier to use, and is way more portable and precise
who the heck is out here fashioning their own rulers. can you imagine that for metric? “jim, you finish making that cut yet?” “no. i need to zero the chronograph so i can make a meter stick.” all measurement systems have inexact portable standards and i’d say it’s not something metric handles better than sae.
there are 12 inches in a foot, three feet in a yard and 5280 feet in a mile. you can use the little star button under this post to “save” it for later in case you forget and need to refer back. i’m not trying to be passive aggressive, i used to have to look up the foot to mile conversion a bunch before i did a stint of surveying.
can you explain what you mean when you say that metric is more portable or precise? what measurements are more precise or more easily made to their appropriate degree of precision with the metric system?
Ok now do inches to miles, what about distance bigger then those measured in miles what now? Try miles to yards without looking it up what about measurement smaller than a 1/16 of an inch? What are we just gunna start using even smaller fractions? 1/1000 of an inch? or would it be some arbitrary unit called a speckle or something that’s 18/29382 of an inch?
And no one makes their one rulers except physics labs, and maybe ruler manufacturers.
Metric has more precision due to its definition based on a universal constant. Imperial could have that to but it doesn’t shake it’s weird conversions. Yes they are easy if you are doing surveying work but there’s a reason scientists use metric. It’s much easier to check and use especially when dealing with scientific notation.
Also fun trick for feet to miles is 5-tomatoes = 5 two 8 Os
Now let’s do kilometers Oh wait it’s literally just it’s name 1000 meters
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well, if youre’ drilling holes, 32s are pretty common, as are 64ths. my copy of machinery’s handbook uses mils, which are thousandths of an inch just like you said.
if no one makes their own rulers except labs and ruler factories then why is making rulers important for portability, something your said was important?
metric doesn’t have any more precision because of it’s definition based on a universal constant. over time as new constants arose, plenty of non metric systems adapted to them and changed to include their enhanced precision. the nautical mile is a great example of this! metric systems have also switched universal constants over time to become more and more precise, just like everything else.
a measuring system needs easy conversions most when the people using it can’t just look at the thing being measured and say “that’s not five hogsheads you imbecile! that’s a tun!” metric’s easy conversions are really good for stuff like voltage and the distance from the earth to the moon, but should everything be powers of ten? i don’t know. it certainly would remove pressure from people to learn how to easily divide by other numbers or comprehend fractions.
i’m not sure that’s a good thing.