PJ "Vote Green" CoffeyMay 28, 2024

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. 😀

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.

We tried to design the perfect sellside note. How did we do?

Notes on notes on notes

Financial Times
Show threadKatLSMay 28, 2024
@Homebrewandhacking and there’s the Imperial system…
Show thread@richh has movedMay 28, 2024
@KatLS The Imperial system that Americans call "English". And yes, yes, we still do use a handful of unholy mashups (like miles for distance and mileage expressed as miles per gallon despite petrol being sold by the litre) but nobody is doing civil engineering by the bushel.
Show threadEndlessMasonMay 28, 2024

> civil engineering by the bushel.

this is a great name for a podcast

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Show threadKatLSMay 28, 2024
@EndlessMason @richh indeed.🤣have you ever tried to get data to interact when some things are measured in bushels? And some in pounds? It’s tedious.
Show thread@richh has movedMay 28, 2024
@KatLS @EndlessMason I’ve made a developer cry when I told them we needed bushels as an available unit of measure (as a volume vs. Litres). Still used in agriculture (combine hopper capacity https://www.deere.com/en/harvesting/).
RoW: “How many tonnes per hour can it harvest?”
USA: “Bushels. What’s the grain hopper capacity in bushels?”
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Show threadEndlessMasonMay 29, 2024

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.

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Show thread@richh has movedMay 29, 2024
@EndlessMason @KatLS Since they’d architected and built the platform themself with no admin UI for managing UoM, this was somewhat on them 🤷‍♂️ (nowt to do with me!). They hadn’t really allowed for people wanting to do volumes in anything other than litres/gallons. Twas more of a cry/laugh “FML why don’t I let you lot manage this yourselves”. Followed by “wtf are bushels?” and me saying “IDK either but Deere think they can be converted to litres”.
Show threadEndlessMason

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

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