A little fun from the FT. Apparently they don't care for American paper sizes in comparison to ISO 216 and I appreciate the poetry with which they express this. š
EDIT: A kind person has provided this link https://www.ft.com/content/bb9bf7c6-1785-4383-9e39-03da04a17fe2 although much of the other language employed smacks of desperation to claim credibility as a younger person and is quite cringeworthy in its use.
Something about 5 tomatoes? Sounded wild.
@richh @KatLS Americans do not use the Imperial measurement system: they use the American Standard measurement system, which is slightly different. Some of the names overlap, but that is it.
Also the UK went metric in 1967. The only place that it is still using Imperial measures is in pint glasses (defined in ml, fortunately) and motoring. Even National Rail switched away from "miles and chains" a decade or so ago.
I measure all distances in km, and when people ask me "what's that in miles?" I always smile and cheerily shout "Nine shillings, sixpence!!"
it's going to tell you to eat glue
Right, I mean I'm pretty sure it's a markov chain
The developer was likely crying because hey were somehow responsible for the type of units available on the site instead of that being a feature an admin can just set in the UI.
They were crying because you were making them mess with the data on the prod site instead of building tools to let other people do their job better.
I've been told "don't build the tool, just do it yourself" and it's never worked out for me... literally the next ticket is "oh, we gave you the wrong info, can you update it again"...
So I'll usually inflate the estimate to do I manually and then build/ship the tool, even if I'm the only one that gets the permission to use it...
They'll ask me to correct something, and I can give the same inflated estimate, polish the tool up and give out the permissions
Yeah, the modern imperial system of fractions for easy combinations of weights & measures. All deliberately done for quick use. Too bad it differed per continent!
1/10 as a fraction (metric) is mildly more difficult than 1/2 (imperial). But we deal; we have calculators now and they struggled w/ displaying 1/2 vs 0.1.
Throw back, though, to the deliberate halving fractions in the ISO 216 paper areas. š 1/2 A0 => A1, &c. With the same aspect ratio. Brilliantly done.
Love me a bit of CGP Grey. :)
@derryh @Homebrewandhacking there were also other stupid paper sizes in use in the UK. I got marks off my 1979 school project because I did it on 10x8" paper and not the 9x7" that Primary 5s were supposed to use. The fact we couldn't find 9x7 paper in any shop didn't faze the teacher one bit
A great way to teach a 9 year old to distrust authority.
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